"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."
Gilbert Amelio, former President and CEO of National Semiconductor Corp
Rightfully, I can't agree with this quote the more.
How to maximize the work team's strength and work effectively?
Besides knowing well about all your team member's different strength and skills, communication skills play the most important role as a delivery agent in a team work. Always, there are different peoples either from different countries, races, background, or gender or etc...
As a leader, to deliver the right and clear command to all your different team members become so much crucial. He/she has to ensure that each team members able to perform the task given. This is stand on the basis if the team member able to get the right instruction and being shared with the right knowledge and ideas through out the process to complete their task.
Example, If I am a leader, I wish to have someone helping me to calculate the total area of a land. But during the communication process, I only share with that member about information eg. how far away this land from the nearest MRT station, how much our company spend intend to buy this piece of land, the soil condition of this land is pretty poor on a soft marine clay layer, etc....
Do you think he/she able to calculate the total area of the land after the communication session?
"then having a message doesn't even matter", as quoted by Gilbert Amelio.
The right approach can really save much more efforts yet lead to the better results. Or else, it will become the opposite way.
Right communication,
right people,
right work.
Thank you for this detailed response, Wan Chung. As a person from the 'industry,' you know the value of effective comm skills for leadership as much if not more than anyone else.
ReplyDeleteDear Prof Brad, I do believe the communication skill play parts in everywhere but not just in engineering field. As all of us live as a society. That's what we learn from each other in this module too. Via communication.
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