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The Engineering of Insight: Six Frameworks to Organise Your Communication
In the professional world, clarity creates impact, and clarity is rarely about word choice. It is about structure.

Michael Walker and AI
Jan 297 min read


Stage to Boardroom: How Improv Can Make You a Communication Star
Unlock those vital communication superpowers so you can thrive at work and in your everyday life. I. Improv Is More Than Just Laughs Ever wish you could just... think faster? Maybe you’ve been in a big meeting when a surprise question left you totally speechless. Or maybe you’ve been stuck in one of those super awkward silences and had no idea how to fix it. We’ve all been there! Your secret weapon might actually be improvisation, and it’s not just for comedians. Even legenda

Michael Walker and AI
Jan 75 min read


Patience and Humility are Your Secret Power
We live in a society where we're led to believe that power and control win the day. But that is not always the case, especially when it comes to high-stakes interactions

Michael Walker
Nov 10, 20256 min read


Conflict Management 101: The Five Ways to Handle Conflict
Here’s a potential conflict situation: your manager wants Option A. You're convinced Option B is better. What do you do? Force your...

Michael Walker
Oct 9, 20254 min read


Communicating when stressed - start by listening
When the stress mounts in a communicative situation, most of us are on our worst behaviour. I’m no neuroscientist, but biology is...

Michael Walker
Oct 6, 20252 min read


Beyond Fight, Flight and Freeze there are also Fawn and Fester as responses to Conflict
Our brains react strongly to potential conflict, triggering fight, flight, or freeze responses. This article highlights two less common reactions: fawning (people-pleasing) and festering (internalizing/sharing negativity). To navigate conflict better, the author suggests increasing awareness of your typical response and developing engagement skills through listening and valuing both yourself and the other person.

Michael Walker
Apr 15, 20252 min read


Personal brand is a value transfer
There is a lot of talk about personal brand. The concept has negative connotations, but we need to look at it differently.

Michael Walker
Apr 1, 20251 min read


How to improve the quality of your existence
The way we show up in the world, and the way we connect with others, is through language, emotions and body.

Michael Walker
Mar 20, 20252 min read


Use BIFF to communicate with high-conflict people
BIFF is a great acronym to remember when responding to a high-conflict person in an interaction that is hostile.

Michael Walker
Mar 10, 20252 min read


Are you a good communicator?
How can we evaluate whether we are good communicators? One way is by measuring our communication against Charles Kostelnick and David...

Michael Walker
Jul 19, 20213 min read


The four things we reveal in every act of communication
There is a model of communication called the four-sides model. It was developed by Friedemann Schulz von Thun, a German psychologist. In...

Michael Walker
Jan 29, 20212 min read
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