Do you have ideas you’re trying to convey to others, and you just can’t seem to express yourself? Do you ever feel like you can’t even tell a story? You could be in the middle of telling a story, and you keep overexplaining and using way too many words. Or you never can get to …
Why do the words not come out as they sound in my head? “I had it all figured out in my head. I knew exactly what I was going to say! Practiced it over and over in my head! But for some reason, it didn’t come out anything like I’d practiced! Why can’t I articulate …
Did you know that they used to teach children communication skills up until about 200 years ago? Yup. It was a priority. Children learned to make their case, the art of conversation (small talk), how to introduce themselves and others, and much more. Ever wonder why you have a hard time giving a presentation? Why …
It’s more complicated than you may think to speak clearly in all situations. So don’t be hard on yourself if you’re not always communicating well. Have you ever felt like you talk too fast or use too high of a pitch? Or maybe you use too many words and end up getting the glaze over, or your spouse gets …
Do you ever find yourself with good (or even brilliant!) ideas that you want to share, but when you try to articulate them, your message doesn’t come out as mellifluously as you imagined? Did you ever finish your presentation, sit down & later realize you forgot an important concept you wanted to deliver? Have you …
Let me tell you something right now: no one is born an incredible speaker. Even today, no one is a perfect communicator. The art of speaking is something humans are still mastering. Our species has only been speaking for about 50,000 years—a blink of an eye in the grand timeline of human evolution, which stretches …
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Do you need to assert yourself more? Perhaps you don’t speak up for yourself. You let your ideas, however brilliant, go unsaid. Or possibly you do assert yourself, but you come across as aggressive. Or rude, even. Neither of these is helpful at all for your career or your relationships. So if you’re sitting around …
There’s nothing like a lack of confidence to hinder your success in relationships and at work. Not knowing what to say, the shaky voice, the passive wording, the fast-talking; all add up as a wedge between you and success. And you know the confident people? The folks who exude executive presence and have people eating out of …
Are you being interrupted frequently? Does it happen in many of your meetings? Being interrupted is not fun, and it can make you feel insignificant and like your words have no meaning. But this doesn’t have to be. You can learn the techniques to keep from being interrupted. If you’re only being interrupted once in …
Have you ever listened to someone speak and have no clue what they’re trying to say? Worse, have you ever tried to tell your colleague an idea or your friend a funny thing that happened to you and see their eyes glaze over? Or you’re at a meeting and you have a brilliant idea, you …
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