Follow this link to our online tools page offering a variety of links to pages that illustrate the Speak Strong Principles and help you practice Speaking Strong. Featuring a Communication Styles Inventory quiz to enable you to determine your own communication style, two other online exercises, an MP3 audio interview with Meryl, and three SpeakStrong videos.
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Follow this link to an index of free SpeakStrong articles written by Meryl Runion to help you find the words for your communication challenges. We invite you to enjoy these articles, forward them to friends, and reprint them in your publications with attribution.
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is a free weekly newsletter to help you transform your communication one step at a time. Follow this link to our page with newsletter and registration information.

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This year long eCourse provides a foundation for powerful communication. Register now! Click button below for the eCourse description and agenda, a free Intro and samples, and for registration information.

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Meryl personally answers your specific communication challenge questions via email.
(Which Meryl posts to her blog for comments, unless requested not to.)
This button link will open up a blank email with which you can send in your questions and have them answered.

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SpeakStrong offers an award to individuals who submit SpeakStrong Success stories.
Read about the I Said it Strong Award here: .
Click button below for a blank email form for award story submissions to Meryl.

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SpeakStrong Downloadable PDF Posters |
The 'Ask the Right Question' Problem-Solving Worksheet for an Essential Managerial Problem-Solving Exercise provides eleven steps to manage performance issues. This full-color PDF chart illustrates the flow, and you can save it to your computer, or even print it for future reference!
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PowerPhrases are short, specific, targeted expressions that say what you mean and mean what you say without being mean when you say it. This full-color PDF poster reminds you to use PowerPhrases to get your point across. Save it to your computer, or print it out for posting, and keep on Speaking Strong!
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Meryl has created her own Standards of Responsible Communication, outlined in this full-color PDF poster. When you make agreements with others about how you will speak to each other, that is responsible communication and that is Speaking Strong! Meryl invites you to download, print, and adapt her standards to meet your own communication needs.
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This full-color, downloadable PDF poster of Meryl's favorite communication formula - her ultimate communication formula - reminds us always to say what we mean and mean what we say without being mean when we say it.
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SpeakStrong's FACE Formula: Facts, Appreciation, Consequence (or Cost), and Expectation...to address issues and ask for what you want. Download and print out this full-color poster to help you to remember to face your problems and Speak Strong!
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Sometimes, all you have to do is ask, and you receive. Other times, you need to exchange ideas, explore issues, and negotiate outcomes. That's when the CASE Formula comes in handy. Clarify, Assert, Seek Solutions, and Evaluate to address conflict, illustrated in this full-color, downloadable and printable PDF poster.
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SpeakStrong to say no! Sounds simple, but sometimes that two letter word is one of the hardest words to learn in the English language. Use this simple, helpful formula (complete with PowerPhrases!) to say "no" in three easy steps. Download and print this PDF poster as a reminder to Speak Strong!
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This full-color, downloadable PDF poster outlines Meryl's 5 C's for Responsible Leadership: Clarity, Conviction, Courage, Candor, and Creative expression. As a responsible leader, use this poster as a reminder to Speak Strong for effective leadership...and become the leader your employees want you to be!
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Meryl's Totally Integrated Performance System involves five processes, each of which requires their own separate conversations. This full-color, downloadable PDF poster outlings the 5 processes necessary for positve and productive performance reviews.
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Meryl's Totally Integrated Performance System...for seamless and painlessly productive performance reviews. This full-color PDF poster illustrates the process throughout the year. Print out this poster as a reminder to Speak Strong for the effective management (and advancement) of your employees.
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