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Being a Communications Therapist
Bryan Rutberg
ASTDps meeting
March 20, 2012
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A common dilemma
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They know it.They know they know it.You know they know it.
But you need to help them tell it to others.
So you need to go deeper.
You need to become a
Communications Therapist
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Create. Communicate. Connect.
• Help executives and organizations connect
with their most important audiences
• Sales and Alliance Management, Executive
Communications, Communications
Coaching and Executive Coaching
• Started a new adventure summer 2011
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The term, coined
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This morning’s goals
• Enjoy. It’s breakfast, not brain surgery.
• Appreciate your role in helping others communicate.
• Learn how to get the info you need from clients, bosses, subject-matter experts –anyone – and help them get it across to others.
• Play along.
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Build trust
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• With your professional standing
• With your personal interest
• In some cases, over time
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“How does this affect others?”
Audience
• Who are they?
• What’s the Point B you want?
• What’s the emotion you want?
• What’s the action you want?
• What’s the most effective way to get there?
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“What do you mean by that?”
Precision
• 3 Why’s
• “Tell me more about that”
• “What do you mean by that?”
• “Can you give me an example?”
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Precision Practice
• Find a partner
• Pick a simple topic like favorite summertime activity or favorite city to visit
• Tell your partner the noun in a simple sentence
• Partners asks questions to get more information
• Don’t spill all the beans at once
• You may be surprised what you learn!
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“Tell me about your feelings”
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Emotion
• Share the emotion
• Stories get the point across
• Listeners have to see the story
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Emotion Practice
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• Pick a partner
• Using no voice, display emotion. Happy, sad, mad, scared, surprised, disgusted, pained, in love, wonder. Partner guesses the emotion.
• Spiral staircases, CFL bulbs, old-fashioned “safety razor” – what else can you show?
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“Tell me about your mother”
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Motivation
• Go there!
• It’s not really about mothers – in business it’s about compensation and the results you’re measured on
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How I prepared for today
Kind of comms Presentation
Event or CommsName
Being a Communications Therapist
Audience ASTDps members – training & development professionals
Audience mood/tone
Open, here to learn. Early – need stimulus!
Point A“Sometimes I get frustrated when I’m trying to help someone because they can’t say what I know they know”
Point B“As a Communications Therapist I have tools and knowledge to help get the story out and delivered.”
Main message(s)Communications Therapist gets deep information from his/her subject, and uses the depth to build better communications (training, 1:1, exec-to-team, etc.)
Supporting messages
Build trust, ask more questions, get to the emotion, understand motivation. Use a framework.
Goals Understand actions and framework for getting to roots, key points
Exercises Deep Questioning, Stories & Emotion, Completing framework document
Call(s) to action Connect with me, follow up12
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Communications Therapist
Kind of comms
Event or CommsName
Audience
Audience mood/tone
Point A
Point B
Main message(s)
Supporting messages
Goals
Exercises
Call(s) to action
Bryan Rutberg, Communications Practice LeadASTDps meeting March 20, 2012
bryanr@agconsultingpartners.com |(206) 251-6911 | www.linkedin.com/in/bryanrutberg| @AGConsComms
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