Leaders work through people to achieve their vision for the organization. They inspire innovation in their people. It is leadership that moves ideas, gets stuff down and keeps the team motivated and inspired.
And they use conversation to do all this. Effective leaders employ carefully crafted words. They use authentic speech and don’t pretend to have all the answers. Their speech encourages collaboration. Someday, keep track of how many and the variety of conversations you have during the day.
Helpful conversation is not about complaining, commiserating or comparing one to the other; it is about inspiring help from the team because the leader is helpful. Careful words will encourage commitment of the team because you keep your commitments.
Spoken words have power to destroy, discourage or delight the hearer. Idle words inspire no one and can distract from focus.
The casual use of blasphemous words destroys the user’s soul – God is not pleased. Swear words and a potty mouth can creep in and out so very easily because our culture has desensitized language. Believing leaders must guard their hearts against this – I understand – there are times I utter “Uffda!”
Proverbs 13:2-6 The good acquire a taste for helpful conversation…Careful words make for a careful life… A good person hates false talk… bullies push and shove their way through life.
Are you a bully or a leader in your conversations?
Copyright ©2009 by P. Griffith Lindell
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
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