High Impact Communication

Does communication seem more complicated than ever these days-especially with the influx of technology into the workplace? If so, you’re not alone. Thousands of business professionals share your feelings. Learn how to easily create, write, edit, proof and present high-impact communication – starting today.

Be Clear (9 min)

• Get to the point up front
• Choose familiar words people understand
• Keep sentences short and simple so people retain what you say
• Stick with the subject-verb-object sentence structure to avoid confusion
• Communicate difficult information with visuals
• Take time to edit to avoid unprofessional mistakes

• Get rid useless words and phrases
• Shorten sentences
• Avoid long, flowery explanations
• Know the two basic ways of communicating and when to use each for the greatest impact

• Less/Few
• That/Who
• Verbiage/wording
• Farther/Further
• Both/each
• Anxious/eager
• Lie/lay
• Respond/react

• Build mind maps as the first step in your creative process
• Freewrite your ideas to get the words on paper quickly and painlessly
• Break rules you learned in junior high to conquer creative blocks qnd barriers
• Know your audience and what they want to know from you

• Replace passive phrases and sentences with active, Conversational ones
• Tell stories to bring your ideas to life
• Strive to be interesting in both your writing and speaking