Nate Ryan is the Director of Application Development for Farm Credit Services of America and co-owner of Amber Rays. The document discusses the importance of effective communication up and down an organization through various channels like meetings, email, face-to-face interactions, and dashboards. It provides tips for good communication practices in meetings, emails, and face-to-face, noting that poor communication can limit innovation, drain morale, cause missed objectives, and reduce productivity and trust, while successful communication achieves an organization's mission and vision through transparency and trust-building that energizes employees and allows ideas to spread.

1. Communication

2. About me...
Nate Ryan
Director of Application Development
for Farm Credit Services of America
Co-Owner of Amber Rays
@FullyCroisened

3. Communication up and
down the organization.
Meetings
Email
Face to face
IM
Dashboards

4. In meetings...
BE ENGAGED
NON-VERBAlS
PARTICIPATE
SUPPORT THE
OUTCOME

5. On email...
Be concise
After 3 go See
ASSUME THE BEST
Know your
audience
Spel check it?

6. Face to Face
Focus on the
situation not the
person
Be open and
honest
Be yourself

7. Poor
Communication
Limits innovation
Drains morale
Objectives missed
Reduced
productivity
Lack of trust

8. Successful
Communication
Mission/Vision
Self worth
Ideas Snowball
ENERGY
Transparency
Builds Trust

9. When all else
fails...
HAVE FUN AND SMILE!

10. Thank you,
Questions?
Nate Ryan