See if this sounds a little familiar…

You’ve been an engineer in a larger organization for a while now. And over the years, your insight into the engineering process has created a steady vertical climb in your career path.  But now, there are a few rumblings regarding your communication style. It’s obviously served you well for many years but it seems like the bar has been raised. You’re finding it more and more difficult to interact effectively with senior managers. And as you’ve added more direct reports, you’re hearing your communication style isn’t working with them. What’s happening?

The reality is that the higher an engineer moves in an organization, the higher the level of other’s expectations for communication clarity.  What you know is not enough anymore compared to how you communicate what you know and how you lead others. If this is sounding a little familiar, it’s because many have gone before you with the same challenge.

This podcast will give you some insight into three common communication scenarios for engineers and how you can excel at them all!

 

 Presentation Tips for Engineers [9:57m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

One size may fit all in baseball caps and hockey sticks, but rarely is that the case with our personal communication styles. We live in a world of people who often process information and ideas very differently from our own natural style. Unfortunately, most presenters today simply “give” information in a way that’s most natural for them without regard to what it takes for others to actually “get” their important messages. (You may be a high “analytical” type but the “driver” decision-maker across the table will cut your meeting short in a New York minute when you bury them in your charts, graphs and heavy bullet slides.)

This session will give you a handle on identifying the 4 major communication styles, provide tips to adapt your native style, and finally, offer up insight into how each style filters your important messages, is best influenced and ultimately takes action.

 

 Adaptive Communication Skills [12:18m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Here’s a valuable refresher session for our Distinction training alumni!

This session offers a timely reminder of the need to give our audience’s ears a little variety. The often monotone delivery of many presenters today only ensures that audiences well drift off to La La Land in just a few minutes. In this training refresher session you’ll learn some valuable tips for seasoning your vocal delivery so your presentations can be more interesting and energetic. We could all use that!

 

 Revisiting Vocal Variety [6:30m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Here’s a valuable refresher session for our Distinction training alumni!

It seems like most presenters suffer from one of two maladies. Either they’re painfully anchored in one place or they display manic movement driven by a bit too much adrenaline. During your Distinction training you learned a powerful model for orchestrating more purpose and confident movement every time you’re up in front of a group. Walking into a high presentation and need a little reminder? This session is for you!

 

 Revisiting Purposeful Movement [5:05m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Here’s a valuable refresher session for our Distinction training alumni!

Have you ever struggled with what to do with those things at the end of your arms? Many presenters do. Most gestures tend to be more motivated by anxiety rather than using them to actually help create purposeful emphasis. During your training session with Distinction, we practiced the art of using gestures to help accelerate information and ideas and to make you more interesting. This training reminder will help refresh the topic for you so you can appear more confident and credible!

 

 Meaningful Gestures [8:20m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download