What is Brain Storming

Brainstorming is a technique used for problem-solving, team building and creative process. It is a group problem-solving technique that involves the spontaneous contribution of ideas from all members of the group.

Communication in team:

-1 or more work for goal
-Collective responsibility,share mission
-Success-effective communication
-Improves creativity-participative manage

Guidelines.....Barriers of communication:

. Audience - centered approach
-Meaningful to them

. Open communication climate
-Corporate culture-values,traditions and habits
-Encourage honesty confession, disagree and express
-Organization levels
-Feedback-constructive

. Specific

. Impersonal(Job related)

. Use "I"

. Goal oriented

. Well timed

. Understanding

. Surveys, opendoor policies, company newsletters,memos, e-mail,task forces......etc.

.Ethical communication
-Ethics-relevant and true in every sense
-Don't hide -ve information, option is not fact
-Non-selfish motive
-Dilemma, ethical lapse, ethical choices
-Making ethical choices-legal,balanced message, can you live with it and feasible

.Lean & efficient messages
-Necessary,meaning,sequence
-Minimum-message,distractions
-Learn,practice and enjoy

Information over load:

. Internet increases 8.5 million/day
. Importance and unimportant

Barriers of communication:

. Perceptual and language difference
. Restrictive environments - flow of the information and filtering by the transmitters
. Distractions - bad connections poor acoustics emotions
. Deceptive tactis - Manipulate for the advantage

Process of Communication:

. Sender Idea
. Transmits the message
. Receiver gets the message
. Receiver decodes the message

Communication in organization

1) Internal/External
. Internal
. Phone
. E-mail
. Fax inter office memo
. Presentation

2) Formal/Informal
Every possible form
Formal-
. Downward Flow
. Upward Flow
. Horizontal Flow
Informal-grapevine
.External-government, public, customers, stake holders, competitors, collaborators and vendors