Master Public Speaking to Become a Leader at Work. Speak Up!

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This lecture is the introduction to first thing that is most likely getting in the way of you communicating yourself with confidence and authority. No, it's not everybody else. It's you.

You will walk away from this lecture understand how you get in your own way of achieving your communication potential.

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Your first step in shifting your negative mindset to a positive mindset is becoming aware of exactly what you tell yourself on a daily basis.

Just this step of becoming aware of, naming, and writing down your negative mindsets is a very powerful tool in helping you to move past this barrier that has kept you from showing up and achieving what you want in your life and career.

In this lecture you will understand what a mindset is, why it's important, and what negative mindsets are currently subconsciously running the show.

You will walk away from this lecture knowing exactly which powerful, negative mindsets are dictating your daily performance.

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What you focus on becomes your reality. The best way to shift how you feel before you begin speaking and while you’re speaking, whether it’s during a meeting or a conversation or giving a presentation, is to change your mindset.

We started with awareness. In this lecture you will learn how to let go of the mindsets that you became aware of, making room for a set of positive mindsets.

You will walk away from this lecture having worked through your negative mindsets to the point that you can dismiss them or have a plan to shift their effectiveness.

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Now that you’ve disarmed and let go of your negative mindsets, it’s time to replace them with powerful, positive mindsets.

In this lecture you will receive a deeper understanding as to the positive mindsets that are available. You will find the ones that resonate and have the opportunity to put them into action immediately through a simple exercise.

You will walk away from this lecture knowing your new, powerful, positive mindsets and how to put them into action immediately in your daily life.

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Although a lot of people benefit from a specific, individualized mindset such as we came up with in the last lecture, adopting a new general mindset can also be extremely powerful.

One powerful mindset shift that I often give to my clients is “Enjoy yourself while you are speaking” or ask yourself “what can I do in this moment to have more fun?”

In this lecture you will understand the power of this general mindset shift and learn actionable ways to have more fun as you speak.

You will walk away from this video with specific instructions as to how to have more fun with your conversations and meetings on an immediate and daily basis.

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In order to speak up effectively you need to know three things:

1. When to speak up

2. What to say

3. How to shift your delivery to be seen as confident, an authority, and to be taken seriously.

In this video I tackle the first question: "When do I begin speaking up?" And even more importantly, "who should I be when I speak up?"

You'll walk away from this video knowing when to speak, how to begin speaking up, and actionable homework to begin changing your relationship to speaking up, now.

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When speaking up it's most important for your sense of comfort and confidence to be yourself. But who are "You?" 

In this video you will understand yourself "self" as your communication style. Your communication style is comprised of the qualities you bring into a conversation, to your team, or into a room when you speak.

It's important that you know you communication style so that you:

1. Understand what valuable qualities you naturally project

2. Know when to speak up and what to contribute

You will walk away from this video having a deeper understanding of your communication style, why it's important, and what you can do to use your communication style effectively on a daily basis.

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Sometimes what you’re naturally good at or what you naturally exude doesn’t serve you in every situation. Your delivery choices need to match your environment.

For example If you’re always bringing a good joke into the conversation it might not be serving you if you are looking to be seen as an authority in a serious meeting.

In this lecture I'm going to teach you how to find and incorporate qualities of a leader that you want to develop in yourself.

You will walk away from this lecture knowing how you want to expand your communication style, and how to begin expanding your range in an authentic way immediately.

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The first step in the process of learning a new skillset is to find awareness. In order to develop your awareness of ways in which you currently undercut yourself, we’re going to conduct a short assessment.

In this lecture you will be taken step by step through the process of videoing and assessing yourself to understand how to best take advantage of the following lecture.

You will walk away from this lecture with directions as to how you will conduct a self assessment which is necessary to implementing the lessons of the following lectures.

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The following videos will teach you techniques to communicate confidence and authority each time you speak up.

A benefit to making all of these techniques habitual is not only that you will communicate more confidence and authority in meetings and conversations but by exhibiting the physical and vocal behavior of confidence and authority you will actually begin to feel more confident and authoritative.

In this lecture I will walk you through a short exercise demonstrating why learning new body language and vocal choices is important.

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Our foundational technique for increasing your confidence and authority is sitting and standing in The Neutral Powerful position. By sitting up tall and being still in your center you will communicate that you are solid in yourself, your ideas, and your position.

You will walk away from this video having experienced the power of this standing in your center and keeping your feel in cement and knowing how to implement it in your daily communication.

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The one thing you might shy away from doing when you feel insecure about speaking up or nervous about losing your thought is to make direct authentic eye contact with your audience or people around you.

Making authentic eye contact will force you to stay in the present moment and get real time feedback as to how your points are landing.

You will walk away from this video having experienced the power of mastering your eye contact and knowing how to implement it in your daily communication.

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The best way to relax your body and show that you are confident and comfortable is to take up space as you speak.

This includes standing tall in your center, planting your feet hip width apart, and bringing your hands up to gesture immediately.

In this lecture you will understand exactly how to gesture so that you take up more space in an accessible and natural way.

You will walk away from this video having experienced the power of gesturing effectively to take up space and knowing how to implement it in your daily communication.

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You now know how to take up more space physically by bringing your hands up immediately when you begin speaking to gesture.

Now I’m going to teach you how to energetically take up more space. To do this you will need to learn how to make yourself "present" before you begin speaking.

You will walk away from this video having experienced the power of becoming present before speaking and knowing how to implement this in your daily communication.

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You now know how to use your body language so that you’re taken seriously. Now you need to learn how to express your ideas so that you sound as authoritative as you look.

Here’s the foundational technique that allows you to speak with authority: take a deep diaphragmatic breath before you begin speaking.

You will walk away from this video having experienced the power of breathing to decrease anxiety and increase confidence and knowing how to implement this in your daily communication.

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Catch breathes cause our ideas to sound disconnected and disconnected ideas sound insecure.

Catch breathes cause run on sentences. someone who takes catch breathes you never know where one thought ends and another begins.

Catch breathes also cause us to hyperventilate. Hyperventilation causes anxiety.

When we eliminate catch breathes we eliminate sounding and feeling insecure about what we’re saying.

You will walk away from this video having experienced the power of connecting your ideas with breath and knowing how to implement this in your daily communication.

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If you have even the hint of an uplilt to your voice, it is a sure fire way for your ideas to not be taken seriously and for you to be undercutting yourself all the time.

In this video you will learn what an uplilt is, how to eliminate it from your speech pattern, and how to communicate confidence and authority by ending your sentences.

You will walk away from this video having experienced the power of ending your sentences and knowing how to implement this in your daily communication.

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How often do you speak up at a meeting but feel like no one even heard you. This is a common complaint that I hear from the people that I work with.

There are many reasons why you may be experiencing this, but one reason could be that people didn't actually hear you. Or the way you delivered your idea did not make enough of an impact to stick.

You will walk away from this video having experienced the power of increasing articulation and expression and knowing how to implement this in your daily communication.

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At this point you know that your mindset is no longer getting in your way.

You also have realized that the time to speak up is now and you know what steps you can take on a daily basis to flex your speaking up muscle.

You also know that in order to exude confidence and authority you have to be yourself.

By diving deeply in and dissecting your communication style you know who that “self” is and you know how to embrace that self and expand that self and use your self knowledge to understand when to speak up and what to say.

You now know specific ways in which your unconscious body language and vocal choices might undercut your power and authority, and how to ensure that when you speak up you’ll be taken seriously.

With hard work and dedication you have brought yourself to a new level.

But there is still more potential ahead of you....