Before You Hit "Send" with Marla Rosner

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Before You Hit Send What your Mother Could Not Have Told You About Communication in the Digital Age 7/13 Marla Rosner, InstillLeadership, www.InstillLeadership.com

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Marla Rosner shares the advice your mother couldn't possibly have given you about how to avoid communication blunders in the digital age. From the July 2013 Bay Area Consultants Network (BACN) meeting.

Transcript of Before You Hit "Send" with Marla Rosner

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Before You Hit Send

What your Mother Could Not Have Told You

About

Communication in the Digital Age

7/13 Marla Rosner, InstillLeadership,

www.InstillLeadership.com

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What Channels are You

Using? Communication

Channels

My Top Choices My Client’s Top

Choices

Another Key

Contact’s Top

Choices

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When are you sending

that

proposal?

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www.InstillLeadership.com

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Non-Verbal Cues and

Communication

Text based

Audio Face to Face

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What are the stakes?

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What’s the urgency?

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Face To Face

Phone

Email Text/SM

High Stakes

Low Stakes

Not Urgent Urgent

Speed

Importance

Conscious Communication

REAL TIME

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Caveat

The paper trail

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Ask Yourself:

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1. What is my existing rapport with the other

person?

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Ask Yourself:

What are the stakes?

(What are the risks if it goes poorly?)

To the project?

To the relationship?

To my reputation?

To my checkbook?

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Ask Yourself:

How quickly do I

need a response?

BACN www.bacnetwork.com

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Ask Yourself:

What is the likelihood this will go

poorly if I use my default mode?

It’s not about you…

It’s about them!

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Best Practices

• Check your channels!

• Understand your defaults and

others’

• Don’t communicate

impulsively

• Check out your assumptions