Top Tips: Improve your Written and Verbal Communication Skills

Meetings losing impact? A recent survey shows that 30% of meetings ran over time & 45% did not stick to the agenda.

Key principle for negotiation: a commercially wise agreement should not damage the relationship between the parties.

Use pictures rather than words to make your presentations more powerful – keep your bullet points as short as possible.

Nervous about presentations? Control nerves with easy tips like sipping water or laughing to ease tension.

If asked to present for longer than 15-20 minutes, consider a controlled Q&A session halfway through.

Write with impact. Hold the document upside down to check the line spacing, word spacing & general format when editing your writing.

Use 27 words in a sentence and 4% of people will understand on first reading. 8 words in a sentence and 95% will understand.

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