Speak with Clarity - Matthews - Resources
Infographic PDFs For Downloading
Sorting & Labeling(opens in new tab)
A tool to help clarify your thinking, answer essay questions and allow you to think on your feet.
Answer Questions Powerfully(opens in new tab)
Scripts to help you answer the only questions you’ll ever hear in the English language.
Building Self-Awareness(opens in new tab)
Two exercises and one resource to help create awareness of your thoughts and feelings.
Storytelling(opens in new tab)
We identify the three core elements every story demands. Plus we share tips for how to make your stories soar.
Feeling Words Grid(opens in new tab)
A must-have tool for building emotional intelligence and emotional literacy.
Resources to support comments from the chat during session #1 on 2/11/22
Links will take you to podcast episodes. Listen on the site, in your app, or select “Download PDF” to get the transcript.
COMMUNICATING WITH CLARITY
- Ahmed Elattar
- Situation: On the fly – unprepared – caught off guard
- Meghan Hatalla
- Thinking on my feet
- Eric Snowder
- Meeting earlier this morning where I did not keep my message clear and simple.
- Eric Rice
- Getting the point across in less words
- Neil Glick
- Patience and the ability organize my thoughts better.
- Ahmed Elattar
- Skill: Not blabbing!!! – staying on point and not side tracking… focusing too much on areas that may not be as important.
- Liji Kuruvilla
- Being direct to the point 🙂
- Lisa Erickson
- rapid fire response with clarity
- Katy Massucco
- Answering on the fly without rambling
- Adam Dooley
- Skill: Succinctness or brevity in presentation information in a consumable way - not drowning in context or details
- Eric Snowder
- Those who communicate clear, simple, and to the point.
- Eric Rice
- Get my message across in less time
SELF-MANAGEMENT & COMMUNICATION
- John Borchert
- When I have something I want to say… I either talk over people, or get excited and stop following the conversation and lose track.
- Neil Glick
- When I'm frustrated and jump to conclusions without some more thought.
SUCCEEDING WITH HIGH-STAKES AUDIENCES
- Laraine Mackenzie
- talking to execs
- Gavin Larson
- Big all-hands type meetings
- Adam Dooley
- Situation: Large, varied audiences
- Jax Jackson
- talking up in All Hands or staff meetings
SETTING LIMITS & SELF-TALK
- Doward Wilkinson
- Saying No
COMMUNICATING IN EMOTIONAL SITUATIONS
- Mark Salmon
- In very tense situations
- Christopher Bertrand
- is when I am talking to someone who has already made up their mind
- Greg Nuss
- in stressful or confronting situations
- Laraine Mackenzie
- Doug's staff meetings tend to intimidate me because I don't know the people very well
- Christopher Bertrand
- an emotional audience
- Mark Salmon
- Calm somebody down very quickly.
- Neil Glick
- a hostile audience. They come in with pre-conceived ideas.
- Meghan Hatalla
- Hostile audience
- Doug Matthews
- Hostile / confrontational situations
- Christopher Bertrand
- mediating disagreements
SELLING AN IDEA
- Elias AbuGhazaleh
- Sell a new idea/concept and bring people in
CONNECTING WITH YOUR AUDIENCE
- Jeff Lowe
- ENGINEERING!!!!
- Eric Rice
- Non-detail oriented people
- Greg Nuss
- Anyone at a PSI meeting
- Eric Snowder
- Strong technical group
- Gavin Larson
- Very tech-savvy people or people with deep technical knowledge
- Mark Salmon
- Very technical folks
- Jax Jackson
- Confidence holding the attention of an audience
STORYTELLING
- Greg Nuss
- Effective storytelling to cement a point or a concept
- Jeff Lowe
- Turning topics into entertaining stories
ELIMINATING NON-WORDS
- Paul Mayer
- avoid saying um and ah
COMMUNICATING UP
- Katy Massucco
- Execs that don’t have context/want spartan explanations