Human capital – creating leadership and engagement through better communications

Organisations are struggling to develop leaders at all levels and are investing in new and accelerated leadership models, exploring new approaches to learning and development as they confront widening skills gaps. Effective leadership comes down to communication. Great leadership is about setting achievable and reasonable goals, communicating clearly how to get there and showing the way by example. Positive or negative, communication is at the heart of the ability to lead well. The ability to communicate opens doors -- and internationally, the more languages leaders speak. the more they are able to talk to people and the more transparent the organisation becomes. Here are three initiatives to help foster effective leaders: 1. Look for opportunities to promote mentoring within the organisation. 2. Put effective communication of goals at the heart of leadership development. 3. Do not attempt to lead a multilingual organisation just by translating documents -- communication is about much more than translation and incorporates cultural differences too.