Inevitably, during every presentation, meeting, conference call, or conversation, you get asked questions. Dozens of them. And each of those questions need an answer, an answer that is efficient, clear, and easily retained.
Below are a few of our tips to help you provide clear, succinct, and effective answers.
Read MoreMegan is standing on a stage, in the middle of the most important presentation of her career, facing a sea of perplexed and unengaged faces.
Megan is an expert, and therein lies the problem.
Read MoreImagine you’re at a Thanksgiving festival and a helicopter is circling above. Suddenly little slips of paper start to fall from the sky. On them are single words and small phrases. You race around furiously trying to grab as many slips of paper as you can to decipher the code.
What’s the message?
It’s lurking and pervasive. It rears its ugly head during business presentations—project updates, board reports, and investor meetings. It happens during team meetings and webinars. CEOs and new hires are equally guilty of it.
It’s the corporate communication trap!
Communication was one area of business operations that was forced to rapidly evolve in response to the economic chaos and uncertainty of the pandemic. Specifically, the best leaders began to communicate:
More frequently,
With greater transparency,
Proactively as opposed to reactively,
From a position of deeper understanding and empathy,
And in a style that blended both data and humanity.
