- Who is my audience? What do they want or need? What matters to them?
- Why am I communicating with them? What is the point, the objective, the bottom line?
- How will they receive the words and style I have chosen?
What will they understand from what I say and from how I say it? - How can I connect with them from person to person, as one friend/ ally/ partner to another?
- Is my message clear to them and to me? Do they know what to do with what I tell them?
- How can I give them benefit to create a win-win situation for us all?
- Have I checked that my language is inter-culturally appropriate for them, free of possibilities for misunderstanding?
- Have I made my content clear, concrete, active, real, relevant, inclusive and motivating?