Communicate
"9. Deal And Communicate With People Effectively: No person is an island. Learn to understand and motivate others."-IBD ninth of ten secrets to success
Communication with others and our self is very important. What and how we say things to others and ourselves could build us or destroy us.
Long time ago I read a John Maxwell book on 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership. In it he graphically explained the results of being able to move people towards a common goal. He showed a graph on which he showed a line to the right to indicate a person's effectiveness. This was a rather one dimensional. You can work on yourself and the best you could get to is a 10 on a ten scale. But if you improve your communication then the graph adds a second vertical axis.
Now suppose that your effectiveness is 7 and your team is a 8. Your total effectiveness is 56. By improving your self to an 8 only moves it to 64 but if your team becomes a 10 then you guys become an 80. A drastic improvement fit three whole team.
Today's question is:
" How effective are you at communicating with others and yourself?"
"9. Deal And Communicate With People Effectively: No person is an island. Learn to understand and motivate others."-IBD ninth of ten secrets to success
Communication with others and our self is very important. What and how we say things to others and ourselves could build us or destroy us.
Long time ago I read a John Maxwell book on 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership. In it he graphically explained the results of being able to move people towards a common goal. He showed a graph on which he showed a line to the right to indicate a person's effectiveness. This was a rather one dimensional. You can work on yourself and the best you could get to is a 10 on a ten scale. But if you improve your communication then the graph adds a second vertical axis.
Now suppose that your effectiveness is 7 and your team is a 8. Your total effectiveness is 56. By improving your self to an 8 only moves it to 64 but if your team becomes a 10 then you guys become an 80. A drastic improvement fit three whole team.
Today's question is:
" How effective are you at communicating with others and yourself?"
Excellent post! Covey's work on 7 Habits of Highly Effective People makes mention of communication by proclaiming "seek first to understand, then to be understood." Tending to this new axiom as my own has re-imaged my empathy, relate-ability, and compassion.
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