Seasoned leaders have
naturally incorporated
confidence into their
communication styles and it's
completely natural.
Without it the alternative to
that is that some
professionals struggle to even
appear confident.
In this video,
I'm gonna be sharing five
public speaking hacks so that
you can sound more confident
as a leader.
And I'm gonna be sharing them
as five principles,
and they're the ABCs.
So I'm gonna be going down the
alphabet from A,
B,
C,
D to E.
So by the end of it,
if you are a team leader,
if you are leading teams or
managing teams or multiple
teams,
beneath you,
that you can sound and appear
more confident.
Public speaking.
Hack A A stands for agility is
the entrance to integration.
So that might sound really
complex,
but I'm gonna break it down
for you.
Agility,
what do I mean by that?
I'm referring specifically to
response agility,
your responses to individuals
as a leader,
as a team leader,
you're responding to your
direct reports,
you're responding to
stakeholders,
you're responding to your
higher ups as well.
You're responding across
beneath,
diagonally,
and above you.
So this requires a lot of
response agility.
Why is that?
It's because no matter who you
are interacting with on an any
given basis,
the context changes,
the relationship changes,
the hierarchy changes,
and the value structures
change as well.
So this requires a high degree
of response,
agility,
which means you are flexible
in how you respond to other
people's comments,
how you respond to their
questions,
how you respond to their
emotional cues,
and more importantly,
how you respond in how you
show up in front of them as
well.
So this requires a lot of
thinking on your feet.
This requires also that you
have a high degree of
emotional intelligence,
that you have managed your own
emotions to be able to show up
in this way,
cuz without that,
without that emotional
intelligence,
this is where we become
disintegrated.
We have less,
we're less able to have that
flexibility in our responses
because absent emotional
intelligence,
we respond in response to our
own emotional wounds,
our own emotional hurts,
our own emotional concerns and
worries and so on and
anxieties.
So this,
this is the number one
obstacle to response
flexibility,
right?
So this is public speaking
hack A is having that agility
and that is the entrance to
your own integration.
Integration of yourself into
your whole and integration of
all the teams that you are a
part of as well.
And by the way,
I'm only talking about
response agility right now,
but there are actually two
more types of agility that is
gonna be important for you as
a leader.
And I'm gonna be sharing those
two types as a bonus at the
end of this video.
And I'm not gonna share that
right now because right now
we're just talking about
public speaking hacks.
But these two agilities are
also equally as important as a
leader.
Stay tuned to the end of this
video and I'll share those to
you at that time.
Public speaking hack letter B,
and that is brevity is the
essence of intelligence.
One can convey a lot more
messages,
a lot deeper and wisdom in
messages simply by minimum use
of language.
Now this piece of wisdom in
terms of brevity came all the
way back from the 16 hundreds
by Shakespeare.
Shakespeare was the playwright
who wrote Hamlet.
In the book Hamlet,
there was a character named
Polonius,
and he was known for his
famous quote.
And he said that brevity is
the soul of wit,
it's the soul of wit.
In other words,
it is the essence of
intelligence.
Have you ever noticed that if
you have a speech and you've
prepared your speech,
you took a long time to
prepare for your speech and
you put your heart and soul
into it,
have you ever noticed that it
takes a lot more time and a
lot more mental resources to
make it shorter?
And that's because in order to
make it shorter,
we are essentially minimizing
using minimum language.
And that requires a great deal
of intelligence to convey that
much.
But you've also heard this
saying that less is more.
And that is certainly the case
when it comes to having
brevity.
That is the essence of
intelligence.
How you can convey so much
more just by minimizing your
use of the language.
And how do you do that?
By going back to principles,
understanding the principles
you have been implying in your
industry,
understanding the principles
that you have taught field
tested to be true and that
have been be able to achieve
the successes as a result of
application of those
principles.
When you speak and when you
present in accordance to
principles and when you think
in the principles,
this is what allows you to be
able to exercise that brevity
is the soul of wit.
So if you're thinking about
this and you're nodding your
head and you realize that a
lot of great leaders have
that,
they are brief,
they are to the point,
they are also able to convey
deep messages in that manner.
And that is a natural com
confidence in their
communication style.
If you're noticing this and
you're wondering,
well,
how do I apply my principles?
How do I know what my
principles are?
Then I invite you to work with
me every single week I train
about this.
How do you think in principles
way,
how do you make your speeches,
how do you communicate in ways
that convey confidence?
And if you are interested and
seriously committed to that
level of professional
development,
then I invite you to book a
call with my team.
Beneath this description,
there is a link for you to
send an application and one of
ours is gonna get on a call to
really explore whether or not
it's gonna be the right fit.
And if it is,
you can come join a elite
group of professionals all
walks of life and you can
train on this skillset because
I believe that when it comes
to communicating public
speaking leadership,
these are all skills that are
trainable and transferrable.
So if you're serious about
that,
sending your application,
I look forward to working with
you on the inside.
Public speaking hack letter C.
C stands for courage.
Courage is the enhancer of
influence.
Let's face it.
As a team leader,
one of the most important
things is to be able to
elevate your influence,
your influence.
Because as you go up in an
organization,
it's gonna be less and less
about your technical skills,
less and less about the
knowledge you have accumulated
in your college degrees,
in your training as well.
To do the technical work.
It's gonna be less and less
about that,
and it's gonna be more and
more about how do you navigate
the culture of the
organization?
How do you navigate its
politics?
How do you navigate the
interpersonal relationships?
It's gonna be more and more
about that.
And the higher you go up in an
in an organization and the
higher you aspire to go up,
the more those skill sets are
going to be increasingly more
important.
And let's face it,
communications forges into the
unknown.
Especially as you get into
executive leadership
positions,
you're forging into the
unknown.
Every time you communicate,
every time you assert your
influence,
you're forging into the
unknown.
And the unknown is such a
prevalent scenario because
anytime you speak,
you're gonna have people who
disagree with you.
You're gonna have people who
criticize you,
you're gonna have people who
challenge your stance.
You're gonna have people to
outright oppose you as well.
So as a leader,
one of the most important
things is to embrace that
knowing that when every time
you share an idea,
sometimes people agree,
sometimes people disagree,
sometimes people have praises
for you,
sometimes people have
criticisms.
There's going to be both
challenge and support.
And this requires courage to
have that recognition.
Courage to be able to pursue
that despite the challenges,
despite the criticisms to be
able to pursue that because
that is what is meaningful
meaningfulness in a career
path,
in a,
in a personal growth journey.
Meaningfulness means that
there is both challenge and
support.
There is both criticism and
there is both praise.
And so your ability to have
that courage,
to embrace those and to pursue
your mission,
even if through the pains and
pleasures,
this is your pathway to
influence.
Public speaking hack letter D,
dispassion is the enabler of
interaction.
So what do we mean by that?
Dispassion dispassion is the
opposite of passion.
When you are passionate,
you feel a lot of passion,
which are strong emotions.
This is your amygdala,
the emotional,
the limbic centers of your
brain are lighting up,
they're firing up,
and you feel strongly about
something.
When you're passionate,
you pursue things because they
are pleasure,
pleasing,
or you avoid things because
they are displeasing.
So this is a very passionate
pursuit.
Our impulses and instincts are
in there and we are listening
to them.
We are firing up and listening
to impulses and instincts.
We are impossibly trying to
pursue things that bring us
pleasure,
that bring advantages or
benefits,
and we are trying to avoid
things,
having anxiety around things
that are displeasing,
that are challenging and so
forth.
So these are our passions.
Now being dispassionate is the
exact opposite.
Now,
by the way,
do not confuse dispassion,
with being nonchalant,
it is very different.
Dispassion simply means that
you aren't.
You aren't bound by your
strong emotions.
It's not about living by and
making decisions based on
strong emotions we feel from
our amygdala,
it's not about making
decisions based on impulses
and instincts.
It is making decisions from an
impartial standpoint.
When you are dispassionate,
you are impartial.
This is where you are making
decisions from the executive
centers of your brain,
which is very different from
making decisions based on your
amygdala or limbic centers of
your brain.
Your executive centers are
more rational,
they are more objective.
This is where you can see both
sides of things.
I can see why this is a
benefit.
I can also see the drawbacks.
I can also see the challenges
and there's the support as
well.
But I know what my mission is
and I'm gonna pursue it
nonetheless because this
mission is very meaningful to
me.
And this mission is aligned
with who I am and the things
that I am inspired to achieve
for my life and for the
company in which I work.
And that is a dispassionate
response dispassion.
And this really enables
interactions because when you
are dispassionate,
you're impartial.
And when you're impartial,
you're not judging others,
you're not judging yourself as
well.
You're not blaming others,
blaming self,
you're also not a victim of
your circumstances in that
moment you are present and
poised.
When you're present and
poised,
you can truly interact with
others as they are and as
yourself,
you bring your whole self to
work.
You bring your whole self as a
leader of your team.
And this is one of the most
important keys to public
speaking hacks,
how to sound and to appear
confident as a leader.
Public speaking hack letter E.
This is engagement is the
expressway to interrelation.
So what does this mean?
Have you ever noticed that
someone who is naturally
confident,
a seasoned leader,
who has naturally integrated
confidence in their
communication style,
that seasoned leader does not
need other people to confirm
that they're confident.
They don't need other people
to praise them of their
confidence.
They don't need other people
to even agree or even state
that they're confident because
they know that they are.
So when it comes to appearing
that way,
a natural confidence,
it's not about needing to
impress somebody.
It's definitely not about
needing them to tell you who
you are and tell you how
you're feeling because this is
a heightened sense level of
self-awareness.
So this is what truly enables
you to engage with your
audience.
Engagement is the expressway
to interrelations.
So as a leader,
interrelations are going to be
key interrelation across,
beneath and above and
diagonally from you.
So the best way to have that
heightened level of engagement
is to ask great questions.
One of the most important
skill sets of a leader in
communicating to communicate
well we listen well to be able
to be a great orator we listen
well as well.
And when we listen,
we observe.
So asking great questions
allows you to observe and to
listen to those people you are
going to be communicating
with.
And when you listen to them,
you are preparing,
you are better able to be a
great communicator in front of
them.
Now if you're wondering,
well,
how do I know how to think of
good questions?
How do I know what are good
questions?
At the end of this video,
I'm gonna share that with you.
So stay tuned for that.
At the end of this video,
I'm gonna talk about how to
ask great questions.
Now,
earlier at the start of this
training,
I talked about agility.
Do you remember it was letter
A,
public speaking letter A,
where I talked about there is
pro,
there is response agility.
And I said that there's two
other types of agility that
are crucial for leaders.
Now I wanna share with you
what they are.
Now,
these are the two extra ones.
So this is the bonus one,
the first one is processing
agility.
And this is your ability to be
able to be flexible in your
perceptions.
This is gonna be your ability
to be flexible and agile in
response to your observations.
This is called processing
agility.
How do you process what you
see?
How do you process your
emotions?
How do you process it so that
your perspectives are truly
seeing what is and not a
judgment of what is?
So that's the first one,
processing agility.
The second one is learning
agility.
Cuz as I mentioned right at
the beginning of this video,
as you go up and step into
higher levels of leadership in
the executive levels,
it's gonna be less and less
about what you know
technically and less about
less and less about what you
can do and what you've been
good at on the technicals
front.
But it's gonna be more and
more about learning what is
the cultural context of this
organization?
What are the relationships
involved?
What are the politics?
How do people respond in terms
of power and authority?
Where are the power and
authority?
So this is learning agility.
Can you exercise flexibility
in what you are to learn?
Cuz chances are,
if you have been in the past,
really good at what you did on
the technical areas,
then chances are right now it
is a,
it is tempting to focus on
that.
Continue focusing on that
because it's your strength,
it's something that you have
been inspired by.
It's something that brought
you success in the past.
So this learning agility is
how do we move away from that
and identify areas where I do
need to start learning because
I'm in a higher level of
leadership now in order to be,
for me to be successful it's
more about the interrelations,
the culture and the politics
and the power and the
authority and so on,
right?
So learning agility,
processing agility,
those are the two bonuses.
Add that onto letter A,
which is your response
agility.
So those are the three types
of agility that is important
as a leader.
And I also promised to you
that I was gonna share with
you a framework on how do you
ask great questions.
I have recorded a whole
training on that and that
video is coming right up next,
how to ask good questions and
improve your communications.
Stay tuned and I'll see you
there.