Tag Archive: communication skills

How Well are You Listening? Article by Maynard Brusman, January 30, 2020 The art of listening is essential for mindful leaders. When we think we already know what someone is going to say, or hear something that contradicts what we think or feel, we often stop listening. We fail to acknowledge that we don’t know what we don’t know, and begin crafting a solution and response. In the process, we hold on to bias, beliefs, and pre-conceived notions. View page

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Leadership Development and the Art of Listening Article by Maynard Brusman, January 20, 2020 Although the art of listening is frequently the difference between leadership success and failure, it is often taken for granted, and rarely taught in schools—at any level. We have an urgent need for leadership development in the art of listening. View page

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Personality Impacts Leadership Effectiveness Article by Maynard Brusman, April 5, 2019 Despite all of the resources available to leaders today – books, articles, seminars, coaching and training programs – employees remain dissatisfied with leadership, their jobs and the future. After decades of attention paid to building better leaders, overall workforce distaste and distrust show little improvement. The managerial mindset is also stagnant. View page

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Socially Intelligent Communication Skills for Leaders Article by Maynard Brusman, January 26, 2019 Leaders develop and use communication—a soft skill—to work with others, recognizing that success relies on unity and collaboration. When combined with the traditional hard skills of quantitative analysis and decision-making, communication rounds out a leader’s ability to bring people together and achieve high performance. View page

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Communication Skills for Mindful Leaders Article by Maynard Brusman, January 13, 2019 Leaders continue to assume greater responsibilities and pressures as markets and technologies call for increasingly faster commerce, responses and results. Information overload and business volatility have become the norm, requiring nimble management and staff interconnection. Leadership success depends on a most essential professional skill: strategic communication. View page

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