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Ideas to help you communicate with greater clarity wherever you work.
How to avoid decision makers derailing your presentation
Has this happened to you?You have an important presentation to make to a senior leadership group and a big chunk of the time is spent talking about ‘background’.The leaders ask every question under the sun about the history of the program, what you have done in the...
Intensive Program Information
Clarity First was incredibly useful. It provided a framework through which I can structure my initial thoughts quickly and easily. I have always been ok at delivering communications but the tools Davina taught me not only make the communications clearer and more...
5 Business Communication Traps and how to avoid them
Complexity is at the heart of the challenge when communicating at work. In this workshop I address five of the common traps that make it difficult for us to engage others in complex ideas and offer ideas on how to solve them. Click the play button below to learn more...
When using questions can be a bad idea
An email came across my desk this week as I was thinking about the most useful idea for you that would build on last week's focus of 'saying what you mean'.It was an email from a tool that I use which was structured around a list of questions (see below).To me, using...
How to correlate your effort with your end game
Do you wonder how much effort to invest in different pieces of communication? Do you prioritise according to ... who your audience is the type of document it is (email, paper, PowerPoint?) how much time you have to prepare it, or the business impact it will generate?...
How ‘constraints' help create meaning
It is fascinating to me that the whole idea of 'constraints' feels like more of a limitation than a liberation. Nobody - me included - likes being kept in physical or intellectual shackles and yet they are incredibly powerful. Liberating, even. If we trust a simple...
BREAKTHROUGH THINKING STRATEGIES
