Speaking in public fluently and accurately to carry listeners along is a skill you can learn. But do you know that there are rules you should observe in communicating if you want to lead well? Here are a few:
If you want to lead well, one of the things you have to learn to do is communicate well! We all have great ideas and visions, there are pictures and plans in our minds of things we want to do that could make our organizations and even our families better, but if we do not know how to make people understand what all these are about, then we are limited. Some of the most outstanding people in the world: Genghis Khan, Martin Luther King Jnr ,Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela and Bill Clinton, as well as many others, are known for their ability to communicate their visions and intentions powerfully.
Statesmen:The ones we have mentioned are statesmen, but even in business and family life the same rules apply. Those who look up to you or those you wish to look up to you should be swayed by you speaking skills. You ought to have the skill of speaking to people in such a way that you are able to carry them along and get them to buy in to whatever your plans are.
Knowing and empathizing with the people you are leading or intend to lead is necessary. How do you hope to speak to them if you do not know them, their challenges, their hopes and aspirations as well as their dispositions. If you don't know the people you intend to address, it could be a great idea to conduct a background check or study of them to at least a get an insight into who they are. If you do not do this, whatever communication effort you attempt, would be like shooting in the dark. You are very likely to miss your target.
The way and manner you express yourself could go a long way in promoting your message or impeding it. Your audience, whoever they may be, ought to be impressed by what you say and the way you say it! This does not mean they have to like it. But unless your message is accurate and succinctly delivered you might have problems at the end of the receiver. If the words you speak are couched in bitterness and anger you might have some problems in being accepted. This takes us to the kind of language you use. Swear words, cynicism and bad language is a sign of disrespect. We ought to show those we are addressing some level of respect so that they can return the favor as they listen.
What happens or is happening around us is always a factor in what we are saying. We have to be weary of timing, the setting and social climate of the environment in which we are speaking. If we play the ostrich about it, people might get offended and discountenance whatever we are saying.
What do the people think or feel about what we are saying? Feedback is important. Sometimes even before we are done speaking we ought to look for feed back and try to determine whether we have hit the mark or not. Barriers are essentially the reason why a lot of communication efforts do not see the light of day. Its either the person who is speaking has erected barriers by being spiteful, inconsiderate or generally unkind or perhaps he has touched on sensitive issues the wrong way and offended his listeners. Anything that resembles dishonesty or arrogance would offend listeners. If we speak in that way we would erect barriers between the speaker and those who ought to be listening.
It is fundamentally taboo to say one thing and do another. Whatever we say must line up with what we do and vice versa!

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