Soundwaves: The 4 Skills of Great Communication, Part 3: Document
Posted On December 18, 2017 BY Dean Brenner
At The Latimer Group, our teaching model is based on the 4 Skills of Great Communication: Assess, Message, Document, and Deliver. In this new four-part series of our Soundwaves podcast, Dean shares the four skills of our model, through the story of The Latimer Group’s origin and evolution. As we conclude our 15th year of […]
Soundwaves: The 4 Skills of Great Communication, Part 2: Message
Posted On December 13, 2017 BY Dean Brenner
At The Latimer Group, our teaching model is based on the 4 Skills of Great Communication: Assess, Message, Document, and Deliver. In this new four-part series of our Soundwaves podcast, Dean shares the four skills of our model, through the story of The Latimer Group’s origin and evolution. As we conclude our 15th year of […]
Soundwaves: The 4 Skills of Great Communication, Part 1: Assess
Posted On December 11, 2017 BY Dean Brenner
At The Latimer Group, our teaching model is based on the 4 Skills of Great Communication: Assess, Message, Document, and Deliver. In this new four-part series of our Soundwaves podcast, Dean shares the four skills of our model, through the story of The Latimer Group’s origin and evolution. As we conclude our 15th year of […]
Managing the Ego in the Workplace
Posted On November 29, 2017 BY Dean Brenner
My wife Emily and I have recently been going through some old files in our basement, clearing some stuff out and making some much-needed room in an already-crowded basement. And whenever one starts opening boxes from long ago, two things always seem to happen. You find some stuff, and wonder “why did I ever keep […]
Influence vs. Authority
Posted On November 27, 2017 BY Dean Brenner
There are two ways we can get people to do what we want or need them to do: because we have influence over them, or because we have authority over them. We can have influence without authority, and we can have authority without influence. Influence comes from respect, collaboration, and credibility. Authority comes from title […]
Gratitude: An Important Form of Communication
Posted On November 22, 2017 BY Dean Brenner
We communicate with each other in so many different ways… a topic we write about all the time. Our words, facial expressions, body language, how we speak, WHEN we speak, the way we listen, the way we behave… all of these things are communicating messages out all the time. And since this is Thanksgiving week […]
Becoming a Next-Level Communicator
Posted On November 20, 2017 BY Dean Brenner
Originally published with the Forbes Coaches Council October 20, 2017. To be a powerful communicator, you have to be brutally honest. You need to look critically at how great a change you are suggesting and how much you are asking of your audience. But perhaps the most important place you must look is within yourself. How […]
Put Down the Smartphone, and Slowly Back Away
Posted On November 15, 2017 BY Dean Brenner
We’ve reached a tipping point, I believe, in the use of mobile devices. These tools have had a wildly successful positive impact on our efficiency and ability to communicate. But too much of any good thing can eventually become a bad thing, and that is where we are with mobile devices. And we’re hearing it […]
Getting Your Delivery from “Negative” to “Positive”
Posted On November 13, 2017 BY Dean Brenner
We talk all the time about message development — clarity of and organization of message make it easier for people to listen to you. And if you do all the right things on your message plan, and then translate it into a good slide deck, the final piece of the puzzle is your delivery. Once […]
Simple Rules for Building Credibility
Posted On November 8, 2017 BY Dean Brenner
My wife and I recently had some bookshelves built in our home, which gave us some much-needed space to display many of the books we owned. So when the job was completed, we had a wonderful night of populating our new shelves. We had a little wine, and we spent hours opening up boxes of […]