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Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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ackages to buildgood two-way communications? Cant it be done just as well some other way? heasks knowingly. There is a quick answer which startlesthe wrench tosser. The answer, Therecertainly is! And then the discussion team adds,Anytime a supervisor is willing to puttogether his own discussion meeting deal-ing with things closer to home, we invitehim to toss the regular package out thewindow. After all, this is the real purposeof the program—discussing matters thatare meaningful to local people. The Discussion Group can say this withabsolute honesty. Their general interesttopics are written mainly to encourageregular get-togethers and to provide asort of training ground where people canpractice the art of communication. Andthey know if a first-line supervisor recog-nizes the need for two-way discussions andprepares his own, he welcomes and usesthe bi-monthly packages. m Perhaps the supervisors who get themost sympathy are believers whojust cant seem to find ways to get thejob done.
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38 One, whom well call Mike, was thissort. He sat in one of the supervisory ses-sions, agreeing wholeheartedly that two-way discussions were important. Hewanted to hold them. But he didnt havea meeting room—at least not one thatwas suitable. It seems he and his installers occupieda room adjacent to a storeroom . . . whichin turn was often occupied by a construc-tion crew. When Mike scheduled his dis-cussion meetings the luck of the Irishwas seldom on his side. Instead, he oftenfound a construction crew on the otherside of a very, very thin plywood par-tition. Thus, when Mike asked a ques-tion of his group, he sometimes got an-swers from the other side of the partitionwhich contained earthy comments—com-pletely innocent—that added little to athoughtful discussion. Mike explained his dilemma to the su-pervisors and asked, What can I do fora meeting room? The boss says to try toget along as best I can, but Im gettinggun shy. I flinch every time I think aboutholding a discussion mee

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