Leadership : The Communication Starts With Self

The leader should be aware of the fact that the communication starts with self. Only if the leader can view him-/herself critically and elaborate the fair and clear communication style, the leader can reach success and develop effective communication with subordinates.

At the same time, communication is not only conveying certain messages to the audience but also listening the feedback from the audience. In this regard, effective leaders should learn how to listen their subordinates and other stakeholders to be able to communicate effectively. Listening skills contribute to better understand of needs and expectations of interlocutors. Therefore, leaders can match needs and expectations of their subordinates and, thus, encourage them to follow their lead.

In fact, listening behaviors may vary consistently depending on the personality type of leaders as well as their target audience. However, the key point is to learn to listen and understand what subordinates and other stakeholders want to say to leaders because often leaders fail to interpret correctly messages from their subordinates that leads to misunderstanding in the course of communication. Instead, adequate understanding of what leaders receive from their subordinates helps them to establish effective communication and positive interpersonal relations.

Therefore, to develop and employ listening skills effectively, the leader should learn to perceive his/her communication style critically. Listening skills can help leaders to understand better their subordinates. Leaders should just let their subordinates talk and critically evaluate all the information they receive from their subordinates. In such a way, sending messages and receiving the feedback from subordinates, leaders can steadily develop the effective communication understanding needs and expectations of their subordinates and elaborating the communication style that helps them to enhance mutual understanding with their subordinates.

At the same time presuppositions are very important for the effective communication too because they set the pace and mood of the communication. In this regard, it is possible to distinguish positive and negative presuppositions which may have different effects on leaders and their subordinates. Positive presuppositions encourage positive, productive communication, whereas negative presuppositions encourage the tensed relations and communication between leaders and their subordinates. For instance, the question “Do you have an objective for the lesson?” is less positive than “What is your objective for the lesson?”. The latter is more positive become it implies that the person, who poses the question is certain that his/her interlocutor does have an objective for the lesson and just wanders what the objective is. In case of the first question, the speaker doubts or, at least, questions whether the person, who is being asked, has any objective at all. In such a way, this question challenges the competence of the person and presupposes that the person may come unprepared for the lesson, since he/she may have no objective for the lesson at all.

In fact, presuppositions are very helpful for the development of the effective communication because they contribute to the better understanding of persons involved in the communication. For instance, in case of the communication of leaders with their subordinates, presuppositions can help leaders to understand the mood or the attitude of their subordinates to them or their messages. This is why leaders should start their communication with some introductory phrases which are not related strictly to the business. Instead, they should ask some general questions or make some general remarks to understand the mood and attitude of their subordinates and develop their communication respectively to their presuppositions about the mood and attitude of their subordinates.

In fact, the analysis of communication skills of leaders and related literature reveals the fact that the communication should be insightful and reasonable at the same time. What is meant here is the fact that leaders should feel their subordinates that means that they should understand the mood, needs and expectations of their subordinates intuitively. On the other hand, leaders should be able to evaluate their own communication style, actions and behavior critically to make their communication more effective. In such a way, leaders can develop effective communication and gain respect and support of their subordinates.

In the campus environment, leaders should be able to form the effective and healthy campus culture. The development of the healthy campus culture involves the development of two-ways communication, when the leader listens to his/her subordinate firs and then communicate key messages to meet expectations of subordinates and, thus to create, the healthy campus culture. Listening skills also contribute to the development of effective collegial relations, which also need the ability of the leader to make presuppositions that make uncover the attitude of subordinates to specific issues. Thus, the leader can develop communication in such a way that meets needs and mood of subordinates. Finally, the effective staff supervision and development should involve the support from the part of the leader. In this regard, the steward leadership style can help the leader to assist subordinates in achieving the organizational goals and, thus, to gain the support and confidence of subordinates.

 

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