Communication is the key.... repeat it!!

This is the photo of a handsome father and a beautiful daughter on the way back from her school. When my wife posted this photo in FB, my mother in law got confused why her granddaughter was with one of the Malayalam film stars? She got confused my photo with one the young actors in Kerala. Then my father in law clarified it, she has sight problem. Then he was so happy to prove his point to make her use specs.

On the first of my daughters school, I made her stand on the cycle and moved slowly to school. She was in mixed feeling. She love travel in cycle with breeze hitting her face. Same time she didn’t want to go school. She was crying and laughing at same time. Throughout the journey I was asking her, where are going? Then I only answered SCHOOL! She was whipping slowly. When dropped her at school, she cried loud. In the next 3 days, she had the same feeling; I continued asking where are we going? Through out the journey.  Then she kept silent, I said SCHOOL! On the fourth day, I asked where are going, she said SCHOOL!, It was a music through the journey to school, I ask, where are going? She says, School!. She started loving the cycle ride, music of where are going and 5^th day onwards, expectation set, She understood, she has to go to school. I didn’t have any issue to take to school from there till last holiday. On the holidays we went to some resorts with family friends.

She used to have fun at home. She learned the methods of having fun without going to school. She was in the world of her friends and toys at home for few days. Again she don’t want to go to school.

On the school reopen day, I asked her to get ready to school. She started saying no school and made a lot of loud noise to stay at home. We kids start talking, they will speaking their hearts out. Somehow I took her to school and I came back. Back at home my wife was in full tension. I tried to calm her down. That was two and half hours we get for our self,  that is not ruin with this tension man. I mean, just talk or watch some movie together.

I went back to receive my beautiful princess. I asked her how is she? She said, I am soooo happy. Then I asked you were crying and sad. Then said in her broken language, teacher told me,  only Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday holiday. Today Tuesday. She gave me look as if I should have tell this before.

This two incidents shows that how important is that to set the expectation by communicating efficiently. Your members or partners will have their own interest to do things. But if you know what is the right thing for the betterment of team or organization. You have to communicate up front and tune them in to right way. That is big responsibility but you have to do that to become a leader and change the world around you. For that come here, talk and be better leaders and communicators.