Be brief with your brag. How to update folks in 1 minute.

Hosted by D G McCullough

In this video

What you'll learn

Showcase and bottom line your victories in crisp, clear ways

Hook and retain your high-stakes audiences without frustrating them with vague, wordy descriptions of what you did well

Apply a tight paragraph format to our spoken word

Feel less brain freeze with where and how to start. Learn to synthesize complex information using grammar and structure

Replace popular, but useless jargon with better words

Improve your word bank. Rediscover the power of simple, relatable language. Create space for personal, poignant insights

Why this topic matters

Updates become prime ground for showcasing our victories and communications. And yet even the bright and ambitious stumble with updating leaders & high-stakes customers. Overthinking kicks in. Worries about language ability. And brain freeze on where and how to start. We discount our contributions in those moments, through wordiness and burying what time-pressed audiences want most: Our progress.

You'll learn from

D G McCullough

Communications coach for Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 leaders

I've coached over 1,000 military and business leaders across 9,000 sessions and trained over 1,500 MBA and journalism students to become awesome writers and speakers as their journalism and business communications professor. I've written for the world's best business publications, including the Economist, FT of London, and Guardian. I love to apply small structure and brevity tools to help move the descriptions and updates of our work from long and mundane to crisp and memorable. I enjoy seeing communicators unlock confidence and hope from small, but powerful tweaks to their approach. And then we see their careers take off.

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