💣 My strategy to become an actionable communicator (1 year after applying it)

Effective communication in software engineering with actionable insights from real-world experience. Learn how to transition from merely acknowledging problems to driving impactful solutions

Have you ever been clear about what to do, but people didn’t follow?

This was happening to me.

In April 2023, I received my 360 feedback and I saw a pattern.

I was arriving at a conclusion but failed to communicate it with people.

My communication was dumping details, rather than proposing actions.

I adopted a new motto for my work since then, and I’ll share it with you now.

⭐ In this post, you’ll learn:

1. The 5 stages of communication, from rambling to actionable

2. How to apply this to your day-to-day software engineering

3. My new motto after my 360 feedback review in 2023

🚅 A quick word about this

This is most effective when thinking about work that isn’t assigned directly to you.

Everyone expects you to deliver your sprint task. But let’s consider the work in a weekly on-call rotation. You are one week working on something and after that, the next person in the rotation will take over.

It’s natural to fe…