{"id":4599,"date":"2016-12-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sasugacommunications.com\/ja\/how-to-improve-your-communication-in-2017\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T13:33:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T04:33:05","slug":"how-to-improve-your-communication-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sasugacommunications.com\/ja\/how-to-improve-your-communication-in-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Improve Your Communication In 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u3053\u306e\u30d3\u30c7\u30aa\u3067\u306f\u30012017\u5e74\u306b\u30b3\u30df\u30e5\u30cb\u30b1\u30fc\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u8853\u3092\u4f38\u3070\u3059\u305f\u3081\u306e\u4e09\u3064\u306e\u65b9\u6cd5\u3092\u3054\u7d39\u4ecb\u3057\u3066\u3044<wbr \/>\u307e\u3059\u3002\u8a18\u4e8b\u306f\u82f1\u8a9e\u3067\u3059\u3002\u3069\u3046\u305e\u304a\u5f79\u7acb\u3066\u304f\u3060\u3055\u3044\uff01<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nsSPopRAaXM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Can\u2019t see the video player above?\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/nsSPopRAaXM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch it on YouTube.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Scroll down for the full video transcript<\/em><\/p>\n<h1>3 Essentials\u00a0To\u00a0Improve Your Communication In 2017<\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"null\">1.\u00a0Have Courage<\/h2>\n<p>Step\u00a0out of the comfort zone! We need to do this to learn\u00a0something new. And because communication affects other people, we&#8217;re often concerned about how others will respond. So we\u00a0hesitate to do something different. But\u00a0we need courage to take that risk and help us grow.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"null\">2.\u00a0Have knowledge<\/h2>\n<p>There has never been a better time in the history of human beings to get knowledge. We have knowledge everywhere &#8212; in books, online information, in-person training, and\u00a0online training.\u00a0We have no\u00a0excuse for saying that we don&#8217;t know how to do something.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"null\">3. Practice<\/h2>\n<p>If you just gather the knowledge, but don&#8217;t put it into practice, that&#8217;s mottainai &#8211; it&#8217;s a waste or a shame. Practice giving presentations or facilitating the opening of a meeting\u00a0in front of a\u00a0mirror or using a smartphone to video yourself. Practice with friends and family. And start to put what you&#8217;ve learned to use in the workplace bit by bit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0 * \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0* \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0* \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0* \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0*<\/p>\n<p><b>Would you like to communicate with more clarity and confidence in your workplace in 2017?<\/b> \u00a0Ask more questions? Give more powerful\u00a0presentations? Facilitate meaningful meetings? Turn conflicts into opportunities?<\/p>\n<p>Well, why not snuggle under your kotatsu over the New Year holiday, grab some mikan and your copy of\u00a0\u82f1\u8a9e\u306e\u4ed5\u4e8b\u8853, so that you can feel refreshed and prepared to go into 2017 and really make a difference? Say bye-bye to mottainai in 2017.<\/p>\n<p><b>And here&#8217;s a bonus!\u00a0<\/b>Buy \u82f1\u8a9e\u306e\u4ed5\u4e8b\u8853 by\u00a0December 23 and email me. I&#8217;ll put you on the special guest list for \u00a0a <b>complimentary webinar from 10 a.m. on January 21<\/b> (Japan time).<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m going\u00a0to tailor the webinar to make it as valuable as possible for you. I\u2019ll contact everyone who signs up for the webinar in early January\u00a0to ask\u00a0which\u00a0communication topics you most want to learn about.<\/p>\n<p>All you need is a computer, tablet, or smartphone with an Internet connection to join.<\/p>\n<p>Say bye-bye to mottainai in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Get your copy of <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shogakukan.co.jp\/search\/site\/\u82f1\u8a9e\u306e\u4ed5\u4e8b\u8853\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u82f1\u8a9e\u306e\u4ed5\u4e8b\u8853<\/a><\/span> by December 23, <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"mailto:info@sasugacommunications.com\">email me<\/a><\/span>,\u00a0and join the special webinar. Wahoo!<\/p>\n<h2>Video transcript<\/h2>\n<p>Hello! I\u2019m Helen Iwata of Sasuga Communications and I\u2019m here to help you create communication habits for success and happiness in global business.<\/p>\n<p>And as you can see, we&#8217;re a little bit in the festive mood here at Sasuga Communications. And whatever you celebrate &#8212; whether you celebrate Christmas or whether you celebrate something else &#8212; I hope you celebrate something &#8212; I wish you all very best for it.<\/p>\n<p>And I love this time of year because it\u2019s a time to spend with family and friends. And I also like to reflect over the year, what\u2019s happened over the year, and think about the coming year. What can I do differently in 2017 ? And I can see there&#8217;s plenty of opportunities to do things differently.<\/p>\n<p>So what about your year 2016 and how was your communication during the year?<\/p>\n<p>And welcome! I can see people joining. Fantastic! Lovely to see you here live and hello to people who are also watching the video.<\/p>\n<p>So how was 2016 for you in terms of your communication? Could you have maybe listened a little bit more effectively? Asked some more question to get better results or to avoid misunderstandings? Maybe presented with more confidence and more clarity? Maybe spoken up a little bit more on conference calls? And what about facilitating meetings? Could you have done that a little bit more effectively? Or dealt with conflict in a way to turn that conflict into an opportunity?<\/p>\n<p>So there are so many ways to improve our communication skills and this is something that I\u2019m so passionate about because I\u2019m always working on this myself too.<\/p>\n<p>And our topic today is how to improve your communication in 2017. I can see people joining. I can see Claire here and Phil here. And I\u2019ve missed a few other people whose names are kind of scrolling up the screen for me. Feel free to press the thumbs up and the hearts. I love to get thumbs up and hearts. It makes me feel very happy when I can see you there. Yay! Hearts! Thank you! Wonderful. And Marian, good to see you back with us. It\u2019s great. So I can see, sometimes I can see the names of people, sometimes I can\u2019t see your names. And Jacqui\u2019s here saying, &#8220;Hi Helen.&#8221; That\u2019s wonderful!<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to comment at anytime as I\u2019m talking. I may catch some of the comments as I\u2019m talking and I may stop to go through the comments a little bit later on as well. Okay, Marian: &#8220;We need a little Santa emoji.&#8221; Yes, maybe. Well, I got the hat and I\u2019ve got the tree, so I\u2019m doing my best. Okay.<\/p>\n<p>Our topic today is how to improve communications in 2017, and I have 3 essentials to share with you. These are things that I think are so important and if you put these into practice, they will really make a difference for you. So I\u2019ll talk about them and then I&#8217;ll pause for some questions or comments. Please feel free to put your questions and comments in anytime. I can see we\u2019ve got a pretty active group. It\u2019s wonderful. I\u2019m looking forward to pausing for comments a little bit later on.<\/p>\n<p>So what are our 3\u00a0essentials?<\/p>\n<p>The first one is have <strong>courage<\/strong>. And I talk about this quite a lot. This idea of stepping out of the comfort zone. You really need to do this when you&#8217;re learning something new. And especially with communication, I think it\u2019s really important because communication affects other people. And we&#8217;re often concerned about how we impact other people. What will other people think of us? And that\u2019s why we maybe hesitate to do something different in our communication because there\u2019s a bit of a risk there. But you have to take that risk to do something different and then get the benefits from it. So having courage is the first essential to improve your communication in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>And, hello! Thank you for the big love from the Trophy Cabinet. Oh, going back many, many years. I\u2019m so happy to see you here Phil as well, that\u2019s wonderful. So that\u2019s the first one, courage. Have courage. So, so important.<\/p>\n<p>Second is have <strong>knowledge<\/strong>. Sounds pretty simple right? We are in no better time in the history of human beings to get knowledge. We have knowledge everywhere. So we have books, we have information online, we can go to in-person training, we can go to training online. There is so much out there. There is no excuse for saying, \u201cOh, I don\u2019t know how to do something\u201d because it\u2019s all there. So have the courage to take the step and get the knowledge and then you are all set.<\/p>\n<p>The third essential is <strong>practice<\/strong> because if you just keep the knowledge in your head, it\u2019s not going to do you any good. You need some practice.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for the thumbs up. Love seeing the thumbs up. And it\u2019s great to see that Cat\u2019s joined as well.<\/p>\n<p>So you need to put into practice what you\u2019ve learned. A lot of people spend time reading books, reading online articles, even going to trainings, but then not putting what they\u2019ve learned into practice, and that is mottainai. When I talk about mottainai, it\u2019s a waste. So really put these things into practice.<\/p>\n<p>How can you practice? Pretty simple. You can practice a lot of things on your own, maybe when people are not looking, for example. If you&#8217;re practicing your presentation, you could do that. I talked about the mirror or using a smartphone to video yourself. It\u2019s a really effective way to practice. You can also do that for example, if you want to practice your facilitation skills. How do you open up a meeting? Record it and see what you could do better. You can also practice with friends. You can practice with family and also putting things into practice in the workplace &#8212; actually using the things.<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s pretty simple what I\u2019m talking about here. I said the first essential is courage &#8212; have courage, have the knowledge and practice. It\u2019s very, very simple.<\/p>\n<p>And recently I\u2019ve noticed there are quite a few people coming to me and saying, \u201cOh, can you give me some advanced facilitation technique or some advance techniques for something else?\u201d and people are asking for advanced when they haven\u2019t even put those basics into practice. So I really encourage going back to basics &#8212; maybe that\u2019s the thing for 2017. Looking at those basics and really making sure that you&#8217;re doing those things.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s great to see we have such a wonderful group on the call &#8212; on the Facebook Live. So I\u2019m quite happy to receive questions or comments from you. &#8220;It\u2019s beginning to look like Christmas.&#8221; Yes, absolutely. Just scrolling through here to see what we have. I think I got all the comments. Oh, hang on, what\u2019s this one? Oh, no, that\u2019s a comment from Facebook. Hearts! Thank you! Give me the hearts. I love it. Alright.<\/p>\n<p>So if we have no questions or comments at the moment, I&#8217;m going to move on and keep talking, but do feel free to add some in live or if you&#8217;re watching the recording of this, you can also put them in Facebook, and I&#8217;ll look at those afterwards, and I will respond to them.<\/p>\n<p>So the other thing I wanted to tell you about &#8212; and I mentioned this last week as well but I\u2019ve got this little illustration this week too. Can you see? So as I said last week, think about it\u2019s coming up to the New Year time and it\u2019s a traditional time to snuggle under your kotatsu &#8212; nice and warm &#8212; eat your mikan. I think I\u2019ve eaten all the mikan. I don\u2019t have one handy to demonstrate with. Hearts, hearts, hearts. Wonderful. You&#8217;re enjoying your mikan, you\u2019re under your kotatsu,\u00a0and you have your book <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shogakukan.co.jp\/search\/site\/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E%E3%81%AE%E4%BB%95%E4%BA%8B%E8%A1%93\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u82f1\u8a9e\u306e\u4ed5\u4e8b\u8853<\/a><\/span> and that\u2019s the way you can learn all of these things that I\u2019ve been talking about.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shogakukan.co.jp\/search\/site\/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E%E3%81%AE%E4%BB%95%E4%BA%8B%E8%A1%93\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u82f1\u8a9e\u306e\u4ed5\u4e8b\u8853<\/a><\/span> has five chapters and talks about listening and questioning, presentations kills, conference calls, facilitating meetings, and conflict. So these are five really important areas for global business. And as I talked about, it\u2019s not just the reading, but putting into practice, so there are activities in here, there are checklists to help you to put these things into practice.<\/p>\n<p>And there\u2019s more! The bonus is that &#8212; oh, I can\u2019t even speak now, I\u2019m so excited! By December 23<sup>rd<\/sup> if you buy this or if you already bought it and you email me at <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"mailto:helen@sasugacommunications.com\">helen@sasugacommunications.com<\/a><\/span>, I&#8217;ll put you on a list for people who are going to join a webinar on January 21<sup>st<\/sup> from 10:00 Japan time and that will be a 45-minute webinar where we will be really working on some communication skills.<\/p>\n<p>What we will be focusing on remains to be seen because in early January I&#8217;ll contact the people who have registered and find out what are the most popular topics and then I&#8217;ll design that webinar so that it&#8217;s really valuable for the people who show up because to me it\u2019s so important to deliver value to people who show up and make the effort to really work on their communication skills.<\/p>\n<p>So I\u2019m really excited about this. I\u2019m looking forward to seeing who is going to sign up. And this is open to anybody who has already bought\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shogakukan.co.jp\/search\/site\/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E%E3%81%AE%E4%BB%95%E4%BA%8B%E8%A1%93\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u82f1\u8a9e\u306e\u4ed5\u4e8b\u8853<\/a><\/span> and it\u2019s also open to people who buy\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shogakukan.co.jp\/search\/site\/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E%E3%81%AE%E4%BB%95%E4%BA%8B%E8%A1%93\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u82f1\u8a9e\u306e\u4ed5\u4e8b\u8853 <\/a>\u00a0<\/span>before or buy by December 23<sup>rd<\/sup>. I\u2019m looking forward to seeing that.<\/p>\n<p>So what questions and comments do you have? Oh wow, I can see my video&#8217;s being shared already. I\u2019m not even finished and it\u2019s being shared. This is a wonderful thing, thank you so much. Wonderful, wonderful. So we have still a few people on the call. Why do I keep calling it a call? It\u2019s a Facebook Live. Do you have any questions or comments for me today? If not I will do a quick time check. It\u2019s 8:42, so it\u2019s close to finishing time, but do feel free to type something in if you have a question or comment. What do you have?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, this is what I always do at this point, don\u2019t I? I take my sip of water. Yay! I love kind of the matching a little bit of red with the hat. It\u2019s very well coordinated. Of course, I thought this through. Alright anything else? Anything you want to say? It\u2019s probably time to wrap up. It\u2019s been a lot of fun. I like this sparkliness in the background and the festivities. I haven\u2019t had any sherry yet. Honest, really I haven\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, so we talked about how to improve your communication in 2017 and 3 essentials, and thumbs up! Yay! The 3 essentials are have courage, get knowledge, and practice.<\/p>\n<p>Have a fabulous festive season and I look forward to receiving emails saying \u201cYes! I\u2019m ready to join the webinar.\u201d Looking forward to it. See you! Have a fabulous day! Bye!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u3053\u306e\u30d3\u30c7\u30aa\u3067\u306f\u30012017\u5e74\u306b\u30b3\u30df\u30e5\u30cb\u30b1\u30fc\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u8853\u3092\u4f38\u3070\u3059\u305f\u3081\u306e\u4e09\u3064\u306e\u65b9\u6cd5\u3092\u3054\u7d39\u4ecb\u3057\u3066\u3044\u307e\u3059\u3002\u8a18\u4e8b\u306f\u82f1\u8a9e\u3067\u3059\u3002\u3069\u3046\u305e\u304a\u5f79\u7acb\u3066\u304f\u3060\u3055\u3044\uff01 Can\u2019t see the video player above?\u00a0Watch it on YouTube. Scroll down for the full video transcript 3 Essentials\u00a0To\u00a0Improve Your Communication In 2017 1.\u00a0Have Courage Step\u00a0out of the comfort zone! We need to do this to learn\u00a0something new. 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