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1. Great Communication, According to
Aristotle
In my nearly 20 years of work in organization
development, I’ve never heard anyone say
that a leader communicated too much or
too well. On the contrary, the most common
improvement suggestion I’ve seen offered
up on the thousands of 360 evaluations I’ve
reviewed over the years is that it would be
better if the subject in question learned to
communicate more effectively.

2. • Aristotle identified the three critical elements — ethos, pathos, and logos. —
thousands of years ago.
• Ethos is essentially your credibility — that is, the reason people should believe
what you’re saying. In writing this blog I made an effort to demonstrate my ethos
in the introduction.
• In some cases, ethos comes merely from your rank within an organization.
• by displaying strong levels of integrity and character (which convinces them that
you’re not going to lie to them even though, since you know more than they do,
you might get away with it).

3. • Pathos is making an emotional connection —
essentially, the reason people believe that what
you’re saying will matter to them.
• Giving people your undivided attention, taking an
active interest in your team members’ career
development, and being enthusiastic about both
the organization’s progress and the individuals
who enable it are ways that leaders do this well.
• At the end of the day, pathos has the greatest
influence on followers’ perception of their
leader’s effectiveness as a communicator.

4. • the appeal to logic, means to convince an
audience by use of logic or reason.
• To use logos would be to cite facts and
statistics, historical and literal analogies,.
Logos is the Greek word for “word,” however
the true definition goes beyond that, and can
be most closely described as “the word or that
by which the inward thought is expressed"
and, "the inward thought itself" (1). The word
“logic” is derived from logos.

5. • Logos can be developed by using advanced, theoretical or
abstract language, citing facts (very important), using
historical and literal analogies, and by constructing logical
arguments.