COMMUNICATION AND LEADERSHIP

Communication and Leadership



Table of Contents

Introduction3

Discussion3

Definition of Communication4

Definition of Leadership Communication5

The Leadership Communication Framework6

Leadership Communication: Strategy, Structure and Purpose7

International Leadership communication8

Conflict Resolution by the Leader10

Online Communicating at Work10

Conclusion10

References12

Appendix13

Communication and Leadership

Introduction

Today's multicultural, globalized world calls for the leaders who hold a keen perceptive of different national cultures. By being trained from various countries and cultures, internationally cultured leaders construct cultural bridges, making them to control culture as a device for gaining competitive advantage. The growing importance of international companies generates a big mandate for leaders who are refined in global management and skilled at working with people from other countries. Leaders are faced with the thorny tests of persuasively presenting their dream to an extremely dissimilar and multicultural employees and applying it in an vague atmosphere. This involves the aptitude to interact, communicate, and decide in a culturally right and insightful way.

A leader must be able to communicate well. When asked to define leadership, theorists and practitioners alike frequently use the words "influence," "inspire," and "transform," all of which depend on communication, verbal and nonverbal. Leaders lead through their words and their actions. This paper discusses Communication and Leadership and related concepts, this paper mainly focuses on the internatinal aspect of ladership and its communication.

Discussion

Successful leadership relies on successful communication with diversae groups of people who belong to different parts of the world, it is also the ability to connect to others and, through that connection, guide, direct, motivate, and inspire. Good communication skills foster, enable, and produce the trust and understanding essential to persuade others to pursue a leader. Without successful communication, leaders carry out little. Without efficient communication, a leader isn't a leader. Being able to communicate well is what lets individuals to get into leadership positions. In business, for instance, be promoted in an organization and to reach success, one must be able to make sound decisions, to communicate, and to have things done with and through other persons. (Barge 2004)

A leader in international business must understand that different cultural groups have different ideas regarding what leaders usually look like and how they must or must not perform. In some cultures a leader is thought of as typically an decisive, strong, and autonomous person; while in other cultures other images of ideal leaders might exist. What might be believed leadership in one culture could be regarded as dictatorship in another. Leaders who move outside of the culture/country they know, must principally be mindful of how the country/culture they have entered views power.

Definition of Communication

Communication is the spread of meaning from one individual to another or too many persons, whether nonverbally or verbally. Communication from one individual to another is frequently denoted as the "rhetorical situation," that is usually portrayed as an easy triangle pertaining the receiver, the message, the context, and the sender, (Figure A).

Figure A shows very ideal and simple communication. There will be no misunderstandings or miscommunication. The sender may select the right medium, recognize the background and the listeners (receiver), and ...