Ignite Your Confidence with Karen Laos

What to do When People Don't Understand You

Episode Summary

Your voice is powerful, and your ideas are brilliant, but all of this can be clouded when people struggle to understand what you’re saying. In today’s episode, I focus less on your message and more on your articulation. Often this happens when we fail to complete our words, which results in making others work extra hard to understand. If people commonly ask you to repeat yourself or express that they did not hear you clearly, this episode is for you! I share tips and tricks that you can practice today to help transform your message from unclear to clear and powerful.

Episode Notes

Tangible Takeaways:

• Speak louder - when we speak louder, it takes intention and attention to do this, forcing you to slow down and articulate. 
• When you speak, open up your mouth bigger. This may feel strange, but often mumbling comes from a closed-off mouth.
• Practice the pause and speak slower. This helps with clarity.
• Breathe intentionally. It supports the strength of your voice.
• Speak in sound bursts - go loud and fast, and change your pitch from low to high. Variety keeps people engaged.

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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Episodes also available on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEwQoTGdJX5eME0ccBKiKng/videos

My book “Trust Your Own Voice”: https://karenlaos.com/book/