{"id":3337,"date":"2017-09-05T12:52:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T16:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cancollab.com\/?p=3337"},"modified":"2017-09-05T12:52:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T16:52:13","slug":"bits-and-pieces-week-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cancollab.com\/bits-and-pieces-week-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Bits and Pieces: Week 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><i><b>&#8220;The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.&#8221; &#8211;<\/b><\/i>\u00a0George Bernard Shaw<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>How many times\u00a0have you been in a discussion or meeting and when the notes were published you wondered\u00a0if you had been in the same meeting?\u00a0 Or, you have been in a discussion and the audience\u00a0does not seem to grasp what you are communicating?\u00a0 Communication, next to listening, is one of the most overlooked and under developed skills that an individual needs for success both personally and professionally.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In a 2 part series of Bits &amp; Pieces, I will share with you a recent blog I read regarding the\u00a0<i>7 C&#8217;s of effective communication<\/i>.<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Clear<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; When writing or speaking to an individual or group, be clear about your goal or message.\u00a0 Try not to introduce multiple ideas in a sentence and do not require the audience to &#8220;interpret or read into&#8221; the information.\u00a0 To &#8220;interpret&#8221; and &#8220;read into&#8221; communication will come in another series called &#8220;Office\/Client Politics Communication &#8211; how to recognize&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><b>Concise<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; When communicating, you should stick to the point, and keep it brief.\u00a0 Communicating\u00a0in 7 sentences when 3 would do will cause confusion and fatigue with the receiver.<\/li>\n<li><b>Concrete<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; When communicating, use details (not too many), relevant facts, and focus so you are presenting a clear picture to your audience.<\/li>\n<li><b>Correct<\/b>\u00a0&#8211; When communicating is it technically correct? 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This is the fastest way to lose credibility with your audience when your communication has errors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>As we communicate every day\u00a0with colleagues, clients and on a\u00a0personal level, applying this checklist will help to eliminate\u00a0confusion.\u00a0 Something that I try to do especially with high-level communications is to read them out loud prior to sending.\u00a0 When you read them silently, you will many times plug in the missing words.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0George Bernard Shaw How many times\u00a0have you been in a discussion or meeting and when the notes were published you wondered\u00a0if you had been in the same meeting?\u00a0 Or, you have been in a discussion and the audience\u00a0does not seem to grasp what you are communicating?\u00a0 &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/cancollab.com\/bits-and-pieces-week-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[222,257,221,223,224,226,126],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bits and Pieces: Week 3 - Cornerstone Coworking<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cancollab.com\/bits-and-pieces-week-3\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bits and Pieces: Week 3 - Cornerstone Coworking\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&#8220;The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0George Bernard Shaw How many times\u00a0have you been in a discussion or meeting and when the notes were published you wondered\u00a0if you had been in the same meeting?\u00a0 Or, you have been in a discussion and the audience\u00a0does not seem to grasp what you are communicating?\u00a0 ... 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