To run a successful business, your management must effectively communicate with your staff, and your staff must effectively communicate with management. This helps to avoid misunderstandings that can ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Jim Elliott—a long-time reader contributor to Notes and one of the core ...

Demand for people with interpersonal skills has been on the rise for decades. Harvard research shows that, over a 30-year period, jobs that require a lot of social interaction grew by 12 percentage ...

In my experience, effective communication is the cornerstone of a successful workplace. It can help you build trust, foster collaboration and ensure that everyone is aligned toward common goals. Over ...

Thanks to technology, we have many more choices in how we communicate with others today than we did 30 years ago. But sometimes more choices makes things more confusing. From emails to texts to ...

Soft communication in the workplace, which often involves non-verbal cues and unspoken understandings, significantly enhances operational efficiency by reducing the need for constant verbal directives ...

Next time you are having a conversation with someone, notice how much of the content is communicated without words. Let’s say your boss calls you to her office, hands you your evaluation report, and ...