Communication - Old Fashioned
It's amazing how we as a society have become dependent on electronic communication devices! E-mail, text messaging, PDA, mobile phone, video conferencing, blackberries, blueberries, rasberries, and more ... have taken the place of good old-fashioned, face-to-face communication, which led to many interpersonal difficulties and miscommunications in today's workplace. You May be thinking ... Why improve your interpersonal skills when most businesses do 99 percent of communication by telephone, teleconferencing, videoconferencing, e-mail and on rare occasions, the post office. A popular way of thinking today ... But is it really the right way? "Face-to-face communication is still the most powerful of human interaction," says Kathleen children Ed.D., author of Face-to-face communication, the creation of human relationships in technology-driven world. "As wonderful as electronic devices, they can never fully replace the intimacy and immediacy of people talking in the s