Do Your Executives Need Help in Communicating?
During times of underwear bombers, unemployment, and universal healthcare debates, ask employees what they think their executives need more coaching on, and you’d expect to hear answers like these: strategic planning, visionary thinking, innovation.
But in response to a survey by ClearRock, a Boston-based outplacement and executive coaching firm, here’s what employees actually said when asked which skills their top leaders most needed to improve:
- 67% leadership skills
- 53% communications
- 53% strategic thinking
- 47% building teamwork
- 47% vision
- 46% motivating people
- 42% engaging others
- 38% managing others
- 33% decisiveness
- 32% interpersonal abilities
- 24% creativity
- 18% managing their own expectations
Take a second glance at the list. Doesn’t teamwork, motivating people, engaging others, managing others, and interpersonal skills all encompass communication skills?
With change happening almost as fast as tweets, the leader with ineffective communication skills—or the one who chooses, for whatever reason, not to communicate at all with staff—puts his or her team at odds with both the mission and management.
How do the senior leaders at your organization stack up?
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