Three Essential Words that Drive Every Outstanding Communicator

Whenever you're tasked with writing an important document, drafting website content or creating any kind of presentation, before writing or speaking even a single word, here's one guideline you may want to consider. Our tip here is part of the essential research you may need to perform before even "putting pen to paper."

A crucial component is self-honesty. So what are we really talking about? What is so important that we need to thoroughly appreciate and understand the implications before we can ever hope to make headway? Answer: memorize the three most important words for any writer or communicator who seeks to create stellar performance or build astonishing results:

• Know
• Your
• Readers.

How:

• Establish and understand what really matters to your target audience.
• Empathize. Feel their experience.
• Discover the hopes, dreams and fears of your readers, listeners or website visitors.

Also, make sure you write or speak in such a way that your target readers understand and hopefully agree with your message or the viewpoint you seek to share. To do that requires knowledge of both the topic in hand and the people who you want to use or invest in your products or services.

As writers, we cannot expect readers, listeners or website visitors to remain interested in what doesn't make sense to them or what is simply not relevant or sufficiently focused on their problem.

Sometimes, we need to be clear and direct. At other times, subtlety or poetic, energetic impact can transform an otherwise dull rendition into an engaging exchange that keeps your reader on the edge of their seat!

Really get to intuitively know your readers, listeners or website visitors. Not only can they become your best advertisers, they have the potential to become the best friends that you don't know you have - yet.