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

It’s estimated the average business professional sits through 2-3 presentations of some sort every work day. This little data point creates a challenge for all of us. How can I make my presentations stand out from the crowd? Especially if you find yourself competiting for a sales opportunity, budget dollars or maybe just mindshare for an important idea.

This This Digital Coach session picks up where part #1 leaves off. With limited time for presentation preparation, where can you best invest your time so you can more effectively compete for the hearts and minds of busy people like yourself. In just 7 minutes, you gain some important insight that can serve you for a lifetime!

 

 Making Your Messages Stick! - Part 2 [7:35m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The painful reality is most presenters (and their messages) are doomed to be forgotten by the time it takes our audiences to get back to their cars.  Sure, a few things may stick, but for the most part, presenters are far too forgettable.

Part of the challenge is that we’ve been taught some pretty goofy things about memorability and influence.  We bought into the principle that if we can just make a compelling factual case for our idea supported by some cool PowerPoint … we couldn’t lose!   Nothing could be further from the truth.

This session gives you some practical tips, inspired by psychologist Dr. Scott Lee, into how you and your ideas can be recalled long after other’s messages have bit the dust. The 5 steps covered in this 9-minute podcast might just change how you present forever!

 

 Making Your Messages Stick! [8:57m]: 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

What if there was a single simple perspective that would help presenters everywhere create and deliver better presentations? Well there is. This rarely considered ‘prime directive’ for presenters focuses on the very reason for presenting and takes on all the well-entrenched paradigms about the presentation process. With this simple principle in mind (and taken to heart) you will deliver presentations with all new focus.

 

 A Presentation Reality Check [8:01m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download