Completion Time

1 hour 31 min

Course Objectives

Speak without apology. Eliminate speech qualifiers that dilute your value.

Develop engaging presentations and master public speaking.
Master effective storytelling that commands attention and leaves you memorable.
Advocate for you and your team.  Motivate and inspire your team.
Engage in active versus passive listening.

Ask for the 'Yes' in the face of rejection.

Module 4: Communicate With Presence

Introduction

Building executive presence, self-promotion, sharing your successes, and vocalizing your needs are all important to owning your authority, but for many professionals, self-doubt creeps in and keeps them from speaking up with confidence. Their faith in their abilities waivers, and panic sets in about whether they really know what they profess and can achieve the outcomes they claim. 

In this module you will discover how your dialogue and internal self-talk impacts how you are perceived today and is affecting your confidence levels.  You will also learn how to engage in active versus passive listening.

Learn to recognize ways in which you can detach from language which feeds into the “Sorry Syndrome” – apologetic words that imply inadequacy rather than exemplifying strength. Learn how subtle tweaks in your speech can springboard you from diluting your value to spotlighting your assets. Receive guidance on how to speak with confidence, intention and clarity, positively influencing how others respond to you. In this module, you will master your mindset on how you see yourself first and upgrade your communication style immediately.

Behind the scenes with Marisa

To reach the things that we want in our life, it's not so much as doing what we know logically makes sense as much as it is about eliminating all doubt. A desire is a wave of energy and when we allow self-doubt to rears its ugly head – it too will take the form of an energy wave, only in the opposite direction of the desire. Therefore, with two opposing intentions, they inevitably will cancel each other out, including our intention.

There are only three things we can control in life, our thoughts, our actions and our images of the future. I like to live in the imagery corner. I know even if my thoughts are aligned, and I'm doing all the right things, those things won't matter if I've set up a negative outcome in my mind.

Suppose you have always dreamed of writing a book one day. Then you wake up one day and say “I want to write a book and by hook or by crook, one day I will write my book!” Immediately after voicing this, a few hours pass, maybe after a day or two, the self-doubt beings to creep in, essentially canceling that goal out.  Now you’ve had some time to consider if this goal is possibile. You may not be smart enough to write a book or perhaps you are overwhelmed with responsibilities and do not have the time to write a book. So, that initial desire filled with enthusiasm never stands a chance of getting off the ground to gain momentum because it has been swiftly cancelled out. These are your limiting beliefs. It’s not that we have to work hard at the things we want, we just have to eliminate resistance around believing that they are possible and we are qualified to receive them.

Why is this important? Sabotaging beliefs will physically weaken you and show up as weak language. Positive expectation on the other hand replaces those negative low-lying energy waves with high-flying expected outcomes and gives space for your desires to bloom with breathing room.

So when you're feeling on shaky ground unsure of how things will turn out, go back to why you are there, and why you matter unattached to the outcome, fully letting go.

So think about ways in which you are memorable in your personal life where you feel safe and apply that to the public world as if you know everyone in the room. Be open. Talk to strangers whom you for no rational reason just tend to gravitate to. Even when you sit at a table with strangers, that seat you chose wasn't random. Someone at the that table can help you. You were paired there for a reason - both of you.  This isn't magic, it's simply how we are given opportunities. They are right beneath our nose. So, when your gut says to go up to a stranger and ask them a question - do it! Don't question WHY. That's an inspired action and will unveil itself later.

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