Leadership Communication III

Chapter Three: Using Language to Achieve a Leadership Purpose

Summary:

This chapter talked about the use of the right words in the right way to achieve the leadership communication. It begins how to project a confident tone when speaking and writing. We need to process confidence in the knowledge on the subjects and in the ability to capture the content in the right words used in the right way. Next, the communication should be concisely made. The clear writing is direct to the point, and free of jargon, pomposity and wordy constructions.There are ten guidelines to achieve the greater conciseness; Avoiding the overuse of the passive voice, Avoiding expletives, Avoiding the use of prepositions idioms, Avoiding the overuse of relative pronouns, Avoiding the repetition of words and ideas, Not overusing descriptive words and particularly adverbs, Avoiding weasel words and ambiguous non committal words, Being aware of jargon and other kinds of gobbledygook, Avoiding nominalizations, and finally, Avoiding redundancies.The credibility and ability to represent ourselves depends on using language correctly. Sometimes the using of language is careless or not well informed. The punctuation makes reading easier and can lead to misreading if used incorrectly. We should be careful the using of additional punctuation the sexist language. The employing efficient and effective editing techniques are a very important skill that requires discipline and practice. Word processing programs have made creating documents but they have also caused some problems. If we are aware of the problems, we can let the computer work for us. We might let someone to look over our work to correct something if necessary. The more control we have over the use of language, the greater our influence and our ability to achieve the leadership communication.