5 Easy Ways to Improve Cross-Departmental Communication in a Digital World

The term cross-departmental communication itself contains crucial information that is often overlooked. Cross implies communicating with someone outside of your department, and chances are, someone outside of your department is not privy to your department’s inner-workings. That is to say that they probably don’t know a whole host of different things about your work — from who is responsible for what on your team, to team member’s names, or (if you work at a large enough company) maybe even where your team is physically located. If they don’t know those things, it’s likely that they haven’t checked out your project board or tasks either. So, try seeing the following tips as an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes.