According to new research from Nextiva, the state of an organization’s communications has a significant impact on its bottom line, as well as its ability to meet business goals and retain talent. The 2016 Business Communications Survey revealed that 63 percent of business professionals surveyed experience communications-related issues with their customers, colleagues or team that stops them from achieving business goals on at least a weekly basis. A full quarter of respondents said communication issues have led to lost customers, and 13 percent of respondents said they lost co-workers over those issues.

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Jeffrey Henning

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Jeffrey Henning, IPC is a professionally certified researcher and has personally conducted over 1,400 survey research projects. Jeffrey is a member of the Insights Association and the American Association of Public Opinion Researchers. In 2012, he was the inaugural winner of the MRA’s Impact award, which “recognizes an industry professional, team or organization that has demonstrated tremendous vision, leadership, and innovation, within the past year, that has led to advances in the marketing research profession.” In 2022, the Insights Association named him an IPC Laureate. Before founding Researchscape in 2012, Jeffrey co-founded Perseus Development Corporation in 1993, which introduced the first web-survey software, and Vovici in 2006, which pioneered the enterprise-feedback management category. A 35-year veteran of the research industry, he began his career as an industry analyst for an Inc. 500 research firm.