{"id":5393,"date":"2021-08-04T21:52:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T21:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.churchtoolbox.org\/?page_id=5393"},"modified":"2021-08-04T21:52:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T21:52:26","slug":"communication-tips","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.churchtoolbox.org\/communication-tips","title":{"rendered":"Communication Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--link_hover_color: #86c3e3;--link_color: #2a3c8e;--awb-border-sizes-top:0;--awb-border-sizes-bottom:0;--awb-border-sizes-left:0;--awb-border-sizes-right:0;--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:0px;--awb-padding-right:0px;--awb-padding-bottom:0px;--awb-padding-left:0px;--awb-margin-top:0px;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;--awb-background-image:radial-gradient(circle at center center, rgba(227,166,48,0.25) 50%,#ffffff 100%);;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-center\" style=\"max-width:calc( 1100px + 0px );margin-left: calc(-0px \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-0px \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-padding-right:0px;--awb-padding-left:0px;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:0;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:0;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:0;--awb-spacing-left-medium:0;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:0;--awb-spacing-left-small:0;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start\" style=\"max-width:1144px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:25px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-title-center fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\" style=\"--awb-text-color:#1f3657;--awb-margin-bottom:10px;--awb-sep-color:#e3a630;\"><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-left\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#e3a630;\"><\/div><\/div><span class=\"awb-title-spacer\"><\/span><h2 class=\"title-heading-center fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:50;line-height:1.29;\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Communication Tips<\/p><\/h2><span class=\"awb-title-spacer\"><\/span><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-right\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#e3a630;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Andrew Pust<\/p>\n<p><strong>Remember that people are not mind readers.<\/strong> If you have information that would be helpful to someone else, you must tell him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Teaching is different from telling.<\/strong> If we want others to understand and remember important or helpful information, we must teach them. Expect teaching to require repetition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Develop communication at the prevention level.<\/strong> Visit your colleagues in their work space when you are not responding to a reported problem. Explain<br \/>\nwhat normal is.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen completely before you start to repair anything.<\/strong> Jumping to conclusions without listening to all the facts can compound the problem and cost more in both time and money.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Be honest.<\/strong> Do not use excuses to avoid dealing with imagined or legitimate problems. Give solutions and teach reasons. If a long range plan is needed, develop the plan and let everyone involved know what you will be doing about it and when.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Show compassion.<\/strong> Your colleagues turn to you for help because you are supposed to help them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See the first tip.<\/strong> Do not assume that the other twenty-five people you work with know that twelve people have already reported the same problem in the last three minutes that you knew about two hours ago. <strong>Communication starts with you!<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:25px;width:100%;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5393","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchtoolbox.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchtoolbox.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchtoolbox.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchtoolbox.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchtoolbox.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchtoolbox.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5394,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchtoolbox.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5393\/revisions\/5394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchtoolbox.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}