Essentials of Executive Communication:
Clarity, Conviction, Courage and Candor
Why You Need PowerPhrases Every Day of the Week
to Lead Your Organization to Success
Welcome,
Sure, you know exactly what you’re doing. You understand your industry. Your ideas are cutting edge. Yet that’s not enough. As a leader you also need to be able to communicate your expertise. You need to craft your message into simple expressions people understand, commit to and follow.
As a Leader, You Need Clarity, Conviction, Courage and Candor to Implement Effective Policies and Systems.
Employees look to their leaders for clarity. A leader who can distill the complexity of today’s marketplace into clear and decisive concepts is a leader who inspires and motivates.
Employees follow leaders who communicate conviction. While compromise is a valuable and necessary quality in a leader, the leader who seems too willing to compromise or agree is the leader who appears to lack conviction necessary to guide an organization to success.
Employees respect leaders who communicate the courage of their convictions. They are reassured by leaders who are not inhibited by fear.
Employees trust leaders who speak with refreshing candor. In recent years, honesty has grown as a vital quality for a respected leader. If an employee follows a leader s/he suspects to be dishonest, it casts a shadow on the employee’s honesty as well.
Employees who resist new policies and systems are more likely to embrace them when the new policies and systems are championed by executives who have developed exceptional communication skills.
That’s Why, As a Leader, You Need PowerPhrases to Clearly Communicate Your Clarity, Courage, Candor and Conviction.
Here at SpeakStrong, I help leaders find the words to communicate in powerful ways that motivate and enliven employees. Take advantage of the information I offer.
Explore my articles such as The Four C’s of Communication published by the American Management Association. (Let me know if you figure out who George and John are.)
Order one or all of my four books, including How to Say It: Performance Reviews, published by Penguin. This book details a revolutionary approach to performance management.
Enroll for my free weekly newsletter called A PowerPhrase a Week. It’s packed with words, phrases and tools that executives and employees can apply immediately.
Bring me in for a series of workshops such as Creating Corporate Cultures Where Truth Is Championed. Let these workshops be your organizational fast track to exceptional communication skill.
Oh, I almost forgot – I am available for individual executive coaching. Hire me to be your personal fast track to exceptional communication skill.
It’s About Knowing What You Have to Say and Having the Words to Say It
My SpeakStrong resources don’t just provide concepts. They provide concrete wording to help you communicate with clarity, conviction, courage and candor necessary to succeed. For example, the resources available here can help you find:
1. The words to express your vision and mission so others will work toward your true priorities.
2. The words to implement new systems
3. The words to create an open communication culture.
4. The words to address issues as they arise and initiate essential hot button conversations.
Leaders Are People Too
If you’re like most leaders (and like me), you’ve delayed hot button conversations because you didn’t know what to say or you didn’t want to rock the boat. And (like me) you’ve probably also initiated hot button conversations with reckless abandon and later regretted your words.
In my years of speaking and writing, I’ve discovered that the biggest difference between a leader and the general population is the magnitude of impact of a leader’s words. It’s possible for some people to misspeak without serious consequences. Not you.
Your words affect many people.
That’s why you need Power Phrases.
Communication Skill Is Your Key to Effective Leadership
If you don’t speak openly with your colleagues, board members, customers, clients and employees, they’ll make things up.
If your words are unclear, confusion will reign.
If your language is inflammatory, you’ll be fighting fires.
You need words that work to build bridges and promote clarity.
But - you don't only need to know what to say, you need the words to say it.
Check Out Our Resources to Improve Your Corporate Culture
Here’s a cool communication tool you can use immediately:
• Communication Style Inventory
Here are a couple of other tools you get free when you sign up for A PowerPhrase a Week newsletter:
• Standards of Effective Communication Downloadable Poster PDF
• The SpeakStrong List of the Top Ten Poison Phrases to avoid at all cost
Great communication is easier than you think
I offer numerous formulas and the actual words you need to address those vexing and perplexing issues that affect you and your boss and coworkers. But everything I teach is based on one simple formula. This formula is so straightforward you’ll wonder why you didn’t think of it yourself. (If you did, you’ll wonder why you didn’t use it.) This formula is so effective you’ll wish you had it long ago. Once you learn this formula, you’ll be ready to address personal issues you had resigned yourself to long ago.
I apply this formula to help you find the perfect words for the situations you face every day. My words have been tested around the world for their power and effectiveness in business communication. They have been embraced by thousands of executives, and they will add power to your communication.
Are you ready to read the formula that is the basis of the most successful conversations you could ever have? Managers ask me, “What are your communication secrets?” My secrets are surprisingly simple. I have five concrete formulas that I apply repeatedly. When I need to Speak Strong I use a formula. When someone needs help with wording I use a formula. Speaking powerfully really is that easy.
I have five concrete formulas, but the most important formula I use…the formula that is the foundation of everything I say is…
Here goes…
Say what you mean and mean what you say…
without being mean when you say it.
Can it be that simple? Yes – and yet as simple as it is, so few people actually do it.
PowerPhrases aren’t just about confrontation. They are also about connection. PowerPhrases! will help you make that connection.
Hundreds of people (I’m not exaggerating) have told me that just using that formula they have transformed their communication. Start with that simple principle today. And search the site for more information to help with your specific communication challenges.
Here’s what others say about Speak Strong and Power Phrases.
I get a lot of comments on how useful the tools I provide are. Many of these comments are unsolicited. Here are a few.
"I recently purchased your book Power Phrases! and found it quite amazing. I would like to be added to the list that receives the newsletter. Thank you for writing such a useful book. I will keep it with me and refer to it often!" ~ Kathy L.
"Your content is significant, your delivery truly special. Thank you."
~ Lynn P.
"My thanks go to YOU for such a valuable tool and service that you provide! Keep up the good work and my friends and I will continue to look forward to all of the newsletters, phrases, and success stories, among the features!" ~ Joan S.
Here at SpeakStrong, you can get books, CDs, DVDs, newsletters and articles that you can use right away
Information gives out. Communication gets through.
Isn’t it time your words got through?
Others may talk about communication, but here at Speak Strong we help you find the exact words to speak.
I help you to say what you mean and mean what you say
without being mean when you say it.
Go ahead - leisurely explore my site.
You'll find my bookstore loaded with practical resources, the newsletter packed with beneficial information you can use immediately, and the site brimming with illuminating articles. I even respond to questions personally.
If there is something you need to say, I can help.
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"Your book has saved my professional and personal self-confidence with communicating. It’s a ready reference for phrases that are specific and short, but quick and to the point." ~ Kim Hawks, Financial Manager
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~ Meryl
