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Apr 2025
23m 7s

How to Talk so People Understand You

Essential Communications - Tom Henschel
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A leader is losing credibility with her senior leaders. Her boss thinks she can turn it around by learning the sorting tool that transformed him as a communicator, so he brings in the coach who taught him. Sorting & Labeling! The grandaddy of all communication tools. If you can sort and label you will sound like a leader. The four steps in Sorting &a ... Show More
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