L04 : Creating written leadership communication

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Leadership Communication Chapter 04 : Creating written leadership communication

This chapter focuses on helping you create written leadership communication that accomplishes your communication purpose by selecting the most effective communication medium, creating individual and team written communication, organizing the content coherently, conforming to content and formatting expectations in correspondence, including expected content in reports, and formatting written communication effectively.

Creating Written leadership communication the accomplish our communication objectives. It starts at selecting the most effective communication mediums such as text message, e-mail. And creating individual and team written communication by select the most appropriate medium and perfect our written communications with a team or group Having some plan to get good productivity whether we create the documents alone or in group.

Question 1: In the opening, why we have to begin indirectly?

Answer:

·         To establish the context for the communication if it is complex and a part of a chain of communication.

·         To include a more gentle opening with some appropriate pleasantries if out audience’s culture would expect it.

·         To provide some information to soften the bad news we must deliver.

·         To explain the reasoning or logic if we have complicated information to deliver.

·         To explore an idea or posit a topic for discussion in social media spaces.

Question 2: Why we have to organize the content coherently?

Answer: Because we need the pieces, sentences, paragraphs, and section to conform to a systematic arrangement or plan that is logical or apparent to the readers.

Question 3: Why formatting written communication effectively is important?

Answer: Formatting is important in creating a professional appearance for all of our written communication. The frequent use of headings and lists to break up the text, separate main ideas, and avoid long blocks of text will make our documents more inviting the audiences.