Monday, November 21, 2011

Leadership and "Communicationship"



Only the great leader can establish the great company. The reason is that the leader chooses co-workers to make the business together. Also, the great abilities of the leader can successfully manage the company, because the best achievement of a business eventually relies on the leadership and his / her judgement. In addition, I would like to say that a "communicationship" is so important that the organization trains the great employees.

The "communicationship" is not a formal word in a dictionary, but I believe that there is a difference between communication and "communicationship". We can guess the "communicationship" as an ability to use the communication skills effectively. As we know, there is no doubt that a communication skill is so important for a leader. However, how to communicate with co-workers, an employer, or employees is more essential as much as the leadership, in that contemporaries in an organization have numerous diversities individually.

Therefore, leaders have to learn the "communicationship" with others. A leader should improve not only the knowledge about communication method and its importance, but also the spontaneous attitude toward the communication. Some employees dislike to talk about their problems or their thought to their boss, or others want to share their opinion or feelings. The "communicationship" could be called an ability to lead employees at a table to talk, and to make them feel free to talk their opinion.

When I was a engineer at university broadcasting station, I sometimes had some hardship to work with female co-workers because we had different ideas and solutions with the same task. I did not have communication skill yet, I selected working alone. If I was a leader of the organization, I could not be the good leader or the great one. On the other side, my certain male senior researcher had the good ability of "communicationship" with female people. He always is talkative, understandable, and kind to them. He was not a chief manager of the project, but he assumed the role of the team leader.

Although many good leaders have a professional will and knowledge, the great leaders who have a level 5 leadership have a personal humility as well as the professionalism. However, I agree that it is not easy to improve skill like the "communicationship", in which it would be related to the personality. To be the great leader and to improve the "communicationship", we should learn the attitude as thinking first the organization and other employees, as acting in quiet, and as making a sustained-sound relationship with them.

Understanding the communication as not only the skill but also the ability or the strategy, the leader could be a complete one who has both leadership and the "communicationship".

1 comment:

  1. Park - good comments! Hope you are working on your communication skills! and I think you are! We want you to be a great leader!

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