The more I ask leaders about why they want to improve the quality of their team's communication, the less it has to do with the communication itself.

On the one hand it has to do with the quality of ideas the team conveys, but when I dig a bit more it has to do with something else entirely.

It has to do with the quality and velocity of decision-making.

Quality is easy enough to grasp, but velocity sometimes gets lost in the mix.

It's easy to assume it's normal for a leader or their team to iterate and iterate to land their messaging and get a decision.
It's also easy to think that it's normal for the leader to rework drafts out of hours, when they (you?) have time to think.

What if I told you that you can radically cut the amount of time you spend on rework with just a few tweaks to the way you think through your messaging?

I share ideas on how to do this in my upcoming free Lightning Lesson.

Let's help you get some of your nights and weekends back.

I hope that helps. More soon.

Davina

Ready for more?

Free workshop this week:

If you are in the mood for some free learning, you might also enjoy this coming week's free session on Strategic Influence too.

Recent articles on communication quality and decision-making velocity

1. The most important measure of communication quality
2. Is your communication insightful?
3. How to lift the velocity of your decision-making

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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ABOUT AUTHOR: 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.

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