Why Slowing Down Communication Is The Secret To Strategic Success!

9 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this monologue, Charlotte Kemp emphasizes the critical role of strategic communication within organizations. She reflects on her tendency to overshare and argues that effective communication requires a balance between sharing enough information and holding back when appropriate. Kemp warns against the danger of making quick assumptions based on limited phrasing, noting that such shortcuts can lead to costly missteps in time, money, and emotional investment. She advocates for deliberately slowing down communication to fully unpack meanings, reduce anxieties about the future, and make more informed decisions. The speaker shares that learning to be slower has become one of her most valuable lessons as she has matured.

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they know what their strategy document means because they've worked with it and they've been able to have this conversation around it that makes it more meaningful than it was before. So our strategic communication is really important. We sometimes, I certainly overshare information all the time, so sometimes we may need to hold some information back. Sometimes we should be a little bit more generous. We need to slow communication down when necessary. we really need to think about how we communicate. Going into the future means that there's a lot of anxieties and uncertainties, and the minute we assume we know what somebody means with a little bit of few words or a phrase or two, that's a risk that we haven't fully unpacked what that could mean. And it could mean that we spend a lot of time and a lot of money and a lot of emotion even moving in a direction that isn't actually helpful. So we certainly need to slow down. It's probably one of the best things I've learned as I've got older is to be slower.