548: How to Get Your Points Across Clearly with Davina Stanley

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

Davina Stanley shares expert strategies for communicating with greater clarity.

— YOU'LL LEARN —

1) Why so many business presentations miss the mark.

2) The three-step “So what?” strategy.

3) The seven storyline patterns and when to use them.

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— ABOUT DAVINA —

Davina Stanley has helped professionals communicate complex ideas clearly for more than 20 years. She offers a structured, ‘go to’ process that helps people think through their messaging so their good ideas get the traction they deserve.

She started coaching others when she joined McKinsey’s Hong Kong office as a communication specialist and has continued to help professionals of all stripes across many countries since then.

More recently she, along with her business partner, have published their first book The So What Strategy, which offers the seven most commonly used storyline patterns they see professionals use at work.

• Davina’s book: The So What Strategy

• Davina’s website: ClarityFirstProgram.com

• Davina’s program: Clarity First

• Davina’s Facebook: Communicating Up

• Davina’s LinkedIn: Davina Stanley

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Concept: The Pyramid Principle

• Book: The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking by Barbara Minto

• Book: Possum Magic by Mem Fox

• Book: Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox

• Book: The Diamond Hunter by Fiona McIntosh

• Book: Free to Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve More by Doing Less by Michael Hyatt

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