Practicality

Impacting knowledge without jargon or over complications is one of the key skills any expert must acquire if they are to pass on their expertise. Doing so in a practical way is imperative because what we want are practical results.?

(Prof. Damian Hughes)

Being Practical

• Great leaders understand that while they themselves are able to understand what they mean, abstraction makes it harder to understand an idea and to remember it.?
• It makes it harder to coordinate our activities with others who may interpret the abstraction in very different ways.
• Practical language helps us avoid these problems.?
• So, as leaders, what matters is not only what we know, but how simple and clearly we can communicate it to those who need to grasp it in order to succeed.

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So you see that practicality is about bringing the abstract to reality.?

Why Is It Important?

Simplicity + Practicality = Understanding

Understanding leads to:

• Remembrance
• Commitment
• Ownership
• Responsibility

...which translates to a Winning Culture.

Note:

• Practical language is powerful in aiding understanding and remembrance. It helps to bring your core vision from the realm of abstract to the realm of reality.?
• Whether it is a form of creative interaction or rehearsal, or experiment or practice session, or drill or exercise. Whatever is practically demonstrated will always stick.

Basic Things To Keep In Mind

• Often a simple practical message is all it takes especially because most time team members are ‘novice’ to our ideas; we are the experts. They don’t know what we know.?
• So the key is to find a universal language; one that everybody speaks fluently. Inevitably, that universal language will be practical.

Fact: Research has shown that jurors in a court room are often struck by lawyers’ personalities and factual details and the court room rituals; the very rituals they are to avoid but rather weigh the current case against the abstract lessons in past cases and legal precedent.