In
business there are five main ways of communicating:
1.
Face-to-face meetings
2.
Telephone
3.
Letter (snail-mail)
4.
Fax
5.
Email
Sometimes
it is important to speak to someone in order to bounce ideas backwards
and forwards, to discuss things that are relevant to the moment. Sometimes
it is necessary to get several people together and discuss matters jointly.
The
downside of this is that if someone comes into your office or telephones
you whilst you want to do something else, you either have to tell them
to go away (by which time you have already been interrupted) or speak
to them.
With
letters, fax and email, you can receive the messages whenever you want
and respond whenever you want. You also get a chance to think through
what you are going to say. The Fieldview
Business Advisory service will work on all these levels
except the face-to-face contact.
I
am working on a video-link through the computer, so that I can eventually
join in meetings with your staff, suppliers or customers if they were
at your office.
However,
initially the main method of communicating will be email. If you require
an urgent response, then this can be arranged, but I check my emails
regularly, so this shouldn't be a problem.
Fax
can be used where email may not be appropriate with the same response
times ~ and for really urgent problems then there's always the telephone.
