{"id":730,"date":"2015-03-05T14:46:25","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T14:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tloishappening.com\/?p=730"},"modified":"2015-03-05T14:46:25","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T14:46:25","slug":"nudjed-round-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/turnlightson.com\/2015\/03\/nudjed-round-table\/","title":{"rendered":"Nudjed Round Table"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Nudjed\"<\/a><\/p>\n

On Monday 23rd February I was a guest speaker for Nudjed<\/a> at the Life Science Centre<\/a>\u00a0in Cardiff, which is an amazing centre set up by the Welsh Government to fuse together life sciences in Wales. \u00a0Nudjed<\/a> helps companies to improve the health and wellbeing of their workforce by educating them and ‘nudging’ them towards a healthier lifestyle.<\/p>\n

So along with a number of\u00a0HR Managers from companies in Cardiff, we talked about some really interesting stuff, including communication within organisations and the danger of email.<\/p>\n


\n<\/a> \"Nudjed<\/a><\/p>\n

We looked at what\u00a0impact email has on\u00a0our day to day communication in business. \u00a0Email doesn’t let you get across the non verbal signals that a big proportion of communication is made up of – it has no tone. \u00a0When we speak to someone on the phone, 70% of our communication is made up of\u00a0tone and 38% when we speak face to face. \u00a0In email tone is lost. Let’s ask the question\u00a0is email effective or is it productive? \u00a0We may think to ourselves sending an email is really effective but it is only effective if somebody reads the email, it’s only effective if your message gets through to the person you’re sending the email to. \u00a0We talked about the impact of this and I told a story<\/a> that Dr Paul Thomas<\/a> who I’ve previously worked with\u00a0told me, about a CEO he worked with who used to send an email to over \u00a0 \u00a0 40 000 staff every day. \u00a0Dr Thomas told the CEO that no one read\u00a0his\u00a0emails. \u00a0The CEO said ‘of course everyone reads my emails,’ so Dr Thomas decided to put it to the test. \u00a0He sat in the office and watched when the CEO sent his email out, and guess what? Lots of people just pressed the delete button. \u00a0The CEO still didn’t believe that this was happening, so Dr Thomas added a note\u00a0to the end of one of the CEO’s email which said if you read this email we’ll give you a \u00a31000, just let\u00a0us know you’ve read it\u00a0by replying to it. How much did they have to pay out? Zero. \u00a0The CEO was crafting this email every single day and nobody was reading it – not very effective or productive I’m sure you’ll agree.<\/p>\n

So the moral of the story is you need to think about what an email is going to give you. Think about how effective it’s going to be, think about when you want someone to read it, think about the impact that it will have. \u00a0Never use an email to convey emotion, that is a big TLO no no. \u00a0A good measure as to whether you should send an email or not, is to ask yourself how you would feel if you received this email. \u00a0And if it leaves the reader asking a question, it needs a conversation instead. \u00a0Email should be used for information purposes only, not as a way of discussing things (back to my conversation point above).<\/p>\n

I\u00a0was thrilled to be the guest speaker for Nudjed<\/a> and I’ve been asked to do some more work with them. \u00a0They are a wonderful company really promoting health and wellbeing within the workplace, and I’m so looking forward to working with them again.<\/p>\n

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