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| communication and leadership skills: Communication: Leader's Guide To Step-by-Step Effective Communication Paul Gerhardt, PhD., 2019-06-28 This is perhaps the greatest tool ever developed to help leaders and employer of all-levels develop the much-needed communication skills that inspires people, lower employee turnover, and builds trust. Most people think they are good communicators. However, most problems occur because someone does not know what they do not know. In fact, it takes many times the time, effort and expenses to fix the damage done by poor communication than it does to communicate properly in the first place. This workbook breaks down key concepts in plain easy-to-read and easy-to-follow lessons to help you grow your communication skills. Read the short lessons, reflect, then build your skills by doing the short writing assignments at your own convenience. Dr. Paul Gerhardt has been teaching diversity and leadership skills since 2000 to thousands of leaders from many different organizations across the United States. Visit www.SupervisionEssentials.com for other great training products and leadership lessons. |
| communication and leadership skills: Leadership George Baisley, 2016-08-06 How To Be A Leader, Not A Boss Second Edition Published On September 18, 2016 Leadership is a term that people perceive very differently. Most think of CEOs, managers and coaches and while that is of course true, it is much more than that. A leader is a person who goes in front of new projects, ideas or trends, and who can direct others towards a common goal. It doesn't even have to be on a big scale. Remember that teacher who sparked your interest in mathematics or literature? Or your father who motivated you to do your homework when it was difficult? Leaders can be found everywhere in society, and you don't need a big title to become one. Sometimes you will even have to be a leader without being told to be one. Many employees today are assigned more and more tasks and responsibilities at their workplace without that big promotion to go with it. With more responsibility, they will suddenly have to act as leaders for their other team members, even though no one told them to. Here Is A Preview Of What You Will Learn... What Is Leadership ? Why You Should Step Up To The Leadership Challenge How To Approach Your New Leadership Role Improve Your Leadership Skills At Work Leadership Styles Much, much more! Get Your Copy Today! |
| communication and leadership skills: Leadership Communication Deborah Barrett, 2013-12-16 Guides potential leaders in developing the communication capabilities needed to be transformational leaders. This book brings together managerial communication and concepts of emotional intelligence to create a new model of communication skills and strategies for corporate leaders. |
| communication and leadership skills: Transforming Communication in Leadership and Teamwork Renate Motschnig, David Ryback, 2016-11-07 This accessible, highly interactive book presents a transformative approach to communication in leadership to meet workplace challenges at both local and global levels. Informed by neuroscience, psychology, as well as leadership science, it explains how integrating and properly balancing two key focal points of management—the tasks at hand and the concerns of others and self—can facilitate decision-making, partnering with diverse colleagues, and handling of crises and conflicts. Case examples, a self-test, friendly calls for reflection, and practical exercises provide readers with varied opportunities to assess, support, and evoke their readiness to apply these real-world concepts to their own style and preferences. Together, these chapters demonstrate the best outcomes of collaborative communication: greater effectiveness, deeper empathy with improved emotional fulfillment, and lasting positive change. Included in the coverage: · As a manager, can I be human? Using the two-agenda approach for more effective—and humane—management. · Being and becoming a person-centered leader and manager in a crisis environment. · Methods for transforming communication: dialogue. · Open Case: A new setting for problem-solving in teams. · Integrating the two agendas in agile management. · Tasks and people: what neuroscience reveals about managing both more effectively. · Transforming communication in multicultural contexts for better understanding across cultures. As a skill-building resource, Transforming Communication in Leadership and Teamwork offers particular value: · to diverse business professionals, including managers, leaders, and team members seeking to become more effective · business consultants and coaches working with people in executive positions and/or teams · leaders and members of multi-national teams · executives, decision makers and organizational developers · instructors and students of courses on effective communication, social and professional skills, human resources, communication and digital media, leadership, teamwork, and related subjects. |
| communication and leadership skills: Self-Handicapping Leadership Phillip J. Decker, Jordan Paul Mitchell, 2015-11-12 Every day, millions of employees watch their leaders sabotage themselves. They watch, they learn, and then they do it, too. Next thing you know, everyone’s lost motivation, and nobody takes ownership. That’s how organizations fail. This book will help you break the vicious cycle of self-handicapping leadership in your organization, stop the excuses, and unleash all the performance your team is capable of delivering. Phil and Jordan reveal how and why people handicap themselves even when they know better. Next, they offer real solutions from their own pioneering research and consulting. You’ll find practical ways to strengthen accountability and self-awareness, recognize the “big picture,” improve decision-making, deepen trust and engagement, develop talent, escape micromanagement, and focus relentlessly on outcomes. Your colleagues can be far more effective, and so can you. In fact, it starts with you–right here, right now, with this book. Many leaders inadvertently create cultures of failure. They model and promote “selfhandicapping” actions, where people withdraw effort or create new problems, in order to maintain their own self-images of competence. Self-Handicapping Leadership shines the spotlight on this widespread and destructive phenomenon and presents real action plans for overcoming it. |
| communication and leadership skills: Effective Leadership Communication Mary Lou Higgerson, Teddi A. Joyce, 2007-01-15 Conflict can appear with varying degrees of intensity or hostility, but if ignored or managed ineffectively, it can slow or jeopardize an institution's success. Chairs and deans, who have leadership responsibilities to both administrators and faculty, often find a significant portion of their jobs devoted to conflict management. Their leadership success depends on their ability to effectively manage a variety of conflict-laden situations, and negotiate people’s varying needs and personalities. This book, at its core, is about communication strategies that support effective leadership. First it shows how to establish a foundation for effective leadership communication; next, it discusses developing a fair and effective leadership communication style; and finally, it shows how to employ leadership communication to manage especially difficult people, from prima donnas to pot stirrers. Each chapter contains a series of questions and prompts to guide readers through a hypothetical but realistic situation, and encourages them to cultivate and practice the first-person participant and third-person observer roles. By moving between these two perspectives, readers will gain more insight into their own style of managing conflict and understanding of leadership. This skill also permits academic leadership to have more strategic control over the communication in a particular situation, thus empowering them to feel and to be more in control in every situation. |
| communication and leadership skills: Communicate Like a Leader Dianna Booher, 2017-06-05 Grounded in extensive research, this book offers practical guidelines to help professionals think, coach, converse, speak, write, meet, and negotiate strategically to deliver results. -- |
| communication and leadership skills: Leadership Language Chris Westfall, 2018-09-19 The only language you need to know to change your results. Inside each of us is a vision of how things could be. Yet most people remain frustrated by a lack of impact, unable to connect and inspire the people they care about the most. Why? There’s a language we understand, but rarely use. A language that’s sincere. Powerful. Compelling. A language of words—and actions—that can’t be denied. Leadership Language will help you to peel back the ineffective “business speak”, so you can change the conversation. And change your results. Imagine what could happen when you replace frustration with an irresistible vision—for yourself, your team and your organization. Today’s leaders face so many challenges—employee retention, operational efficiency, culture, collaboration, leading across generations, and more—but communication is at the heart of every one of those issues. A clear message with a powerful delivery gets you halfway home. Honing in on your next conversation can drive more impact, better relationships, and greater overall effectiveness. For yourself. Your career. Your company. They say there’s nothing that can stop an idea whose time has come. So, take the lead. It’s time for you to create what’s missing. And Leadership Language will show you how. Get clear on your vision, get aligned with your story, and get others engaged with your message Connect with the people that matter most, in a way that invites innovation and new outcomes Find the courage to move forward, conquer change, and create powerful impact—while you help others do the same From student leaders to the C-suite, there is only one way for a leader to make an impact: communication. Leadership Language is your personal guide to mastering critical skills and unveiling your authentic potential. |
| communication and leadership skills: Leading With Communication Teri Kwal Gamble, Michael W. Gamble, 2012-09-13 Leading with Communication, by bestselling authors Teri and Michael Gamble, prepares today′s students to acquire skills, develop a global perspective, and master the technology they need to enhance their visibility and credibility as leaders. Addressing leadership from the students′ perspective, the book facilitates in readers the ability to nurture their leadership and team-building talents. In this way, it helps them understand the leadership concepts and team-building strategies that business and professional communicators working and interacting in 21st-century organizations must master. The book′s emphasis on skills, including its focus on developing the global and technological competencies that support the performance of leadership, promotes in students the ability to think critically and imaginatively. With this text, students will learn to communicate effectively as they also learn how to inspire confidence, foster innovation, and build an effective team. Indeed, they will gain fresh perspectives on how best to integrate skills and knowledge, build trust, and elevate worker performance. Now that′s leading with communication! |
| communication and leadership skills: Communication in Organizations Henk T. Van der Molen, Yvonne Gramsbergen-Hoogland, 2018-10-25 One of the most important requirements of leadership is effective communication. The idea that some people are natural leaders and that others will never learn to show good leadership is now outdated. It has been replaced by the conviction that leadership and communication skills can be learnt. This second edition of Communication in Organizations continues to give clear advice and guidance on communicating in a range of different contexts in the workplace. From handling complaints and breaking bad news to negotiating deals and giving presentations, it explores the building blocks to effective communication skills, nurturing the leadership qualities required in any organization. By defining the abstract concepts of ‘organization’ and ‘communication’, it provides readers with the necessary skills to conduct any conversation on a professional manner. Illustrated with concrete examples throughout, this new edition includes a new chapter on career coaching, with exercises and ideas for role-play to enable the ideas to come alive. The three parts work seamlessly to expand the readers’ conversation skill-set as they progress through the book. Communication in Organizations is an invaluable resource for students of management and business psychology, as well as those taking courses who are already in the workplace. The practical aspects compliment both introductory and advanced courses in interpersonal communication, leadership and business and professional communication. |
| communication and leadership skills: Emotional Intelligence for Leadership Benedict Daniel, 2021-02-13 ★ 55% OFF for Bookstores! Discounted Retail Price!★ Do you want to improve your communication skills and boost your leadership? Have you ever wondered why some people advance in their careers faster than you, even if they seem less intelligent? Do you want to use communication and emotional intelligence to your advantage to create plants, delegate, solve problems, manage, and motivate your employees? If you know that you want to be better in social situations, need help reading other people's emotions, are a leader at your work, or simply want to be more charismatic but are not even sure where to begin, then Emotional Intelligence for Leadership: Improve Communication Skills and Social Skills to Influence People and Achieve Anything You Want - Develop Emotional Intelligence and Boost Your Leadership Skills is for you. In this book, not only you will learn how to best communicate with absolutely anyone, but you will also learn about the common stumbling blocks that a lot of people encounter when trying to be more open but end up knocking them off the path or discouraging them entirely. Being prepared for hardships is part of the process so that rather than giving up, you are ready to take it in stride. Inside, you will find fool-proof ways to overcome your biggest fears and live the life you are striving for. You will learn: -Exactly what EQ, or emotional intelligence, is -How to find out if you have it -How to develop better emotional intelligence -Tips, tools, and tricks to be better at communicating -Fool-proof ways to overcome shyness -The perfect way to have a conversation with absolutely anyone -The secret to building deep, genuine relationships -How to nail down-and perfect-exactly what that elusive element of charisma is -The only five steps you need to be a great leader -How to talk to your employees -The best way to motivate your employees to give their best every day -And much more! You will learn step-by-step instructions for all of your most challenging communication and social interaction situations. Learning how to be a better listener, meeting new people, being more assertive, understanding what other people's body language means, as well as knowing how to respond in all situations are not things that a person is born with. These are all skills you can learn, practice, and master. Understanding other people does not have to be a mystery. By increasing your emotional intelligence, you will learn how to predict what other people will do, and you will be able to use that to your advantage. If you are ready to make a change in your personal or professional life, have more meaningful relationships, overcome your shyness in meeting new people, build confidence in social situations, become the person your friends and coworkers look to for help, or even just improve your understanding of your own emotions, give yourself the gift of reading this book! Would You Like To Know More? Scroll up and click the Buy Now button to become the leader you deserve to be and to improve your life |
| communication and leadership skills: Taking the Stage Judith Humphrey, 2014-10-13 Many women today wonder: what will it take to get that seat at the boardroom table? Earn that coveted promotion? Or simply have their voices heard? Taking the Stage provides a comprehensive, proven approach that enables women to come forward into the spotlight and speak up, stand out, and succeed. Based on a program from the Humphrey Group that has been delivered to over 400,000 women worldwide, Taking the Stage shows women—no matter their age, rank, or profession—how to communicate with courage and confidence in every situation, from formal speeches to brief hallway conversations. Judith Humphrey provides the inspiration and practical advice for women to “take the stage” mentally, verbally, vocally, and physically. Women can make the most of every opportunity by understanding how best to: Speak up confidently, even when others don’t agree; Convey their accomplishments without self-doubt; Be assertive but not aggressive; Deliver clear and convincing messages; Move beyond “minimizing” language and apology; Find their own powerful and authentic voice; Achieve confident body language and a leadership presence. By applying these techniques and others to every communication— whether making a presentation, speaking at meetings, conducting an elevator conversation, or selling themselves in job interviews—women will be recognized as the leaders they are and attain positions of influence. For women at all stages of their career, and for managers and executives committed to supporting and guiding women on their leadership journeys, Taking the Stage is the practical, broad-based solution that will allow women to speak up confidently, gain respect, earn the promotions they deserve, and secure their places at the boardroom table. |
| communication and leadership skills: Communicate Like a Boss Liz Uram, 2018-01-26 To do something 'like a boss' means to do something well. Smart managers know that communication is the most important part of their job. The best way for a manager to connect with their team is through clear communication. The number one thing workers want from their managers is better communication. A manager who communicates with confidence will quickly earn the trust of others and will gain a reputation as a good leader. Effective communication is as difficult as it is important, and many managers make it harder than it needs to be. Smart managers who follow fundamental principles of communication have less stress, better results, and more productive teams.Read this book, so you can...1. Help people take ownership 2. Get people to do what you want them to do3. Give feedback with confidence4. Develop top performers and save time5. Understand how to motivate your team |
| communication and leadership skills: Communication Skills for Global Leadership Apoorva Bharadwaj, 2024-04-03 Intercultural business communication has assumed enormous significance in recent times for corporate leaders for transmitting and disseminating ideas across borders and for achieving organisational goals. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to communication strategies in business with a focus on diversity management skills. Culturally congruent communication competencies play an essential role in fostering productive conversations in transnational markets. This book includes in-depth research that explores key communication skills like negotiations, leadership, persuasion, argumentation, and corporate etiquette for professionals working in multinational realms of international commerce. It discusses intercultural management theories, non-verbal communications, and effective methods of communicating in virtual environments. The book also highlights the role and importance of diversity management in steering and helming multicultural teams and the expertise needed to manage stressful and challenging communication scenarios in variegated geo-cultural workspaces. Part of the Contemporary Themes in Business and Management series, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of management studies, business communications, communication studies, business economics, business ethics, and digital communication, as well as for corporate professionals working with multinationals. |
| communication and leadership skills: Leader Interpersonal and Influence Skills Ronald E. Riggio, Sherylle J. Tan, 2013-12-04 This edited volume explores different models, conceptualizations, and measures of leader interpersonal and influence soft skills that are so necessary for effective leadership. These include the communication skills, persuasion skills, political savvy, and emotional abilities used by leaders to inspire, motivate, and move followers toward the accomplishment of goals. The book emanates from the two-day-long 21st Kravis-de Roulet leadership conference, which brought together top scholars working in this area. The intent of the conference and this edited volume is to increase understanding of the interpersonal and influence skills, or soft skills, of the leader, to highlight state-of-the-art research on the topic, and to provide clear, research-based guidelines for the development of leader skills.Chapter authors are recognized experts in their respective areas, and each section of the book will be introduced by an editor-authored chapter reviewing the specific topic area in brief. |
| communication and leadership skills: Communication Skills for Leaders Sonnie Leola, 2021-05-25 Learn to Be Assertive Through This Excellent Communication Skills Guidebook to Transform Your Personal and Professional Life. Do you sometimes feel like you are not being heard? Do you feel like your message is being perceived in a wrong way? Do you have trouble communicationg your ideas clearly? Climb the ladders of professional success through this step-by-step guide to build better professional relationships and improve your assertiveness. Make your voice heard through developing your leadership skills and learning how to talk to anyone. By mastering the principles described in this guide, stand out among your colleagues and become the great leader you know you can be. If you feel like you're blending in the crowd, and you need to improve your personal and professional life, this book will take you on a guided journey to acquire the necessary communication skills in order to be the person you want to be! Despite the fact that other skills also make a great professional, like knowing how to manage your business, or knowing how to be informed about the latest market trends - communication is the key skill in making that knowledge and those skills visible. Here's what this incredible book will offer you: Thorough understanding of what communication is; Step-by-step guide to improve your communication skills; Tested approach to diction improvement; Acknowledging the importance of charisma; Full guide to improving social intelligence.; And much more! Embark on a journey of self-development, and learn how to acquire the necessary skills to boost your self-confidence. What are you waiting for? Learn to be a better version of yourself today! Scroll up, click on Buy Now with 1-Click, and Get Your Copy Now! |
| communication and leadership skills: Building the Best: 8 Proven Leadership Principles to Elevate Others to Success John Eades, 2019-11-15 Build a world-class team culture with proven principles from renowned “Follow My Lead” podcaster and business leader John Eades Organizational culture has undergone a seismic shift in the 21st century—and with it, the requirements of leadership. In Building the Best, LearnLoft CEO John Eades takes you on a journey of transformation that will equip you with the tools you need to become the kind of cutting-edge leader today’s workplace so urgently needs. “Leadership is about empowering, inspiring, and serving in order to elevate others over an extended period of time. You are the perfect person to live this out every day.” Eades’s powerful words form the backbone of this groundbreaking guide to cultivating leadership at its highest level. Beginning with the benefits of great leadership—and the drawbacks of bad leadership—Eades offers real-life examples of leaders who elevate others, and how their practices have paid huge dividends. At its core is a carefully balanced blend of “love and discipline”—a guiding principle that helps create high levels of performance by leaning on standards while at the same time caring about the long-term success and well-being of each team member. Through these proven practices, you’ll learn to: • Identify your current leadership style • Rely on the “purpose trifecta” to guide your team • Be a leader who properly leverages the “Acts of Accountability” model • Create a “Maximizing Mantra” to produce energy and results • Develop the skills of others by understanding the “4 Stages of Role Development” Leadership is a journey, not a destination. Building the Best offers a powerful blueprint for embarking on that journey—the first step in taking your team or organization toward true greatness. . |
| communication and leadership skills: Leadership Michael Z. Hackman, Craig E. Johnson, 1996 The practical text presents the topic of leadership crisply & cogently--synthesizing a great deal of information in an easy-to-understand form. |
| communication and leadership skills: Student Leadership Training Diane Taub, 2002 Students need the support and assistance of highly skilled and caring professionals to help them acquire the skills and attitudes necessary to be effective leaders and role models. This workbook will provide students with the navigation tools to make their dreams and goals come true. |
| communication and leadership skills: The Savage Leader Darren Reinke, 2020-12-11 |
| communication and leadership skills: Pocket Guide to Facilitating Human Connections Rod Lee, Chad Littlefield, 2015-05-18 This incredible resource is a guide to facilitating powerful activities to create more connected and more engaged teams. |
| communication and leadership skills: Teamwork, Leadership and Communication Deborah Lake, Krista Baerg, Teresa Paslawski, 2015-08-10 This practical, straightforward guide presents the basic skills, attitudes, and knowledge needed for successful interprofessional collaboration in healthcare. Collaboration is fundamental to quality healthcare, and many regulatory bodies and accrediting agencies now have standards and benchmarks for interprofessional collaboration. This guide brings together in one volume basic collaboration competencies for healthcare professionals. Teamwork, Leadership and Communication serves both as an introduction for novices and as a refresher for experienced practitioners. It provides exceptional learning support for classes, working groups, and self-study. Topics include: Group dynamics, team structures, decision making, shared leadership, conflict management, communication in small groups, stereotyping, liability and more. |
| communication and leadership skills: Communicate with Mastery JD Schramm, 2020-01-29 Develop your leadership communication Communicating with Mastery provides readers with a rich treasure trove of frameworks and tools for leadership communication as developed and taught over the past decade at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. Designed for the business leader on the go, it provides you quick access to helpful approaches to vexing communication problems leaders face today in speaking and writing to various audiences. Projects often fail not because of the vision, but in the articulation of that vision. With the help of this book, you’ll learn how to ensure you get the results you desire as a leader and communicator including: Speak with conviction and write with impact Tailor your communication to any goal, setting, or audience Scale your leadership through effective coaching Every time you write or speak, you need to make your words count. And this book shows you how. |
| communication and leadership skills: Leader Interpersonal and Influence Skills Ronald E. Riggio, Sherylle J. Tan, 2013-12-04 This edited volume explores different models, conceptualizations, and measures of leader interpersonal and influence soft skills that are so necessary for effective leadership. These include the communication skills, persuasion skills, political savvy, and emotional abilities used by leaders to inspire, motivate, and move followers toward the accomplishment of goals. The book emanates from the two-day-long 21st Kravis-de Roulet leadership conference, which brought together top scholars working in this area. The intent of the conference and this edited volume is to increase understanding of the interpersonal and influence skills, or soft skills, of the leader, to highlight state-of-the-art research on the topic, and to provide clear, research-based guidelines for the development of leader skills.Chapter authors are recognized experts in their respective areas, and each section of the book will be introduced by an editor-authored chapter reviewing the specific topic area in brief. |
| communication and leadership skills: The Language of Leaders Oh, 2013-04-03 Inspiring communication can make the difference between poor performance and exceptional results. This is why CEOs and HR professionals now believe that the ability to understand, motivate and inspire others is the characteristic that is most important when recruiting senior leaders. Many leaders wrongly perceive they have to become inspired orators if they are to inspire others. Wrong. Language is a system of communication, so the issue is: what system should leaders use to inspire brilliant results? This is the question Kevin Murray answers in The Language of Leaders. Based on original interviews with an extraordinary list of more than 70 top leaders from a wide range of business and public sector organizations, this book provides a unique insight into how these leaders have responded to the demands of a transparent world. It reports on what they have learned and creates a lexicon for successful communication. The message from these leaders is resoundingly clear - communication is now one of the most crucial skills of leadership. Filled with actionable lessons and insights from leaders of high-profile organizations, The Language of Leaders is an invaluable book for anybody in a leadership position, or who aspires to lead. |
| communication and leadership skills: Connecting Through Leadership Jasmine K. Kullar, 2019-12-24 In Connecting Through Leadership: The Promise of Precise and Effective Communication in Schools, author Jasmine K. Kullar states that because they communicate nonstop from the moment the school day begins until it ends, educational leaders must know how to communicate effectively. She demonstrates ways administrators can communicate verbally and nonverbally with many groups in the school community, from teachers to students to parents. Whether the message is positive or negative, simple or complex, or actionable or informational, educational leaders' responsibility is to connect in a way that inspires and motivates others-- |
| communication and leadership skills: Leadership in Planning Jeff Levine, 2021-07-08 Being an effective city planner means being an effective leader. You need to be prepared to convince people that good planning matters. Often a well-written, thoughtful and inclusive plan doesn’t result in meaningful action, because planners don’t show leadership skills. At some point, some city planners become cynical and worn down, wondering why no one listens to them but not doing the self-reflection about how that could change. Leadership in Planning explains how to get support for planning initiatives so they don’t just fade from memory. It will guide city planners to think less about organizational charts and more about: · being a respected voice within your organization, both with staff and with your boss; · being a good communicator with people outside your organization; and · being able to understand how and when to push for good planning ideas to turn them into actions. Along the way, case studies bring these concepts to the real world of municipal planning. In addition, past planning figures’ actions are explored to see what they did right and what mistakes they made. |
| communication and leadership skills: Communication and Group Decision Making , 1996 Communication and Group Decision-Making takes stock of recent group communication research - with an explicit focus on communication processes. This book is recommended for academics professionals and researchers in communication and organization. |
| communication and leadership skills: Fostering Employee Buy-in Through Effective Leadership Communication Tim P. McMahon, 2021-07-29 Based on a case study of leadership communication in a time of organizational change, this book gives new leaders insights into the tools and skills needed to become effective, motivating communicators in their leadership careers. Taking a holistic approach to communication and leadership, the book argues that employees buy in to change when they collectively feel engaged in meaningful work that will enrich the lives of customers, employees, and investors. Based on ethnographic research, it approaches the topic through an absorbing fiction-like retelling of an organization’s successful navigation of change against the backdrop of the 2007 mortgage crisis. In doing so, it establishes a framework for leaders to understand the principles behind how and why buy-in is generated in organizations. This unique approach allows readers to visualize leadership communication principles in practice. Fostering Employee Buy-in is ideal as a supplementary text in introductory leadership communication, management, and business courses or as a text for new leaders interested in inspiring organizational change. |
| communication and leadership skills: Leader-Member Exchange and Organizational Communication Leah M. Omilion-Hodges, Jennifer K. Ptacek, 2021-04-14 It is hard to overstate the importance of the leader-member exchange relationship. Employees who share a high-quality relationship with their leader are more likely to earn a higher salary, climb the ranks more quickly, and report higher life satisfaction levels than their peers who have a less copasetic leader-member relationship. While Leader-Member Exchange Theory (LMX) research addresses the impact that the leader-member relationship has on the individual employee experience, much of this scholarship overlooks or obscures the vital role that communication plays in the development and maintenance of workgroup relationships. Much of extant literature also glosses over the role that communication plays in workgroup collaboration. Using a communicative lens, this text illustrates the complex theoretical underpinnings of LMX theory, such as the importance of social interaction and relationship building and maintenance necessary to achieve organizational goals. We explore how an employee’s relationship with their leader also shapes their peer relationships and their overall standing within their workgroup. Further, the text examines the potential dark side of LMX theory, such as the tendency towards demographic and trait and state similarity. Employing a communicative perspective emphasizes the extent of position and personal power both leaders and members have in engineering the quality of the relationship they desire. Integrating and applying once disparate lines of academic literature, this book offers employees, students, and teacher-scholars pragmatic yet research-based insights into developing and maintaining successful, healthy workplace relationships. |
| communication and leadership skills: The Ordinary Leader Randy Grieser, 2017-01-17 An ordinary leader is someone who leads a small organization or team that is doing great things. They manage the majority of the world’s workforce, but they don’t lead large corporations or big government agencies. Ordinary leaders are rarely written about in books or quoted in magazines. They are, however, important. Maybe not globally, but in their own realm of influence, their leadership makes a difference. The term “ordinary” is also used to highlight the belief that no one ever arrives as a leader. In fact, if someone thinks of themselves as extraordinary, they will not be a very effective leader. Author Randy Grieser presents 10 key insights for building and leading a thriving organization. These are the principles he identifies as instrumental to success as a leader. Writing for leaders everywhere, he inspires, motivates, and explains how to make each insight a reality in your organization. Become a more passionate, productive, and visionary leader by exploring and embracing these 10 insights: Motivation and Employee Engagement: Organizations flourish when employees go beyond what is expected of them. Passion: A passionate, inspired workforce begins with the leader. Vision: Visionary leaders energize and inspire people to work towards a future goal. Self-Awareness: Knowing your strengths and weaknesses is vital for leading any organization. Talent and Team Selection: The right employees must, first and foremost, fit the workplace culture. Organizational Health: Employees are most engaged when leaders are committed to the emotional well-being of everyone. Productivity: Focusing on how and what things get done increases efficiency. Creativity and Innovation: Building processes for innovation puts creativity to work. Delegation: As you free up your time, you will also increase employee engagement. Self-Improvement: Personal development makes all the other principles easier to achieve. Also included are the perspectives of 10 ordinary leaders from a range of professions, survey feedback from over 1,700 leaders and employees, and a resource section that provides detailed guidance and examples for putting these ideas into action. |
| communication and leadership skills: Leadership Communication Deborah Barrett, 2010 Guides potential leaders in developing the communication capabilities needed to be transformational leaders. This text brings together managerial communication and concepts of emotional intelligence to create a model of communication skills and strategies for corporate leaders. It emphasizes transformational leadership, ethics, and integrity. |
| communication and leadership skills: Handbook of Research on Effective Communication, Leadership, and Conflict Resolution Normore, Anthony H., 2016-02-26 In order for an organization to thrive, it is essential to develop key strategies for interaction, leadership, and management within diverse settings. Refining these skills ultimately aids in the arbitration of any potential conflicts that may arise during intra-organizational interactions. The Handbook of Research on Effective Communication, Leadership, and Conflict Resolution evaluates operational strategies and interpersonal skill development for the successful leadership and management of modern organizations. Highlighting various governance and interaction techniques that assist in mediating organizational controversies, this handbook of research is a vital source for professionals, leaders, managers, and human resource specialists interested in developing skills needed to efficiently communicate, collaborate, and negotiate across differences within an organization. |
| communication and leadership skills: Communication In The Workplace Shirley Cole, 2019-11-10 Discover The Power Of Communication And Master The #1 Leadership Skill To Success... Are you 100% aware of your character traits and how they influence your leadership? Have you ever run into miscommunication issues with the team you lead? On a scale from 1-10, how good would you rate your communication skills? If your answer is not 10, you've already left money on the table. Effective communication is an integral element of professional success. No matter if you define success through profit or impact, every leader needs to apply certain skills to properly get their message across. Unfortunately, you are not born as someone like Tony Robbins who can motivate hundreds of people to change their lives through the message he spreads. First of all, he wasn ́t born with this skill either. And second of all, no one else is. Effective communication is a soup of psychological insights, simple nonverbal and verbal tools to successfully deliver, receive and understand an intended message. If you know how to eat the soup, you ́ll be able to erase all kinds of drama from your workplace and only focus on creating profit and positive impact. Fortunately, good communication skills are not written in your DNA. They are an easily attainable skill set that can be learned faster than you think... ...if you know where and how to start. In Communication in the Workplace, you ́ll discover: How to speak a language that no one will ever misunderstand How to increase your likeability as a leader without losing your authority How to create a team of warriors who love to fight for your ideas How to skyrocket your sales and hack your customer's brain How to overcome communication barriers even if you have to deal with the most difficult people How to ask the right questions and never fear not getting a response The 93% that is responsible for effective communication (hint: not your words) How to become a master in public speaking and own the stage like Tony Robbins And much more! Effective communication is not only a way to deal with conflicts. Even if you have a great relationship with all your team members, you most likely still lack in client relationships, profitability or engagement. Integrating effective communication tools into your messages will help your business to survive tough times and give a step up in good times. Be proactive and prepare yourself before you fall into the communication trap of leadership. If you want to know how to deliver, send and receive messages in the leader role, then check out this book right now! |
| communication and leadership skills: Gender, Communication, and the Leadership Gap Carolyn M. Cunningham, Heather M. Crandall, Alexa M. Dare, 2017-09-01 Gender, Communication, and the Leadership Gap is the sixth volume in the Women and Leadership: Research, Theory, and Practice series. This cross-disciplinary series, from the International Leadership Association, enhances leadership knowledge and improves leadership development of women around the world. The purpose of this volume is to highlight connections between the fields of communication and leadership to help address the problem of underrepresentation of women in leadership. Readers will profit from the accessible writing style as they encounter cutting-edge scholarship on gender and leadership. Chapters of note cover microaggressions, authentic leadership, courageous leadership, inclusive leadership, implicit bias, career barriers and levers, impression management, and the visual rhetoric of famous women leaders. Because women in leadership positions occupy a contested landscape, one goal of this collection is to clarify the contradictory communication dynamics that occur in everyday interactions, in national and international contexts, and when leadership is digital. Another goal is to illuminate the complexities of leadership identity, intersectionality, and perceptions that become obstacles on the path to leadership. The renowned thinkers and scholars in this volume hail from both Leadership and Communication disciplines. The book begins with Sally Helgesen and Brenda J. Allen. Helgesen, co-author of The Female Vision: Women’s Real Power at Work, discusses the two-fold challenge women face as they struggle to articulate their visions. Her chapter offers six practices women can use to relieve this struggle. Allen, author of the groundbreaking book, Difference Matters: Communicating Social Identity, discusses the implications of how inclusive leadership matters to women and what it means to think about women as people who embody both dominant and non-dominant social identity categories. She then offers practical communication strategies and an intersectional ethic to the six signature traits of highly inclusive leaders. Each chapter includes practical solutions from a communication and leadership perspective that all readers can employ to advance the work of equality. Some solutions will be of use in organizational contexts, such as leadership development and training initiatives, or tools to change organizational culture. Some solutions will be of use to individuals, such as how to identify and respond productively to micro-aggressions or how to be cautious rather than optimistic about practicing authentic leadership. The writing in this volume also reflects a range of styles, from in-depth scholarship that produces new knowledge to shorter forums that feature interesting ideas worth considering. |
| communication and leadership skills: From Bud to Boss Kevin Eikenberry, Guy Harris, 2011-01-07 Practical advice for making the shift to your first leadership position The number of people who will become first-time supervisors will likely grow in the next 10 years, as Baby Boomers retire. Perhaps the most challenging leadership experience anyone will face isn't one at the top, but their first promotion to leadership. They must deal with the change and uncertainty that comes with a new job, requiring new skills, and they've been promoted from peer to leader. While the book addresses the needs of any manager, supervisor, or leader, it pulls from the best leadership and management thinking, and puts the focus on the difficulties that new leaders experience. Includes practical information for new managers who must supervise friends and former peers Authors are expert consultants who work with leaders at all levels Shows how to adopt the mindset of a leader, including: communicating change, giving feedback, coaching employees, leading productive teams, and achieving goals This much-needed book can help new leaders get beyond the stress and fear to focus on becoming the most effective leader they can be-starting right now. |
| communication and leadership skills: Leadership Through People Skills R. E. Lefton, Victor Buzzotta, 2003-09-08 The pioneers of the Dimensional Model for managerial behavior demonstrate how to master skills that boost productivity Robert Lefton and Victor Buzzotta, cofounders of Psychological Associates, have revolutionized managerial procedure with their Dimensional Model--a behavioral standard that has been adapted and imitated by companies all over the world. Leadership Through People Skills outlines this model, as the authors explain in detail how people skills work and provide exercises designed to improve them. They also offer strategies for using these skills in the right situations, at the right times, in the right ways with direct reports, peers, and bosses. Managers will learn how to improve their: Sizing-up skills: interacting effectively through appropriate action Communication skills: strategies for finding out what others are thinking Motivational skills: giving people a compelling reason to do their best Adaptive skills: fitting actions to the people for whom they are intended |
| communication and leadership skills: Cracking the Leadership Code Alain Hunkins, 2020-03-24 Become the effective, proactive leader you aspire to be with this practical tool kit for leading people and organizations Yes, you can learn the skills to effectively lead people, organizations, and employees. With the right motivation and knowledge, you can be a leader who knows what it takes to succeed. Throughout his extensive experience in training leaders, author Alain Hunkins discovered that many leaders shared a common trait. They were mainly focused on what they were doing but not so focused on how they were doing it, especially when it came to working with other people. By strengthening their leadership capabilities, they could become trusted leaders within their organization, improve employee communications, and build bridges across hierarchies. Cracking the Leadership Code shares the valuable principles and practices that Hunkins developed and refined during the 20+ years he’s worked with leaders. When you crack the code, you’ll have a new operating model for organizational leadership that will help your teams thrive in a 21st century economy. Discover the brain science behind leading people Get inspired by real life leadership stories Use a practical leadership tool kit to become a better leader Learn how to communicate, influence, and persuade others, more effectively than ever before With this book as a resource, you’ll have a new perspective, a new framework, and new tools at your disposal, readily available to guide your leadership. You’ll learn to establish proactive, leader-follower relationships. To do this, you’ll use the interconnected elements of Connection, Communication, and Collaboration. When you learn from the author’s insightful experiences working with organizations around the world, you can accelerate your leadership development and become the leader you’ve always aspired to be. |
| communication and leadership skills: Five Stars Carmine Gallo, 2018-06-14 Master the art of persuasion with Five Stars, from the bestselling author of Talk Like Ted, Carmine Gallo. 'An easy-to-read and practical journey through personal development' – Financial Times (Business Book of the Month) Communication coach Carmine Gallo breaks down how to apply Aristotle’s formula of persuasion to inspire contemporary audiences. As the nature of work changes, and technology carries things across the globe in a moment, communication skills become more valuable – not less. Gallo interviews neuroscientists, economists, historians, billionaires, and business leaders of companies like Google, Nike, and Airbnb to show first-hand how they use their words to captivate your imagination and ignite your dreams. In Five Stars, you will learn: -The one skill billionaire Warren Buffett says will raise your value by 50 percent. -Why your job might fall into a category where 75 percent or more of your income relies on your ability to sell your idea. -How Airbnb’s founders follow a classic 3-part formula shared by successful Hollywood movies. -Why you should speak in third-grade language to persuade adult listeners. -The one brain hack Steve Jobs, Leonardo da Vinci, and Picasso used to unlock their best ideas. |
| communication and leadership skills: Communication Skills for Leaders Bert Decker, 2006 Communication is a basic skill that affects all aspects of business life. Our words, gestures, appearance, and body language all speak volumes as to our intent, state of mind, and attitude. Learning to recognize these conscious and unconscious cues, as well as paying attention to others' signals, make us better communicators and leaders. Communication skills can be learned, and COMMUNICATION SKILLS FOR LEADERS (formerly THE ART OF COMMUNICATING) gives you the tools to get started. You will learn about the nine behavioral skills for effective communication, and ways you can improve in each area. You will also find several worksheets throughout to help you develop an action plan for further improvement. All the guidance you need to develop into a skilled communicator can be found in the pages of this book. With practice, you can raise your communication skill into an art form. |
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