To develop a personal relationship it takes face to face communication, nurturing, and time.
However, in the context of capturing work-related communication to facilitate collaboration or create an audit trail, face-to-face communication has a few weaknesses (my ability to accurately capture notes and my memory of the myriad conversations I have about work every day being just two of them).
The initiative was designed to encourage more face-to-face communication with customers and co-workers, raise productivity, or provide a break from the ever-filling email inbox.
Although the study focused on innovation in science, the data proved that face-to-face communication was more impactful, leading to less agenda-driven and more fluid conversations, brainstorming, problem solving, and serendipitous accidents.
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You can go to seminars and screenings all day, but nothing compares to the depth of knowledge shared this week through face-to-face communication.
Basically, the ability to make sure that your message was received and understood is highest and easiest with face-to-face communication and decreases as we go down the list.
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These recommendations take root based on personal, face-to-face communication that establishes sellers as trusted sources.
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Which is nice in that like face-to-face communication you can pause until your comrade has fully replied.
Perhaps it had such a huge effect on me because I still prefer face-to-face communication over email, phone and the like.
And here, the importance of body language for both the speaker and the listener is just as important as in face-to-face communication.
Every face-to-face communication is two conversations, the content and the body language.
For example, it has been noted that industrialized nations rely heavily on electronic technology and emphasize written messages over oral or face-to-face communication.
Plus, the quality of those interactions goes down, which means many of those 11 contacts-per-day will be by phone, internet, or other non-face-to-face communication.
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We want face-to-face communication with professors, tutors, and administrative staff.
In a country like South Korea, or in an area like Hong Kong, where they have insanely high bandwidth rates at very low prices, there is nothing standing in the way of video conferencing software that "perfectly" emulates face-to-face communication.
You want to move pure transactions to the Internet, use online communication for information sharing and routine communication, and reserve face-to-face interaction for the activities that add the most value.
Coworkers need to balance virtual communication and face time.
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We're social creatures, but for much of evolution, instant communication involved talking face-to-face.
Also, we have an internship program at TENTE Casters Inc. and you can tell the majority of students are very uncomfortable with communication and talking to someone face-to-face.
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By the way, The study done by Mehrabian in 1979 on communication channels indicates that in face-to-face conversation, 55% of meaning is communicated via NVC, 7% via the verbal language (words) and 38% via the paralinguistics (Tone, timbre, speed of speaking, etc) and ALL THREE areas have to be taken into consideration when assessing communication.
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The survey also pointed out that network managers face challenges when introducing employees to new software applications and advances in communication technology.
No matter how sophisticated the communication tool it does not replicate the effectiveness of face to face collaboration.
Given the challenges we face together in a rapidly changing region, we also agreed to establish a new, formal channel of communication between our national security advisors.
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However, I believe that communication and trust are key when it comes to working with a team whether face to face or remotely.
But, he said, communication systems, including video conferencing and internet collaboration, that allow employees to realistically simulate face-to-face interaction, are already on the market.
With so much communication via email these days, it can be hard to pull the trigger and initiate a face-to-face conversation when you sense that an online interaction is becoming too heated or simply too difficult to do well online.
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