Excerpt: Letting people express their opinion to you as a supervisor, you should be proud to have them to do that because you have open honest communication. They may have an idea, they may know how to do the job better because their the professional doing it, and you don’t know all of the answers, and when they come to you with ideas, as a team, your brain power, together, becomes a magnet of power, and you can’t be stopped. That’s what I’m looking for.

We all know that communication is the foundation of leadership. There are hundreds of ways we communicate with speech, hands, eyes, body language, direction, the way we talk, the way we listen, and many many more. This video will review the very basic ideas about communication. As a supervisor your effectiveness depends somewhat on your verbal skills, your attitude towards people, non-verbal gestures, signals, and of course your listening skills. Employees listen to your words, but they also watch what your doing. They learn your likes, your dislikes, what upsets you, and how well you perform your job. This is communication. Consistency is one factor in effective communication. There are four communication barriers, or problem areas, which tend to prevent good communication. First, not recognizing the need to communicate. Listening, but not really listening, not talking the same language. And lack of skill in communicating.