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Ideas to help you communicate with greater clarity wherever you work.
A tip or a trick would not have fixed this
Twice monthly at Clarity First hold live working sessions.Participants join these to collaborate on real, live communication challenges.This week's session was a 'monster' which required advanced structuring and synthesis techniques to solve.The challenges we faced...
An idea to help you structure your communication
This week I reviewed a 'boat load' of client communication to provide feedback.A common theme emerged, which you may find familiar?Just because communication includes well-formed sentences organised tidily into categories doesn't mean it cuts the mustard.And, the...
Why length doesn't matter
Do you often wish other people's communication was shorter? Or, perhaps you are asked to shorten yours? This is a common request that I think is misguided. Let me explain why. Stakeholders don't ask you to make your communication shorter because it's hard to read....
3 ideas for cutting the time it takes to prepare your communication
As I was packing my bags to return to Sydney I realised there was a parallel between my packing process and communicating.Really?Read on or skip to the three ideas at the bottom for the 'TLDR'.Packing for the return trip was vastly easier than when we left for our one...
Invitation: Thinking Skills Workshop
It’s tempting to think that preparing papers and PowerPoints is a low-level skill mastered early in your career. And in part that is true. If you are a mid-level executive, you most likely have had some success in explaining how your project is progressing and seeking...
Making time work FOR us not AGAINST us
Do you always have too much to do?It's not entirely surprising since our only finite resource, time, is at the heart of the challenge.Unsurprisingly, this is a pretty constant topic when coaching people on their communication.How do we find enough time to think...
BREAKTHROUGH THINKING STRATEGIES
