Communicating with your leadership team
When we think of communicating upward to the senior leaders in our companies, we often focus on providing timely and accurate progress updates. While these updates are important day-to-day information, there is more to effective leadership communication. In addition to awareness of our progress, we need our leadership to be aware of our challenges and our value beyond particular deliverables.
Since executives and senior leaders have many demands on their time, they are interested in getting to the gist of communications. Our direct managers often have more appetite for and ability to digest the nuances of our day-to-day work, but with busy executives and senior company leadership, we can communicate effectively by focusing on the story of our team and its broader value, and reducing uncertainty for them.
Telling a story
Storytelling is a powerful means of communication. As humans, our brains are wired to seek and follow plausible storylines...
