Have you ever had a conversation or staff meeting and you were convinced you were clear, yet no one understood? Are you an effective listener? How do you know? Do you know how to tailor your messages to reach a broad audience? These and other questions must be answered if you are to be a good communicator, which contributes to being an effective manager and leader.
This session will cover the many factors that contribute to communication and will help you understand that you may be talking, but others aren’t really listening or understanding. This session will also cover the latest technologies and how they can enhance or detract from your communication objectives.
Learning Objectives:
• Learn how to be an effective listener
• Master the skill of story telling as a means to teach and communicate
• Find ways to tailor one message so that it will reach many different listening styles
• Understand the nuances of cross-cultural communication
Presenter: John Stanko
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John Stanko was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and attended Duquesne University where he received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics in 1972 and 1974 respectively.
Since then, John has served as an administrator, teacher, consultant, author, and pastor in his professional career. He holds a second master’s degree in pastoral ministries, and earned his doctorate in pastoral ministries from Liberty Theological Seminary in Houston, Texas in 1995. In 2011, he completed a second doctor of ministry degree at Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh.
John has taught extensively on the topics of time management, life purpose and organization, and has conducted leadership and purpose training sessions throughout the United States and in 32 countries.
John founded a personal and leadership development company, called PurposeQuest, in 2001 and today travels the world to speak, consult and inspire leaders and people everywhere. From 2001-2008, he spent six months a year in Africa and still enjoys visiting and working on that continent, while teaching for Geneva College’s Masters of Organizational Leadership and the Center for Urban Biblical Ministry in his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
John is a prolific writer and has authored 24 books as well as numerous articles for publications around the world. He serves as a creative and life purpose coach for people in many nations, and his daily and weekly blog posts have a large following, as does his work on other social media outlets.
John has been married for 41 years to Kathryn Scimone Stanko, and they have two adult children. In 2009, John was appointed the administrative pastor for discipleship at Allegheny Center Alliance Church on the North Side of Pittsburgh where he served for five years. Most recently, John founded Urban Press, a publishing service designed to tell stories of the city, from the city and to the city.