Be an effective communicator.

You can have the greatest ideas in the world, but they are of no good to your Company, or your career, if you can’t express them clearly and persuasively. Barrack Obama became the 44^th President of United States on the power of his communication. We communicate on the basis of our values, beliefs, thoughts and knowledge on the subject. As a leader you need to communicate your ideas to delegate the task to be carried out by your subordinates. It’s not what you communicate but how you communicate plays the major role in every relationship. 

One of the main reasons why a manager gets stressed if the job delegated to the subordinate is not completed in time and the productivity is not up to the expectation.  In most cases manager blames the subordinates.  One of the main reasons for not getting the desired result is the lack of effective communication skill. As mentioned above it’s not what you communicate but how you communicate plays the major role in every relationship. For example in most of the communication a manager communicates in a commanding or blaming manner, but no one likes to be commanded or blamed for anything, though the fault is with him/her.  If a manager communicates in a commanding manner, he may get the job done but the employees will not perform whole-heartedly and the quality of the outcome may suffer.

We are into business. What does that mean? We are busy; we want to get more jobs done in less time. But sometime, the way we communicate, we dig our own grave by prolonging the communication with negative output. Grammatically you may be perfect, but that does not mean anything to us unless you are getting the desired result. 

Another interesting behaviour pattern I have noticed in this information age, most of us always ready to disagree and argue. Most individual thinks he/she knows better than the other person and unconsciously develops false ego; as a result he is always ready to defend with arguments.

To be a better communicator, we have to be a better listener.  Listening skills is one of the very difficult skills though it seems to be simple. Most of the time we are not listening but hearing and there is a compulsive thinking going inside our mind, like playing our own tape recorder.  Most of the time we are preparing to reply or answer with little listening and understanding the other person’s ideas and perspectives.  We have created such a strong wall of our views, opinions and perceptions that we are always preparing to defend our views and opinions to be best.

If I listen, then only I can understand the other person’s view. We must remember ‘listening builds trust’. I have discussed the common situations we face in our life in professional and personal life and how we can improve our Interpersonal Relationship in our personal life and professional life in the manual with lots of case studies, examples and role plays.