Mastering Effective Communication

Mastering Effective Communication

These lessons boil down to a few core practices: knowing and prioritizing your audience, making your points memorable through storytelling, communicating clearly, preparing well, and being responsive to real-time feedback. Together, these strategies lay a strong foundation for becoming a more effective and engaging communicator.

Communication lessons from Star Trek TNG

communication skills with aliens

The fiction is only one part of the story. The  setting is a spaceship, yet the individual episodes are often about relationships and communication challenges.

What might we learn about communication while humans attempt to communicate and forge relationships with alien species about the cosmos?

Your Intended Message Podcast

Your Intended Message podcast

Your Intended Message is the podcast about how we communicate – mistakes we can avoid and how we can communicate more effectively.

Think about the last time you had a message go wrong. You didn’t know why. The receiver of your message didn’t get it or they reacted weirdly and you had no idea what their problem was. That’s the challenges that this podcast will address. Every week, I’ll interview experts on different aspects of communication skills.

Yes – Open for Business – Zoom Coaching

Online Virtual coaching and training

Yes, we are open for business during this COVID-19 crisis.
Communication is even more critical now than any other time. You might be delivering key messages to one, few or many.
You and your messaging will experience intense scrutiny on many planes of perspective.

Five Phrases to Avoid when Speaking

mistake words in your presentation

Here are five phrases that are counterproductive to your message because they can confuse or distance your listeners. People might not consciously notice these flaws, but these phrases can trigger unconscious dissonance in your message.