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JD Solomon
- Dec 20, 2022
- 3 min
The Three Most Common Disruptors When Facilitating Risk Management Plans
Risk management plans can be some of the most challenging things to guide the participants through a series of predefined steps to arrive...
JD Solomon
- Nov 21, 2022
- 6 min
How to Improve Your Communication of Probability to Senior Management
The Chance of Rain Most people do not understand what the chance of rain means. Some believe it means it will rain "30% of the day,"...
CWF
- Oct 21, 2022
- 1 min
Know What You Are Talking About
Epictetus was a Greek philosopher who was born into slavery. He believed all external events are beyond our control. Epictetus believed...
JD Solomon
- Oct 18, 2022
- 3 min
Three Things Every Trusted Advisor Should Know to Communicate with FINESSE
Making a decision requires an irrevocable allocation of resources. In a world full of complexity and uncertainty, decision makers turn to...
JD Solomon
- Oct 6, 2022
- 3 min
Possibly the Worst PowerPoint Slide I Have Ever Seen
Well, maybe not the absolute worst because I have seen some bad ones. But this one is in the Top 10. Good Intentions This slide was part...
JD Solomon
- Oct 3, 2022
- 1 min
Seven Simple Questions That Empower Communicating with FINESSE
Avoid initial statements and ask questions instead. Keep your questions simple because there is power in a well-placed question. And...
JD Solomon
- Sep 27, 2022
- 2 min
Improve Your Communication of Rare Events Before They Happen
Low-likelihood, high-consequence (“rare”) events present special challenges for effective communication. Pre-event plans are often well...
JD Solomon
- Sep 26, 2022
- 2 min
Three Indicators of a Rare Event to Help Your Communication Strategy
The high-consequence, low-likelihood nature of rare events makes them unexpectedly and disproportionately impactful. Rare events can...
CWF
- Sep 24, 2022
- 1 min
Start with Communicating with FINESSE
Where to start a new journey is the most important question. The Communicating with FINESSE fishbone diagram provides a proven starting...
JD Solomon
- Sep 10, 2022
- 1 min
The Top 5 Sites For Evaluating (and Communicating) Hurricane Risks
Understanding your risks relative to an uncertain future usually involves some type of model. When it comes to uncertainty, forecasts,...
John Parker
- Sep 7, 2022
- 2 min
Your Career Will Rise or Fall on These 3 Tips for Communicating with Senior Executives
Having a conversation or presenting to senior-level executives and acquiring their time to do so can be very difficult. I would like to...
JD Solomon
- Sep 2, 2022
- 3 min
Communicate Your Results at the Beginning of Your Business Presentation
Start with the conclusion. No build-up. No grand reveal. No details. Simply and concisely state the conclusion. This is the message that...
JD Solomon
- Aug 30, 2022
- 1 min
Guest Articles on Communicating with FINESSE in August
Check out the great insights on communicating technical information to decision makers from the Communicating with FINESSE community. ...
JD Solomon
- Aug 27, 2022
- 2 min
Media Manipulation: How The Broken Vertical Axis Ruins Your Credibility
The video graphic in a local news story raced by so quickly that I nearly missed the manipulation—the bar in the graphic animated...
JD Solomon
- Mar 21, 2022
- 3 min
The Big Stuff, and the Small Stuff, of Communicating Complexity and Uncertainty
The Average Does Not Matter Biologist Stephen Jay Gould was told he was dying of a rare form of cancer. His time on this earth was...
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