Podcasts and Communication

In an episode titled "Simple is a Superpower: How to Communicate Any Idea to an Audience" by Think Fast Talk Smart, the podcasters Matt Abrahams and Carmine Gallo speak on how intentional and straightforward messaging can not only help you become a better communicator but can also help you get things done faster.

This podcast discusses and relates too many topics that we have gone over in COMM 211, Communicating Online. The first topic is to be simple and or clear in your writing, the two go hand in hand. In the podcast Carmine Gallo calls simple the new superpower, in which by "choosing simpler words, easier to understand explanations, less jargon, shorter words to replace bureaucratic language or convoluted words," you end up becoming a more effective communicator (Abrahams, 2023). Similar advice can be seen given to us in the module "7 C's of Effective Communication" by Julia Green, in which she says that we should consider word choice and the formatting and structure of the messages in order to fulfill the first "C" of effective communication (Green, 2023).

Another aspect in which this podcast and the material within the course relate to each other is that they both talk about how being concise and being considerate to who we are talking to can have a major impact on communication. Julia Green in the module titled "7 C's of Effective Communication" states to "focus on the needs and expectations of the audience of your communication, whether you are joining a small group study session with your peers or submitting an assignment to your instructor for evaluation" (Green, 2023). Carmine Gallo then in this podcast goes onto explain and support Julia Green's words by referencing how as Amazon grew as a company, the messages Bezos's was sending and putting out got more concise and easier to understand. The concise aspect relates to being simpler, as we talked above, but Bezos's ability to now understand his audience has made a huge difference in his communication effectiveness. Bezos got intentional with his writing and who he was writing too and it paid off in more success within Amazon (Abrahams, 2023).

Podcast: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/simple-superpower-how-communicate-any-idea-any-audience

Julia Green's Module: https://canvas.oregonstate.edu/courses/1933517/pages/7-cs-of-effective-communication