| The transition from work at home professional to | | | | that someone must have pulled from a fantasy |
| executive can be traumatic. As work at home | | | | novel. |
| business people watch their businesses grow, they | | | | You have one job, to meet the projections and |
| are forced into rolls that require more skill and | | | | deadlines, whether it is possible or not. Failure cannot |
| education. However, many fear success, limiting their | | | | be shared with anyone, not the department heads, |
| chances of building a viable company | | | | team members, or the three professionals who only |
| Many top managers have the skills to excel but are | | | | work a combined two hours a day. The failure, and |
| consistently overlooked for a promotion. These | | | | consequences for the failure is yours alone. |
| people knew what needed to be done, but are | | | | Excellent communication skills provide a platform for |
| unable to explain to others the necessary steps | | | | controlling intangibles like gossip, discord, outright |
| needed to complete the job properly. This is a similar | | | | hostility, and even internal sabotage. From this |
| situation to the one faced by work at home | | | | platform, you build an attitude in the team, which |
| professionals. | | | | fuels your own success. |
| I have also seen people who are unable to pop a | | | | The attitude must be the first thing. If you give |
| cork without messing up, but they can encourage | | | | everyone a task to do and make them reliant on |
| ten different people to develop ten different | | | | others, then office hostility increases. Forcing them to |
| methods of popping corks, while everyone thinks | | | | work as a team is no better. One person will do all |
| they are taking part in a foundational company | | | | the work while others take the credit. As an |
| project. | | | | executive, there is no time for you to play |
| Most managers and executives spend hundreds of | | | | schoolyard monitor, so the transgressions go |
| hours upgrading their skills. Few will spend a few | | | | unnoticed until a key member of the team quits |
| minutes a day upgrading their communication skills. | | | | leaving you stranded. |
| The problem with poor communication skills is that | | | | Building a team attitude requires a set of rules to be |
| they are yours, a part of you, something you | | | | followed, including things like no toxic conversation, |
| understand perfectly. Your communication skills are | | | | consequences for breaking the rules, and |
| built around your IQ and EQ. This renders you blind to | | | | consequences for enabling others to break the rules. |
| the problems until you take the time to study the art | | | | There are millions of employee handbooks in the |
| of effective communication. | | | | workplace that do not work. Most of them fail |
| What Will Excellent Communication Skills do for You? | | | | because they are not enforced. An employee |
| How Effective are Your Communication Skills? | | | | handbook must have a cascading effect. One rule is |
| Learn how to communicate a Strategy. | | | | broken at the bottom level causes ripples all the way |
| Learn how to Build Rapport with Every Member of | | | | up, enforcing a chain reaction of consequences. The |
| Your Team. | | | | consequences of management's inaction is worse |
| Public Speaking 101: Techniques and Tips | | | | than their fear of confrontation, so the rules are |
| What Will Excellent Communication Skills do for You? | | | | enforced. |
| You have the skills, reputation, and determination to | | | | The second reason why strategies do not work is |
| succeed. You spent ten years paying your dues and | | | | their wording. Telling a person they need to behave |
| winning the chance to prove yourself to the world. | | | | in a certain manner is much different than changing |
| Instead of gaining the freedom to show how | | | | their attitude. You cannot control a person's attitude, |
| profitable your department can be, the VP hands you | | | | but you can manipulate it. This is were excellent |
| a projection for the next year, including cruel | | | | communication skills comes into play. |
| demands on your department, and a list of requests | | | | A good communicator achieves several things. |