TAW ABC of Leadership by TAW members "letter C"

Here is the third thread about the ABC of leadership. Now we are looking towards the letter C.

This thread stays open till the 14th of Oktober and then will be locked again.

Committed

To put in trust or charge; entrust:

To pledge or obligate one's own self:

Communication

Strong Communication is vital to a teams success. Communication is necessary to a teams prosperity and strong being. Poor communication can cause fights and various other problems. Leaders should ALWAYS work toward better communication within a group. There can be various causes of bad communication.

Anything that prevents understanding of the message is a barrier to communication. Many physical and psychological barriers exist:

• Culture, background, and bias — We allow our past experiences to change the meaning of the message. Our culture, background, and bias can be good as they allow us to use our past experiences to understand something new, it is when they change the meaning of the message that they interfere with the communication process.
• Noise — Equipment or environmental noise impedes clear communication. The sender and the receiver must both be able to concentrate on the messages being sent to each other.
• Ourselves — Focusing on ourselves, rather than the other person can lead to confusion and conflict. The “Me Generation” is out when it comes to effective communication. Some of the factors that cause this are defensiveness (we feel someone is attacking us), superiority (we feel we know more that the other), and ego (we feel we are the center of the activity).
• Perception — If we feel the person is talking too fast, not fluently, does not articulate clearly, etc., we may dismiss the person. Also our preconceived attitudes affect our ability to listen. We listen uncritically to persons of high status and dismiss those of low status.
• Message — Distractions happen when we focus on the facts rather than the idea. Our educational institutions reinforce this with tests and questions. Semantic distractions occur when a word is used differently than you prefer. For example, the word chairman instead of chairperson, may cause you to focus on the word and not the message.
• Environmental — Bright lights, an attractive person, unusual sights, or any other stimulus provides a potential distraction.
• Smothering — We take it for granted that the impulse to send useful information is automatic. Not true! Too often we believe that certain information has no value to others or they are already aware of the facts.
• Stress — People do not see things the same way when under stress. What we see and believe at a given moment is influenced by our psychological frames of references — our beliefs, values, knowledge, experiences, and goals.

Always try to avoid being brought down by a barrier, and never let one stand in your way.

Coordination

You must be be able to work as a team to survive any game. Coordination is vital when you want to succeed and have people who you can trust will abide by the rules. With this, the team become disorganized and prone to failure.

Cooperation

Cooperation or co-operation is the process of working or acting together. In its simplest form it involves things working in harmony, while in its more complicated forms, it can involve something as complex as the inner workings of a human being or even the social patterns of a nation. It is the opposite of working separately in competition.

Cooperation between the Staff of a Battalion/Division/Corps etc is paramount to its success. Without the cooperation of the staff, as well as all the members, nothing can be done as well as it could be.

Creativity

is the ability to think differently, to get outside of the box that constrains solutions. Creativity gives leaders the ability to see things that others have not seen and thus lead followers in new directions. 

Conduct

It is important that a leader shows as a good example. His conduct must be top notch.

On the lines of that, he must also be able to apologize upon realising his conduct have been questionable, if such a case should arise.

Courage

One must have courage to stand up for what is right, and to venture into the unknown, and follow his leader into such.

compassion

Character

noun

Choices

You make them, so you stand by them and take the consequences.....good or ill.