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Up Your Communications Game
Bubbe Wisdom
- Your role as an effective communicator.
- Breathe and relax.
- The mind-mouth disconnect.
Stories from the Stage
- Space Equals Power.
- Chutzpah and Cojones.
- Your Body Language is Leaking.
Ask Questions
- How to pull in your audience.
- Before-I-Begin-Questions.
- Check-In-Questions.
The CBA Technique
- Current Climate.
- Brief Background.
- Action Agenda.
Stage Manage Your Environment
- Watch, monitor and adapt.
- Taking space is taking power.
- Video camera on the wall technique.
Begin Before You Begin
- If you’re in the room, you’re part of the show.
- You are always “ON.”
- It all counts.
Sending Visual Cues
- 55% of the impression you make is visual.
- Stand tall and sit tall.
- Your words need to match your body language.
Avoid Preamble
- You don’t need to say what you are going to say.
- Jump right in and just say it.
- In presentation mode, you want to be on point and say the point.
Positive Planning
- Get focused before you begin.
- What is your one Blazing Clear Objective?
- Nail the opening.
Play with Chronology
- You don’t have to start with the history.
- Past, present and future: mix it up.
- Foreshadowing.
Get Succinct
- Short sentences. Period. Pause.
- Easier to say; easier to listen to.
- Long, run-on sentences are deadly.