How to Make Your Message Memorable | Video

When you communicate with your team or with your stakeholders, you must surely want to make your message memorable. But how? Here are 5 techniques, based on solid psychology.

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Compelling, Persuasive, Powerful

When you communicate with your stakeholders, your ideal message will be:

1. Compelling
2. Persuasive
3. Powerful

Compelling

Draws your stakeholders in, keeps them engaged, helps them understand

Persuasive

Creates an accurate understanding and generates agreement and consent

Powerful

Generates change or action, or Sticks in the memory.

It’s this latter, I focus on in this video.

5 Ways to Make Your Message Memorable

1. Primacy
2. Recency
3. Frequency
4. Novelty
5. Activity
   1. Physical motion
   2. Mental processing
   3. Emotional response

Learn More

For more on excellence in communication:

• ‘How to Speak so People Listen’ is a book for workplace communicators of all sorts.
• ‘The Influence Agenda: A Systematic Approach to Aligning Stakeholders in Times of Change’ is written for serious project managers who need a range of simple to advanced techniques to really boost your stakeholder engagement.

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