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Communicating as a Leader

Leadership Skills: How to Be a Successful Communicator

Jacqueline Moore asked: As a business leader, one of the most important leadership skills you’ll ever demonstrate is knowing how to communicate. When you think about it, most business leadership consists of communication of one sort or another. You hold meetings with staff or board members or suppliers, you interview potential managers, you meet customers […]

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What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate.

Kerrie Halmi asked: While this is a quote from Cool Hand Luke (a very old movie!), it is very appropriate for people in today’s business world. Business communication fails to achieve its intended purpose at least 70% of the time! The reasons varyfor example, many people do not listen well. Of course, all communication is […]