In your role right now, are there constantly opportunities for you to
meet with executives, have meetings with them, have collaborations
with them, and you're just wondering what's the best way to
communicate?
Or maybe you're thinking about you yourself becoming an executive.
Well, in this video, I'm going to share with you a very simple
framework that you can implement right now to help you be effective
anytime you are speaking in front of executives.
So it's a beautiful day outside.
Let's go for a walk and I'll share with you the framework.
And if you have a notepad in front of you, take notes.
I'm sharing with you a framework on effective communication with
executives.
But what is a framework?
I want to make sure that we are on the same page when it comes to
framework.
What a framework is, is a, some sort of a conceptual conceptual
structure that acts as a guide when you're building something that's
useful in the marketplace.
So when you think of, for example, in architecture, you have a
framework that informs the building of something useful right?
Buildings, houses, and so on.
And it's not just in architecture in business as well you have
frameworks to operate and to build businesses that provide value in
the marketplace that build towards something useful.
And the same thing is true in your career when it comes to developing
communication skills, speaking effectively as well, so that you can
step up into higher levels of leadership.
There needs to be a framework there as well so you can build towards
something useful, which means building skill sets a career path, right
towards utility in your specific marketplace.
So I want to share with you a framework and really this framework
consists of three key elements, right?
Three elements.
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Okay.
So the three framework, the framework which consists of three
elements, and the first element is mindset.
Mindset.
I know that mindset is kind of like a buzzword these days on the
internet online, people are always talking about mindset, but what
exactly is it?
Is it meditation?
Is it affirmation?
Is it a morning routine?
Is it any of these things?
And the essence of it is, is you could be doing affirmations.
You could be doing meditations, but that's not what I'm at, right?
I'm all about sharing principles of having, having you to achieve
what's most important to you, right?
So I'm not here to share tactical information.
I'm sharing real proven principles to help you achieve what is most
important to you.
So the essence of mindset is really the beliefs and attitudes that you
have towards something.
So when it comes to your communication, your speaking, what are your
attitudes towards it?
For example, is your attitude that you just want to shy away from the
limelight.
You just want to quickly get done and leave so that you are out of
that uncomfort zone, the discomfort zone, right?
And what are your beliefs around your speaking, or do you believe it's
not possible for you?
Do you believe that, for example, you have limitations around your
capabilities or is there a part of you that believes that you don't
deserve to be an executive or that you're not good enough?
Right?
So these beliefs and attitudes make up the essence of your mindset.
And when it comes to the framework of speaking effectively, in front
of executives, so that you don't feel fear, without the fear of
speaking in front of them, the mindset piece is important, but keep in
mind that mindset alone is insufficient.
If you have the right mindset, let's say that you really do believe
it's possible for you.
And you really do see that you deserve it and you have something
important to say, and the executives need to hear it.
If your mindset is, is on the right step, it is aligned with your
chief aim.
It is aligned with the goals you have set forward.
Just having a mindset is not enough.
There's two other elements.
There's two more elements that are key to this framework.
Element number two, the second element is method.
Method.
What is method?
It is really a strategic, a strategy or approach into communicating
and speaking in an optimal way because let's face it, when you are in
front of executives, you want to be optimized in the way that you
present your ideas or share yourself or to share your recommendations.
So method is your strategy and your approach.
And most of the time when it comes to these meetings or presentations,
most people don't have a method, or they have a method that they have
just reached on the internet or through reading books or some sort of
articles or, or other videos that they've been watching.
And their method is a little bit too basic.
For example, methods that focus on improving your English language or
that focus primarily on vocabulary words, learning five new words a
day, or maybe methodologies that focus more on the mechanics of
speaking like pronunciation and enunciation, but let's face it when
you're at this level of your career.
When you have seniority, when you have successes already, and you're
presenting in front of executives at this level of your career, you
already have those methods.
You already have those strategies.
It's not about the mechanics of speaking it's not about English
grammar.
You're already at the level when you are expected to be in the room in
the circle of executives, which means that the methods that maybe
you're focusing on are too basic.
So that's why in my coaching program, I focus on the strategies and
approaches to help you share your genuine and proven and tried and
tested principles on how you achieve the success that you have
achieved in your career path so far.
And when you share your principles, this is what's most impactful in
front of executives, right?
So this is not about sharing your methodology or your processes
because chances are executives at that level when they want to hear
from you, or when they want to hear your ideas or your recommendations
moving forward, they're not there for the minutiae.
They're definitely not there for your processes and your new
methodologies.
They want to understand your principles, right?
So if you are somebody who's serious about how do I take this to the
next level?
Because you understand that every week you have meetings and these
meetings are fundamental and crucial to position yourself as a leader
in your industry.
And you want to know, how do I, how do I articulate better?
How do I understand what my principles are?
I don't know what they are.
I don't know how to articulate them.
Then I invite you to book a call with me.
And as your coach, I'm going to guide you on how you can articulate
your principles, how you can articulate things that are unique to you
in a way that really outlines your secret sauce to your success.
And when your executives hear this, this is what they hired you for.
This is genuinely how you share your truths, your wisdom.
All right.
So below this video is a link.
The first link in the description below is a link that you can book a
call with either myself or someone from my team.
And it's just literally an exploratory call where we're going to
explore what it's like to work together and how I'm going to help you
to improve your communications.
Only if you're serious about achieving these results for yourself,
then book a call and I look forward to working with you on the inside.
And element number three, the third element is your motivation.
So what is the essence of motivation?
I'm not talking about external motivation where you need somebody to
keep on reminding you, or you need to put it on your calendar.
Otherwise you're just unmotivated to do it.
I'm not talking about the rah rah out there where you're watching
inspirational videos and in that moment it feels so good.
But what happens after the next day, it just kind of wears out.
I'm talking about genuine intrinsic motivation.
This is your power, your push and your purpose.
What does that mean?
Your power is your energy.
How are you dedicated to this every day?
How are you dedicated to communicating to executives, developing those
skills, honing your strategies and your approaches as well.
And having a solid mindset.
Push is your ambitious drive.
What is your ambition towards it?
Are you genuinely interested and committed to developing this
skillset?
Are you genuinely wanting to add value to the executives and to your
teams as well and to the company in which you serve?
And the final one is your purpose, your true life purpose.
Why are you doing this in the first place?
What drives you?
What is most enthusiastic about you when it comes to showing up in
front of these meetings, when it comes to sharing your ideas, what is
your true and genuine purpose behind it?
That is your motivation.
So the three elements, this is part of the framework on how to speak
to executives without fear, right?
It is motivation.
It is method.
And it is the first one we talked about, which is mindset.
And all three of them are absolute requirements.
You can't have one without the other.
You can't have one missing and two present and I'll prove it to you.
So let's say that you have the right mindset.
You genuinely believe that I deserve to be in this position.
You genuinely believe that I am capable of developing this skill set.
And you have that attitude, the right attitude towards approaching
your executives as well.
If you have the right mindset, it doesn't, it is still insufficient to
produce the outcome because maybe you don't have the motivation to do
it.
And so therefore you're not constantly motivated or inspired from
within to work on the skillset.
Or if you have the mindset and you don't have the method, right?
Maybe you have the motivation, but you don't have the method, which
means that you don't know what to do.
What's the right approach.
What's the right strategy.
And so focusing on vocabulary or grammar or basic things like that are
still, aren't going to make, you are still going to help you towards
your meaningful goals of being effective in front of executives,
because the method is incorrect, right?
And so all three must be present.
The method must be there.
The intrinsic motivation must be there and the right mindset as well.
So this is, this is the framework on how to step up into leadership in
those meetings with executives and have that effectiveness in your
communication.
So comment below, I want to hear from you.
What did you learn from this?
What was your biggest takeaway as you were writing notes and which one
of these three areas are you committed to improving today?
And by the way, if you desire more and you want to know, okay, well,
what about my fears in front of executives?
Right.
I still want to know how to overcome that.
Then I recently created a video on how to speak up in front of higher
ups so that you can calm the nerves.
If you, if you're the kind of person who feels afraid to speak up,
even if you know, you have something important to say, but there's
that fear that's holding you back then I invite you to watch the next
video that's coming up.
And in that video, this is where I address, how do you speak up if
you're afraid to speak up in front of higher ups?
So the next video is showing up and I'll see you there.