Learn more about Michael Wenderoth, Executive Coach: www.changwenderoth.com

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In this episode of 97 Percent Effective, host Michael Wenderoth explores the essential role of adopting structure to boost your communication and advance in your career. He shares three pratical tips: how to start conversations powerfully, organize your thoughts around a proven template, and express ideas concisely in a list of three. He highlights the insightful and memorable advice of Chris Fenning (Author, The First Minute), Phillip Mohabir (CEO, Vivosurgery) and Samia Qamar (Director People, S&P Global Pakistan). Adopt these three techniques and you’ll improve the efficiency, effectivemness and clarity in your communications – widely viewed as the #1 ranked leadership trait.

• Why structure will boost your communication skills and elevate you at work
• Are great communicators born, and is communication more art or science?
• How structuring your communications makes it easier for others to retain the message – and makes it easier for you to assemble it
• What good is it to have great ideas if people don’t understand them?
• Structure introduces constraints, which can fuel creativity - not suppress it
• Structure Tip #1: How to Start the First Minute (from Chris Fenning, Author and Communications Trainer)
• “Context – Intent – Key Message”
• It’s about being concise, not being blunt
• Structure Tip #2: Adopt Templates
• Structure Tip #3: Use a List of 3
• “Think in paragraphs but speak in bullets” – Advice from Phillip Mohabir, CEO of Vivosurgey, on lessons working in Investor Relations
• Why it’s important to be sharp and on point with senior leaders
• “I stopped giving second order details” -- How feedback on Samia Qamar’s communication led her to make this one change that dramatically improved how she was received and perceived
• What are the needs and perceptions of others?
• Embracing structure to improve your communications and leadership ratings

BIO AND LINKS:

Michael Wenderoth is an Executive Coach that helps executives re-examine their assumptions about power, politics, and authenticity to get promoted, become more effective at work, and break glass ceilings holding them back. Having served 20 years in senior roles with companies across the globe, and then 7 years as a professional coach, he has helped accelerated the careers of clients from diverse industries, backgrounds, and levels of seniority, helping them get ahead – without having to sell their souls in the process. Michael is the award-winning author of Get Promoted, host of the 97% Effective career acceleration podcast, and a frequent speaker and media contributor on career advancement, leadership and navigating power and politics. His work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Stanford Business School Executive Education and IE Business School, where he collaborates with renowned professors, coaches, executives and experts. Michael holds an MBA from Stanford and trained as an executive coach at Columbia University (3CP).

• Michael on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelchangwenderoth/
• How Constraints can move us forward (Forbes article): https://tinyurl.com/57xxzj6e
• “Creativity comes from limits, not freedom” (NPR Interview with Jon Stewart): https://tinyurl.com/mtj3uwnv
• Episode #4 – Chris Fenning, Award-winning Author: How to Start Conversations That Get Results https://tinyurl.com/46555wxz
• Episode #24 – Phillip Mohabir, CEO of Vivosurgey: Take Action and Make Bold Moves https://tinyurl.com/ezhb87kn
• Episode #59 – Samia Qamar, Director People (S&P Global Pakistan) – The Keys to Your Rise https://tinyurl.com/ycxfdwy7
• Michael’s Book, Get Promoted: https://changwenderoth.com/#tve-jump-180481ecea3
• Michael on X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/mcwenderoth
• Michael on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wenderoth.michael/
• NEW: 97% Effective, now on Youtube! https://tinyurl.com/bdz53mc5
• Get Promoted, now on Audiobook: https://tinyurl.com/mwf2s28y