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Deals fall apart. Business partnerships blow up. Good team members leave. Family becomes estranged. Romance dies.

All because of communication.

One of the most reliable ways to experience drama and disappointment is through messy communication.

I am an excellent communicator. My vocabulary is strong and increases exponentially under pressure. I have a way with words, it doesn’t require effort for me. I relate to communication as a full body experience—inflection, cadence, volume, intensity, body language, breath, all of it. I can draw people in and push people away using just one of those techniques, and so can you even if you don’t realize it.

I am regularly appreciated for my ability to put thoughts into words. I am frequently admired for my ability to distill other people’s ideas and deliver them more clearly then they would have articulated.

Although I consider communication one of my zones of genius, I still make errors in my communication. Even a master must regularly sharpen her tools and take inventory of where she needs to grow.

I have delivered thousands of talks to people all over the world. From my 11 year old son to billion dollar business leaders. From amphitheaters to coffee clutches, I have learned that no matter the audience when someone communicates clearly and powerfully things move, things that weren’t moving previously begin to move. I want that kind of clarity and power for you.

I want you to know yourself as someone who can speak the dreams, desires, boundaries, and big ideas that matter to you most with a potency that alters life as you know it.

I want you to feel comfortable in your voice. I want you to find a style of communication and lean on some of my best practices so that you can move beyond drama and get into a reliable experience of creating what you really want.

Communication is always creating. You just have to ask yourself, “is my communication creating what I really want?”

Five Greatest Liabilities in Communication:

  1. Saying one thing and meaning another thing, speaking inaccurately
  2. Not going all the way, giving a version of what you mean
  3. Indulging your experience and not getting “out there” with your listeners
  4. Not having right perspective on how your communication lands
  5. Over indexing on being liked

As you read the Five Greatest Liabilities in Communication you may feel confused. Some of them sound like they are in opposition to one another—that is the nuance in communication that most people miss.

As you develop a new muscle for potent communication try on my Five Best Practices for Clear & Powerful Communication and start using them right away.

Five Best Practices for Clear & Powerful Communication:

  1. Write down what you want to say and read it out loud—often seeing and hearing what you really think can be illuminating
  2. Start saying what you really mean, log the feedback you receive, and look for trends in your feedback
  3. Identify a few great communicators, people you really admire, and pick out three distinct qualities about their communication that you are attracted to
  4. Ask yourself what scares you about stepping into more clear communication, if you don’t know that answer you’ll never be able to shift
  5. Hire an expert—develop a vision and a plan for where you want to be and get the support you deserve

We have unrealistic expectations of ourselves. Most of us have been raised in familial, cultural, and professional environments that do not do communication well. We then let ourselves off the hook and shirk responsibility for the poor modeling we’ve had or we beat ourselves up and prevent real progress.

I work with people that are sick of those two options.

I work with people that are ready to take on their lives and make a difference in the areas of life and work that really matter to them. If you are ready to take on being a clear and powerful communicator that brings the life you want into real time send me a message. I want to work with you.

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