Communication Tactics To Supercharge Your Leadership

Communication is the real work of leadership: articulating a vision. Breathing life into professed values. Challenging the status quo. Engaging people’s heads, hearts and hopes.

A lot of that communication is in day-to-day conversation, in meetings, and other routine interactions. But some of it also comes in the form of speeches or presentations. Death-by-PowerPoint is unacceptable. The best recipe for communication success is the careful use of plain language.

Chuck Garcia understands that recipe. A 25-year veteran of Wall Street and corporate America, he now coaches business executives on effective communication practices.

His new book is A Climb to the Top: Communication & Leadership Tactics to Take Your Career to New Heights.

If you take communication seriously (and you should), Garcia’s counsel is worth considering.

Rodger Dean Duncan: Most great communicators are aware of the “hazardous half minute” — those first few seconds of a presentation when you either hook or lose your audience. What’s your advice for successfully launching a presentation?

Chuck Garcia: Scrap the conventional pleasantries and dull introductions. Launch into something bold and deliver the unexpected to establish rapport and build instant credibility. Seek to build suspense from the opening scene. Two good examples include….

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