Monday's class was about the importance of communication and active listening. These two things are extremely important in leadership. Without communication, it is hard to be able to direct your followers to success and to provide them feedback on their progress. Being able to communicate with your followers also know what is suppose to be done and how to do it. Communication is something that I believe goes overlooked. I believe that a lot of people do not realize the importance of it. A lot of conflicts whether they are personal, in the community, or internationally could be solved if there was better communication. A lot of the mishaps that go on in the world are started by lack of communication between countries. I know that there are a lot of leaders in the world that are difficult to communicate with because of their beliefs, however, it takes effort on both sides to prevent conflict.
The other point in communication that is essential is active listening. Feinberg was telling us the importance of clarifying the facts of questions and making sure you understand what is being told to you. I have heard this time and time again. The thing I hate about active listening was the experience I had over the summer. I was working as a summer intern in the Wealth Management Department of a local bank and they would give me a long list of verbal directions and when I would reiterate and clarify what they said, they looked at me as if I was retarded for repeating what they basically just said. It really made me feel small. I was just trying to clarify the directions and I guess they just don't understand active listening.
I do know that active listening is important and I really think lectures and classes in general would be much better if it was easier to communicate with the professor during the actual lecture rather than waiting until the end or through e-mail.
Communication and active listening should be part of our everyday lives and the more we practice it now in college and our early years in the workforce, the better leaders we will be.
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My first reaction to this post was that you really paid attention and understood the message of class that day, and that all of your ideas we well thought out. I felt that you did a good job relaying the “importance of communication” message that was lectured on Tuesday.
ReplyDeleteI felt that your writing could use some major improvement in this post. This post has an awesome message. When written well, it has the potential to really stand out! You did a nice job of stating a valid point in the first sentence, but you did not include anything about the other points you were going make later on in the post. Dr. Feinberg urges us to summarize our message in the first paragraph, and to then expand upon that in the other paragraphs. Also, I urge you to proofread your posts. Treat the blog in a formal manner. Make sure you are clear when creating a new paragraph, either by indenting or creating a one-line space.
This post demonstrated the analytical side of leadership because you applied the discussed topics to what goes on in the world today. My only suggestion would be to support you ideas of communication with better examples. Not necessarily better examples, but more specific. Pick a story about a certain world leader and discuss his or hers communication pros and cons. You did well at covering different aspects of good communication—like active listening, clear speaking voice, restating of ideas, etc. You could have dug a little deeper into the ideas covered in class: one-way communication, two-way communication, and getting someone to understand you.