Leadership | Human Connection A Critical Skill Set Moving Forward

Leadership | Human Connection A Critical Skill Set Moving Forward

Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other. Benjamin E. Mays

 

Leadership with Human Connection – Integrity, Respect, and Trust, values that came up within the top ten to be an effective and successful leader in Asia.  These are values brought up by leaders during our research and interview of the  leaders for the book: Effective Asian Leadership: Today and Tomorrow (Perspectives of One Hundred Leaders In Asia)

“For leaders to lead in Asia, they must learn to respect relationships. It can’t be a cut and dry approach. To Asians, the form is very important.”
Mr. Joaquin E. Quintos IV, Snr VP, First Philippine Holdings Corporation.

As Mr. Quintos mentioned in the above quote, “form” is crucial in the Asian context.  “Form” in this case refers to the importance of building a relationship from all aspects of communication.  This refers to the building of a relationship at the get-go whether it is through email, messages, phone calls or when meeting face to face.  Showing respect, humility, and empathy during our communication is crucial in building this “form”.

The value of “Human Connection and Understanding” has been brought up by almost every single leader we interviewed. There are two aspects of human connection that we can look at:
• Understanding others and their perspectives.
• Connecting, motivating, inspiring others to achieve their goals and maximize their potential.

Both of these aspects require empathy, patience, the willingness to listen to others, recognition and rewarding appropriately.

A paragraph from the book: Effective Asian Leadership: Today and Tomorrow (Perspectives of One Hundred Leaders In Asia)

The importance of Human Connection has further been emphasized when the World Economic Forum1 rated People Management, Coordinating with Others and Emotional Intelligence as top skills moving forward in their report.  Learn more about the top ten skills from a previous article: (PEOPLE MANAGEMENT | A SKILL SET CRUCIAL IN THE COMING OF INDUSTRY 5.0), these skill sets are crucial especially in the coming of Industry 5.0.

In our research for the book, whether it is a leader in a global company, a conglomerate, a small-medium enterprise or a not-for-profit organization, the way to get across to others, engage, motivate and inspire people towards a goal, is this leadership with a human connection.

However, in a world where we are always in a hurry and especially when we are inundated with emails, advertisements that seem to follow us everywhere we go, many of us take communication for granted.  In the use of whatever media that is available to us (WhatsApp, Email, Messenger, SMS, Group Apps, etc) to convey ideas, messages, motivational quotes, etc to one another, we often don’t put much thought, attention or effort in the way we communicate.  We may end up sounding curt or robotic.  In a worst-case scenario, we could even unintentionally create misunderstanding and disagreements.

Writing it Human

In a LinkedIn article, The Power of the Human Touch, Ms. Shirley Taylor, shared three ways you can make a huge difference every time you put your fingers on the keyboard.  The best selling author of 12 successful books, Shirley is widely-regarded as a leading authority in business writing and email writing skills.  She was President of Asia Professional Speakers Singapore (2011-12), and also served on the Board of the Global Speakers Federation for four years, and became the 21st President of the Global Speakers Federation in 2017.  It is CorporateTrainerConnect platform’s honour to have Ms. Shirley Taylor onboard. Join us as a Client for FREE on the platform to connect with Ms. Shirley Taylor.

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Thank you for taking the time to read this article. This article is part of the series from our newly launched CorporateConnectTrainer platform where we help connect corporations to trainers in the region. You can now search, qualify and connect directly with your best-fit trainer on one single platform, saving you time and hassle. We aim to share the subject matter expertise of our qualified trainers on the CorporateConnectTrainer platform through these articles.

Written by Janet Yung, founder of Trilogy People Performance Consultancy. We enable learning for businesses and individuals by bringing you programs, learning, and design delivery services, and technologies cum platforms, that will aid you and your team to build skills and be ready for current and future business needs.

As mentioned earlier, the above skill sets are very similar to what the World Economic Forum proposed in their top ten skillsets to thrive in the future as written in a previous article: THE 10 JOB SKILLS YOU’LL NEED IN 2020 AND BEYOND

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• Mental Health Awareness: https://corporatetrainerconnect.com/article/corporate-trainer-mental-health-awareness-week/
• Are You Creative Enough For The Future?: https://corporatetrainerconnect.com/article/creativity-are-you-creative-enough-for-the-future/
• Transformational Leadership to Lead into the Future : https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/transformational-leadership-lead-future-author-speaker-consultant-/
• Leadership From Within | 4 Ways Leadership Decisions are Affected: https://corporatetrainerconnect.com/article/leadership-from-within-4-ways-leadership-decisions-are-affected/
• People Management | A Skill Set Crucial In The Coming of Industry 5.0: https://corporatetrainerconnect.com/article/people-management-a-skill-set-crucial-in-the-coming-of-industry-5-0/

References:

1. The Future of Jobs Employment, Skills and Workforce Strategy for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, World Economic Forum, January 2016.