What versus How: Career-Limiting Belief #3

Successful technology managers and successful engineers and technologists understand that to many engineers, information, data, and facts, are most important. However, to be truly successful, to actually convince and influence others, one must understand that how ideas and information are presented can often be as important or more important than the actual information itself. The data format for human communication is the non-verbal portion of the communication process, the context. The actual data in the communication process is the content or the information being transmitted. This chapter deals with one of the career-limiting beliefs and talks about the verbal and non-verbal communication style. By adopting this Gem of Wisdom, one can be on the way to behaving more effectively in the communication with others. A good deal of communication flexibility is necessary for any manager or employee to be truly effective.