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How can you communicate more effectively with diverse audiences?

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Communicating with diverse audiences is a vital skill for any strategic communicator, especially in today's global and multicultural context. Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are not only ethical values, but also strategic advantages that can help you reach and engage more people, foster trust and collaboration, and create positive social impact. However, communicating with diverse audiences also requires sensitivity, awareness, and adaptation to avoid misunderstandings, stereotypes, or offense. Here are some tips to help you communicate more effectively with diverse audiences.

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1 Know your audience

Before you craft your message, you need to understand who your audience is, what they care about, what they already know, and how they prefer to receive information. You can do this by conducting research, listening to feedback, and observing their behavior and preferences. Knowing your audience will help you tailor your message to their needs, interests, and expectations, and avoid assumptions or generalizations that might alienate them.

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Nasrat Esmaty

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I engage in thorough research to understand my target audience better. By doing so, I gain valuable insights into their preferences and needs. To ensure inclusivity in my communication, I carefully choose my language and leverage visual aids like graphics to complement my message effectively. Additionally, I identify the most suitable communication channels to reach my audience and regularly monitor and evaluate the entire process, allowing me to incorporate best practices and continuously improve my approach.

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Cat Lazaroff

Independent Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice Consultant, supporting clients in building a culture that works for their team and their stakeholders.
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Knowing your audience also requires understanding your own identities, and how they intersect with those in your audience. As a white-bodied cisgendered queer woman, I need to recognize how my visible identities may foster trust in some audience members, and caution in others. I make sure to share some of my own identities as part of introductions to new people and communities, and make space for them to share theirs as well.

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2 Use inclusive language

Language is a powerful tool for communication, but it can also create barriers or biases if used inappropriately. To communicate more effectively with diverse audiences, you need to use inclusive language that respects and acknowledges their identities, perspectives, and experiences. This means avoiding words or expressions that might be offensive, discriminatory, or outdated, and using terms that are accurate, respectful, and empowering. For example, you can use gender-neutral pronouns, avoid stereotypes or labels, and recognize the diversity within groups.

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Cat Lazaroff

Independent Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice Consultant, supporting clients in building a culture that works for their team and their stakeholders.
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If I'm not sure what language will be most inclusive and welcoming in a particular situation or setting - I ask! There's no perfect list of the "right" words to use; it's up to us to do our research, and also be curious, humble, and ask for help.

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3 Adapt your style

Different audiences may have different expectations and preferences for how you communicate with them, such as the tone, format, channel, and frequency of your messages. To communicate more effectively with diverse audiences, you need to adapt your style to suit their communication norms and cultures. For example, you can use formal or informal language depending on the context, use visual aids or stories to illustrate your points, choose the most appropriate media or platform to reach them, and follow up or repeat your messages as needed.

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Dan Yurman

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Don't tell "American" jokes or use idiomatic phases that only people raised in the US would understand from our popular culture. It will leave your audience cold. This is especially important if your audience is listening to you via simultaneous translation. Otherwise, the translator will say, "the speaker is about to tell a joke. I will tell you when to laugh."

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4 Seek feedback

Communication is a two-way process that involves not only sending messages, but also receiving and responding to them. To communicate more effectively with diverse audiences, you need to seek feedback and listen to their reactions, questions, and concerns. You can do this by asking open-ended questions, encouraging dialogue, acknowledging different opinions, and showing empathy and appreciation. Seeking feedback will help you gauge the effectiveness of your communication, identify any gaps or misunderstandings, and improve your relationship with your audience.

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5 Learn from others

One of the best ways to communicate more effectively with diverse audiences is to learn from others who have experience or expertise in this area. You can do this by seeking mentors, coaches, or role models who can guide you, provide feedback, or share best practices. You can also learn from other communicators who have successfully reached and engaged diverse audiences, by analyzing their strategies, techniques, and outcomes. Learning from others will help you expand your knowledge, skills, and confidence in communicating with diverse audiences.

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Irene Matuschak Egan

Building relationships, resources and reputations through dynamic communications programs
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If you have that one-in-a-million person and "bridge-builder" who understands how to connect people across differences and who will be your honest advisor, you are "golden." I had someone like that in my life and it was and has been essential in understanding that there is an amazing iceberg of cultural meanings hidden under the surface. First step: understanding from where you came, what assumptions you have about your place in this world, your concepts of time, what you consider to be respectful (verbal and non-verbal) communication, the purpose of relationships, how you judge what is worthy, and how you "know" what you know. When you understand how your culture has shaped you, you are much more able to understand others.

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6 Keep learning

Communicating with diverse audiences is not a one-time task, but an ongoing process that requires continuous learning and improvement. To communicate more effectively with diverse audiences, you need to keep learning about their changing needs, preferences, and contexts, as well as the latest trends and developments in communication and DEI. You can do this by reading, watching, or listening to relevant sources, attending trainings or workshops, joining networks or communities, and reflecting on your own performance and progress. Keeping learning will help you stay updated, relevant, and responsive in communicating with diverse audiences.

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7 Here’s what else to consider

This is a space to share examples, stories, or insights that don’t fit into any of the previous sections. What else would you like to add?

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Carrie Zukoski

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I am big on thanking people in a follow-up message of some sort afterward (email, letter (!) and the like). It's important to connect with people individually or if that is not possible, then as a group. Thank them for attending. Thank them for allowing you to speak. Ask them how you did and that you welcome their feedback because you want to keep learning and growing. Then listen. If you made a mistake, own it, apologize, and learn. If you're genuine, people will see that and that goes a long way in breaking down barriers and helping people of various backgrounds connect.

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