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