Description
Part A - Asking the Right Questions
Convincing others to buy into an idea, a product, or an initiative requires listening and communicating effectively. Asking the right questions can help people to open up and to discuss upcoming changes more freely, while understanding that they have a voice in the process.
Scenario: Your company has developed a new initiative or product, or it is introducing a change to technology or personnel that will affect your team and its daily working environment. You are tasked with gathering buy-in from your team, as well as learning if they have any objections to this initiative.
You call a meeting with your team:
- Briefly describe the new initiative and why it is important (e.g., a reorganization, a new product, a new technology, etc.)
- Draft three questions for your team designed to gain buy-in and support for this new initiative
Next, share your communication strategy with us:
- How will you know if your questioning was effective?
- Your team needs to know they have a voice - during this meeting, how did you let them know you are listening to them and that their opinion matters?
Part B - Your Leadership Values, Executive Presence, and Winning
1. Identify 2-3 leadership values that are most important to you. Explain the reasons for their importance, using the below questions as a guide:
a. Why are these values important to you?
b. As a leader, why are these values essential for effective communication?
c. How do these values impact/support your executive presence?
2. Discuss a business leader (other than Jack Welch) who exhibits executive presence.
a. In what ways does this leader exhibit executive presence?
b. What aspects of his or her executive presence appeal to you? Why?
c. How does your leadership style compare to this leader’s?
3. Jack defines winning as, "Growing yourself, your organization, and your teams." Describe what winning means for you.
a. What does winning look like for you?
b. Why is it important to you?
c. How do your leadership values support winning for you?

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Business Communication
Introduction
The sensitivity of introducing new products, an idea, or technology, necessitates for clear
and effective communication with stakeholders and team members. DCNew is a toy production
company with operations from 1970 in Lithuania. Recently, the innovation team has come up
with a new technology where the previously produced dollhouses were integrated with the
science of magnetism to create an entirely new form of dollhouses that float on a designated
area. This paper inspects the communication strategies employed in collecting buy-in and
support from team members, the communication strategies employed, and the leadership values
for effective business communication.
Part A
Idea Description
The new initiative in the topic is the remodeling of DCNew’s dollhouse model to
incorporate the technology on magnetism to create a new model of the dollhouse where the
dollhouse compound is lined with positively charged magnets while the dollhouse lined with
positively charged magnet ends. The magnetic repulsion from th...
