Just Saying - The BRIEF Lab

The point of this podcast is to help you become an effective and efficient communicator. The topics that we discuss tackle many of the most pressing issues that people face in a world flooded by information, interruptions and distractions. The promise is

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Episode 176 – FAQ: Tackling the issue of quiet time

Posted January 17, 2021 • 00:21:40

In our new FAQ segment, Charley addresses a series of questions surrounding how to lower the noise during quiet time and some of the inherent challenges...

Episode 175– Phone calls

Posted January 11, 2021 • 00:12:18

Sometimes we fire off a text or send an email when we should have just picked up the phone. In this episode, I talk about the value of a phone conversation...

Episode 174 – Be my guest: Simon Bureau on culture and communications

Posted January 3, 2021 • 00:23:25

Charley Thornton interviews author and international business leader Simon Bureau about how different cultures view brevity. They dig into email, the...

Episode 173– The Daily Scan (Looking back and ahead)

Posted December 27, 2020 • 00:16:10

As Socrates once said, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” So too, our daily life as communicators needs a quick scan. In this episode, I...

Episode 172 – FAQ: How to discourage multitasking in meetings

Posted December 22, 2020 • 00:13:41

In our first new FAQ segment, Charley Thornton dissects some of the problems with multitasking in meetings, the underlying reasons almost everyone does...