Audience-Focused Communication Matrix
Audience-Focused Communication
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Audience
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Audience Characteristics |
Channels of Communication |
Strategies to Ensure Effective Messages |
Audience Diversity Considerations |
Managers
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- Values
- Concerns
- Principles
- Views
- Formal Meetings: will include various sessions to allow for the discussion of the noted issues
- Notice Board: allows the management in communicating improvements and notices that require implementation towards improvements
- Quality Circles: allow the management team to network amongst themselves with regard to the company’s state
- Appraisals: permeate the management team in the assessment of its performance as well as that accorded to the workers
- Provide a summary of the report in easy points
- Call the attention of the managers towards each section during the addressing period
- Accord room for reactions
- Ensure that a dialogue is maintained within the presentation as an indicator for comprehension
- Gender
- Cultural
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Perspectives
Inclinations
- Attitudes
- Ethnicity
- Age
- Views
- Personality
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Salespeople
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- Education Status
- Expectations
- Attitudes
- Motivation
- Motivation Scheme: accords the sales team with a platform for raising proposals towards the enhancement of job fulfillment
- Suggestion Design: allows the sales team in being directly involved within the decision-making procedures in the company
- Review Conventions: allows the company and the employees in progression assessments to infuse resource efficiency
- Accord a summarized report of the issues arising
- Allow the salespeople to contribute to the discussion
- Permit the employees to accord suggestions towards addressing solutions to the issues
- Accord a joint conclusion together for high compliance with the proposals
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Customers
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- Income Levels
- Age Levels
- Size of the Market and available niches
- Gender
- Satisfaction Surveys: reflect the level of consumer satisfaction and thereby the effectuality of the company
- Complaint Program: allows consumers to raise issues with regard to various business processes
- Promotional Website: the consumers are able to overcome spatial factors in sourcing product information, assessing promotional data and according feedback to the company
- Address the consumers issues that the company is willing to address
- Accord time to the consumers to table complaints and satisfaction levels
- Discuss the solutions and strategies towards the issues
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All
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- Attitudes
- Beliefs
- Views
- Concerns
- Business Plan: offers knowledge to all stakeholders with regard to past and present business positioning, while offering futuristic objectives
- Reports: allows for the assessment of the company’s current positioning in a quarterly periodic manner that allows for comprehensive analysis
- Newsletters: offer short-term periodic progression of the company to the stakeholder
- Corporate Control: accords a comprehensive problem identification and analysis in a synchronized manner to all stakeholders
- Summary reports
- Dual communication approaches
- Joint decision process
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Reference
Lehman, C. M., & Debbie, D. D. (2010). Business Communication. Clifton Park, NY: Cengage Learning.