1 Idea to Kickstart 2025

Can you believe it is 2025 already?

I know new year’s resolutions aren’t worth much, so I have a simple idea.

Let’s kickstart the year with one question that will I think have a useful flow-on effect throughout the year.

How can you stop communicating too much detail? Here are three ideas:

  1. Find the three latest emails you have sent. They are simple and short, so a useful and quick opportunity.
  2. Ask yourself whether you had clarified the real outcome you needed from each one. Can you articulate it? Is it obvious to you now that some time has passed?
  3. Rework one of them so that the main message ‘pops’ off the page. Without using lots of colour and ‘crazy formatting’, make sure your main message is so obvious that your audience can’t miss it. This does, of course, mean you need to have one!

I hope that helps. More next week.

Kind regards,
Davina

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ABOUT AUTHOR: DAVINA STANLEY

Davina helps senior leaders and their teams prepare high-quality papers and presentations in a fraction of the time,  nailing the message that engages decision makers fast.

She learned structured thinking at McKinsey in Hong Kong in the 1990s, was approved to teach the Pyramid Principle by Barbara Minto in 2009, and has coached leaders and teams globally for 25+ years. Clients report cutting review cycles by ~30% and prep time by ~20%.*

Recent clients include 7Eleven, KPMG, Mercer, Meta, and Woolworths.

Learn more at www.clarityfirstprogram.com

* Based on 2023 client benchmarking results.