Leadership produces a vision of which all take ownership, each being a vitally integral proponent. Leadership is about appreciating, respecting and communicating with your team. If you take care of your people, they will be positive and happy, and in return they will naturally, almost subconsciously, take care of your customers and your business. Leadership is essentialy a communication system to improve the people management.
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. — Jackie Robinson
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Ideal Open Door Strategy that remains underutilized in business communication
We have two ears and one mouth, and should use them in that order. The best communication is the action more than the words. What you do for a long time and what makes you happy defines you. You may not find compatibility after all we are human beings one person canhope we understand this and move on. We find that managers/leaders struggle with conflict/confrontation which precipitates them providing appropriate feedback. Keep in mind that performance is a result of many factors, many of which are beyond the control of the employee. Since the system drives most behaviour, the leader needs to investigate this before they start focusing on the individual players in that system. If you have hired a mature adult who is inclined towards, and qualified for the work, then don’t worry about motivation, per se. Instead, consistently set this person up to succeed well in the job that you have hired them to do which is actually pretty motivating for employees.
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The art of communication is the language of leadership
Communication is a key. Just like all keys it matters what lock, or issue, you are using it on. When, why and how are important. For example, as suggested, not everyone has the same motivation as you. Asking an individual what motivates them while you are in a meeting with the whole team discussing motivation in relation to company business will yield you that persons idea of what they think you want to hear. The time to ask is during a one on one situation, preferably an informal one (otherwise you’ll get the fake answer) and should sound like regular conversation. “How was your weekend”, and then listen to the tone and focus gets you more actual usable information than a direct question about their motivation. It takes very little time but gives you huge leverage to use that persons real motivation to push your own agenda.
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Transparency and Honesty in communication for organisational growth
What is business communication? There is nothing passive about leadership. Good leaders act with intentionality. This means transparency in organisational communication developing trust and healthy competitive spirit that fosters team building. The 25 Keys To Communication is an experience written in an entertaining, yet straight-forward style that will take anyone who struggles with any level of social interaction and turn them into a confident, capable and commanding communicator. Each one of the 25 types of business communication will force you to explore your weaknesses while also developing and exercising your strengths. As you read along you will discover the keys to the confidence, courage, self-awareness, and self-direction that will prepare you to take your communication skills to levels that you never thought were possible. Here is the link.
Editorial: Learn what not to do from bad leadership and what to do from amazing leaders
Interpersonal communications is the number one challenge leaders face. True Leaders are free of Choices; they deal with inter-/intra-personal energy. They can since they are HegeMonos; the Actor of Victory over Duality. Our insight here reeks the Dr. Steven Covey message from his best seller 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and in particular the 5th Habit “First Seek to Understand, Then You’ll Be Understood”! He teaches us how important empathic listening is as opposed to listening with the intent to reflect. Empathic listening is key to success in leadership and management relationships and essential for interdependent growth! However, as leaders we don’t practice what we preach, and sometimes the moment we are in requires a different reaction. Ideally, we are all who we are, based on the moments of truth that we have experienced from our leaders during what can only be deemed as a journey of enlightenment.
