Business 100 Effective Communication Paper

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Effective Communication Rodney Whitted Strayer University Intro to Business 100 Professor Primo February 7, 2014 Effective Communication Elwyn Fairweather Lodge A Fairweather lodge is a home that's shared by up to four tenants that have a business together. The business they run is not important, but the communication and sense of helping your fellow man is the main objective of the house. Each member of the house is partially responsible for the next member and has to support and pick up the slack for each other. This is successfully achieved when the members of the house and the Lodge coordinator having regular meetings and establishing great open lines of communication. The Fairweather Lodge in Delaware Co has 4 members currently living there whom all are Military Veterans. The members there are all transitioning to increase their level of independence and develop the needed skills and experience to live on their own. The majority of the skill development is discussed in the weekly meetings that's mandatory but ran by the living members of the house. There is no set agenda but the focus has to be around positive outcomes that work for the majority of the house. The Lodge coordinator is primarily the mediator and can help to work out split decisions. The members are all over age 50 with…show more content…
This open line of communicating is the primary success behind this group of members. They all feel valued and have equal ownership of the house and business. Each member has a better understanding of others, and that has almost stopped the personal arguments between them. Most importantly they don't mind picking up the slack if another member has a personal issue going on or a medical emergency. The fact that they can sit down and have effective communication between themselves is a great feeling for everyone

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