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 dont 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 cant be stopped. Thats what Im 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.