Welcome to Manager Tools. Today's show, Routine talked about managerial communications before, maybe, yeah, maybe several, several

many times about how they are.

And one of the documents we have out on the website is our sample communications plan.

This is one of the documents that we get a lot of requests for and it happens.

Pretty popular, yeah. Happ happens all the time right and in that document we we recommend a typical manager do a series of regular communications with her team and using different media,

different frequencies and covering a bunch of different topics and that

sample communication plan really lays that out. I think it's a great place to start.

Now we've also mentioned many times

horseman's famous law of organizational communications, right?

Say something.

I love this.

People always take it. They always have to think an extra couple of seconds

about it to get it, but it says saying something sometimes and half of your people

will say they've heard it once. Say something seven times and half of your people will say they've heard it once.

Yeah, you just have to keep saying the same things.

People hate stump speeches for politicians, but politicians know people aren't going to remember everything.

And so other than the witty put downs that they make against one another.

And so you have to just do like Churchill says and pick one point and just bang it to death and hit it again and hit it again with a great big whack.

Yeah, anybody who's taking a kind of basic marketing course knows knows that right.

You have to say the message over and over and over frequency and reach.

So, you know, exactly.

And your organization, everybody has different filters.

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