Active Listening Is An Important Leadership Skill
Posted on Apr 22, 2012 in Articles | 0 comments
Are You Really Listening?
Are You Really Listening?
“Over 70% of people leave their jobs because of the way they are led.” -Norman Drummond, Motivational Speaker
From spring employee survey campaigns come fall engagement programs. Unfortunately, many companies rush to create engagement initiatives without fully understanding what they are doing.
Communication is the life-blood of human society. It drives business and enables socialization. Great communication makes us feel connected and positive. Poor communication experiences can be frustrating, humiliating, annoying and expensive. One of the things that really gums up a potential conversation, meeting, or negotiation is a layer of DUST. This is my abbreviation for the personalities that make it hard for the rest of us to send and receive messages effectively.
The technological advancements of the past few years have made it possible for the businesses to acquire multiple customized mail id s without actually buying and registering a domain space on the World Wide Web.
In today’s fast evolving world it becomes important to put across your point of view in the best and most precise manner possible. The basic aim of any writer who gets his or her work published is to be able to sell. We live in a multi-lingual world, and however much we might sell in our own language, we have to accept the fact that we cater to only one particular group belonging to that language. But if you want to convey the idea behind the phrases you used in your documents to a person belonging to another part of the world and understanding only a unique language, you need to translate your work. Of course, English being spoken almost everywhere has changed things, but a well translated document will go far to bring your products and services closer to a much wider market.
Does your organization have an effective communication system in place? Is there an openness and sincerity at every organizational level to ensure that the communication system functions to the overall betterment of the company? If not, what is standing in the way?
You thought the bully in the playground days were over. Now, you have a bully at work. Here are some mesmerizing tips that will make that bully take up a new interest in someone else and make all those bad times go away.
If you want to have a good working relationship with your boss, your feedback on your boss’ performance is crucial. Managers are usually the ones giving employees feedback. However, feedback should not be conducted in one direction only, manager to employee. Your ability to communicate with your manager the positives and negatives of their management style is just as important.
I don’t have to tell you that not everything at work is always smooth sailing. Sometime things are delayed, mistakes are made, wrong numbers are published. It may be your fault, it may be a bad circumstance, or a combination of both. What do you say when your boss wants a progress report and things are not going so well?
