This category reveals the first 8 of the 17 Power Skills for interacting with your leaders:
1. Make it brief
2. Promote dialog
3. Don’t take it personally
4. Keep your leaders informed
5. Offer professional criticism
6. Offer praise
7. Wear one face
8. Solicit feedback on your performance.
1. Make It Brief
When you are speaking with your peers you can speak in paragraphs. When you are speaking with your immediate boss, reduce the paragraphs to sentences. But the higher up the leadership food chain you communicate, learn to shorten the sentences—even approaching sound bites. Your leaders don’t have the time for the unabridged version. If they need to know more, they will ask. They respect you more when you ...
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