Transforming Communication in Leadership and Teamwork Person-Centere
This accessible, highly interactive book presents a transformative approach to communication in leadership to meet workplace challenges at both local and global levels. Informed by neuroscience, psychology, as well as leadership science, it explains
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ansforming Communication in Leadership and Teamwork Person-Centered Innovations
Transforming Communication in Leadership and Teamwork
Renate Motschnig David Ryback •
Transforming Communication in Leadership and Teamwork Person-Centered Innovations
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Renate Motschnig Faculty of Computer Science, CSLEARN— Educational Technologies University of Vienna Vienna Austria
ISBN 978-3-319-45485-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-45486-3
David Ryback EQ Associates International Atlanta, GA USA
ISBN 978-3-319-45486-3
(eBook)
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To all those who challenge the conventional state of communication in management, and dare to transform it in ways to gain a deeper level of meaning, agility, collaboration, and success.
Foreword
As a scientist working on cancer research at Emory University, communicating with others is just as important, if not more, than the work involving test tubes, rats, and other paraphernalia that result in the data we need to move forward with a cure for cancer. This book breaks the mold in its interactive approach to leading others in a more humane, authentic, and effective style. The two-agenda approach, in which the human brain balances focus on task along with focus on human interaction, is a fairly new model which helps understand exactly where the challenge for effective leadership lies. It is not one or the other, as the authors of this book illustrate, but rather the fine-tuning of the two as it applies to individual scenarios and people involved. This is a subtle skill that can be learned by those interested in becoming better leaders and managers. It requires agility and sensitivity as well as focus on the bot
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