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Sep 2024
22m 44s

How We Communicate

BOB HILDEBRANSKI, PE
About this episode

"The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every word that serves no function, every long word that could be a short word...these are the thousand and one adulterants that weaken the strength of a sentence."

--"On Writing Well" by William Zinsser

As professionals, how we communicate is a reflection on us. It's a reflection on our skill & acumen. It's a reflection on our team, our company, and our concern and respect for our reader.

Writing is a craft. It takes practice. Nobody is a great writer. We all write bad first drafts. It's in the revision process where bad writing gets better. It's in the editing process where better writing gets good.

It takes practice. It takes reps.

And the same goes for verbal communication. How we speak, how we convey messages, how we convey our knowledge clearing & concisely is also a reflection on us as professionals

In this episode, I dive in on both subjects. How can we become better communicators. I offer a few ideas for all of us (myself included...) to help us become better conveyors of information.


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