There’s a Dilbert cartoon where the boss says he only hires people smarter than him. Dilbert points out that that means the person at the top of the organization is the least intelligent. Organizations that hire for diversity will look for complements to fill knowledge gaps. A consultative communication and leadership style honors the validity […]
Have you ever met someone who you just couldn’t get through to? There could be many reasons for this, one of the most common is different communication styles. Communication styles are deeply engrained, based on hereditary and environmental factors. Our “style” tends to remain rather constant through life. Since it’s all we know, many leaders […]
No is a complete sentence. Why do some leaders have a hard time with these two little letters? Why it’s Hard to Say No According to Dr. Judith Tingley, author of Say What You Mean, Get What You Want: A Businessperson’s Guide to Direct Communication, the biggest barrier to communicating assertively is fear. We fear […]
According to William Strunk Jr.’s Elements of Style, “Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.” Too many details cause the minds of your audience to wander. Know when […]
