Communication in Leadership

Communication in leadership is such an important thing. Recently I've really been getting alot of feedback and insights on communication in leadership from the people around me.

My friend Weixin was telling me about how he feels that an organization as a whole should continually articulating its mission statement to their staff, so that the staff does not keep just doing admin and lose heart after a while, because the things they do are mundane.

Same thing with any group and with Uni-Y as well. I saw the importance of continually aligning the club in its core vision through sharing again and again with everyone.

That way everyone runs with a vision, and not instructions on things to do. How can a someone to be son to you, like how Timothy was a son to Paul? By you first sharing your heart's vision with them. If not they're just people who do mundane activities, and they're going to lose heart in time.

How many people do you know who actually love doing things without knowing its purpose? Don't blame your members for not running with you. Ask yourself when was the last time you actually shared the organizational vision with them?

Remember: A vision is NOT a number. There are some people who use numbers to articulate vision.

" We want to make $10,000 during the year 2009."

" We want to have 50 members in our group in a years' time."

That's a goal, not a vision. And not expect people to run with a goal. Goals are milestones. They are not vision.

Vision involves you painting a picture of what things can be. What things should be. That is sharing a vision. And people run after visions. People are motivated by visions. They aren't motivated by a number.

So continue to communicate. Remember that communication is the key to life. Communicate not at the speech level, but at the heart level. You'll see that people can flow with you much better =)