Ignite Your Confidence with Karen Laos

4 Qualities of an Influential Communicator Part 1

Episode Summary

Are you tired of feeling like your words fall on deaf ears? Maybe you see that glazed-over expression in your audience, or there seems to be a missing piece in your communication with the team, and you can’t put your finger on what to do differently. In this episode, I share four qualities that anyone can master to increase their influence. You'll learn how to develop them with mindset shifts, tips, and sentence prompts that you can use in all of your communication. Pick one, practice it, and increase your influence.

Episode Notes

Tangible Takeaways:

• The goal is to project the image that you want to project.
• Have a point, and stick to it! You can do this by deciding your point in advance and sharing this upfront. People need to receive information with the point first, and details after, not the other way around.
• Avoid data dumping! We can think this boosts your credentials, but in reality, people can only take in so much information at once. Keep it simple.
• Make sure your message is relevant to your audience, and be wary of the curse of knowledge. 
• Instead of shutting down new ideas, make sure that you are open. Even if you tried that idea before, give it 5 minutes of consideration and allow brainstorming to happen.
• Make sure expectations are clear, not unspoken, by asking, “What does ‘done’ look like to you?”
• State the “why” up front! Make sure everyone on your team understands the why behind projects and tasks so they’ll be more motivated to do them.
   

About me:
Karen Laos, Communication Expert and Confidence Cultivator, leverages 25 years in the boardroom and speaking on the world’s most coveted stages such as Google and NASA to transform missed opportunities into wins. She is fiercely committed to her mission of eradicating self-doubt in 10 million women by giving them practical strategies to ask for what they want in the boardroom and beyond. She guides corporations and individuals with her tested communication model to generate consistent results through her Leadership Presence Keynote: How to Be an Influential Communicator.

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