30 Books in 30 Days: Are You Struggling to be Heard?

Avil Beckford
5 min readJul 19, 2024

If you’re a business professional who is struggling to be a better communicator, you’re in the right place.

Effective communication is not as easy as some people think. How many times have your emails remain unopened? How many times have people ignored you when you talk? These are important questions to answer.

From part of the title of this post, you know I’m taking part in a 30 books in 30 days reading challenge. This is about my seventh time doing this challenge. To get a deeper understanding of the books I read during the challenge, I’m intentionally connecting the information in the books I’m reading and connecting them to books I read previously.

While reading The First Minute by Chris Fenning, I knew I needed to connect it to Several Short Sentences by Verlyn Klinkenborg. After letting the information sit, I realized I also had to connect it to This Book Will Teach You to Write Better by Neville Medhora.

Over the years, I’ve read several books on writing and other forms of communication. The reason I’m taking part in the 30 books in 30 days reading challenge is to create content for my membership site, the Art of Learning Leadership Academy. I want to become a better writer. In a previous life, I was an analyst, so I used that skill to look at the three books to determine…

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Avil Beckford

Founder, The Invisible Mentor & Art of Learning: https://bit.ly/32bK3k2 Interviewer | Book-a-holic | Reimagining what it means to read nonfiction books