Leadership 3. Using Language to Achieve a Leadership Purpose

Chapter 3. Using Language to Achieve a Leadership Purpose

This chapter basically talks about achieving positive ethos through tone and style and teaches us how to communicate clearly and concisely. Moreover this chapter also gives us idea about proper using of business language and teaching different editing techniques.
To project a confident tone when we speak and when we write we need to possess confidence not only in your knowledge on the subject but also in our ability in capture the content in the right words used in the right way. There should be always positive ethos scattering around the document prepared by the managers and the words spoken by the mangers. The same message whatever bad or good can be delivered in ether good ways or bad ways that all depend upon the way how he prepared the documents and the way he use the words.
The second important thing for preparing documents is to make the documents as far as concise as possible without missing the main points. Sometimes in the hope of making the documents concise the leaders will go to miss some important points of which we have to be cearful. There are several ways to make the document concise and some of them are like follows
1) Avoiding the overuse of the passive voice – bringing the actor always in the first of the sentence
2) Avoiding expletives, such as “ There is “ or “It is “ – watch for the “ It is –“ construction in particular
3) Avoiding the use of prepositional idioms
4) Avoiding the overuse of prepositional pronouns “WHO”, “Which”, and “that”
5) Avoiding the repetition of words and ideas
6) Not overusing descriptive words, particularly adverbs,
7) Avoiding weasel words, ambiguous noncommittal words
8) Being aware of jargon
9) Using proper punctuation, commas , question’s mark ,semi-colons, apostrophes, parentheses
10) Being careful with Mr., Miss mad man

At last but not the least leaders always should use efficient and effective editing techniques for correction though there is a lot of correction tools available in the market.