From the course: Strategies to Improve Self-Awareness

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Communicating with self-awareness

Communicating with self-awareness

- Self-awareness can only make your communication better. And being an effective leader or collaborator is absolutely contingent on your ability to communicate effectively. Let me give you an example. You're leading a meeting with eight people to share an executive decision. Now all of those people were in the same room, but after the meeting, you end up with eight different interpretations of what you said. Three people think they are likely to get promoted. Two people think the organization is bound for bankruptcy. And three people have no idea how this applies to them. If you want to cut down the likelihood of not clearly articulating your point, it needs to start with self-awareness. Here's my method for using self-awareness to improve your communication skills. Listen to yourself. One way to listen to yourself is to record yourself while in a meeting, so that you can then play the recording back so you can…

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