Recently I delivered a Listen and speak under pressure presentation for BIO, a networking group I belong to.
After the presentation one of the participants contacted me and told me, that he had used one of the techniques I described in the presentation.
The participant used my Open, Middle, Close speaking structure to interject in a senior level meeting. His interjection made an impact and won the approval of the senior executives in the meeting.
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I recently put out a survey to some of my executive clients around the common communication challenges that they face as leaders, and how this affects their teams, and the organisation as a whole.
Overwhelmingly, the consensus was that they regularly experienced situations where communication breakdown was responsible for inefficiencies in their daily work.
More precisely, there was a significant pattern of people not being able to confidently communicate clear, concise messages to senior executives.
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