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Improving Your Communication Skills at Work

Deborah Burns Author, AUTHORIZE IT! Think Like a Writer to Win at Work & Life
May 19, 2022 1:00 – 2:00 PM ET Virtual Free to attend
Improving Your Communication Skills at Work

About this session

Communication is a crucial soft skill that, if managed correctly, will help you greatly in your professional (and personal!) life. But the question is, how do we communicate effectively?

Join our conversation with Deborah Burns, award-winning author, as she dives deeper into the foundation of better communication. From tips to identify communication problems to different blockers you can encounter, during this chat Deborah will invite us to evaluate our communication skills and will elaborate on how thinking like a writer may help us succeed.

In this chat, you’ll learn:

  • What effective communication looks like
  • How to strengthen your communication skills
  • The impact better communication can have on your career

Meet the speaker

Deborah Burns

Deborah Burns

Author, AUTHORIZE IT! Think Like a Writer to Win at Work & Life

Deborah Burns is the success advisor for the changing world of work. A former women’s media Chief Innovation Officer and brand leader, Burns helps companies and executives invent and reinvent, and then did the same with her own life by writing an acclaimed memoir. That creative journey into the world of storytelling revealed lessons that apply to business—and inspired her award-winning second book, AUTHORIZE IT! Think Like a Writer to Win at Work & Life, and its corporate workshop platform to improve employee performance.

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