Effective Communicator

The name of the presenter is Patricia Katz. She holds a Masters degree in Continuing Education and a CHRP designation as a Certified Human Resource Professional. She has served in many executive leadership roles in the regional, provincial and national professional associations in Canada. Patricia helps organizations and their leaders generate stronger result while creating a more satisfying work and life experience for all. I attended one of her presentation, where she was talking about educators in early childhood education and their relationship with the children. Patricia said we are molding their destinies and that the way we treat them is very important. She said we should hold them dearly because some of the ways people are behaving today, or the mentality they have is as a result of the way they were brought up. She said some people wish they can still see some of their teachers when they were in school to say a big thank you to them for the encouragement they gave to them at one time or the other. There are also some people that don’t want to see or even hear the names of some of the people that they came across when they were growing up because of the way they were treated.

Patricia also made mention of appreciation in the presentation. She said appreciation goes a long way in an organization and in any relationship. She said it is very important in order for the organization or relationship to run smoothly. She said people are starved for good news about themselves. Our daily busyness drives us from one task to another without a breath for reflection. There are clients to please, phone calls to make, children to ferry, and bills to pay. Recognition and celebration are more than just the icing on the cake.

I found Patricia presentation very insightful and inspirational couple with the effective way of communicating with people. She was able to carry the people along by focusing on them, using effective body language, show interest in the people she was talking to, engaging people by asking some questions and allowing them to ask question for effective communication and so on. She’s somebody I would like to be my mentor in this field.