Communications Quotes
Whether presenting at an international conference, leading a team meeting, pitching a new idea to the boss or just going over strategy with a coworker, proper communication is essential. Common side effects of poor communication include: loss of time and resources, anger, frustration, subpar results, and premature graying.
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Developing excellent communication skills is absolutely essential to effective leadership. The leader must be able to share knowledge and ideas to transmit a sense of urgency and enthusiasm to others. If a leader can’t get a message across clearly and motivate others to act on it, then having a message doesn’t even matter.
Communication can’t always follow the top-down model. With the fluidity of information in business today, leaders need to be masterful listeners; they need to be able to receive as well as send.
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
Leaders who make it a practice to draw out the thoughts and ideas of their subordinates and who are receptive even to bad news will be properly informed. Communicate downward to subordinates with at least the same care and attention as you communicate upward to superiors.
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Most important, leaders can conceive and articulate goals that lift people out of their petty preoccupations and unite them in pursuit of objectives worthy of their best efforts.
Precision of communication is important, more important than ever, in our era of hair trigger balances, when a false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
Regardless of the changes in technology, the market for well-crafted messages will always have an audience.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel and misrepresentation.
There’s nothing more demoralizing than a leader who can’t clearly articulate why we’re doing what we’re doing.
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