Communication skills you need at work
Learning a fundamental communication skill is good, but using that skill is even better. Many articles on my website explain how to apply the fundamental communication skills to a range of common workplace situations. These articles will show you how to do useful things: giving status updates people actually want to listen to, writing good emails, and communicating effectively with executives.
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You’ve heard about the communication skills all employers are looking for. Presentation skills, public speaking, delegating, listening skills, and empathy. Every hiring manager has a list like this in their head when they evaluate...
Communicating with executives is a high-pressure situation for many people. Most of us take time to prepare ahead of a tip to the boardroom. But no matter how well prepared you are for the big presentation things can still go wrong....
Communicating with executives may not be part of your everyday work, but it is still something you should know how to do. You never know when you might be called on to present to a senior leader. And as you rise through the ranks your...
Does the thought of communicating with executives make you nervous? Are you worried about what to say, or how to make the topic relevant? Most of us don’t communicate with executives every day. That means we don’t get much time to...
Meeting are important — sometimes. But not always. Quite often meetings are not necessary.
The two main reasons for meetings are also the two biggest reasons they aren’t necessary:
Meetings are set up to share information. These...
Issue happen at work, that is a fact of life. But just because they happen often doesn't mean we know how to talk about issues.
In this article you will learn about the reasons IT teams should communicate with business teams about...
Business stakeholders don’t like to be told that an IT deliverable is delayed. But we live in a world where delays happen. If you work in IT, and if you want to have less frustrated business stakeholders, then you need to know how to...
Many people turn to books as a starting point to improve communication skills. But with over two million new books published every year, how do you find the best ones? To save you from a long search, I’ve put together a list of...
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