Communication Leadership: Learning to Document
Posted On October 2, 2017 BY Dean Brenner
Originally published with the Forbes Coaches Council at Forbes.com on August 23, 2017. When I teach a seminar, I often ask about the attendees’ process of putting together a presentation. “How many here start their preparation by opening up a new PowerPoint, or pulling out an old slide deck and repurposing it, or taking a […]
Make Them Care. Make Them Feel The Problem
Posted On September 25, 2017 BY Dean Brenner
Getting people to listen to you in today’s modern workplace is hard enough. We write about that challenge all the time. But once you get people to hear you, your challenge is not over. Getting people to hear you is a great first step… but only a first step. The next step, which is also […]
Communication Leadership: Make the Message
Posted On September 18, 2017 BY Dean Brenner
Originally published with the Forbes Coaches Council at Forbes.com August 8, 2017 What’s the first step in crafting a persuasive presentation? For many people, the agony of the blank page sends them straight to the slide deck. Maybe you have a template to work with, maybe you can pull up some visually interesting data, maybe you […]
Communication Leadership: Learning To Assess
Posted On September 5, 2017 BY Dean Brenner
Originally published with the Forbes Coaches Council at Forbes.com July 25, 2017 For years, I’ve been intimately involved in the process of training Olympic-level athletes for the U.S. Olympic Sailing Program, both as an athlete myself and eventually as Chairman and Team Leader for all of U.S. Olympic Sailing. At that level of competition, there […]
Expand Your Leadership Vocabulary
Posted On August 28, 2017 BY Dean Brenner
While Dean enjoys a little vacation time with his family, we’ll revisit some of The Latimer Group’s most popular posts. This is a great one for #LeadershipMonday. Hope it’s a great week. ~The Latimer Group I came across something worth sharing with you, that I think will help you refine your leadership vocabulary. If you […]
6 Simple Rules for Speaking Well
Posted On August 21, 2017 BY Dean Brenner
Speaking well can be pretty hard. Speaking in a way that captures attention, and helps you achieve your business goals can be intimidating for lots of people. It is hard, in many ways. But the keys to success can also be pretty simple, if you think about it the correct way. So let me make […]
Robin Williams, Depression and Friendship: Three Years Later
Posted On August 14, 2017 BY Dean Brenner
It has been three years since Robin Williams passed away, and we wrote this post right after he died. What we wrote then is just as true and valid today… perhaps more so. Great communication in the workplace is about more than clarity, brevity, etc… things we write about all the time. Great communication in […]
Who Will Succeed in the New Communication Age?
Posted On August 2, 2017 BY Dean Brenner
In a client workshop today, we were discussing just how much the world has changed with regard to how we communicate. We have more channels than ever. More access to information. More access to each other. Yet, we have way less time. At times, communicating can feel like a total info-dump, and each of us […]
Don’t Waste the Chance to Help Someone Fly!
Posted On July 25, 2017 BY Dean Brenner
My son is seven years old, and like many kids, he is advanced in some ways, and cautious or slower to develop in others. In his case, he has a significant creative mind, loves numbers, loves words, and loves to build things… with Lego, sticks, anything he can get his hands on. He loves to […]
Don’t Be Afraid to Go to the Blackboard
Posted On July 20, 2017 BY Dean Brenner
Today’s post is an add-on to our post earlier this week about the importance of bringing empathy to your work. Public speaking is a big — in some cases, debilitating — fear in many people. In most cases we see, that fear stems from being called out, challenged… or, just plain wrong… in front of […]