Who Form 2350 Concise 2023-2024

Welcome back to part two, your second lesson of these seven lessons. If you haven't yet subscribed to this channel, Communication Coach, I encourage you to do so. At some point in the process, because in addition to this free course, there is lots of other material on the channel and I keep adding more material every week. So let's jump into lesson number two. In our first lesson, we looked at long-windedness. In this one, we're going to get after how to form a concise overall message. So, concise tip number two is to keep the overall message tight. Mark Twain once joked, "I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead." The point he's making there in a humorous way is that it takes time to whittle down your message to the essence. It's much easier to just be long-winded. But everybody appreciates a concise message, whether it's a presentation, a meeting, a talking turn, or a conversation, or your elevator pitch. People want you to finish on time and they want you to wrap it up. I put elevator pitch in quotations because, first of all, I like that phrase, but also it signals that it's a message that you have to finish in about the time you have in an elevator ride. So you have to express what you do or what your organization does and how they add value in a very short amount of time. Strategy number one is to skip to the heart of the message. That's the best way to compress your overall message. Skip the preamble, the qualifications, the backstory. Don't think out loud, just bottom-line it. That's a picture there of a Golden Retriever. I have our little Golden Retriever puppy right now,...