The document discusses the importance of communication for effective leadership, noting that leaders must be able to share knowledge, transmit urgency and enthusiasm to motivate others. It provides tips for leadership communication including beginning with a clear vision and message, listening to gain commitment and trust from followers, and actively seeking feedback to improve leadership skills. Effective communication is fundamental to leadership and learning to communicate better would make one a much stronger leader.

1. COMMUNICATION FOR
EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP
By Carolyne Gathuru

2. COMMUNICATION AND LEADERSHIP
"Developing excellent communication skills is absolutely
essential to effective leadership.
A leader must be able to share knowledge and ideas, to
transmit a sense of urgency and enthusiasm to others.
If a leader can't get a message across clearly and motivate
others to act on it, then having a message doesn't even
matter."
— Gilbert Amelio

3. The 7 C’s of Effective Communication For Leadership

4. LEADERSHIP AND COMMUNICATION

5. 3 Tips On Leadership And
Effective Communication

6. 1. Begin With The End In Mind
Have clarity of vision
Communicate clearly
Carry the audience along
Illustrate simply and effectively

7. Begin With The End In Mind
Wangari Maathai – I will be a Humming Bird
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2mta1m

8. LISTENING EXERCISE

9. 2. Listen Listen Listen !
When you listen, you get total commitment from
the people you lead. Listening is an essential part
of communication. Your people will learn to trust
you.
You transmit trust and respect by listening.
Listening also transmits the fact that you care.
If you want a very very high performance team,
learn to listen to them a lot and respond correctly,
and their motivation to succeed will follow.
- Ben Simonton

10. 3. Actively Seek Feedback

11. Actively Seek Feedback
“Great leaders are made not born.
To develop great leadership skills, leaders
need to learn how to become better listeners,
how to accept critical feedback in a
constructive way, and how act on this
feedback for self improvement and team
motivation.”
-Michael Ray Hopkin

12. Leadership And Communication
“Communication is fundamental to
leadership. If I got the chance to start over
again, I would go back to school and learn
to become a better communicator. This is
paramount to getting anything accomplished
and I would have definitely been a much
better leader.”
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. - 38th
US President 1974 to 1977

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