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How to Create a Powerful Leadership Language for Your Organization
How to Create a Powerful Leadership Language for Your Organization

April 15, 2022

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Communication is positively essential in all walks of life, and some great leaders use clear communication to connect with their teams.

The words we prominently use in everyday conversation reveal a great deal about our personalities. Most of us have broad vocabularies, but we rely on a core set of go-to words that frequently appear in most conversations. If you pay attention to your daily speech, you'll soon notice a pattern of your favorite words emerging. You may be astonished to learn that these terms are part of your everyday linguistic toolkit. You'll be able to track their impact on the world or how they create a powerful leadership language containment for your organization. 

 

Language is the starting point of all the positive changes that have ever happened. The language was, is, and will be the way one could measure empowerment and collaboration.

 

When communicating with your employees, the right language can mean the difference between a happy, high-functioning workplace and a hostile environment. In the end, the conversations inside the premises should be focused on the employee and their career objectives. Improve your listening skills first if you want to improve your communication skills only then you'll be able to create a powerful leadership language for your organization. 

Try to Keep It Simple 

Given the importance of outstanding leadership in the workplace and the impact that language has on how we act and who we are, does it make sense to identify the language of great leadership? Most importantly, leaders emphasize collaboration. Great leaders understand that success is not solely theirs to claim. Without a great team's full support, dedication, and hard work, it is impossible to run a successful business and thrive to live in a positive environment. 

 

Words have both creative and destructive potential. They have the power to shape culture and mindset...for better or worse. It is one of the most overlooked and underappreciated forces that can literally make or break the effectiveness of an organization. Changing the way you speak can have an impact on your future. There is a clear distinction between how highly successful companies communicate and highly dysfunctional ones. In fact, you can easily predict the organization's future potential based on how they communicate. 

 

Let me tell you how unsuccessful businesses communicate. These phrases will be heard frequently in their conversations.

 

  • We don't have what it takes to develop. 
  • There isn't enough time in the day to get everything done. 
  • I'm sick of dealing with issues.

 

All of these phrases are examples of what I call "Language Limitations." They're all based on what can't be done, why it won't work, how difficult it is, and when we can give up. This type of language completely undermines an organization. In my opinion, language is the most significant impediment in any substantial aspect of your life. 

 

Collaborate Instead of Coerce

We all know that exceptional leaders are essential in creating great workplaces. More than any other factor, the quality of an employee's day-to-day work experience influences the satisfaction and engagement of their workplace. Even the most innovative and well-designed programs or benefits cannot compensate for a negative environment in a workplace.

Doing is important, but action must be balanced with thinking – too much activity without thought results in wasted or erroneous actions and bad decisions, and too much thinking without action results in inaction and frustration. Try to implement the following points into your regime and you might see a powerful change in your environment.
 

  • Substitute a reactive language of convincing, coercing, and conform with a proactive language of intent and commitment to action. 
  • Replaced a language of "ascertain and perform" with a language of "motivation and improve." 
  • Impose a language barrier of certainty and invulnerability with a language of vulnerability and curiosity. 



 

Instead of Conforming to Your Role, Connect With People

 

A performance mindset has two sides to it. We either try to demonstrate competence (I can complete the project), or we try to protect ourselves from the evidence of incompetence (I don't want to get exposed as incompetent). This proven mindset is driven by the desire to demonstrate something positive, whereas the protect mindset is driven by the desire to conceal something negative. Connecting with people will often explain their aspirations in self-centered language. Positive leadership is all about thinking about others. 

 

Some ways how you can share a special bond with your people and connect them with your leadership language are:-  

 

  • Highlighting needs. If you find yourself in a situation when you need to confront an employee, just go and have a healthy discussion with them. Explain to them why things can't go on as they are. Make them know they matter to the organization and ask how you can help them out to bail out from the situation. 

 

  • Honor their effort & motivate them. Small gratitude goes a long way. Everyone loves to get recognized for their hard work. Celebrate their success as your own. Embrace their failure like your own. Dance with your words because you're actually making a difference in their life with how you react. And you'll be surprised to know how motivated they feel after a healthy and positive conversation about one's efforts.
     
  • Invite Dissent, Rather Than Consensus. Anchoring and social conformity is an art, and it can undermine the employee's wisdom. 

 

Being a successful and effective leader entails much more than simply stating that you will get more out of others. You can't just decide or even legislate for it; you have to connect, relate, and identify with your team. The ability to connect with your people and team is a crucial factor in reaching your full potential. It is not a secret! Connecting is a skill that you can learn and apply in your personal, professional, and family relationships—and you can do it better by understanding how to create a powerful leadership language for your organization. 

 


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Rrahul Sethi
Co-Founder & Head of Talent & Delivery

In the last 21-years as professional & entrepreneur, I have made friends, built companies, sold companies, invested in people and learnt my way up. I have spent a reasonable time building business in South Africa, the United States and India. In totality, I like to be around positive people who are successful and have a mindset of growing together. I was awarded the ‘Proto Award’ for India’s most innovative Startups (Times Media Group). In year 2018, I was felicitated at BRICS Alliance Summit in New Delhi for emerging product development in sustainable technology space. I have been speaker in several Industry events over last decade as subject matter expert in business & technology. At the Cross-border Entrepreneurial Summit in Gurgaon, I have delivered sessions to mid-size companies Leadership teams and have mentored start-ups ranging from Agriculture, hospitality to Defence and high tech industry.

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