Wednesday, December 13, 2006

HOW TO BECOME AN EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATOR

If you have willingness to invest time and effort, you can master the skills of effective communication and thereby become an effective communicator.

Some are born with effective communication skills, while some develop it by devoting time and efforts. If you belongs to the latter category, why don’t you accept the above suggestion and go ahead to become an effective communicator. You don’t have to look for a legendary master to develop this skill. It is hidden within you and all that you have to do is put your time and effort to bring it out to put to effective use.

What Jack Welch, Collin Powell, Winston Churchill, N.R. Narayanamoorthy, Azim premji (‘am only citing a few examples) have/had in common. They are all great leaders and effective communicators. They took their mission to success with their sharp and effective communication skills, apart from being great motivators and inspirators, which the present younger generation should accept, adopt and practice in their lives to become like one amongst above named. They did not play any magic to achieve success. They have invested their time and efforts in mastering effective communication skills and did achieve what they focused and planned.

Effective communication with employees is a must by the Managers/Leaders in order to improve performance, build credibility, and derive results and to make a successful organization. Speak out to your employees, particularly at crunch times, or else they will come out with their own conclusions, which will of course be negative and the lot will later negate whatever they have negatively said. Therefore please note that a Leader’s words make a whole lot of difference and leadership communications are built on trust and this cannot be achieved in a day or two and one has to earn it through his good deeds, inspiring thoughts and encouraging words. This will not only prove to be good to the employees but also to the customers, share holders and others connected with the organization. With one wrong communication the health, well-being and image of the organization will adversely be affected, therefore be attentive and alert while communicating.

Learn from the experiences and writings of the life of influential leaders who were effective communicators. Learn the skill of converting the spoken and written words into effective communication with profound impact on its receipents/readers, should also contain appropriately the strategic developing, delivering and sustaining of the communication. There are leaders in the organization who with their effective communications skills and ability were able to pull their company out of tricky situations. What does it mean- these people were very successful not only in leading their organization to success but also could communicate in a way that influenced people’s thoughts and deeds.

BE AN EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT COMMUNICATOR.

J.KANNAN

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