Communication Skills for Leaders

8. reflect on your own social styles. Follow the steps below.

Take the “Identifying Social Style” (Amiable, score of 32 in assertiveness and 46 in responsiveness)
Summarize your results from your personal inventory.
Share your results with a family member or friend. Compare and contrast their perceptions with your own as you explain what this activity revealed to you about yourself.
Assess your results with the Style Flexing Guidelines for Enhancing Communication Effectiveness. Using your results, evaluate what steps you would need to take in each area to increase your communication effectiveness.
Describe how your social style affects your ability as a leader to adapt to cultural differences.
What generational and gender areas do you feel you need to address to improve your communication skills?
Summarize your overall findings and the top three areas you will choose to focus on over the course of the next year to have more effective communication and be better able to adapt to differences.

All over the world there are people who share generally the same concept of what leadership means and what it means. A leader is someone that is fair and able to steer an entire group towards a specific objective or idea and inspire and inspire others to perform their best. But there is a vast variety of choices regarding the way the leader performs these duties. The distinctions can be seen when you look at the ways in how different cultural influences affect the various leadership styles (Bhaduri 2019.). A comprehensive study in this area has revealed that a person’s cultural background can have a profound impact on the way they lead and the styles that they show (Bonsu and Twum-Danso in 2018). The issue of leadership and cultural differences is becoming more important because of the growing globalization of the economy of the world and its population. To succeed in the high-level leadership positions of today across the world, it’s becoming increasingly essential to have an established understanding of the ways that the culture of leadership influences how you approach your work. Cont…