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What drives us to change?
A comment by a podcaster jumped out to me today.
He said: ‘things aren’t bad enough yet for people to change’.
Whoa.
Ugly.
Does that mean that we only change when things are bad?
Maybe, even REALLY bad?
If so, what does that mean for communication?
Tricky.
Most of us think our communication is ok …
- We learned to write at college.
- We do as well as our peers.
- We should focus on getting the job done, not on ‘writing’.
- We are confident in our roles.
All true.
But do your audiences agree?
… do you consistently get fast approvals?
… do stakeholders respond quickly to your emails and presentations?
… are you delayed by answering frustrating questions rather than getting fast decisions?
My 2021 research says you score your own communication twice as highly as you score your peers’.
Tricky.
Don’t wait until someone tells you your communication needs work.
The uncomfortable truth is that they are probably too polite to tell you.
My Board Paper Bootcamp gives you a simple, repeatable framework for clarifying and conveying complex ideas, so they land with decision makers.
The next cohort starts in a couple of weeks and already has some superb participants.
Kind regards,
Davina
PS – Too much? Want to test the waters a bit?
Join this week's free 30-minute Lightning Lesson: How to use your Updates to Have Influence. Register here.
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WANT MORE?
Online course – Engage walks you through this process in depth, offering tools and templates for each step. Learn more.
Book – Elevate helps leaders set their teams up to prepare papers and presentations they don’t need to rewrite. Engage helps individual contributors prepare those papers. Learn more.
Workshop – The Extreme Clarity Workshop introduces these techniques in an engaging and fast-paced way. Scheduled for 28 August. Bookings now open.
Program – The Board Paper Bootcamp offers a live learning opportunity for a group of up to 20 people to learn the techniques with me. Bookings now open. Starts in October.
Free mini course – 10 minutes to better emails. Learn more here.
Whenever you're ready, here are five other ways I can help you:
Elevate, the book – helps leaders set their teams up to set up a new dynamic across their team that will elevate everyone’s skills, helping the team get better, faster decisions.
Engage, the book – helps individual contributors prepare papers and presentations that leaders can approve without reworking.
Engage, the self-paced course – supports both individuals and leaders prepare more insightful papers and presentations for senior leaders and boards.
Extreme Clarity, the 2-hour workshop – introduces techniques for structuring your messaging.
Board Paper Bootcamp, the 2-week program – helps you clarify and convey complex ideas to senior leaders and boards.
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PRESENTED BY DAVINA STANLEY
I love what I do.
I help senior leaders and their teams prepare high-quality papers and presentations in a fraction of the time.
This involves ‘nailing' the message that will quickly engage decision makers in the required outcome.
I leverage 25+ years' experience including
- learning structured thinking techniques at McKinsey in Hong Kong in the mid 1990s before coaching and training their teams globally as a freelancer for a further 15 years
- being approved to teach the Pyramid Principle by Barbara Minto in 2009
- helping CEOs, C-suite leaders and their reports deeply understand their stakeholder needs and communicate accordingly
- seeing leaders cut the number of times they review major papers by ~30% and teams cut the amount of time they take to prepare major papers by ~20%*
- watching senior meetings focus on substantive discussions and better decisions rather than trying to clarify the issue
My approach helps anyone who needs to engage senior leaders and Boards.
Recent clients include 7Eleven, KPMG, Mercer, Meta, Woolworths.
Learn more at www.clarityfirstprogram.com
(*) Numbers are based on 2023 client benchmarking results.
