Last year during June, you may have seen this post on Effective Communications Month, which is June. But what else can you use to practice effective communications?
How about when you are communicating, whether in writing or speaking, incorporating the five senses into your dialog?
“What do I mean?” you may ask… let’s look at an example
“The [...]
Have you ever heard someone say this? “I don’t need help with public speaking. I do it all the time.”
Have you ever said it?
Working in a K-12 school environment, I have heard this often. When I first started working in schools, what surprised me most was when I heard a teacher say, “I’m so nervous. [...]
Imagine you are sitting in an audience, during a workshop, scheduled right before lunch. As the clocks ticks, ticks, ticks, toward lunchtime… then past… What are you thinking?
Are you thinking about the presentation? Or are you hungry and thinking about lunch?
How about if are you reaching the end of the presentation and you have another [...]
Do you read Craig Strachan’s Communication Excellence blog? Craig is a partner of mine from South Africa. Craig just posted that speakers should always have a digital recorder with them. To record your brilliant, or not so brilliant, insights and ideas. And to record yourself, every time you speak.
You may wonder if this is really [...]
Have you seen this? In –“Walk the Talk” Loses Credibility– Harry Jones talks about leaders and the lately more common practice in which those same leaders are not “doing” but just “saying”. Does that catch your interest? It caught mine.
When I was in the U.S. Marine Corps, from the moment I stepped off the bus [...]
You may have heard me speak about being concise. But is being concise a necessity? T.J. Walker doesn’t think so. You will find that I agree and disagree.
I was at a meeting on Monday night, where one of the mangers turned to a new manager and said, “Keep this in mind. Keep your functions short [...]
How are you creating your brand?
When you present to an audience, do you make sure that your brand is re-inforced? Do you have a logo, consistent theme, or catch phrase? Remember Emeril Lagase? ” BAM!!”
But think about this… Have you ever considered music?
Theme music, used as an introduction, can help [...]
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