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Communication is essential to maintain healthy relationships between the students, faculty, and parents. Establishing effective communication practices in a school requires understanding the characteristics of communication, including the benefits and common barriers. The three critical components of effective communication – trust, transparency, and active listening – build the relationship necessary to engage in challenging conversations.  \nEffective Communication in Schools  \nEffective leadership in education, as a teacher or administrator, requires excellent communication skills and a willingness to engage in challenging conversations. Schools have many stakeholders: students, teachers, administrators, and families. Each group has high expectations of the educational system, and fulfilling those expectations depends on excellent communication skills, both verbal and non-verbal (Glaze, 2014) . The benefits and barriers to effective communication need to be understood in order to develop and promote the practice. All three essential components-trust, transparency, and listening-must be established. The characteristics of each stakeholder relationship pose unique challenges and recommendations.  \nBenefits and Barriers of Effective Communication  \nCommunication is the transmission of information from a source to an audience. Effective communication requires that the audience understand the message in its intended form (Fashiku, 2017) . Challenging conversations include elevated emotions, differing points of view, and a resolution valued by at least one participant (Ontario Principals’Council, 2011) . People communicate both directly and indirectly. Direct communication is intentional, while indirect communication includes expressions, physical behaviours, and speech patterns (Bender, 2005) . Awareness of indirect communication and active listening are essential components of face-toface conversations (Tyler, 2016) . For communication to be effective, we must be mindful of our message and indirect communication, actively listen, and engage in challenging conversations.  \nEducation is continually changing, and effective communication builds the positive school culture required to implement change (Hollingworth et al. , 2017) . The primary relationships inmost schools, apart from the teacher-student link, are among staff, administrators, and parents (Wieczorek & Manard, 2018) . When implementing new programs or initiatives, these stakeholders' voices disappear without established relationships and effective communication (Safir, 2017) . Staff need to feel heard and valued to welcome change, and change without consultation alienates veteran teachers. Effective communication promotes motivation and builds staff culture, while poor communication creates dissatisfaction (Tyler, 2016) . School culture influences how the organization responds to change, and unwillingness to accept change accompanies poor morale (Hollingworth et al. , 2017) . Leaders who choose to ignore staff feelings of apprehension will spend more time dealing with undesired behaviours (Brown, 2018) . Engaging in challenging conversations by using effective communication and listening is necessary to implement changes that enable school improvement (Ontario Principals' Council,  \n2011) . Communication and relationship with stakeholders are more effective methods of school improvement than new policies or programs (Safir, 2017) .  \nThe benefits of challenging conversations are clear, yet barriers exist that keep educatorsand administrators from engaging in these conversations. 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