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Promoted because of communication skills
We are always delighted to hear success stories like this from our participants. Elle was recently promoted because she improved her communication skills after just 3 months in the Clarity First Program. Naturally she was delighted to move from director to senior...
Thinking Tools #9 – Avoiding the ‘we have always done it that way’ trap
Growing up we were told a story. Every Christmas a woman would cut the leg off the turkey before putting it into a very large oven. When asked why she took the leg off, she said: “It is the way my mother taught me”. She had never questioned it. In her mind, this was...
Thinking Tools #8 – How corporate templates can frustrate clarity
This week’s insight from Shane Parrish’s The Great Mental Models offers some useful ways to test our mental maps. In the chapter called ‘The Map is Not the Territory’, he talks about problems that the disconnect between reality and a map (or model) can bring and...
Thinking Tools #7 – How to engage self-interested stakeholders
This week’s insight from Shane Parrish’s The Great Mental Models is all about understanding the motivations of people. This is central to understanding our audience, and Shane offers three particularly useful considerations for us in that regard. He offers a side-bar...
Thinking Tools #6 – Why you need a latticework of models in your head
This week’s post leads me to talk about patterns, which we find to be an essential communication tool. Shane Parrish of The Great Mental Models quotes Charlie Munger in this regard. He discusses the importance of relying on a ‘latticework of theory’ rather...
Thinking Tool #5 – Avoiding Blind Spots
I loved my ‘fast fly’ through this book and am realizing how much more I am finding useful by going slowly and preparing these posts for you. Thank you for encouraging me to slow down! I am still in the introduction reading about the power and dangers associated with...
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