Communications Insight For More Inspiring Leaders What Are Your Potential Objectives as a Communicator?

What Are Your Potential Objectives as a Communicator?

 23rd Jun 2023
 
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What are Your potential personal objectives as a communicator?

To secure funding for your proposal
To be perceived as credible
To raise brand profile of yourself or your organisation
To simply “not screw it up”
To remember to cover all that you planned
And more…

Are NOT the same as your audience’s objectives…

To gain fresh insight into a topic of interest
To feel reassured, understood and/or inspired
To gain practical advice making a real difference to how they go about their lives
To gain renewed sense of purpose
To be alerted to an issue/problem of which they were not previously aware
And more…

As the speaker, focus on the latter FIRST.

You’re much more likely to achieve the former as a result!

Sounds obvious, I know.

But common sense is not the same as common practice.

#communication #leadership #publicspeaking

 Simon's masterclass on pitching and effective communication attracted over 60 MBA's and other post-graduate students from across Oxford during the exam period ... testament to how valuable people thought it was. I would recommend it to anyone, especially mid-career professionals, looking to enhance their ability to communicate their ideas with conviction.

 

Soushiant Zangenehpour | Manager, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Said Business School, University of Oxford

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