Definition of Leadership Communication
Leadership communication is the controlled, purposeful transfer of meaning by which leaders influence a single person, a group, an organization, or a community. Leadership communication uses the full range of communication skills and resources to overcome interferences and to create and deliver messages that guide, direct, motivate, or inspire others to action. Leadership communication consists of layered, expanding skills from core strategy development and effective writing and speaking to the use of these skills in more complex organizational situations. As the manager’s perspective and control expand, he or she will need to improve the core communication skills to become effective in the larger, more complex organizational situations. Leadership communication consists of three primary rings (1) core, (2) managerial, and (3) corporate (Exhibit 3). The higher up in an organization a manager moves, the more complex his or her communication demands become. The core communication ability represented in the center of the framework below expands to the managerial communication ring and then further to the communication capabilities included at the broader corporate communication ring (Barrett, 2006).