Communicating with Confidence & Impact - For Women

Explore what strong communication is and isn’t, highlighting both output and input through leadership presence, storytelling, active listening, and curiosity. Learn to connect ideas to people with strong questions.

Explore statistics on representation, microaggressions, burnout, and stress affecting women in the workplace, and learn strategies to build confidence in communication.

Develop leadership presence by mastering confident presentation, eye contact, purposeful movement, and clear voice inflections to build trust, understanding, and shape conversations.

Explore leadership presence through Sheryl Sandberg's clear, outspoken style and Gal Gadot's kind yet fierce approach that speaks up for beliefs.

Practice leadership presence by recording a one-minute explainer on baking a cake, planning with 3-4 bullets, and refining eye contact, posture, voice inflections, tone, pace, and authenticity.

Identify common confidence challenges in leadership presence and apply practical reframes to boost executive presence before delivering impactful communications.

Storytelling captivates audiences, connects diverse learners with imagery, and aligns everyone toward a shared goal. It clarifies concepts and boosts memory through visuals and words.

Great storytellers trigger audience reactions by connecting concepts to people and making them feel something, from inspiration to sadness. Learn vulnerable storytelling from Michelle Obama, Brené Brown, and Maya Angelou.

Practice storytelling by drafting two short, specific stories in two minutes for your upcoming meeting to foster human connection and help the audience imagine the material.

Reframe common mindset blocks to build confidence in storytelling for professionals. Draft a fictional story to relate to real life, then trim to a vivid bite-size narrative.

Learn to listen actively by hearing both spoken and unspoken clues, slowing down to understand others’ experiences, and mitigating miscommunications while building respect, trust, and collaborative solutions.

Explore active listening through phrases like 'I hear you' and 'tell me more,' and study Oprah and Mariska Hargitay as strong, engaging listeners.

Practice active listening in an upcoming meeting by selecting individuals to listen to, noting body language, and asking clarifying questions to connect insights to the next steps.

Identify confidence challenges in active listening and reframe them as practices to improve. Focus on listening to others, put them at the center of the conversation, and build connection.

Practice leading with curiosity and questioning to clarify meanings, avoid blame, and deepen understanding through direct questions and data-driven conversations.

Explore how leading with curiosity strengthens communication by asking the right questions, solving the right problem, and moving ideas forward, illustrated by Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sara Blakely.

Learn to overcome confidence challenges in asking questions by reframing doubts as curiosity. Embrace questions that benefit the group, slow nothing down, and show bravery to help others and yourself.

Identify internal blockers to asking questions in meetings, note your personal reframes, then practice applying them in the next meeting to speak up with curiosity and confidence.

Develop your communications leadership by embracing self-acceptance and self-authority, applying the core tenets of effective communicators. Choose a leadership metaphor to channel before meetings, boosting confidence and delivering impactful communication.

Explore how strong workplace communication drives trust, collaboration, productivity, and retention. See key stats on miscommunication costs, failure rates, and the benefits of connected employees.

Identify leadership presence qualities and harness storytelling to communicate with confidence, while practicing active listening and leading with curiosity to overcome confidence challenges.

Explore executive coaching options for high-performing women, including online trainings, one-on-one personalized coaching, corporate workshops for women's groups, to boost confidence, impact, and provide a free career guide.