Schramm JD - Communicate with Mastery: Speak With Conviction and Write for Impact

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1. Introduction
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Communicate with Mastery is an entertaining and practical guide to presenting and communicating. JD exposes our issues with confidence as communicators and reveals a pathway out of the darkness of doubt. With over twenty years of practical classroom experience poured into an easy-to-read guide, JD provides readers with the tools to engage any audience, tailor impactful messages, and navigate any communication challenge.

Stephen J. Mellas

Principal at a Global Asset Management Firm

Adjunct Professor of Management Communication, NYU Stern

In this engaging book, JD Schramm provides us actionable advice for how to communicate more effectively based on years of teaching and consulting. He explains how to understand your audience, find your voice, tell compelling stories, and communicate with authenticity. Schramm argues that there's no such thing as a perfect presentation or report. We can always do better, if we are willing to seek feedback, listen actively, and iterate often. This book is a true masterpiece on persuading your audience!

Michael Roberto

Author, Unlocking Creativity

Trustee Professor of Management, Bryant University

My clients and students often ask me: what's the difference between a confident leader and an arrogant leader? My answer: confident leaders share. Communicating with Mastery embraces sharing as fundamental to any leader's effectiveness, and every page embodies that approach: Communicating with Mastery overflows with strategies; some of these strategies are brand new, others are time-tested, but every word of this book is fresh for the world that awaits us, a world that serves as the crucible through which existing and evolving leaders will test their mettle. Leaders of all kindsearly, evolving and establishedwill benefit from this book.

Tim Flood

Managing Director, Management Communication Association

Associate Professor, UNC Kenan-Flagler School of Business

A straightforward and approachable guide for anyone seeking to improve his or her communication skills. JD has both the expertise and perhaps more critically, the emotional understanding required to personally connect with any current or future leader reading this book.

Mike Lewis

Author, When to Jump: If the Job You Have Isn't The Life You Want

Many authors encourage leaders to be authentic communicators, but JD Schramm goes further and provides frameworks and actions to bring about authentic communication. I've relied on many of his techniques in my own presentations and am pleased that he has now captured it all in one place so others can benefit from his insights too.

Erin Uritus

CEO, Out & Equal Workplace Advocates

In Communicate with Mastery, JD Schramm provides us with a best practice Bible that addresses a vast array of communication challenges leaders can expect to confront in their careers. The author resists prescribing a one size fits all solution, and instead helps the reader look inward to find the powerful, authentic messages that will resonate with their audiences. Nowhere is this wisdom more apt than in the pages JD devotes to communications challenges that most often befall minority groups that face systemic discrimination and bias. JD urges leaders in the LGBTQ community, for example, to avoid the hiding and passing techniques that are commonly relied up and instead to build trust through transparency, vulnerability and honesty. JD's big lesson is that successful professional communications are ultimately based on robust and authentic personal connections.

John Tedstrom

Founder, NextGen Leaders

CEO, Tedstrom Associates

In his engaging and relatable style, JD synthesizes the most powerful/relevant ideas in communication and coaching. Communicate with Mastery gives leaders the tools to develop an authentic style and powerful presence. Mastery of communication is an ongoing process, and JD provides the motivation and strategies for lifelong improvement that you will use every day.

Molly Epstein

Professor in the Practice of Organization and Management

Goizueta Business School at Emory University

BY JD SCHRAMM, ED.D

WITH KARA LEVY

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Names: Schramm, J. D., author. | Levy, Kara, author.

Title: Communicate with mastery : how to speak with conviction and write for impact / by JD Schramm, Ed.D, with Kara Levy.

Description: Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2020] | Includes bibliographical references and index.