Your authority to transmit the information. Determine to whom you should transmit information and why. Identify the environmental factors in the communication situation that may facilitate or hinder your message. If not, determine source of problem and approach to take to correct it. Communications is a critical component of leadership.
Communications is basic to all leadership principles.
It is through communications that you keep your soldiers informed and ensure that the task is understood, supervised, and accomplished. Communications is a complex process including the verbal, nonverbal, and symbolic modes. Words themselves do not have meaning. People have meaning, and words are simply tools to convey that meaning. What may be familiar to one person may not be to another.