When most people think of communicating, they consider it as an act of transmission. That is, they consider communication to be a process that involves getting a message from point A, to point B. The editor of the Journal of Employee Communication Management once told me that to him, communication meant getting what is in his head into someone else’s head. This is a standard notion and an important one to consider. When a CEO delivers a message about a change in company policy, staffing, orientation – whatever the change might be – the desired outcome is for the varied audiences to understand the change. In other words, get the information from the CEO’s head to the workforce.
