Dr. Patty Malone: Communication

Workplace communication expert Dr. Patty Malone helps organizations eliminate costly miscommunication, strengthen collaboration, and boost performance through clear, effective, and actionable communication strategies.

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  • Highlights:
    • Nationally recognized workplace communication expert
    • Ph.D. in Communication Studies
    • Specialist in resolving miscommunication and strengthening organizational clarity
    • Experience with Fortune 500 companies, fast-growing startups, and diverse industries
  • Formats: Keynote speaker, communication strategist, executive coach, workshop facilitator
  • Audiences: Corporate leaders, cross-functional teams, HR and talent development groups, operations and customer-facing teams, and organizations seeking to improve clarity, alignment, and performance.
  • Outcomes:
    1. Tools to identify and eliminate costly miscommunication
    2. Strategies to strengthen clarity, trust, and collaboration across teams
    3. Frameworks to boost productivity and bottom-line results through effective communication
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  • Travels from: Fullerton, CA
  • **Fee range: On Request

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Unclear communication costs companies millions of dollars every year in wasted time, decreased productivity, missed deadlines, and employee turnover. This Dr. Patty Malone presentation shows companies where and how these communication breakdowns are likely to occur, from simple, everyday communication to major projects, and how to avert them. Stop wasting time and money due to miscommunication and misunderstandings.

 

Do you have communication breakdowns and misunderstanding across teams? Does one team make a decision that impacts other teams and not clearly communicate it to them ahead of time?

This Dr. Patty Malone presentation shows you how to open up communication across teams, bridge the silos, and shift the silo mindset to create a sense of cohesion and unity throughout the company. It will help your teams avert costly communication mistakes and develop strong collaborative skills for better problem-solving and decision-making.

Are your team members making decisions and solving problems at peak efficiency to meet your organization’s needs and goals?

You’ll learn what communication barriers can slow teams down, how to avert them, and how to stimulate critical, creative, and innovative thinking for better solutions.

Has someone at work ever stabbed you in the back? Do you work with anyone that is envious of you and out to get you? Backstabbing behaviors and envy in the workplace can be toxic and create an environment where people do not want to be.

When employees exhibit behaviors such as spreading rumors, telling lies, taking credit for someone else’s work or ideas, sabotaging coworkers or the company, withholding information, or telling you one thing to your face and then doing something else behind your back, it infects the team and typically impacts other departments as well. This presentation will show you how to put a stop to this before it tears teams apart and damages morale.

The Power of Clear Communication: Connect with Confidence Outside the Courtroom (for Attorneys) Do you and your coworkers ever have trouble communicating with each other? Do you wonder why because you know you have strong and persuasive communication skills in the courtroom? Consider that what works powerfully and effectively in the courtroom may not work the same way with your staff and associates.

The impact of communication breakdowns and misunderstandings in the workplace shows up as damaged relationships and morale, increased conflict, alienated colleagues and staff, decreased job satisfaction and productivity, and unhappy employees. This Dr. Patty Malone presentation shows you how to communicate clearly, eliminate damaging communication mistakes, and substantially strengthen connections and relationships with your staff and associates beyond the courtroom.

Would you like to get employees on board when making a change in your organization instead of having them fight you every step of the way?

Whether you’re introducing a new technology, a change in management, or a major restructuring or merger, employee reaction can make or break the success of the transition.

Is conflict interfering with employee job satisfaction, slowing down production, and making the workplace environment unpleasant? Are people arguing, having personality clashes, or are some employees just difficult to work with? Conflict is contagious and can have a powerful negative impact on a company’s image.

This Dr. Patty Malone presentation shows what steps to take to defuse conflict before it gets out of hand and how to turn destructive conflict into constructive conflict, which strengthens relationships, helps people get along, and improves the working environment.

Do you cringe knowing you are going to have to work with certain people? Do you feel like you want to avoid them at all costs?

Clear communication can make the difference between a pleasant and a toxic environment, and between difficult and productive employees.

  • Giving and Receiving Positive and Negative Feedback
  • Conducting Effective Meetings (Face-to-Face and Virtual)
  • Building Strong Virtual Teams
  • Leadership: Engage Your Teams
  • Introvert and Extrovert Communication: Bring out the Best in Both

Talent Short Bio

Dr. Patty Malone is a leading authority on workplace communication and a transformative speaker dedicated to helping organizations achieve measurable results, higher productivity, and greater profitability through the power of clear communication. With research showing that workplace miscommunication costs companies an estimated $37 billion a year, Dr. Malone’s expertise addresses one of the most pervasive and expensive challenges in modern business environments. She equips organizations to do more with less, faster and better, by making communication a strategic driver of innovation and sustainable growth.

Holding a Ph.D. in Communication Studies, Dr. Malone blends academic precision with extensive real-world experience. Her work spans Fortune 500 companies, emerging startups, and diverse industries, giving her deep insight into the human and operational dynamics that both elevate and undermine organizational communication. She specializes in preventing and resolving miscommunication, helping leaders and teams build strong, cohesive relationships that transcend departmental silos, hierarchy, generations, and cultural divides.

A seasoned practitioner, Dr. Malone’s approach combines rigorous research with practical tools that teams can use immediately.

Dr. Patty Malone stands as an expert and authority in workplace communication, dedicated to facilitating organizations in achieving profound results, heightened productivity, and enhanced profitability through the conduit of clear and effective communication. In a landscape where miscommunication and misunderstanding drain companies of an astounding $37 billion annually, Dr. Malone’s commitment to fostering productive communication is not just commendable but essential.

In the contemporary milieu of accomplishing more with less, faster and better, communication emerges not merely as a soft skill but as the linchpin for revenue amplification and business expansion.

With a specialized focus on preventing and resolving miscommunications, Dr. Malone is adept at fostering effective communication within and across teams, thereby fortifying them into cohesive units capable of transcending silos, bridging departments, hierarchies, generational divides, and cultural barriers. Armed with a profound understanding of the nuanced intricacies of workplace dynamics, Dr. Malone brings to the table a wealth of experience and insights garnered from years of dedicated research and practical application.

Holding a Ph.D. in Communication Studies from a prestigious institution, Dr. Malone’s scholarly pursuits have laid the groundwork for her transformative work in the corporate sphere. Coupled with her academic prowess, Dr. Malone boasts an impressive portfolio of hands-on experience, having worked with a diverse array of organizations spanning various industries, from Fortune 500 companies to burgeoning startups.

Patty Malone has more than 25 years experience in the field of communication as a corporate trainer, speaker, author, sales director, and TV News Anchor. She currently teaches at California State University Fullerton and the University of California at Irvine where she teaches courses in all areas of organizational communication and conflict resolution.

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