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The leader-member relationship can get a bad rap.

We've all likely had some managers who were, well, not so great in that role. We might have had a manager (or managers) who were pretty crummy. But I'm also hopeful that you've worked with a manager who helped you to grow and succeed.

Some dismiss the relationship the share with their leader as one of little importance.

Oh my friends, you couldn't be more wrong. This is a pivotal workplace relationship.

Those with high quality relationships with their manager tend to make more money, enjoy more frequent promotions, and find more satisfaction in their work than those who have lower quality leader-member relationships.

Today we're going to consider how this relationship develops, how it is maintained and how it largely shapes the answer to the following question: What is my workplace experience?

Until next time, communicate with intention and lead with purpose.

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Imposter syndrome can sneak up on the best of us. 

It also sneaks up on most of us from time to time. 

A 2019 study found that up to 82% of folks report feeling like a fraud or experience feelings of self-doubt regarding their abilities from time to time.  

So...as you likely gathered, imposter syndrome is that pesky feeling that nags us and whispers not-so-nice things in our ears like "you're not good enough," "anyone could have achieved what I have," "they're going to realize that I'm not as smart/insightful/innovative as they thought when they hired me." 

Yeah, a real bully. 

So what can you do to keep imposter syndrome at bay? 

We're going to look at two clear paths today:

1. Mentoring
2. Empowerment 

What's our communication challenge? We're going to set high, but attainable goals. We're going to let our employees know we know they can do it. We're going to let ourselves know, that WE KNOW we can do it.  

Until next time, communicate with intention and lead with purpose.

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In 2020, as many as two-thirds of all employed Americans worked remotely, and now 75% of us prefer working from home at least some of the time.

What does this mean?

It means we need to stretch and flex and adapt our leadership and our communication to fit this brave new world.

So how do we do it? How do we bring that connection and responsiveness and authenticity into the hybrid environment?  Well, we look to organizational change leadership experts like Vanessa Hills to shine some light onto the topic.

Vanessa shares her model of virtual dialogic communication with us. Yeah, yeah, yeah...dialogic communication is an academic term, but Vanessa walks us through how it applies to us now.

Whether you work from home, work from the office, or a hybrid of the two, Vanessa's suggestions will help make your work life what you want it to be.

Until next time, communicate with intention and lead with purpose.

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My friends, we have come to our season 1 finale. 

This is very bittersweet, because I've been having so much fun chatting with you each week. But now we're taking time to brainstorm and plan for season 2 (coming in the New Year). 

So how are we wrapping up the first season? A greatest hits! 

Presumptuous? Heck Yeah.  But also a whole lot of leadership communication goodness!

In this episode, we're going to consider 4 distinct focuses:

1. Leadership Truths
2. The Power of Communication
3. Relationships...or Playing Nicely in the Sandbox with Others
4. Formal & Informal Leadership: Owning and Developing Your Expertise 

And what about our communication tips? What will help you navigate your world with more confidence, credibility, and success? 

1. Avoiding Powerless Language
2. Using I Statements
3. Finding Ways to Add to Your Self-Efficacy Bank

Remember, Leaders are individuals who value communication and learn how to do it well.

Until next time, communicate with intention and lead with purpose. 

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When we think about public leadership, we are all likely to have different reactions…different thoughts and visuals that come to mind. Some of us may have a warm, positive feelings associated with the term public leadership and others well, it may be a different story all together. 

Here’s the thing my friends, public leadership encompasses a whole slew of leadership roles and activities ranging from your local PTO and HOA to the federal government and beyond. This is why this area tends to elicit such varied reactions.

So considering the vast differences in public leadership, how the heck do we tie these roles together? What are some communicative activities that unite them?

Put simply: Influence

Whether you are a member of the local chamber of commerce and you’re trying to gain support for your new dining in the streets initiative or if you’re the president of the US, in order to be successful you need to be able to influence the attitudes and behaviors of your constituents.  

• How do we connect with various stakeholder groups? 
• How do we effect change? 
• How do we sway opinions?  

We integrate leadership and persuasive communication with elements of public relations – impression management and credibility for example.

In this episode of The Communicative Leader, we look at the link between leadership, PR, and credible communication. 

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In order to remain successful, organizations need to grow and change to meet consumer’s needs. But we also know that many of the most successful organizations such as Zappos, Google, and Disney have incredibly strong cultures. There’s the rub, my friends.

Culture tends to be stable, predictable, prescriptive…It is designed that way in order to effectively speak to new employees, seasoned employees, and senior managers all the same. 

So we hear the importance of establishing a strong culture, again something that tends to be fairly fixed, but in the same breath talk about the need to adapt, to flex, to evolve. 

Yes, a paradox my friends…how do we grow to meet consumer and market demands all while maintaining our north star, our culture? 

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Peers can really make work a waaaaayyyyyyyy better experience.

From someone we can laugh with when that customer shows us with the worst breath again to someone we can say “hey I know that we went over the instructions like a hundred times, but can you show me again how do to this?”

And that is a lot easier than going to our manager to do so.

Peers can be a bigger source of support, information, and friendship than our manager or other organizational employees.

Research also shows that we tend to be more innovative when engaging with our peers and generate more creative ideas.

But…what about when the relationship we share with our peers or A peer isn’t quite as strong…or is downright contentious?

In this episode of the communicative leader, we are going to important role that our peer relationships play in our workplace experience – from the benefits, the potential challenges, and how to end a peer relationship if the need arises.

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Teams can be hard work.

As we've talked about before, a lot of time teams just don't work - and that is under the best of circumstances.

On this episode of The Communicative Leader, we talk with Karen Cashin and learn about how she leads a team where members rotate on and off -- generally every 6 to 12 months.

Let's make this even messier. Those who join the team are not communication experts or even communication novices, but rather subject matter experts in other areas.

Karen is a unicorn. Well, she's a lovely woman, but she's such a phenomenal, communicative leader, I think of her as a unicorn. Legendary to near mythical status.

We chat about onboarding employees, team culture, investing in members, and the importance of self-care.

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Many of us have grown up on a diet of teams that has led to an almost reverence for them.

But I think it is a whole lot easier to pull up examples of bad team experiences we've had, than the good ones.

Now there's the rub, my friends.

If teams are supposed to be this magical vehicle for innovation and productivity, why do so many offer to work individually when (in theory) a team-based approach would lighten their load?

This episode of The Communicative Leader reviews 6 common mistakes managers make when assembling teams. Of course, we don't leave you there, my friends. We address these mistakes but we also leave with you specific, communication-rooted solutions for sidestepping them.
 
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Leadership can be pretty easy when we are working with those we have strong interpersonal relationships. We appreciate them as colleagues and we like them as people. 

But what happens when we are having trouble connecting with a team member? What happens when we outright don't get along with a peer? 

it is difficult to relate to people when we differ in various ways, such as politics, family obligations, work ethics, and other personal differences. This episode offers practical suggestions for communicating and connecting with people we struggle to get along with.

Remember, leadership = communication.

We can use our verbal and non-verbal behaviors to connect across differences while creating a work environment that we're happy to be a part of.

Communication Focus
Strategic language can help you to foster inclusion and establish a shared team identity. 

Yeah, all of those literary devices your English prof told you about are legit ;) We'll consider how to integrate these into your toolbox so you can help make your workplace what you want it to be.

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