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We provide fully customized solutions to improve all areas of corporate communication. We specialize in coaching presenters, preparing technical people for management, and streamlining and updating documentation.
Principal BiographyMargaret Krzeminski-Pacuku has consulted on matters of language and communication for 20 years. She began her career teaching English as a Foreign Language in Madrid, Spain. During eight years as an ESL educator, Margie taught executives, undergraduates, refugees, and diplomats alike, eventually holding lecturer and language specialist positions at the University of Pennsylvania.
Since 1999 Margie has worked as a trainer, coach, and instructional designer. For many years she traveled frequently throughout the United States, as well as to South America, Europe, and Africa, delivering communication skills seminars to Fortune 500 companies.
While her seminars were always highly rated, Margie saw that the more she tailored the training, the more engaged the participants and dramatic the results. She founded OnWord to take tailoring to the next level: complete customization. She now partners with clients in designing, developing, and delivering one-of-a-kind communication solutions.
Margie holds an M.S. in linguistics from Georgetown University, where she was a U.S. Department of Education Title VII Fellow.
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Tip # 1
Asking people to put aside their work to attend a presentation is asking a lot! To honor your audience’s time investment, treat them to a VIP presentation. Include Visual, Interactive, and Persuasive elements.
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Tip # 2
Corporate communication should be less like a buffet and more like a three-course dinner. Less is best when presenting your ideas. Arrange and serve reasonable portions and wait for your audience to ask for seconds.
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Tip # 3
Scientists, engineers, and other technical people in industry must be fluent in technical and corporate communication. Just as you wouldn’t speak Chinese to an English speaker, don’t speak technical to management.
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Tip # 4
All concepts, especially in business, can be made clear, plain, and transparent. If you can’t easily understand an idea or practice, then there is something fundamentally wrong with the communication of it.
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Tip # 5
Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.
—Charles Mingus
Jazz Composer
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Tip # 6
Cross-cultural communication adds to the difficulty for those who do business internationally: the greater the mix of languages and backgrounds, the greater the likelihood of a communication breakdown.
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Tip # 7
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words where one will do.
—Thomas Jefferson
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Tip # 8
When someone writes an email to five people and each understands it differently, it is the writer's responsibility. When someone presents a talk that no one understands, the speaker is to blame.
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Tip # 9
Presentations are like a work of art. People shouldn’t notice your technique until and unless they try to emulate it.