{"id":6050,"date":"2019-05-09T17:09:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T17:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=6050"},"modified":"2019-05-09T17:09:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T17:09:18","slug":"the-importance-of-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/the-importance-of-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Communication"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Through my year within a startup, I have been able to recognize some of the most important characteristics one can have while working in this space. The business I work for is a marketing startup in Texas and has quite a small team of 5 full-time employees. I work part-time and am in charge of most things that happen in our warehouse. I pull orders, manufacture clothing on a heat press, and count inventory among other things. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/blogin.co\/uploads\/images\/goal-oriented-communication-team.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for communication\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Often, a full time employee or the CEO will walk into the warehouse and give me instructions as to what my next job is, give me a number of shirts to pull, or hand me a list of what shirts need to be manufactured. Early on in my time there, I relied solely on remembering specifics and trusting that I remembered things correctly. This method was successful some times, but there were plenty of instances of me getting an order completely wrong. I would was worried about what my boss would think if I walked into the office to ask for him to repeat the conversation, so I would just hope for the best. This lack of communication on my part decreased efficiency. I soon learned that it is perfectly fine to ask a bunch of questions, especially when it will increase the effectiveness of my job. I am so glad that I learned this lesson because it will be applied to many other aspects of my future career. Another example of poor communication is when I would be asked to make a delivery or pick something up. The CEO would tell me what to bring to an embroidery store and I would not write it down, effectively resulting in me forgetting something; meaning I would have to drive twice the distance. My boss would just laugh and tell me not to worry about it, but I knew that I needed to fix the issue. Communication is key, especially within the context of a start up when efficiency is extremely vital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through my year within a startup, I have been able to recognize some of the most important characteristics one can have while working in this space. The business I work for is a marketing startup in Texas and has quite a small team of 5 full-time employees. I work part-time and am in charge of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":186,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6056,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6050\/revisions\/6056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}