The Young Communicator Challenge

What's inside

• Matching the situation to the right communication skill, and calibrating tone
• Saying it precisely, and explaining anything in one clear minute
• Explaining the same idea to a younger child and to an adult
• The 30-second summary, and summarising in twenty words
• Finding the claim, strengthening an argument, arguing the other side
• Reading adverts and headlines, and rewriting them honestly
• Fact, opinion, inference or prediction, and spotting missing information
• Conversation challenges: keeping it going, joining a group, disagreeing well
• Speaking up for yourself, and repairing your words
• Turning notes into a message, writing for purpose, the precise email
• Cutting the waffle, giving and receiving constructive feedback
• Mini interviews, difficult questions, and saying I do not know well
• Researching before you speak, source checks, presenting data without overclaiming
• The two-minute talk, audience questions, group decisions and chairing a discussion