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Communication

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The four critical behaviors… are the following: 1) Get to know your people, 2) Communicate about performance, 3) Ask for more, 4) Push work down.

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The lack of frequent performance communications increases directs’ defensiveness…

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The purpose of performance communications (and therefore feedback) is to encourage effective future behavior.

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Great managers will tell you that they give out far more positive than negative performance communications.

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…part of the job of any communication department, [is] finding and creating and displaying powerful video on a regular basis…

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Communication is obviously central to behaving urgently every day.

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Remarkably, smart people undercommunicate or poorly communicate all the time without recognizing their error.

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The direction of change is widely communicated, and communicated for both understanding and gut-level buy-in. The goal: to get as many people as possible acting to make the vision a reality.

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With clogged channels, even if someone is emotionally predisposed to want to understand a change vision, the information can become lost in the immense clutter.

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…companies make false promises to employees – pledging change through intensive communication campaigns but providing little actual follow-through.

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