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Effective Communications Make your Ideas Stick Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die PCBN Pacific Coast Business Networking September 10, 2014

Effective Communications Make your Ideas Stick Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die PCBN Pacific Coast Business Networking September 10, 2014

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Page 1: Effective Communications Make your Ideas Stick Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die PCBN Pacific Coast Business Networking September 10, 2014

Effective CommunicationsMake your Ideas Stick

Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

PCBNPacific Coast Business Networking

September 10, 2014

Page 2: Effective Communications Make your Ideas Stick Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die PCBN Pacific Coast Business Networking September 10, 2014

Effective Communication Principles

• Simple – 1 idea vs. 10

• Unexpected – Grab attention

• Concrete – Be specific & visual

• Credible – Present credentials and authority

• Emotional – Have them feel something

• Stories – Relate an experience• A Simple, Unexpected, Concrete,

Credentialed, Emotional Story

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#1 – Keep it Simple• Simplicity means Finding the Core of the Idea

• People will not remember 90% of what you tell them, so be clear what are the one or two key things you want them to remember and just focus on those (i.e. cut away most of the other stuff).

• We need to become ‘masters of exclusion’ in order to strip an idea down to its bare essentials.

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SimpleWhat Gets in the Way of Being

Simple?

The Curse of Knowledge

You Know so much about your business

That you can’t explain it simply

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The Curse of Knowledge

• You understand your business with a lot of technical terms

• If you tend to explain things that way others may not understand what you say

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#2 – Do the UnexpectedGet attention: Surprise the listener

• The key to get a message received

is first to capture attention.

• The most powerful way to get a person’s attention is to break a pattern (as our brains filter out consistency and only focuses on what’s different).

• Unique ideas disrupt people’s expectations.

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#2 – Do the UnexpectedGet attention: Surprise the listener

• We need to maintain attention – we need both

‘surprise’ to create attention and ‘interest’ to maintain it.

 • The nature of surprise is critical in learning. It

starts to jolt our models of reality and destabilizes our locked-in beliefs. It opens us up for re-evaluation as we try to make sense of them.

• To get change, you need to destabilize the status quo.

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#1 Simple + #2 Unexpected

1. Identify the central message you need to communicate — find the core

2. Communicate your message in an unexpected way that grabs your receiver’s attention.

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#3 - Concrete• Help people understand and remember - Be Specific• Concreteness makes it easier for someone to more

easily visualize it - Present a picture• The easier it is for us to relate to something, the

easier it is for us to understand it and remember it. • The more people can ‘see’ it, ‘smell it’, ‘hear’ it the

more something feels real. Conceptual thought is not real

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#4 - Credible

• Personal experience is the most powerful way to shift a belief

• Rational arguments are often rejected – unless supported by an expert or authority.

• Help people believe – cite an authority• If we ‘believe and trust’ a person – (family, friend,

expert or even celebrity) as long as we can be convinced of their authenticity with no hidden agenda, then we are more likely to be influenced by them.

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#5 - Emotional• Emotions are a powerful influencer of thought and

behavior - Make people care• Feelings inspire action. For one’s message to be

received , you have to help make them care. To create care you need to create a bond between something they do care about and your message.

• Self interest is also a way of creating an emotional connection. WIIFM (What’s in it for me)

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#6 – Stories• Telling a story is the oldest form of getting a point

across. We naturally pass information on through a story – and we use it all the time.

• Stories help us translate information into an emotional experience. We effectively relive the event inside.

• Research has shown the when someone re-lives a story in their head it re-triggers the same areas of the brain as the original experience.