Improve Your Communication Skills pdf torrent

About this book

If you’re not communicating, you’re not managing.
In 2003, the American Management Association asked its
members what skills go to make an effective leader. Number one
skill – way ahead of the others – was communication (84 per
cent). Interestingly, numbers two and three – motivating others
(56 per cent) and team-building (46 per cent) – also rely on
effective communication. What’s more, 60 per cent of executives
who responded listed lack of collaboration
as their top leadership challenge.
Management is no longer a matter of command and control.
Managers must now work with matrix management and
networking, with outsourcing and partnerships. We must
influence people to act, often without being able to wield power
over them. Our success depends,
more than ever before, on other people.
The new technologies have been a mixed blessing. IT helps us
keep in touch but can reduce our opportunities to talk to each
other. Many of us have become ‘cubicle workers’, spending most
of our day interfacing with a computer screen.
Corporate communication can, of course, still be remarkably.



Pages: 204
Language: EN
Format: PDF