Tag archive for face-to-face communication

Combatting workplace loneliness with some essential humanity

Combatting workplace loneliness with some essential humanity

On 20th June, Radio 4’s Today Programme featured, in its Thought for the Day slot, a piece by the Reverend Lucy Winkett, Rector of St James’s Church, Piccadilly, London. I must admit, if I’m not already in the commuter maelstrom, I tend to use TftD…

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10 business relationship trends for 2017

10 business relationship trends for 2017

It’s that time again. The futurologists, both permanent and those drafted in to handle the seasonal spike, are in full flow.  What’s going to happen in the year ahead? What will be the defining trends? Having just emerged, blinking, from the extraordinary year that was…

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The need to make time for face-to-face communication in business

The need to make time for face-to-face communication in business

Face-to-face communication in business remains important. While we increasingly rely on the convenience of emails, text messages, web casting and social media, we need to balance these online interactions with physical engagement. However digitally enabled we become, we still want to do business with people we know and…

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Balancing innovation with basic human instinct

Balancing innovation with basic human instinct

For me, one of this year’s distinctive themes has been the fascinating tension between opportunities made available to us by relentless technological advances and how we respond in practice when some of these innovations meet our less sophisticated preferences or basic instincts. Last Sunday’s edition of…

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