Direct sentence in the News

The news :

Tangerang Floodwaters Rose
Tangerang Disaster Mitigation (Tagana) teams evacuated hundreds of residents from their homes in the Ciledug Indah housing complex in Ciledug district Tangerang after floodwaters inundated the area on Wednesday.
Water of up to 50-centimeters-deep began to inundate the housing complex on Tuesday. By Wednesday morning, the water reached up to two meters in some parts of the complex.
Many vehicles belonging to residents were also trapped in the flood because the owners did not have a chance to move them to a higher place.
Temporary shelters inside government offices and mosques were set up to house the evacuates. But some residents refused to leave their homes, citing security concerns. They also said that it would be tiresome to walk between their homes and the shelters to check on their houses.
“I prefer to stay at home because it is unsafe to leave home,” local man Dedi Safe’i told The Jakarta Post on Wednesday.

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The direct sentence in the news above is “I prefer to stay at home because it is unsafe to leave home,”

The importance of technology information for business

A). There is some aspects that affect the progression of a business. There are :

1. E-mail
Nowadays, people need to comunicate fast and effective. Therefore, using an e-mail is more effective, because e-mail enable people to send and receive files at that moment as soon as the sender send the e-mail. Almost all of the company in the world using an e-mail to send their files, even college student use it to sent their task.

2. Internet
Internet is something that we cannot let go from our life, because of it pertinence. To send an e-mail we need an internet connection. Internet is a primer necessity to searching information online or comunicate online. Without internet connection, we cannot go online and it would obstruct the online activities and communication stripe.

3. Voice mail
When there is some specification that you sent by an e-mail and the receiver didn't understand what our means, we could use the voice mail. We could convey our mind with more comfortable to the receiver, because we say it with our own words.

4. Teleconference
People nowadays has many things but has so little time, to face this problem, many companies using a new way to make a meeting without wasting much time. Teleconference make people could meet at the same time but in different place. They can organize the meeting anywhere anytime with less wasting time and more effective to convey their ideas, because they could react at the moment.

5. Video call
People can make a report at the real time by using a video call. People could show what they see or what they mean at that time without wasting much time sending the picture or the video to the receiver.

B). Business report
Business report is factual documents that explained the activities of the company in a project and the purpose of the company. Business report should be netral as possible.

C). Benefits of business report
1 : Business report could watch and control  the operation of the company;
2 : Help the company to imply the policies and procedures that has been established by the company;
3 : To fulfill the recquairements of the law and the rules of the company;
4 : To documented the prestation of the company to internal or external necessity;
5 : To analyze and give consultation and making decission in some aspect;
6 : To get new business ideas.

D). The type of business report
1 : Individual report and official report;
2 : Daily report and special report;
3 : Internal report and external report.

E). The recquairements of good business report
1. Accuracy
Good business report has to be accurate. The report shoild include explanation of the events that happened, relevant, and factual. The report should give proof and should be written objectively.

2. Good Decission
The report should be keep good manner because the report is not for internal but external too. The report should include the main idea at the beginning of the report. It has to be factual. The report should use language that could be understood.

3. Form, report style
The form should be official and has including of :
- what is the report about;
- who is the report about;
- where is the report was made;
- why the report should be made;
- when the report made;
- how the report explained the reportation.

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What makes a good meeting

What makes a good meeting?

Meeting is an important part of a business communication, it could be used to form an issue or to make a draft for an activities. Meetinh divided into two types, internal meeting and eksternal meeting. Internal meeting involving members of your company, eksternal meeting involving other companies.

Now what makes a good meeting?

• prepare the material
• prepare the quality and the quantities of the meeting. You need to make good presentation to the viewer and investor. Quantities mean you need to make the presentation as simple as possible but straight to the point.
• involve the people who important and active. It is to make the presentation didn't go out of the rail.
• do the meeting as soon as possible. Don't waste your time.
• make notes and recording. Make points and summarize the meeting, for make the result readable and could easily understand.
• make the notes and result to action. Everything need an action, to realization the ideas.

Kinds of letters

Account terms & condition letter.

Account terms or condition letter is a letter that you make whr you want to join to a group, organization, or company. This letter must include your reason to join the group and what would you gave to the group. The letter should be attached with legitimate files such as certificate, form or application files. This letter need to use formal process of writing, formal and gentle language.

Sales letter.

Sales letter is a letter that made by a company or organization to inform to their aspirant customer about what they sale and what the excess of their product. This letter divided into few types :

Sirkuler : sirkuler is a letter that made to two targets. First is spesific group, and the other to the public. The purpose of this letter is to convey the information, direct to the target.

Advertisement : the purpose of this type is to increasing the urge of read. The ads maybe in magazine, newspaper, radio, or tv.

Poster/banner : poster is a paper that you made and stick it to the productive places. Banner is a fabric that include the information of the product.

Neon box : a box include a creative picture that interest the people.

Slide : slide usually found in the cinema before the film played.

Exhibition : exhibition is a non direct promotion, usually held in an event.

Business Communication

Business communication is sharing an information between people within the enterprise that is pretended for the commercial benefit of the organization/company.

How a company shares information to promote it's product or service to potential consumer?
- Be a speakers in a seminar, to introduce your product or service to the participant, because they will be your potential consumer.
- Promote it on social media
- Promoting to other companies that not the competitors
- Give good image of the company
- Promotion on the magazine or newspaper
- Give free sample

Elements of business communication:
1. Sender / encoder
2. Receiver / decoder
3. A message
4. Channel / medium

Guidance for effective communication
1. Clarity on purpose. You must give clearance of your purpose, straight to the point to make receiver understand exactly what you mean.

2.  Shared activity (feedback). As a company, you need to think about what your consument want, what complains that belongs to you, and you have to response them well.

3. Common set of symbols. In the business, you have to use clearance as much as possible, use gesture or symbols that used by universal, not only in your country.

4. Focus on the need of the receiver. As a professional, you need to focus on the need of your consument. In this case, they are your receiver who receive message you sent.

5. Active listening. You are not only need to focus about the receiver needs, but also other complaining or suggestions from them. You need to pay more attention about what they want.

6. Politeness. To make them listen to you, you need to be polite. Use proper manner, act polite, they are your receiver, your company life source.

7. Avoiding conotation. It has same meaning as clarity, you need to talk straight to the point, not using complex conotation that make receiver didn't understand what tou meant.

8. Socio-psychological aspect. You need to pay more attention to socio-psychological aspect of the receiver. Don't waste your message because of the receiver psychological condition. In that case you need to give the message twice or more.