Tag: Leadership Strategies/Tips
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Keeping It Light with Levity
We all remember the droning on of Charlie Brown’s lecturing teacher – wah wah wah wah – what a bore! Adding levity to your communication style can be a compelling way to engage your audience, break up the monotony, and make your message more memorable. You may find lightheartedness can go a long way, but…
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Are Your Good Student Habits Holding You Back?
How often do you find yourself in the loop of preparing, editing, overthinking, and repeating? And when you are finally ready to present, you find post-presentation or post-meeting anxiety creeping in, making you second-guess everything you said. For many of us, this is a never-ending cycle of perfectionism, especially the overthinking part! Consider letting go…
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Pushback with Questions
Recently I was honored to speak at a conference about compelling communication. My audience was a group of women surgeons who were collectively a brilliant, accomplished bunch. Yet unfortunately, and unsurprisingly, they shared their frustrations about not being treated with the same respect as their male counterparts. One example? Male resident physicians are selected for…
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Conserve Emotional Energy
The pandemic may be over, but the ways in which we work have changed forever. Hybrid events and teleconferencing are here to stay. As much as we are over meeting-by-screen, there are some benefits. Just last week, I was face to face – er, screen to screen – with coaching clients in Dubai and London…
