Question

Trustworthiness is the confidence you and others have in your character (integrity, maturity, abundance mentality) and competency (technical, conceptual knowledge, interdependency). To lead in the 21st century, you will be required to have both. How can communication be used to improve your personal influence and credibility (character and competence)?

Answer 1

In my personal level of communication, I always keep the motive of transferring clearly any sort of information on my mind in terms of feelings, messages or emotions. Further, I believe to possess the ability to resort to relevant media of communication with my competency and in order to provide constructive feedback, I encourage both, effective verbal and non-verbal form of communication along with active listening skills needs to be tapped upon.

When I indulge in inter-cultural communication, I gradually gain the competency of not only to form groups on certain basis but also to maintain the teams in order to facilitate the team’s performance towards achievement of the Organizational goals with effective communication as the tool. Further, my gain the competency to have open-mindedness towards the cultural differences of various countries and accordingly aiding me in formulating strategies that could best address the issues of such differences, thereby motivating the employees from various cultural backgrounds to come and work together in a peaceful and amicable environment within the organization. In my communication, I incorporate the principles of global mindset in order to openly accept the cultural issues and challenges thereby further boosting my personal influence and credibility over others.

My communication enhances me professionally in my Organization when it helps me deal with both, the cultures that rely heavily on nonverbal and subtle situational cues to communication as well as in case of cultures that rely heavily on words to convey meaning in communication. Academically and personally, with my communication, I know how to handle the semantics barriers, understand the word connotations and tone differences and differences among perceptions of various individuals depending upon the cultural background that they belong to.

In this way, communication can help improve my personal influence and credibility..