How Great Leaders Communicate With Their Team | Chris Turner

Rodney's podcast guest is Chris Turner. Chris serves as Communications Director for the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board. In addition to decades of work in corporate media relations and two masters degrees, he has worked in 37 countries as a magazine correspondent. Chris is also a former sportswriter.
 
We interviewed Chris because he has done extensive research on internal communications as it relates to leadership. As a result, Chris also teaches organizational and cultural communication on the university level.

Books Chris referenced:

Case Studies in Courageous Organizational Communication by Alexander Lyon

Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin

Foreign to Familiar by Sarah Lanier

Introducing Intercultural Communication: Global Cultures and Contexts by Shuang Liu, Zala Volcic and Cindy Gallois.

Host: Rodney Cox

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Chapters

• 5:34 Chris' professional journey into Communications.
• 9:03 Chris' team supports 3,200 SBC churches in TN.
• 10:52 What is internal communications?
• 13:11 Chris explains how the leader's worldview impacts the internal communications culture.
• 17:43 High context vs low context organizations.
• 20:36 Chris explains what it looks like when a leader communicates poorly.
• 25:18 Chris explains what it looks like when a leader communicates with excellence.
• 30:38 How to be an inter-cultural communicator.