How These 20 Guest Insights Will Improve Your Facilitation and Technical Communication Skills

Trying to move your communication skills from good to great as a technically trained professional? You'll find some great pointers in the 2023 Communicating with FINESSE guest insights.

Looking for a few golden nuggets to improve your high-stakes communication and facilitation skills? Look no further than the recap of the FINESSE guest insights of 2023. Remember, FINESSE stands for Frame, Illustrate, Noise reduction, Empathy, Synergy, Structure, and Ethics. The cause-and-effect relationship between these inputs and effective communication is automatic. Our guest contributors of 2023 tell you why.

Decision Making

Joe Mantua: My Top 3 Tips for Moving Communication to a Decision Point

Visualization

Gustavo Vinueza: 6 Tips That Improve Business Presentations from Dashboard and UX Design

Reliability Programs

Michael Guns: Leadership, Legacy, and Longevity: Starting A Maintenance Reliability Journey

Michael Guns: Leadership, Legacy, and Longevity: Part 2: Communicating for Your Reliability Journey

Agriculture

Doug Newton: To Be or Not To Be? Communicating and Implementing Cover Crops

Maggie Monast: Supporting Farmers to Build Resilience to Climate Change: The Power of Communication

Infrastructure Project Funding

Angie Mettlen: Helping Local Leaders Grasp Funding Programs through Clear Communication

Rebecca Bowyer: Powerful Tips on Communicating Funding Alternatives to Board Members

Land Conservation, Restoration, and Preservation

Bill Holman: The Journey of Communicating the Benefits of Land Conservation and Watershed Protection

Dean Moss: The Magic of Communicating the Benefits and Complexities of Land Conservation

Intergenerational Communication

Kamber Parker: Embracing Intergenerational Communication In The Office

LaRhonda Julien: Effective Communication Across Generations and Cultures

Physical Barriers

Amelia Loken: Bridging Communication Gaps with Google Live Transcribe

Leadership

Tom Moriarty: How to Get Senior Leaders to Do Their Jobs (and keep accountability where it belongs)

John Parker: Career Success Depends on Effective Communication with Executive Leaders

Criticality

Jim Oldach: How to Communicate the Value of Asset Criticality to Senior Management

Language Barriers

Jeff O'Dea: Language Barriers: What Is the Goal of Communication?

Anteneh Zewde: My Experience in Removing Language Barriers

Monte Carlo Analysis

Fernando Hernandez: Communicating Collections of Risks with Horizon Charts and Monte Carlo Simulations

Gustavo Vinueza: Two Communication Approaches Improve Monte Carlo Simulations

 

Applying the Insights

We hope you enjoy the FINESSE guest insights of 2023. Now start mapping your key takeaways to the FINESSE fishbone diagram. You will start to transform your communication and become more effective. Please visit our Tackle Shop for more communication and facilitation resources.

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Founded by JD Solomon, Communicating with FINESSE is a not-for-profit community of technical professionals dedicated to being highly effective communicators and facilitators. Learn more about our publications, webinars, and workshops.

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  JD Solomon is the author of Communicating Reliability, Risk & Resiliency to Decision Makers: How to Get Your Boss’s Boss to Understand and Facilitating with FINESSE: A Guide to Successful Business Solutions.