How to Solve Today’s Top 10 Communication Challenges

After spending 30+ years in the corporate world and consulting for the last 12 years I still find that there is a positive correlation between companies that have great communication and the health of their organization. We consistently talk about the importance of good communications and the perils of bad communications, yet in the execution, most of us fall short in meeting our expectations and those of others. There are many great communicators in history and in the world today. Look at John F. Kennedy or Martin Luther King, they were masters at concisely communicating a message to us through story and connection.

As humans, when we are listening to another person communicate, we will only interpret a conversation in one of two ways, either as an opportunity or a threat, there is no middle ground, we fall on one side of the fence or the other. If you take the goal to deliver your message as an opportunity, even if it is a difficult message, you have a better chance of being seen as a great communicator. Many people are born with a talent for communicating and others have to develop it as a skill. The good news is that you can develop the skills to become an amazing communicator. The first step is to raise our awareness of the barriers to good communication so that we can address these obstacles quickly and even eliminate them.