Building a Culture of Conscious Leadership

9 THE DIALOGICAL CONSCIOUS LEADER

DOI: 10.4324/9781003272793-10

Introduction

A central aspect of leadership is communication. It has been claimed that communication occupies 70 to 90% of leaders’ time every day (Mintzberg, 1973; Eccles et al., 1992). It is also generally understood that good communication and leadership go hand in hand; thus, managers must improve their core communication skills if they are to become effective leaders (Pozin et al., 2017). This developmental requirement is even more fundamental to the prospect of emerging as a conscious leader. Being aware of how we communicate, the effect of our communication methods on followers’ states and being able to select specific modes of communication with awareness and purpose ...