12/06/2026
Imagine if everyone at work wore a T-shirt that listed instructions on how to communicate with them.
✅ Be brief, be direct and use a max of three dots points please.
✅ Email me a heads up first. I need time to prepare because I don’t like being put on the spot.
✅ Be real, be human, be kind and bring me coffee.
✅ Big picture first! Details really do my head in.
The reason tricky conversations are … well, tricky is usually because we can’t predict how the other person will respond. So, we rehearse, we worry, we forget our filter, we barrel in bluntly or we soften our message so much and drop hints that the other person doesn’t catch.
Regardless of where your delivery sits between volcanic or vague, if your communication isn’t received well, here’s why:
People are not difficult.
People are just different.
If you don’t make the effort to understand and speak their language then you can’t expect them to understand and speak yours.
That was the underlying theme of communication training I was invited to run with an absolute ripper of a group of people from The Rural Clinical School of WA at Aloft Perth yesterday.
They came together from all around the state to collaborate, grow and learn how to be better for themselves, for each other, for the medical students they support and the rural communities that benefit from the medical placements they make possible.
We explored the four communication styles, what each one needs from you, how to recognise each one and to stop turning our (often incorrect) assumptions about them into grenades that annihilate relationships, performance and communication.
It was so much fun seeing everyone get a new appreciation for, and understanding of themselves and each other.
Click Colours is like a human translation tool.
It helps people stop misreading each other, taking things personally, or trying to change or save others, and teaches them how to bring out the best in everyone.
Including themselves.
And now I’m curious - what would YOUR t-shirt say?
Head on over here to learn more about The Rural Clinical School of WA’s work and how their crucial contribution is making regional healthcare possible.
https://www.uwa.edu.au/rcswa
Head over here if you’d like to view the sensational training, function or accommodation facilities at Aloft Perth (which is handy to the airport and staffed by people who can’t do enough for you) https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/peral-aloft-perth/overview/
And head over here if you’d like to learn more about what I do or if you’d like some info on how Click Colours training could transform communication in your workplace.
https://rebootmindsettraining.com.au