Leadership Communication

I just found the antidote to Talk Like A Pirate Day - David Zinger re-posted on Slacker Manager his 'How to talk like a leader', which is very funny. The reason he re-posted it is a sad one. You can find it on the Leadership Central links in the lefthand column of the Home Page, which is where I found it (that column is a feed to the best leadership blogs on the Net). Or just click below after this extract from David's post:

I'm fascinated by slideshares like the one below, because they teach us how to communicate more effectively - how to tell stories more effectively. Note how few words there are, yet how powerful the communication is.

I once heard 'conversation' described as the 'Sixth Discipline' - a reference to Peter Senge's Fifth Discipline - implying that conversation is the great secret, ignored discipine that managers and leaders need to get better at, and fast. I absolutely agree.