{"id":1998,"date":"2018-03-13T16:48:59","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T16:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpblog.indigobusiness.co.uk\/?p=1998"},"modified":"2024-03-04T16:54:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T16:54:20","slug":"getting-your-message-across-in-conversations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpblog.indigobusiness.co.uk\/getting-your-message-across-in-conversations\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting your message across in conversations"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Richard White \u2013 Master Trainer: Think on Your Feet\u00ae, Writing Dynamics™ and Grammar on the Rocks™.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Conversations, unlike formal presentations and written documents, give no time to prepare how to get our message across. In conversations, we can\u2019t try different ways to convey our point or refine our words. So, how can we get our message across more effectively?<\/p>\n

In the moment\u2026 <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2026conversations are by far the most common form of workplace communication, but they are largely improvised so we have to speak \u201cin the moment\u201d. We can marshal our facts and assemble the evidence beforehand but attempts to compose the actual words and rehearse them in advance risk making us sound clunky and unauthentic. To be convincing in a conversation we have to shape what we say to match the immediate context \u2013 we have to fit in with the flow of what\u2019s being said.<\/p>\n

The key!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Structure is the key, it helps us to quickly organise our thoughts and then communicate them in a clearer, more efficient and more impactful way:<\/p>\n