How do you communicate and present your ideas clearly and persuasively?

As part of the goal teams must consider dependencies. These dependencies may include different teams who have their own priorities.

First, focus on your target audience. Tailor your message to your audience's level of knowledge and interests. Understand their needs, values, and expectations to better engage them. Then, clarify the purpose of your communication and what you want to achieve. Having a clear objective will guide your message, whether it's to inform, persuade, or inspire.

If the team is in a physical room, use a white board to capture the ideas. For situations when the team is functioning virtually have one or more scribes capturing feedback from multiple sources, i.e. verbally and from instant messages. Once you have the initial ideas on the board, then begin mind mapping or other techniques to develop the ideas further.

To effectively communicate and persuade, personalize your approach: Understand your audience, clarify your objectives, organize your thoughts, captivate with an engaging opening, keep it concise, enhance with visuals, employ storytelling, provide evidence, address counterarguments, engage actively, practice diligently, and let your authentic passion shine through.

It is useful to have participants involved that would be considered dependencies to all them to provide input. Sometimes this may not be logistically feasible, but worth considering. Again, capturing ideas through multiple channels is very useful. Another technique is break groups up into smaller teams and have them gather ideas together. This is a great way to build up ideas.

Write the ground rules on a white board before starting the brain storming session and make sure to re-iterate this ground rule along the way!

Whenever possible try to use a quantifiable method in evaluating ideas. A good example of this is using the four quadrants method: high value and easy to implement, high value, difficult to implement, lower value, easy to implement, and lower value, difficult to implement. Consider each quadrant to identify items that are easy to implement for low hanging fruit and then shifting the focus to remaining high value items for feasibility.