Integrate Communication Skills into Your Daily Life
To get ready for high-stakes communication opportunities like a conference presentation, a meeting with the C-Suite, or a difficult conversation with a colleague, integrate into your daily life a conscious effort to practice your communication skills.
The Importance of Speaking Authentically at Work
I’m going to be vulnerable for a moment here. Sometimes I feel out of touch. Especially as I get older, and the professional circles I’m a part of widen and change.
AI-Informed Communications Approach: Using ChatGPT to Develop, Structure, and Revise What You Say and Write
The truth is the way we communicate is always evolving. Email, Zoom, Slack, Instagram. The future of communication has an AI-informed approach.
Do Something A Little Scary in 2024 to Improve Your Communication Skills
Research shows that if you can find that balance between the panic zone and optimal anxiety, a moderate level of stress can help you enhance your skills and abilities.
7 Books to Advance Your Communication Skills
Effective communication is more crucial than ever. If you’re looking to advance your communication practice in 2024, we recommend you to read one of these books. Each offers a unique perspective on communication!
Revisiting Brevity
We’ve heard it a million times: don’t bury the lede.
But what does this mean for effective communication in 2023?
Let’s revisit and refresh our what it means to be concise, how to leverage brevity as a tool for a constructive meeting, and why it matters to the people in your org.
Overcoming Speaking Anxiety
We all get nervous. We all know that intense push-pull feeling of needing to be heard and not wanting attention.
But what we have to say matters, and so there’s no way around it: we need to overcome our nerves and communicate to our audiences.
What are the Hallmarks of an Advanced Virtual Presenter?
In the workplace, you must have noticed by now that each of your colleagues has a unique way of virtually presenting. But there are a few colleagues whom everybody would unanimously agree are exceptional. So what do these exceptional presenters do?
Planning for Tomorrow’s Hybrid Communication
As people are starting to get vaccinated, we can finally envision work life at the office. Unfortunately, we see a big challenge looming around the corner and the success of your organization will once again depend on adapting.
Brevity: The Key to a Great Virtual Meeting
Getting to the point is always important in business communication, but it can make or break a virtual meeting. We’ve all experienced someone taking forever to make their point. It drains the energy and people start to multi-task. And with many of us in back to back meetings, if people aren’t concise, the meeting can run long and we show up late and frustrated to our next meeting.
Four Virtual Presentation Tips I Wish I Would Have Known Earlier
The first time I finished a live webinar several years ago, I ran into the living room, exasperated, and told my husband, “I’ll NEVER do that again!” At the time, presenting virtually felt like too much to manage -- the windows, the tech, the chat, the equipment, and not enough human interaction and feedback for my taste.
10 Tips for Converting your In-Person Meetings to Virtual
Like many people this week, you might be scrambling to figure out how to convert an in- person presentation, interview, or meeting into a remote meeting because of Covid. It’s an important meeting. How can you possibly pull this off? This just won’t be as good as in person!
Putting Our Heads Together - Tips for Virtual Meetings
All your meetings are now virtual, and you or someone on your team has asked: "With everybody working from home, how can we communicate more effectively through video conference?"
I spoke with managers working at top tech companies in the Bay Area. Here are the lessons they've learned after running countless virtual meetings through WebX, Zoom, Skype, BlueJeans, and Google Hangouts.
How to Present Effectively with Slides
As a presentation skills coach, I hear a lot of complaints about how people present with their slides.
“They just read the slide, word for word. Why not just send out a doc?”
“There’s no connection anymore.”
“There’s way too much text and no eye contact. I just tune out.”
Growing Globally? 5 Ways To Level Up Your Intercultural Communication at Work
Many companies require second language learners to undergo communications training, but not much is done in terms of raising the awareness of how native English speakers can contribute to the solution.
Through embodying these 5 simple strategies to promote interactions with non-native speaking colleagues, your company can develop a much stronger global team.
The Real Secret to Becoming a Better Communicator: LISTEN
As a communication coach, I help my clients speak more effectively. But the truth is: most of us need to learn how to more effectively listen. Myself included. It’s hard, but with six easy strategies, we can strengthen our communication and relationship with others.
What Do I Do If I Can’t Understand Someone's Accent?
Many multilingual employees feel anxious about presenting and talking during meetings. They fear judgement by their colleagues and peers. And this makes sense. Who wants to feel embarrassed or ashamed for how they speak? Simultaneously, many native English speakers are at a loss for how to respectfully seek clarification and learn to listen to colleagues with different accents.