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

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🗓️ 24 February 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast,
0:04.0	the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.
0:10.0	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.
0:14.0	With your host, Pete McChitis.
0:16.4	Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 548 with Davina Stanley.
0:24.4	Davina's going to share how to get super clear with your communications.
0:28.0	You'll learn one, why so many presentations miss the mark.
0:31.6	Two, the three-step so what strategy and three, seven
0:35.7	storyline patterns and when to use them in your presentations. So if you want to
0:39.5	check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to albums we've referenced,
0:42.4	it's over to also at your job.com slash F5. or the complex ideas, for more than 20 years.
0:53.2	She offers a structured go-to process that helps people think through their messaging, so
0:57.5	their good ideas get to traction they deserve.
1:00.4	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.
1:09.5	More recently, she along with her business partner have published their first book
1:13.2	The So What Strategy which offers the seven most commonly used
1:18.0	storyline patterns they see professionals use at work.
1:21.0	Big thanks to Devina for sharing her wisdom with us and big thanks to our sponsors. Check
1:24.6	them out.
1:25.6	Davina, thanks so much for joining us here on the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.
1:31.4	My pleasure Pete, lovely to be with you. Well well I'm excited to dig into your wisdom and
1:35.0	first I wanted to hear a bit your career has had some interesting turns and it
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