How to improve focus when thinking on your feet
Want to know the fastest way to improve focus when thinking on your feet? It has to do with steadying your gaze and focusing on focus!
Three Ways to Improve Your Virtual Presence
Improve your virtual presence with three evidence-based strategies that address what's actually happening—scattered attention, performance anxiety, and lack of real-time feedback. Most virtual presence advice focuses on lighting. This focuses on empathetic presence.
A Formula for Feedback: What not to say to someone who struggles with speaking
When you’re giving feedback, do you worry about “saying the wrong thing”? Find my feedback formula and other tips for giving (and receiving) feedback.
Unconscious Filler: How to stop vilifying UM and use it consciously instead
Replacing your unconscious UM with a pause or breath is the fastest way to shift your hormonal and perceived confidence. The first step is just to hear them. Instead of beating yourself up for hearing them, have an UM party. Celebrate hearing them! Hearing them is the first step to starting to replace them with a pause.
Trusting your innate ability to communicate creates confidence
Does unspoken anxiety make you over-think and over-prepare to hide how much you’re struggling? Learn how to trust your innate ability to communicate and stop over-working to be heard.
The Most Important Way to Shift How You Show Up on Video Calls: Camera Angle
Do you want to know the single most important things you can do in video meetings? No, it’s not finding the right words with perfect precision. The most important thing you can do to shift how you’re perceived on video is adjust your camera angle.
Reject Executive Presence
Getting feedback that you need more confidence or more executive presence only makes you less confident and less present. Here are my tips to reclaim your voice and speak with ease.
Honor Your Innate Rhythm: Refuse to be rushed while speaking
Do you feel like you ramble or repeat yourself while speaking off-the-cuff? Have people told you that you speak fast but telling yourself to “slow down” is just distracting? Speaking fast can take away your confidence and authority (and actually lead to people interrupting you more).
Holding Our Breath While Speaking
If you’re holding your breath while speaking, it can make you lose your train of thought and feed anxiety. Here are my tips for finding flow when speaking.
How to Prepare for Impromptu Speaking
When preparing to speak spontaneously, most people either avoid and wing it or over-prepare and memorize. Here’s my process for finding middle ground and preparing when you can’t prepare.
Prioritize Comfort
What are you prioritizing when speaking? Are you focusing on what you want to say? Or are you over-prioritizing other people’s perceptions of you?