Improve Your Communication Skills E-Book Free Download

Improve Your Communication Skills E-Book Free Download

Size: 3 MB
Pages: 204

Language: English

Improve Your Communication Skills - "If you are not communicating, you are not managing". In 2003, the American Management Association asked its members what skills go to make an effective leader. Number one skill – way ahead of the others – was communication (84 per cent). Interestingly, numbers two and three – motivating others (56 per cent) and team-building (46 per cent) – also rely on effective communication. Whats more, 60 per cent of executives who responded listed lack of collaboration as their top leadership challenge. Management is no longer a matter of command and control. Managers must now work with matrix management and networking, with outsourcing and partnerships. We must influence people to act, often without being able to wield power over them. Our success depends, more than ever before, on other people. The new technologies have been a mixed blessing. IT helps us keep in touch but can reduce our opportunities to talk to each other. Many of us have become ‘cubicle workers, spending most of our day interfacing with a computer screen. Corporate communication can, of course, still be remarkably.