04 Storytelling in the workplace can save your message from falling on deaf ears | Sarah Gill

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A common complaint is poor communication in the workplace - from both sides!

Sarah Gill joins our Host, Vanessa Marks, to discuss Storytelling as an effective way to ensure your message is heard.

Employers complain that their efforts to communicate with employees falls on deaf ears, while the employee will bemoan that the message was never sent.

Often it is not what was said but how it was said that makes someone listen and understand.

Storytelling is a creative and effective method to bridge the communication gap and Sarah Gill shares with us her last 20 years of using creative ways to get the message sent, and received, as intended, acknowledging and addressing diversity at all levels in the workplace.
7 Feb 2022 English South Africa Business · How To

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