Leadership and Communication Management

According to Lussier & Achua, (2013, p. 192) Leader is a person who represents his/her workers and motivates them to reach company goals, communication and effective leadership skills play best roles when leaders try to achieve goals. Leader has to deal with number of people on day to day basis such as workers, customers, investors, media people etc. The success of leader depends on communication skills because, if the leader able to create a good communication with employees can accomplish lot more than leader expected (Shukla, 2011)

Hi Doug. I agree that communication is a very good perspective to contemplate when considering leadership. Communication can be essential to successful leadership through identifying risks, issues, and other barriers on a project, or in an organization. Regardless of the skills, abilities, or traits that a leader may possess, being deficient in effective communication will cause failure in reaching the goals and objectives of a group (Solaja, Idowu, & James, 2016). This is due to the importance of information across all spectrums of an organization, including leaders and followers (Solaja et al., 2016). Understanding how people give and receive information will allow a leader to change the various methods of communication (e.g. newsletters,

Poor leadership and communication are attributable to ineffective communication. For effective communication to occur The Communication Process must occur seamlessly. Communication at Cerner Corporation was perceived as ineffective because those at the receiving end were interpreting messages from managers that were not consistent with the goals of the company. According to Guffey, Rogin, and Rhodes (2010), “Predicting the effect of a message and adapting the message to a receiver are key factors in successful communication” (p.11). This explains the communication challenges at Cerner Corporation.

In this essay, I am going to discuss how practices of leadership contribute to managing communication in the post bureaucratic era. This essay shall discuss the effectiveness of leadership approaches in the post bureaucratic era in managing communication in organizations. In section 1, I shall discuss leadership in terms of communication by drawing upon the article by Barry B. (2007). In addition, I shall also discuss the use of communication in running an organization in a leader’s desired way (Jack, G., 2004) and the need of contingency approach (Browning, 2007, pg 190) while communicating with employees. In section 2, I shall discuss how management stimulate loyalty in employees through embedding organizational identity (Gagne, J.F.,

Some of the biggest obstacles organizations face is the lack of communication between leadership and its employees. Communication can be interpreted through speaking, gestures, or writing. Ineffective communication can lead to employee turnover, job dissatisfaction, poor decision-making, and missed opportunities. Organizations should set clear expectations to improve relationships among employees, company culture and values.

As we know that, leadership is nothing. But the influencing flowers. Leadership includes three fundamental clusters of skills creating vision, garnering commitment to that vision, an managing progress toward the realization of that vision. powerful and effective leaders plays very vital role to reach the maximum production for any organization.

Communication is one if not the most important aspect of any organization. If a leader is not a effective communicator employees will have a hard time understanding the mission or goal of the organization. This will result in high turnover and eventual failure of a business. There are several different types of communication I will be using the two that most reflect me and my experiences.

Within the module for Leadership and Followership, the concept that I found the most important was the Flow of Communication. While reading through this model, I visualized my squadron and the lack of communication that exists. In the first module entry I wrote, I expressed my need to better illustrate my leaders mission plans to my subordinates and peers, and vice versa. In this module entry, I want to touch more on ways to improve my squadrons lack of effective channels of communication.

As Regional Director for Happy Face Frozen Foods (HFFF), I hold a great responsibility to meet sales projection levels at each of my sales districts. Hitting goal is not just a numbers game- it’s a task of managing people within the culture of the organization. My ultimate goal for District IV and district manager Tony’s performance

Although it is hard to pinpoint many of the success factors responsible for effective communication in different situations, communication is generally noted as a critical success factor in most leadership models. The primary reason that there is a lot of ambiguity in research surrounding communication is that is a rather complex concept that includes a multitude of different factors that are dependent usually on a particular situation. In a different situation the scope of the factors involved in communication could be entirely different. This paper selects some popular leadership models and discusses some of the roles that communication plays within these models.

Management is not leadership just as leadership is not management. In order to differentiate between the two we must ask ourselves which we relate to more, or rather, which we consider ourselves to be by asking the question which am I? Am I a Manager or can I consider myself a Leader? What type of person makes a good manager? What type of personality is best for leaders?

The leadership and followership concept I found most important is downward communication. The reason why I found this concept most important is because without effective downward communication I will not be able to clearly articulate my supervisors’ guidance, direction, or task to my peers and subordinates. I will apply downward communication by first asking clarifying questions to my supervisors if I am confused with the specific objective they are asking me to fulfill. Next, I will determine the best way to deliver my supervisors intent to my peers and subordinates. I will determine the form to deliver the direction via email, meeting, phone call, or text message. Lastly, I will determine the amount of information that I pass onto my peers and subordinate to not cause information overload.

Successful leaders today have no choice but to be strong communicators. The current workforce is ever-changing, it is becoming more diverse and the avenues for communication and information are increasing. The days of writing a memo or making a call on a rotary phone are long gone, thanks to technology and the information age we now live in a society where communication is instant and constant. With all the new avenues to communicate, leaders must focus more closely on the three step communication process and the cause and effects of communication barriers. Most leaders work with very diverse teams so it’s crucial that they know how to effectively communicate to all members.

It is essential for business leaders to have excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills, as leaders are often a symbol of a company’s integrity and this affects not only how customers perceive the company, but also impacts the thoughts and actions of lower positioned employees. For example, a leader that speaks using improper grammar, or writes correspondence with spelling errors throughout it, could project a negative image that can be harmful to a company. Customers might conclude that the leader is incompetent and they might decide that they do not wish to purchase goods from a company that hires inept leaders. Furthermore, employees might become less apt to respect an authority that appears to be uneducated, as well as employees might feel that if the leader disregards using proper communication than it is not necessary for them to use it either. Business leaders need to know when to listen, when to talk, and how to share ideas effectively. Clear and concise communication states exactly how, who, what, and when and serves to guide, direct, protect, persuade, and to inform. Communication is essential for decreasing miscommunications and for increasing productivity, motivation, and efficiency. When someone uses effective communication, he or she is more apt to have favorable results and his or her requests will become granted more often. Furthermore, communication builds goodwill. Having excellent communication skills is

According to Hackman and Johnson, (2013) “Leadership is human (symbolic) communication that modifies the attitudes and behaviors of others to meet shared group goals and needs.” In my life I have had two careers, first I was a waitress and had a boss named Sandra’s, and the last job I was a para-educator with two different classrooms and teachers who were in charge of me. My experiences with each leader was very different based on the way each of them communicated. Leaders can have contrasting styles of leadership communication including authoritarian, democratic, and laissez-faire (Hackman, & Johnson, 2013).