A bad business environment demands good communication skills. It just stands to reason. When times are tough and businesses stagger between budget cuts and product launches, there’s little margin for misunderstandings and communication blunders. The ability to gather information, analyze it, summarize it, and present it in writing and orally so that it’s easily digestible as a [...]
Have five minutes to spare in exchange for quick, useful communication tips? I just posted five new videos. They might not have you rolling in the floor laughing, but I hope you find them worth your while! To view speech clips, media interviews, and other videos, visit my YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/diannabooher. Dianna Booher [...]
In nearly every business writing workshop we teach, we hear stories—some humorous, some deadly, and many costly—about mistakes caused by unclear communication. On Friday, engineering blogger Jon Ostrower posted “Page One of the Engineering to English Dictionary” proving that aerospace engineers share the general population’s tendency to convolute messages with buzzwords and industry-specific jargon. Here [...]
