Why are we talking about rental cars today? What do rental cars have to do with communication and leadership, our typical topics in this space?

Have you ever sat through a meeting, or a conference call, or a presentation, and thought to yourself… “Oh my god… I wish this person would get to the point…“? Yeah. Me too. Many, many times.

You can tell a lot about an organization by the way it behaves. The things that an organization says it cares about matter, of course. But what matters more is whether the organization’s actual behaviors match up with its communication.

There are some days when our business decisions feel kind of like this... we are jumping off a cliff. The choices we have to make

Does your message stand out? Do you make it easy for your audience to remember what you say? Does your message make an impact on the mind of your listener? You need to care about this, because

Leaders make an impact, with every action, statement, question, reaction, facial expression… even with silence. The more senior the leader, the bigger the impact. Sometimes those impacts are

Well-timed moments of silence will enhance the experience for everyone in the room.

From our experience many people begin their communication by opening their AI tool instead of taking a step back to complete the first step in The Latimer Communication Mode: Assessing their opportunity. This is exactly where the risk begins, not because AI is flawed, but because it lacks human discernment.

At The Latimer Group, we often say, “no one leads all the time.” And today, we would like to dig into that a little bit more.

Great communication does not just happen. It requires thought, preparation, practice… and it requires a philosophy. There are many philosophies out there in the 21st century business world. But here is what works for us

So imagine this… Imagine if you were known as someone who always gets to the point… Who doesn’t waste time… Who makes complicated things easier to understand…

One of the best ways to communicate in a powerful way is through the use of story. And one of the best story telling techniques we know is called “Problem→Solution.” We use it and teach it all the time.

In our workshops, we talk all the time about making things simple. The simple answer wins the day most of the time. In a world that is increasingly fast-paced, time-starved, and overloaded with information, the person who can

When we map out what a possible future state looks like, we discuss three levels of communication success, each with specific skills that can be mapped. Here is a quick primer on how to think about your own skills:

There are tangible outcomes that arise from good communication skills, and those outcomes can often be measured specifically. But there is another benefit that comes from being a good communicator, one that is harder to measure, but often even more powerful.

We write constantly in this blog about all the different elements of good communication… clear messaging, effective visuals or slides, powerful presence and delivery, speaking with the “executive voice“…

In many workshops, we see two parallel fears come up over and over. People fear silence when they’re speaking. Silence makes them uncomfortable.

A healthy body has oxygen flowing freely. And inside your organization, information flow is like oxygen. Organizations need information flowing freely to the right people, in the right ways, in order to drive good business results. So how do we activate that information flow? By doing THREE specific things:

I love the quiet of the early mornings. One of my favorite things to do is wake up early, pour a cup of hot coffee, sit in a rocking chair on our front porch and just

Therefore, the most valuable person in most meetings today is not the person with all the details. The most valuable person today is the person who can