Core Truths to Say it Better

1.  Be specific sooner. It will help you achieve clarity and reduce the chances of being misunderstood. It will make you more credible, influential, and memorable.

2.  Bring out the better side in others. Them they are more likely to see and support yours.

3.  Adopt a mutuality mindset. Seek ways to create value and opportunity both with and for others. Be inclusive. Cultivate relationships between those who can complement one another.

4.   Listen, ask follow-up questions to spur the possibility of discovering a sweet spot of mutual interest. In your communicating with that person suggest exploring how you might help each other around that shared interest.

5.        Praise the specific actions of others you admire, citing that praise digitally or in person with others in your friendship circle as well as with the folks you cite.