“Look…I know how you feel, I’ve been there before!”
Wrong. The above statement is inaccurate 99.99% of the time.
That was pretty judgmental of me to say, right? Let me elaborate for a couple of minutes.
Effective Communication: Leadership in Action
Let’s be real here: communication is often a make-or-break skill for an aspiring leader.
The first two segments of this series on core leadership skills explored two critical starting points for a growing leader. We started with self-awareness, which is a very internally-based component of leadership. Then we moved to how to develop relationships with followers/reports (which is often done on a small-but-intense scale). With communication as the focus of this post, the size of the stage that we play on as leaders is takes a major jump!