{"id":3386,"date":"2017-05-25T15:50:40","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T12:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chatzistefanou.gr\/how-to-minimize-staff-miscommunication\/"},"modified":"2017-05-25T15:50:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T12:50:40","slug":"how-to-minimize-staff-miscommunication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chatzistefanou.gr\/en\/how-to-minimize-staff-miscommunication\/","title":{"rendered":"How to minimize staff miscommunication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beth Lachance Hesson, CFP, CLU, a 23-year MDRT member from Midhurst, Ontario, Canada, experienced this when hiring a new administrator and discovering that the role, previously occupied by her son, was not documented. So she set up procedure manuals. &#8220;This way we can have everything on paper so when somebody new comes in, it&#8217;s a little easier process,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We can make sure that everything is covered.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Defining roles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stuart J. Birkel, an 11-year MDRT member from Norfolk, Virginia, had a related but different issue when hiring a second administrative staff member. &#8220;Either I or my partner would ask the staff if something was done, and one would look at the other and say, &#8216;Well, I thought she was doing it,'&#8221; he said. &#8220;And the other said, &#8216;I thought she was doing it.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To solve this, Birkel&#8217;s practice divided the roles for these staff members, with one handling all new business and other tackling existing business like death claims, follow-ups to sales or otherwise. &#8220;That was an easy transition once each person understood their job description and what they were responsible for,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdrt.org\/blog\/increase-efficiency-by-clearly-defining-every-staff-members-role\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">imdrt.org<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have your staff members ever had a misunderstanding about who was responsible for what? Or have you tried to teach a new employee to do something, only to realize you didn&#8217;t know enough about the role of the person whose job they were taking over?&nbsp;You&#8217;re not alone, and many MDRT members have seen the need to simplify this process of communication and staffing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"images\/staff-communication.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"352\" height=\"188\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v16.4 (Yoast SEO v16.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How to minimize staff miscommunication - Kyriakos Chatzistefanou<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/chatzistefanou.gr\/en\/how-to-minimize-staff-miscommunication\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How to minimize staff miscommunication - Kyriakos Chatzistefanou\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Have your staff members ever had a misunderstanding about who was responsible for what? 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