Getting through to colleagues is hard. Teams and bosses are busy, and so are we. (Perhaps they feel they don’t get through to us.)
 
And we managers take this as a fact of working life. The wasted time, the cost, the hurt when words go wrong.
 
But communication’s easier to fix than people make it. Briefly: You need to drop some bad advice and useless habits. Then trust your tongue, and train your ears, and work goes better.