Characteristics of Leaders

Communication Skill

Communicating with Internal and External Stakeholders 

Communicating leadership

Organizational culture and climate provide contexts for creating particular kinds of managers.  For example, the more supportive your organizational/communication climate, the more freedom you have to make choices as a manager.  Classical organizational cultures were designed to create classical managers, or managers who primarily concern themselves maintaining the current organizational culture and structure through strict regulation and control of people and profit margins.  Even in a world where organizational cultures are changing rapidly, there is a need for degrees of control to ensure organizational effectiveness and profitability.

 However, in the midst of change, managers need to do more than manage.   Successful change is created when managers act as innovative, transformative leaders who can mobilize people, create interest in creative problem solving and motivate teams and individuals to perform in highly ambiguous situations. 

  Leaders induce followers to act for certain goals that represent the values and the motivations—the wants and needs, the aspirations and expectations—of both leaders and followers.

 In what follows, we take you through some concepts and exercises designed to enhance the management skills you already have so that you might be better able to act as a change leader during your organization’s process of organizational change.