I personally think that both qualities are good for a leader in business. It cannot be denied that they need to be good listeners and conversant in business. He or she needs to inculcate these soft skills to influence others. Being a good leader is not enough; you must also be a good follower. It is how they can manage their respective roles in a particular company.
Which is better, a good listener or a good conversation leader in business?
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As a leader, you must have ability to Bea good speaker and good listener. Your ability to express yourself to the best of convincing your subordinates will be able to determine your followership. You should not constitute yourself into a boss by doing a talking only without allowing for suggestions from his subordinates.
Being a good listener is better because you will tend to gain from others.
Both qualities should be what you portray as a good leader
As a leader in business, you need to possess both qualities. Being a good listener enables you to learn from other associates, the opinion of your subordinates. At the same time, you have to be good in communicating your vision and ideas to your followers.
A good leader must not lack any of the two faculties. He needs to be a good speaker and at the same time a good listener. It is when he possess the two faculties he would be able to carry his subordinates along. As a good listener, he would be able to know where the complaint of each of his workers.
Before you can actually lead successfully, you would definitely know how to listen very well because that is the only way you would be able to know all the things that need to be addressed and carry them out successfully.
In most cases, I would prefer to become a good listener because you will tend to learn a lot from this.
Exactly, a good leader should be able to listen, or better still should know when to listen and at the same time know when to strike a conversation.
Whenever you are talking too much, people tend to overlook most of the things that you are saying because they will be bored to the skull from your noise making.
I think a good leader must be able to be a fluent speaker so he can influence many people to follow his directions, he must also be a good listener so he can receive input from subordinates for the development of the company.
As for me I would go for both listening and speaking skills. A good entrepreneur must has both the skills . This could aid in the communications between the customers and the entrepreneurs for the betterment of the business as a whole.
You have to listen very well before you can be able to lead successfully. This is because it is when you have the information on what you are supposed to lead on that you're going to be able to do very well.
Both qualities are very essential for a business leader. A good conversation holder would make it comfortable for the staff and customers to express their concerns and a good listener would be able to understand these concerns and act on solving them.
