Jacinda Ardern's Assertive Communication Style: An Evaluation

This essay provides an in-depth analysis of Jacinda Ardern's communication style, identifying it as assertive and highlighting its strengths, such as emotional warmth, clear messaging, and the ability to build relationships. It contrasts her approach with Kim Jong-Un's aggressive communication style, emphasizing the differences in their leadership philosophies and the impact of their communication on their respective countries. The essay discusses the application of the social responsibility theory in Ardern's communication and explores the potential benefits of adopting an assertive communication style for North Korea. It also examines the importance of communication in political leadership and its influence on international relations. The essay concludes by emphasizing the contrasting styles of leadership and their impact on the respective countries, highlighting the importance of effective communication in fostering positive relationships.

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Jacinda Ardern’s Communication style

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Jacinda Kate Laurell Ardern is New Zealand’s 40th Prime Minister. She has also
worked as a leader of Labour Party since 1 August 2017. She has been a Member of
Parliament for the Mount Albert constituency since 8 March 2017. Out of almost 200
countries, just 11 are led by women, in last October Jacinda Ardern become one among them.
She is the youngest female Prime minister of New Zealand. In the world, many people tell
women that they cannot have both motherhood and career at the same time but Jacinda
Ardern proves how wrong and out-dated thoughts they have about womanhood. She is not
just leading a country but also managing her family very well (Wallenfeldt, 2018). Jacinda
Ardern is a leader who gives more emphasis on issues like economic inequality, addressing
climate change and decriminalizes abortion. This essay is designed to understand the
communication style of Jacinda Ardern with strength and weakness and after understanding
the communication style, compare the particular communication style with the leader of other
country and to understand in what way Jacinda Ardern communication style work in that
particular country.
Every single individual has an exclusive communication style, communication is a
way through which people can exchange information and interrelate with others. There are
certain communication styles that enable people to communicate with each other without
disrespecting and it makes communication process easy. Communication style encourages
operative communication, reduces conflicts, and encourages the healthy relationship (Labour,
2017). There are five communication styles, which include Manipulative, Submissive,
Passive-Aggressive, Aggressive and Assertive. The persons who practice manipulative
communication style are very skilled at monitoring or manipulating others for their own
benefit. Submissive style users are the ones who believe in pleasing other persons to avoid
any clashes. Individuals with this type of communication will put the desires of others before
theirs, because they see other people needs more vital than theirs. Passive-Aggressive style

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includes a person who shows passive side externally but actually, they show anger indirectly
or behind the scenes. Aggressive style comprises winning, even if it is at somebody else’s
expenses. Assertive is the most suggested communication style that replicates and encourages
high self-esteem (Bakker & De Vries, 2013).
For leaders, the most important factor that is useful in bringing success to them is
communication, way of expressing their view or how they address their audience. For the
political leaders also the communication style is important (Al-Asfour & Lettau, 2014).
Jacinda Ardern is the successful young political leader and her communication style plays
very important role in building her political career. Her communication style includes
emotional warmth, with frequent smiling and she uses hand gestures to connect with the
public. The Prime Minister of New Zealand is really a great communicator and
communication style use by Jacinda Ardern is Assertive.
Good Communication can provide strength to Jacinda Ardern at a workplace and
often integrated into varying roles. Being an Assertive leader Jacinda Ardern has some
special quality like, during her public appearance and meetings she makes sure she will
connect and communicate with each person. She uses to spend time to communicate the
message more clearly, especially about changes. She always gives honest feedback in a
helpful way. She knows the importance of positive communication feedback, if she not than
it may discourage, demotivate, and make people angry (Leonard, 2018). She is self-sufficient
to use good judgement to make decisions. She perceived a good judgment with a high
probability of being successful. She is very good at maintaining the relationship and it is
being possible because of her communication skill only while travelling to other countries her
communication style help her in maintaining excellent relationship with that country. On the
international platform, Jacinda Ardern consider to be a very effective personality and all just

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because of her communication style. With her communication style, she can convince the
other political leaders to start collaboration with New Zealand.
While communication Jacinda Ardern used to be more control, comfortable and relax.
She uses proper hand gestures while connecting with her audience. This will help the people
to get involved in the conversation and proper facial expressions and eye contact enhance her
personality. Jacinda Ardern delivers her speech with effortless fluency and flow and has the
ability of extemporaneously play with language, an idea with flourish and flow. She is an
energetic and inspirational personality of New Zealand (Burdon, 2015).
However, some time for Jacinda Ardern the assertive communication style standout as
weakness e.g. during her speech or meeting if the message or topic was not properly
conveyed, then the people may consider her to be rude. Sometimes people may think that she
is very over-confidence or arrogant person (Leonard, 2018). This is not a fault of Jacinda
Ardern, assertive communication style promotes high self-esteem, and while protecting her
self-esteem the misperception enters into the mind of people.
There are various communication theories given by various authors some are effective
communication theories, ineffective communication theories, structural theories, and
economic and political theories. The most relevant theory that relates to Jacinda Ardern
communication style is economic and political theories. Among various economic and
political theories, social responsibility theory is most suitable. Social responsibility theory
helps Jacinda Ardern in creating the professionalism in media by setting a high level of
accuracy, information, and truth.
Kim Jong-Un is a North Korean political leader since 2011 and leader of Worker’s
Party of Korea since 2012. He is the Supreme Leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of
North Korea. Kim Jong-Un is a dictator of North Korea, he rules the people of the country,

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and all the functions performed by the citizen of a country are under his supervision and
direction. There are many rules designed by the North Korean leader for his residents, which
are tough to follow (Biography.com, 2018).
Kim Jong-Un is the strict leader who wants to rule everyone and communication style
he possesses is Aggressive. Well, he is not good at communication, during his public
appearances, he uses a script to address people, but the words that script contains are
aggressive. Kim Jong-Un always wants to be in win-win position. Aggressive communication
provides him satisfaction, especially when there is nobody to speak up against him. His
aggressive communication style made whole word his enemy (Bowden, 2015).
The communication style adopted by Jacinda Ardern is assertive and by Kim Jong-Un
is Aggressive. Both communication styles of leaders are like North and South Poles. The
Leader of New Zealand is humble and polite on the other hand the leader of North Korea is
rude and aggressive. The residents of New Zealand love their Prime Minister just because
how she connects with them through her communication skill while the population of North
Korea dislike their leader because, due to his aggressive communication style there is a huge
communication gap developed between them. Jacinda Ardern communicates with her
audience without a script but to address the audience Kim Jong-Un require a script. Jacinda
Ardern is good with English but up until now nobody has heard English from Kim Jong-Un,
he is not good at English. The gestures use by Jacinda Ardern during her public appearance
and speech help in connecting audience but the gestures e.g. pointing and clenched fists use
by the Kim Jong-Un make people scared of him. The main area where the Prime Minister of
New Zealand consider for development is economic inequality, addressing climate change
and decriminalizes abortion and leader of North Korea focus more on the nuclear weapon,
wars and dictatorship (Isotalus, 2015).

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The conditions of North Korea will change if Kim John-Un becomes a leader with an
assertive communication style. In present North Korea remains as one of the most exploitive
authoritarian states in the world, who is ruled by Worker’s Party of Korea and Kim family for
past seven decades. In North Korea, human right violation committed by the government,
which includes rape, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, murder, enslavement, forced
abortion and other sexual violence and constituted a crime against humanity. Being a leader
of North Korea Kim John-Un is responsible to protect his citizens and their right, but he
became a reason behind all those violations in the country (World report, 2017). As a good
leader, it is very important that how he communicates with his residents. Kim John-Un
communication style is not going to help him in connecting with the people of the country but
if he adopts the communication style of Jacinda Ardern’s, then the residents of North Korea
are going to loves their leader and feel connected with their leader. For the economy of North
Korea, it will be better that their leader adopts the assertive communication style in place of
aggressive leadership style (Egan, 2017). Kim John-Un is not an emotional person who
understands the emotions of other people if he adopts an assertive communication style he
will be able to understand the feeling of their residents, like what they want from their leader
and what they accept they leader to do for them and for the country. It will be great for North
Korea people if their leader will adopt assertive communication style.

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