Leading & Communicating, and Vice Versa

What are your Communication challenges? Are they the same as your Leadership ones? On a scale of 1-10, how much will improving your skills at the former help with the latter (10 being the max)?

In our extensive experience, Leadership and Communications are synonymous. There are other factors that improve our leadership of course – competence and experience being two, but failing to persuade others to do what they might not otherwise do is pivotal leadership skill.

Which can be taught. Refined. Improved.

So what are your comms challenges? Public speaking? Having tricky conversations? Pitching your product? What are your listening skills like?

While these might feature, how often do they reveal more about your character and confidence levels? At BYC Coaching, our start point is understanding our Audience – you. And then giving you the skills to overcome those road-blocks that slow us all down. 

Then it’s being clear on your Intentions, cleaving all you want to say to what you must say. If the fire alarm stopped your moment at the worst moment.

And then it’s using a treasure trove of tactics to radiate your Messages, from storytelling to body language, voice intonation and metaphors. And everything in between!

It’s our firm belief, borne from tons of experience, that poor communications are at the heart of most of the challenges we have these days. Let’s get to work.

Stirring the Emotions of these Sharks…

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.” Lao Tzu

By the vast breadth of the subject, Communication Coaching takes on many forms but common to it all are these 4 steps:

Step 1 – Knowing You (the other half of the timeless Abba song). Your DISC personality type, the way you prefer to communicate, your challenge areas, your super-powers. And you get a 15-page DISC report to work with.

Step 2 – Knowing your Audience. In fine detail. As Quentin Tarantino, the maverick Hollywood director, said: “I’m my audience – what interests me, what excites me, that what I want to feel”.

Step 3 – Refining your Intentions, in as fewer words as possible.

Step 4 – Broadcasting your Messages in a variety of ways, including what your Body Language is radiating.

First question first though – what are your communication challenges?