Lynn Espinoza is a broadcast news veteran with more than a decade of media, presentation and executive coaching experience. She has developed personal coaching sessions for Fortune 100 C-level executives, corporate communicators of all kinds, doctors, lawyers and leaders in non-profit.
A New Day for Speak! Communications
Posted on April 15, 2008. Filed under: Latest News
Welcome to my inaugural post as president of Speak! Communications. I’ll use this first post as a way to say hello. I hope subsequent posts are filled with fresh ideas – mine and, even better, yours. I want to share articles, videos and thoughts about public speaking, media training, and the art of communication. Please feel welcome here always. I will be contributing to all kinds of communications forums, and I hope you will do the same here.
My view as that few skills are more important today than effective communication. Today? You’re right. Strong communication skills were important to the Neandrathal. In reality, even the cave man needed to speak (or grunt) well to do well. What’s different is that we seem to be spending so much more time communicating (e-mailing, voice-mailing, texting, IM-ing, etc), yet we are expecting so much less – of others, and of ourselves.
Browse for a definition of “speak” – and you’ll get a dozen or so. Pretty dry, really:
To produce sounds or audible sequences of individual or concatenated sounds of a language, esp. through phonation, amplification, and resonance, and through any of a variety of articulatory processes.
To communicate, signify, or disclose by any means; convey significance.
To utter vocally and articulately
But the definitions of “communication” are much closer to my core:
To give or interchange thoughts, feelings, information, or the like, by writing, speaking, etc.
To express thoughts, feelings or information easily and effectively
Or my favorite:
To be joined or connected
To be joined or connected. Connecting to audiences. Connecting ideas to action. Connecting to each other.
Let me ask you this: What do you think is missing in the way we connect with each other today?
I hope you and I are connected for a long time!
5 Responses to “A New Day for Speak! Communications”
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Congratulations, Lynn! Happy blogging and here’s to your continued success.
Mark
My friend, congrats! Your site looks fantastic! Just absolutely beautiful. Bravo. Bravo!
Way to go, Lynn. This is a beautiful, engaging site that that will invite abundant opportunities for you to be of service and contribute to others’ success as you build your own — on Independent Street! It is a new day and one well worth celebrating.
Your site is fabulous, engaging and authentic. In short “it is you!”
I love how you’ve ‘connected’ your talents, your dreams and your readers! Congratulations and I am delighted to see this come to fruition!