Test out your message

... and what you’re trying to say is rarely what other people hear. You can’t expect people to understand you just because you’re talking—you have to be clear.  

Communication isn’t anything if it isn’t clear, and your communication won’t be clear until you take the time to understand th...

1. It's one idea. Focus your idea on the one point you want your audience to buy into. Too many ideas will produce confusion.
2. You can express it in a single, clear sentence. If your message is more than one sentence or a long sentence, your l...

• Be Specific;
• Be Immediate: you wait too long, it can have less impact and make it harder for the person to grasp exactly what needs changing;
• Tie Feedback to Goals: it gives the receiver a clear goal to work towards and reason why you’ve given them this f...