6 Pivotal Reasons To Improve Your Leadership Communication Skills

Corinna Hagen
7 min readSep 5, 2022
Original Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com on Unsplash

What is Leadership Communication?

Not all great leaders in history have been the best communicators from the start. The most successful, memorable, and effective leaders in history have learned to become outstanding communicators. We are not born that way. Leadership communication is an acquired skill that we learn through observation, experimentation, reflection, teaching, coaching, and most of all: continuous practice.

75% of employees view communication as the most important leadership skill (Haiilo) yet only 18% see this applied by the leaders in their organization.

I specialize in high-stakes communication, so I look at leadership communication from three angles:

  1. Building high-performance teams (using communication to lead others)
  2. Interacting with senior leaders (strategic communication with seasoned leaders)
  3. Building your brand (leadership style, perception, ambition)
Zaradigm’s Focus Dimensions for Leadership Communication

Overall, leadership communication aims at equipping you with the leadership skills that will be most frequently expected…

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Corinna Hagen

Founder of Zaradigm.com, an executive communication firm. I write about leadership and business communication 1 x month in the “Leading Choices” newsletter.