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Business Business CommunicationsCommunications

• It’s due…WHEN?• Next Monday’s Assignment• GREAT Business Communication• Finding Your Own STYLE• How to Present Using Pictures• Great Presentations

Today’s Agenda

Truly Great Great Communication

Great Communication

http://www.mindjumpers.com/blog/2010/08/business-communication/

Great Communication

http://www.noupe.com/how-tos/12-secrets-of-effective-business-communication.html

Ou

www.expressyourselftosuccess.com/the-seven-essentials-of-great-business-communication

Great Communicators

www.amazon.com/Simple-Secrets-Greatest-Business-Communicators/dp/1402203489

• Ask the right questions (for sales esp.)• Present yourself as professionally as

possible at all times.• Schedule and prepare thoroughly.• Speak, pause, listen.• Follow up in writing.• Ask for feedback

Great Communication

Great Communicating

http://managementhelp.org/blogs/communications/2011/01/02/20-great-ways-to-engage-and-involve-your-audience/

• Ty a new format• Communicate confidently• Use an elevator pitch• Be responsive• Write well

Great Communication

• Structure• Clarity• Consistency• Medium• Relevancy• Primacy/Recency• Psychological Rule “7 and +/- 2”

Great Communication

Use Pictures to Use Pictures to Communicate Communicate

Complex IssuesComplex Issues

Dan Roam: Back of the Napkinhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeE1WT9M1Ng

GreatGreatPresentationsPresentations

Great Presentations

www.youtube.com/watch?v=n139-iFFK24

Finding Your Own Finding Your Own Communication Communication

STYLE

www.nten.org/articles/2012/communications-styles-how-to-get-your-message-out-when-people-arent-listening-properly

What’s Your “STYLE”

• ThinkerThinker (Structure, logic, organization, problem solving)

• Feeler Feeler (Expression, human interaction, projecting feelings)

• Intuitor (Imagination, theory, envisioning, speculation)

• SensorSensor (Doing, competing, getting results)

What’s YourSTYLESTYLE?