In your "Break Through the Clutter" communication seminar, you're reminded that E-mail is not necessarily private. And that your boss can get into your E-mail at work, thanks to the Electronic Communication and Privacy Act.
Now, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the use of employer-supplied computers, cell phones and pagers may be reviewed by employers. If the employer has a policy that clearly tells employees that the use of this equipment can and will be monitored, then the content of E-mails, text messages, pager messages and the like, is open to review.
In your seminar, you hear that the best way to think of E-mail is that it's like the back of a postcard - anyone can read it, and chances are someone, other than the person you sent it to, will. Hence, when in doubt, leave it out when it comes to sensitive material of either a business or personal nature. Especially, when using employer-supplied electronic devices.
Call or E-mail today to schedule your own "Break Through the Clutter" Communication Seminar for your group or business, 913-631-2985, bkthrucomm@aol.com.
Monday, June 28, 2010
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Congratulations to the AEMA
The leaders of the Athletic Equipment Managers Association, Mike and Kelly, among others, should be proud of themselves for incorporating some new subjects into their annual convention program.
This year, for the first time, programs on Time Management and Communication (a "Break Through the Clutter" communication seminar) were offered along with all of the usual Athletic Equipment Manager programs. The leaders of the AEMA saw that their members needed to develop business and personal skills, in addition to learning the latest on fabrics, equipment, and the like.
It's not easy to convince the members of your group that programs outside of their specific profession will be a benefit to them. For instance, a couple of Equipment Managers were overheard in the hotel lobby, as they looked through the upcoming schedule, saying, "I don't need to develop my professional skills, so let's go have dinner at that one restaurant instead. I hear the food is really good." Obviously, long after that good dinner and even the memory of it are gone, the life skills they could have gained would remain.
The AEMA members who attended the "Break Through the Clutter" communication seminar seemed to get a lot out of it. Many, after the presentation, were able to refer back to specific things they had learned and were going to put into practice. None seemed to regret the great breadsticks they could have had at that restaurant, instead.
While it might not be easy, while some may resist your efforts, do the members of your group or business a favor. Call or E-mail today to schedule your own "Break Through the Clutter" communication seminar, 913-631-2985, bkthrucomm@aol.com. They'll thank you later.
This year, for the first time, programs on Time Management and Communication (a "Break Through the Clutter" communication seminar) were offered along with all of the usual Athletic Equipment Manager programs. The leaders of the AEMA saw that their members needed to develop business and personal skills, in addition to learning the latest on fabrics, equipment, and the like.
It's not easy to convince the members of your group that programs outside of their specific profession will be a benefit to them. For instance, a couple of Equipment Managers were overheard in the hotel lobby, as they looked through the upcoming schedule, saying, "I don't need to develop my professional skills, so let's go have dinner at that one restaurant instead. I hear the food is really good." Obviously, long after that good dinner and even the memory of it are gone, the life skills they could have gained would remain.
The AEMA members who attended the "Break Through the Clutter" communication seminar seemed to get a lot out of it. Many, after the presentation, were able to refer back to specific things they had learned and were going to put into practice. None seemed to regret the great breadsticks they could have had at that restaurant, instead.
While it might not be easy, while some may resist your efforts, do the members of your group or business a favor. Call or E-mail today to schedule your own "Break Through the Clutter" communication seminar, 913-631-2985, bkthrucomm@aol.com. They'll thank you later.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
What do you think?
Is this some city's (Basehor's) fancy way of saying, "City Limit", or does it have some other legal meaning that most people don't understand? 
Saturday, May 22, 2010
E-mail only for appropriate subjects
Soon, it will be the anniversary of one of the worst uses of E-mail ever. And that serves as a reminder to you to use E-mail only in situations where it is appropriate.
You learn in your "Break Through the Clutter" communication seminar that anger, sarcasm, and other negative emotions need to be gotten out of voice-mails and E-mails. Negative emotions like that are best left to face-to-face communication where you can see the effect you and your message are having on your receiver.
With all of today's methods of electronic communication, it's easy for people to hide when there's a potential for conflict. Things like ending a relationship by texting, breaking up through voice-mail, and the like, though, make you look shallow and callous. It's obvious that you didn't want to deal with the emotions in person, so you hid behind technology.
This was carried to another extreme nearly four years ago now, in August of 2006, when Radio Shack sent this E-mail to 400 employees - "The workforce reduction notification is currently in progress. Unfortunately your position is one that has been eliminated." Fired, by E-mail.
While it may be easier on you to hide, screen calls, and block E-mails, if you really want to communicate effectively, know when it is appropriate for electronic communication and when face-to-face is really the only option.
Call or E-mail today to schedule your own "Break Through the Clutter" communication seminar, 913-631-2985, bkthrucomm@aol.com.
You learn in your "Break Through the Clutter" communication seminar that anger, sarcasm, and other negative emotions need to be gotten out of voice-mails and E-mails. Negative emotions like that are best left to face-to-face communication where you can see the effect you and your message are having on your receiver.
With all of today's methods of electronic communication, it's easy for people to hide when there's a potential for conflict. Things like ending a relationship by texting, breaking up through voice-mail, and the like, though, make you look shallow and callous. It's obvious that you didn't want to deal with the emotions in person, so you hid behind technology.
This was carried to another extreme nearly four years ago now, in August of 2006, when Radio Shack sent this E-mail to 400 employees - "The workforce reduction notification is currently in progress. Unfortunately your position is one that has been eliminated." Fired, by E-mail.
While it may be easier on you to hide, screen calls, and block E-mails, if you really want to communicate effectively, know when it is appropriate for electronic communication and when face-to-face is really the only option.
Call or E-mail today to schedule your own "Break Through the Clutter" communication seminar, 913-631-2985, bkthrucomm@aol.com.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
E-mail, again
In your "Break Through the Clutter" communication seminar, you learn the importance of grabbing the attention of your message's receivers early and capturing their imaginations. Throughout the seminar, you're shown various ways of accomplishing this, including how this philosophy applies to both voice-mail and E-mail.
Hit your main point within the first two sentences when sending an E-mail message, for instance. That way, when your receiver opens your message, there's the important information they need right at the top. They don't have to scroll down down to find it. And every time they refer back to your E-mail, there it is again, right at the top.
Also, include a descriptive "Subject" line in your E-mails. Often you can make your point or answer a question just in the Subject line. As mentioned in the April 22 post on this blog, it takes your receiver an average of four minutes to open, read, respond to, and either delete or store each E-mail they get. If you can communicate your important information in just the Subject line of your message, you may save them those four minutes. Subject lines such as, "Meeting Thursday 10am", "Cookie money due Tuesday" and the like, communicate your message as soon as they see it in their inbox. And, the descriptive Subject line makes your message "break through the clutter" of all of the other E-mails they receive. In the text of your E-mail then you simply need to reinforce and expand upon your information since communication has already happened.
Call or E-mail today to schedule your own "Break Through the Clutter" communication seminar for your group or business, 913-631-2985, bkthrucomm@aol.com.
Hit your main point within the first two sentences when sending an E-mail message, for instance. That way, when your receiver opens your message, there's the important information they need right at the top. They don't have to scroll down down to find it. And every time they refer back to your E-mail, there it is again, right at the top.
Also, include a descriptive "Subject" line in your E-mails. Often you can make your point or answer a question just in the Subject line. As mentioned in the April 22 post on this blog, it takes your receiver an average of four minutes to open, read, respond to, and either delete or store each E-mail they get. If you can communicate your important information in just the Subject line of your message, you may save them those four minutes. Subject lines such as, "Meeting Thursday 10am", "Cookie money due Tuesday" and the like, communicate your message as soon as they see it in their inbox. And, the descriptive Subject line makes your message "break through the clutter" of all of the other E-mails they receive. In the text of your E-mail then you simply need to reinforce and expand upon your information since communication has already happened.
Call or E-mail today to schedule your own "Break Through the Clutter" communication seminar for your group or business, 913-631-2985, bkthrucomm@aol.com.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Too much E-mail
In your "Break Through the Clutter" communication seminar, you learn that the two keys to effective use of E-mail are brevity and necessity, sending only what is needed when it is needed. There is simply too much E-mail going on.
A study now shows that your receiver spends an average of four minutes to open, read, respond to, and either delete or store each E-mail. That's a very important statistic for you to consider.
When communicating, you need to picture an actual person in your mind as you compose your message, what they're doing, thinking, and feeling. Part of that, when it comes to E-mail, is to realize that if your message ends up being one of forty or fifty that piled up while they were on vacation. At four minutes per E-mail, they might not have time to read something called, "Another Blond Joke".
Plus, if they are used to getting only important E-mails from you, when they get one, they will tend to think that it is important. If, however, they usually get 15-20 E-mails a day from you, and most of those contain the same jokes, cartoons, and video links that others are sending to them, they won't consider your E-mail to be as important.
Brevity and necessity, the keys to effective use of E-mail, when done in conjunction with all of the other things you'll learn in your own "Break Through the Clutter" communication seminar. Call or E-mail today to schedule a seminar for your group or business, 913-631-2985, bkthrucomm@aol.com.
A study now shows that your receiver spends an average of four minutes to open, read, respond to, and either delete or store each E-mail. That's a very important statistic for you to consider.
When communicating, you need to picture an actual person in your mind as you compose your message, what they're doing, thinking, and feeling. Part of that, when it comes to E-mail, is to realize that if your message ends up being one of forty or fifty that piled up while they were on vacation. At four minutes per E-mail, they might not have time to read something called, "Another Blond Joke".
Plus, if they are used to getting only important E-mails from you, when they get one, they will tend to think that it is important. If, however, they usually get 15-20 E-mails a day from you, and most of those contain the same jokes, cartoons, and video links that others are sending to them, they won't consider your E-mail to be as important.
Brevity and necessity, the keys to effective use of E-mail, when done in conjunction with all of the other things you'll learn in your own "Break Through the Clutter" communication seminar. Call or E-mail today to schedule a seminar for your group or business, 913-631-2985, bkthrucomm@aol.com.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Spoken Communication tip
In your "Break Through the Clutter" communication seminar, you learn some of the benefits and responsibilities associated with spoken communication, as opposed to written communication. Among the tips you get regarding spoken communication, you learn to practice out loud when preparing for an oral presentation.
While practicing out loud, listen to yourself. And, while listening, check your pronunciation of words. The Dictionary of Pronunciation warns "...you will...be judged by the words you mispronounce. And you may not be judged kindly."
Read the following sentence out loud while listening to yourself. "The realtor, wearing jewelry, was comfortable selling the nuclear plant, regardless of the economy." You should have pronounced the italicized as they are spelled. Too often, pronunciations sound more like, "The ree-la-ter, wearing joo-ler-ee, was comf-ter-bull selling the noo-cue-ler plant, ir-regardless of the economy." If any of the second sentence sounds familiar to you as you read it, "you may not be judged kindly."
Call or E-mail today to schedule your own "Break Through the Clutter" communication seminar for your group or business, 913-631-2985, bkthrucomm@aol.com.
While practicing out loud, listen to yourself. And, while listening, check your pronunciation of words. The Dictionary of Pronunciation warns "...you will...be judged by the words you mispronounce. And you may not be judged kindly."
Read the following sentence out loud while listening to yourself. "The realtor, wearing jewelry, was comfortable selling the nuclear plant, regardless of the economy." You should have pronounced the italicized as they are spelled. Too often, pronunciations sound more like, "The ree-la-ter, wearing joo-ler-ee, was comf-ter-bull selling the noo-cue-ler plant, ir-regardless of the economy." If any of the second sentence sounds familiar to you as you read it, "you may not be judged kindly."
Call or E-mail today to schedule your own "Break Through the Clutter" communication seminar for your group or business, 913-631-2985, bkthrucomm@aol.com.
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