Very few businesses offer business communication training for their employees, and even fewer employees are aware their communication abilities influence corporate advancement opportunities.  So there’s a catch 22 in place for most employees hoping to advance their career within their chosen industry.

So here’s some business communication training tips for you the employee or for a corporate trainer looking for some additional insights.

Business Communication Training:

Step one in business communication training is to announce the importance of effective workplace communication.  (If you’re not the corporate trainer, visit the workplace communication post, to learn more information tailored to an employee.)This can be done in a company-wide email that states a new initiative to become better communicators among co-workers, teams, and departments.

Step two in business communication training is to gather employees who you feel do a good job of influencing others, whether in sales or leadership, and have them create a list of what makes them successful in communicating.  This list will be used to create an internal training document.

Step three is to create an actual business communication training document using the insights you’ve gathered from your top employees.  Also, do some research online to find the general business communication techniques being taught today.  You’ll see that the only information offered is generalities that most people should already know.  The really good insights always cost money and are sold by consultant firms.  The good thing is that your top communicators at work will have generated you a list of the best techniques for free.

Now on to step 4.  Business communication training is of itself an ongoing learning process.  With the information you have gathered, you’ll be able to begin sharing it with others around you.  Create focus groups who are led by the top communicators in the company.  Make the groups a discussion on effective communicating techniques.  Open the meeting with the techniques you’ve discovered to work well, and then have all others share what they use to influence and persuade others.  Take good notes on what everyone says as there may be some gems of information shared.

Business communication training will be an ongoing process that will need to be developed over time.  After a few months of having dedicated meetings to discuss communication, you will soon have a solid business communication training packet for the whole company.