Looking for the latest communication tips? Communication is more than just the delivery of facts and data. True communication is just as much about listening as it is imparting. And there are a lot of ways to do it wrong. Here you can find all the latest news that we have handpicked on this most important topic. Communication: Everyone does it, even when they’re trying not to, and doing it well requires constant improvement. Here you can brush up your skills on ways to avoid failure, use better words, make more relevant points, understand context, make it stick and build understanding. Plus, getting great at presenting … or at least how not to dread it so much.
Good guys need to communicate as effectively as the not-so-good guys have proven to be able to do. People involved in public participation have often looked at the idea of “persuasion” as something kind of smarmy and inappropriate. The thinking has been that trying to convince somebody of believing anything ...
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Journalism, the fourth estate, has been part of the fabric of free societies since Gutenberg printed those letters to the editor claiming Black Death was just a a hoax made up in the basement of a pizza parlor in Dusseldorf. Framers of the Constitution saw fit to address free ...
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When I was a kid, I assumed that MATH stood for Mental Abuse To Humans – it was not my best subject. But that got me interested in acronyms, which comes in really handy when you’re trying to communicate lengthy, complicated things in a briefer way. The problem is those ...
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Truth is still true regardless of how much or how often propaganda and lies attack it. When science, evidence and reason are assaulted, it can be exhausting to constantly be on the defensive. There’s no practical or moral reason to do anything but tell the truth as straightforwardly and clearly ...
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Just about anyone who knows the subject will tell you that climate change is a big deal. In fact, it’s a BFD. Most of the perusers of this little newsletter already know that we’re talking about huge impacts to public health, coastline changes and geographic population displacement beyond anything we’ve ...
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You’re being judged every time you open your mouth. That judgment becomes even more pronounced when you’re speaking to upset, emotional people. Your credibility, in their eyes, is actually less about the content of the message you’re delivering than it is about you, the deliverer. People are judging who you ...
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The gap between government and the people that it’s supposed to serve is more of a chasm than it’s ever been before. Government has rarely done a stellar job of communicating with its constituents; government and real people speak two different languages. People have never had access to more information, ...
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I pledged, in the opening paragraph of this little blog, not to debate politics and that’s not what I hope you focus on in this story from The New Yorker. Politicking and policy is inevitably about communicating and how any side of the aisle crafts and delivers overall messages and ...
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For a lot of experts, especially engineering and science types, public speaking and presentations are fun – much like root canals and picking up in-laws from the airport are fun. But when you’re in the public sector business or even in a business, business that requires talking to actual human ...
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Misinformation, which is generally defined as information that’s just wrong, and disinformation, which is information that’s deliberately false – an intentional lie designed to make you believe propaganda – are two of toughest challenges that we face. It’s a serious problem regardless of the situation, but it becomes deadly when ...
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