Leadership Competency #2
Basics of Communication - 1/8
NOTE: This module draws from my earlier work under Black Market Leadership. The ideas here predate Chaos Studies in Leadership and form the foundation that made this work possible.
This module introduces Basic Communication, the second core competency of Level One. It focuses on the fundamentals leaders must master before attempting advanced writing, speaking, or persuasion. Effective communication begins with clarity, structure, and the disciplined use of essentials—not style or polish.
The module builds directly on Thinking in Essentials, applying the concept model to communication by breaking ideas into their core elements and forming clear, retainable definitions. Mastering these basics ensures that messages are understood, remembered, and acted upon, providing the foundation for all higher-level communication skills in leadership.
TRANSCRIPT
Welcome to the second module and competencies of level one, and that is basic communication, and the title says it all people. This is not a an advanced communication course. This particular model is not. This is about the fundamentals, the basics. If you want to write the best mission, the best paper, give the best speech, those will come later on. But in order to do those things, you need to really understand the fundamentals, the basics. And that's my goal for for you in this module, to give you two things which are incredibly important, which are essential to success as a leader, and saying that it is incredibly important that you have watched the previous module thinking in essentials. I cannot overstate how important that is, because in this course, you're going to we're going to learn about essentials are we're going to talk about essentials, how to break them down, how to use the concept model and creating definitions. So I assure you, if you if you haven't watched it, please do. But if you have the perfect let's move on to the takeaways of this module.