Description:
“What are you talking about?” How often do you think that when listening to a presentation or reading an email? How often do people think that when trying to understand you?
Organizations are awash in complexity. Often our communication contributes to that.
Complicated communication hurts decision-making and reduces organizational agility.
Sharpening your point provides tools and techniques to simplify your communication. The workshop is based on our “Five-Second Rule”. If a person can’t get your point within five seconds or less, it’s likely to be lost.
The workshop will help your team communicate simply, clearly, and directly.
Our techniques can be applied across all forms of communication (spoken, written, presented).
Workshop objectives:
Sharpening your point helps individuals create simple, clear, and direct communication by:
- Breaking information into understandable and manageable pieces
- Simplifying ideas and messages
- Separating key points and supporting evidence
- Creating simple, easy-to-follow stories and arguments
Workshop outline (4 hours)
Introduction – What are you talking about?
- Simplicity drives understanding
- The Five-Second Rule
Module 1: Breaking up your message
- The 1:1:1 Rule
- Flesch-Kinkaid Reading Level
- Activity: Simplify the paragraph
- Activity: Simplify the slide
Module 2: Simplifying your message
- Activity: 6 Word Challenge
- Synthesizing multiple data sets into simple messages
Module 3: Simplifying your story
- Using context to create understanding
- Activity: 4 minute (six-slide) recommendation
- Activity: 90 second status update (What, why, but, and)
Workshop close
