If your story doesn’t make people lean in, rewrite it. Clarity + imagery + emotion = real influence. Email Questions & Feedback: hello@fastersmarter.io Newsletter Signup + English Language Learning: FasterSmarter.io #CommunicationSkills #PublicSpeakingTips #ConfidenceBuilding #ThinkFastTalkSmart
Clear communication in the age of likes, LLMs, and constant noise isn’t about talking more. For Nick Thompson, it’s about being unmistakably clear and unmistakably yourself. Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic and former editor-in-chief of Wired, has spent his career shaping stories that hold attention. “Clear beats clever,” he says,…
What if better communication started with better breathing? Try this warm-up before your next meeting and notice the difference. What’s your go-to prep ritual? Email Questions & Feedback: hello@fastersmarter.io Newsletter Signup + English Language Learning: FasterSmarter.io #CommunicationSkills #PublicSpeakingTips #ConfidenceBuilding #ThinkFastTalkSmart
Your voice doesn’t lose power by accident. It follows your body, your breath, and your mindset. When you show up fully, your voice does too. What helps you stay present? Email Questions & Feedback: hello@fastersmarter.io Newsletter Signup + English Language Learning: FasterSmarter.io #CommunicationSkills #PublicSpeakingTips #ConfidenceBuilding #ThinkFastTalkSmart
Being present in communication isn’t just mental. It’s about the physical energy you bring into a space — particularly, says Patsy Rodenburg, the presence of your voice. “The physical presence of the human being is the most important thing we have,” says Rodenburg. As a world-renowned expert in voice, speech,…
Content that is relevant and meaningful to an audience is more likely to be heard, retained and acted upon. The word communication comes from the Latin for to “make common,” yet many of us start our message from the wrong place. As lecturer and podcast host Matt Abrahams shares in…
Imagine rebuilding your calendar with only the meetings that actually matter. Would yours look the same? Save this before your next reset. Email Questions & Feedback: hello@fastersmarter.io Newsletter Signup + English Language Learning: FasterSmarter.io #ProductivityTips #WorkplaceCulture #TimeManagement #CareerGrowth
Not every conversation deserves a calendar invite. Rebecca Hinds shares a simple test to decide which meetings matter, and which ones are wasting your time. Decide. Debate. Discuss. Develop. If it doesn’t fit, rethink it. Email Questions & Feedback: hello@fastersmarter.io Newsletter Signup + English Language Learning: FasterSmarter.io #ProductivityTips #WorkplaceCulture #TimeManagement…
Meetings are a necessary part of work. But for many people, they’re also a major source of frustration. According to Rebecca Hinds, meetings don’t have to feel like a drain—better meetings start when we stop treating them as a default and start designing them with intention. Hinds is the author…
Not everything needs to be optimized. Not every moment needs to be “productive.” Bill Burnett reminds us that turning life into a transaction is one of the fastest ways to lose meaning. Sometimes, a sunset is just a sunset - and that’s enough. Email Questions & Feedback: hello@fastersmarter.io Newsletter Signup…
Great communicators don’t just have good answers. They ask better questions, of themselves and the world. What question are you living into? Email Questions & Feedback: hello@fastersmarter.io Newsletter Signup + English Language Learning: FasterSmarter.io #CommunicationSkills #LeadershipDevelopment #PersonalGrowth #ThinkFastTalkSmart
Finding meaning and purpose in life isn’t about having all the answers. For Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, it’s about having the courage and curiosity to constantly engage with the questions. As designers, Burnett and Evans have careers spanning everything from academia to companies like Apple, Electronic Arts, and Hasbro.…
As Professor Jesper Sørensen sees it, a winning strategy is the result of conversations, not commands. Sørensen says strategy can be directed from the C-suite, but it doesn’t have to be. “Lots of great strategies are discovered,” he says, “they're discovered because the leaders were able to listen to their…
“We’re just so busy right now” is one of the most common reasons cultures don’t change — and it’s exactly what Megan Reitz set out to understand. In her research, she describes two modes of attention at work: doing mode, where focus narrows to tasks, control, and quick progress, and…
“We’re just so busy right now” is one of the most common reasons cultures don’t change — and it’s exactly what Megan Reitz set out to understand. In her research, she describes two modes of attention at work: doing mode, where focus narrows to tasks, control, and quick progress, and…
“We’re just so busy right now” is one of the most common reasons cultures don’t change — and it’s exactly what Megan Reitz set out to understand. In her research, she describes two modes of attention at work: doing mode, where focus narrows to tasks, control, and quick progress, and…
Speak out, listen up — these are Megan Reitz’s core pillars of workplace communication. According to her, healthy organizations are only possible when everyone can say what they think, and they know they’ll be heard. Reitz is an academic and author whose work focuses on creating workplaces where all voices…
Speak out, listen up — these are Megan Reitz’s core pillars of workplace communication. According to her, healthy organizations are only possible when everyone can say what they think, and they know they’ll be heard. Reitz is an academic and author whose work focuses on creating workplaces where all voices…
Speak out, listen up — these are Megan Reitz’s core pillars of workplace communication. According to her, healthy organizations are only possible when everyone can say what they think, and they know they’ll be heard. Reitz is an academic and author whose work focuses on creating workplaces where all voices…
“Something like 90 to 95% of our decisions and behaviors are constantly being shaped the non-consciously by emotional brain system.” In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, Professor of Marketing Baba Shiv sits down with lecturer and host Matt Abrahams to share his research on how emotions affect our,…
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Can kindness be a company’s competitive advantage? Bonnie Hayden Cheng says yes — and she’s got a business metric to prove it: return on kindness. Cheng is a professor of management at City University of Hong Kong who researches how workplace behaviors affect interpersonal dynamics and well-being. In her book,…
The greatest communicators aren’t always great from the start. As Lerone Martin knows, even the great Martin Luther King Jr. had to practice before he could persuade. Martin is the Martin Luther King Jr. Centennial Professor at Stanford, and as director of the King Research and Education Institute, he has…
The greatest communicators aren’t always great from the start. As Lerone Martin knows, even the great Martin Luther King Jr. had to practice before he could persuade. Martin is the Martin Luther King Jr. Centennial Professor at Stanford, and as director of the King Research and Education Institute, he has…