KISS – Business Communication Coaching with Effective Training & Communication

I Love Escalator Speeches

January 3, 2024 by Phil Stella

We all know that Elevator Speeches should be the short and simple answer to the often-asked question at networking events – ‘What do you do?’. Sometimes, they’re even clever, but most of the time they’re lame, too long and forgettable. Even so, they’re still a fact of business life. So, that’s why I love Escalator … Read more

KISS Your Verbosity Goodbye

January 4, 2016 by Phil Stella

Time to deal with an often unpleasant reality. As business leaders, we spend a lot of each day writing – emails, reports, proposals, marketing materials, evaluations, even texts … well, you get the picture. We should all add the title ‘Workplace Writer’ to our business cards.

KISS Your Verbosity Goodbye!

August 10, 2015February 1, 2013 by Phil Stella

Let’s deal with an often unpleasant reality. As business leaders, we spend a lot of each day writing – emails, reports, proposals, marketing materials, evaluations … well, you get the picture. We should all add the title ‘Workplace Writer’ to our business cards.

And we often write more than we need. Those extra – and unnecessary – words waste our time to write them and our readers’ time to read them. They even can get in the way of our messages. What follows, then, is a quick review of ‘Keep It Short & Simple’ techniques to help you KISS your verbosity goodbye – for making every word count and counting every word.