Whether it was colors or animals or letters, you’ve likely taken a behavioral style test or tool at one point or another. And while this is the first step to better communications, it has to go beyond “labeling” to be truly useful. Check out today’s video to learn more. Tweet it out:Don’t try to understand
If you want to become more effective as a leader, more successful in meetings, or more confident while resolving conflicts, become a better communicator. On the high end of the communication skill spectrum, you find that great leaders — like Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill and Martin Luther King, Jr — are often great communicators. On the
Never has the desire to and need to communicate with people distant from us been more pressing or important than it is today. And while communication is complex enough to start with, when we are doing it at a distance, even more barriers arise. Increasingly teams are working in different locations and in different time
When there’s someone working remotely on your team (whether it’s full-time or just once a week), there are two questions to ask before communicating. And these critical questions can save you from any miscommunications that could disrupt your team’s synergy… WATCH: Two Questions to Ask Before Communicating Are you a remote leader? Visit our website
I am a sociable person; I like going for dinner and drinks with friends, going to parties, and making new connections. I have good relationships with many people all over the world. But when I’m not hearing from my remote team often, it’s great. This may seem surprising. Most of the time, the advice for engaging
As leaders, we frequently encounter challenges when conveying information to our teams, especially when our bosses delegate the messenger role to us and expect successful understanding and results. Often, it’s quite the opposite: communicating data ends with your remote team asking endless questions. In order to successfully communicate as a remote leader, we must learn
You may have completed some sort of communication style assessment in your life. It might have been called personality styles or behavioral styles; you might have seen it as a test, an inventory, or labeled it something else. If so, you were assigned a color, animal, a letter, a series of letters or some other
At some point in your leadership career, you will need to “manage upward” – sell an idea, strategy, or approach to your leader that they either don’t want, don’t understand, or don’t like. The art of successfully navigating these complicated and difficult situations requires both tact and diplomacy. Ultimately, these situations rely on the same
When we’re choosing the right tool or correct method for any communication, instead of going with the “easiest” or selecting our “go-to”, we need to start with the end in mind. Check out the video below for easy tips and ideas to help you determine which technology tool best fits your communication need. Check out
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