Power Phrases:
A Potent Communication Tool for Professionals
Welcome,
You’re the expert. You’re competent, skilled and knowledgeable. Your ideas are cutting edge. Yet all that expertise is not enough. As a professional, you also need to be able to translate what you know into simple expressions that laymen understand and can implement. You need to be able to speak to their level of understanding and avoid speaking down to them or over their heads.
I know what it’s like. I grew up in an academic family that made simple truths complex and complex truths even more complicated. Getting through college was nothing compared to learning to speak in down-to-earth language that got me understood.
As a Professional, You Need Clarity, Conviction, and Candor to Communicate Your Expertise
People look to professionals for clarity. The most successful professionals may not be the ones who know the most; they’re the ones who can clearly communicate the knowledge they have. Successful professionals are the ones who can distill the complexity of their knowledge into clear and decisive concepts that inspire and motivate.
Employees respect professionals who communicate conviction. While adaptability is a valuable and necessary quality in a professional, the professional who downplays their own expertise will appear to lack conviction to reassure the layman.
Employees trust professionals who speak with refreshing candor. In a world of spin, honesty has grown as a vital quality for a respected professional. People need to know that the professional will tell them how it really is.
As a Professional, You Need Power Phrases to Speak Strong
You weren’t born an expert in your field, and you weren’t born knowing how to communicate your expertise. You became highly trained in your profession, but unless you’re an exception, you need help communicating that expertise.
Whether you’re a new or seasoned professional, you’re certain to find the information you need to excel here at Speak Strong. I provide the actual words for situations professionals face every day. I don't just help you know what to say, I show you how to say it. Oh - yes - and I show you what NOT to say, too. That's as concrete as it gets.
Speak Strong provides effective words for the kinds of communication professionals need.
Find the best words for:
• Meetings
• Delegation
• Goal-setting
• Presentations
• Getting credit for your ideas
• Making abstract concepts concrete
• Commanding authority
• Getting buy-in
• Correcting misunderstandings
• Educating lay persons
Be the lead your coworkers, colleagues and clients need. Explore Speak Strong to get the right phrase for every situation every time.
Here at SpeakStrong, I help professionals find the words to communicate in powerful ways that motivate and enliven others. 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 PowerPhrases!. Let it be your communication guide.
Enroll for my free weekly newsletter called A PowerPhrase a Week. It’s packed with words, phrases and tools that professionals and employees can apply immediately.
Bring me in for a series of workshops such as The Six Keys to Compelling Communication. Let these workshops be your fast track to exceptional communication skill.
For more specific help – I am available for individual executive coaching. Hire me to be your personal fast track to exceptional communication skill.
The SpeakStrong Library is available here.
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 words to help you communicate with the clarity, conviction, courage and candor necessary to succeed. For example, the resources available here can help you find:
1. The words to express your expertise in ways others understand
2. The words to dispel mistaken concepts
3. The words to expand dialogue with other professionals
4. The words to address issues as they arise and initiate essential hot button conversations
Professionals Are People Too
If you’re like most professionals (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 professionals and the general population is that professionals tend to be more technical and less experiential in their communication than others. Professionals often speak from an intellectual perspective and fail to connect emotionally with their listeners. It’s possible to know more than anyone else but not be able to get others to listen.
It’s important to be able to speak in the same language others can hear..
Check Out Speak Strong Resources to Improve Your Professional Communication
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 share what you know. 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 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. 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 basis of the most successful conversations you could ever have? People 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.
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"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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"I actually look forward to Wednesday just because I know the newsletter will give me new and useful information and has even made me rethink how I write correspondence and speak to people." ~ Bob H.
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If you want to take the fast track to effective communication, visit our SpeakStrong bookstore for tools you can use immediately.
"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
