Often, there’s a moment just before you speak when your body decides something without consulting you. Your heart rate climbs. Your breathing moves up into your chest and gets shorter. Your mouth dries, your palms go damp, and a part of your mind that has been perfectly reasonable all morning starts listing everything that[…]
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How to Calm Your Nerves Before You Speak
Leadership, Mindfulness, Presentation Skills, Public Speaking Jul 31, 2014
The M Point: Your Moment of Truth Before You Speak
Leadership, Presentation Skills, Public Speaking Jul 24, 2014
It usually arrives as a line in an email, or as someone catching you on the way out of a meeting: can you take ten minutes at the leadership session on the fourteenth and tell everyone where the project has got to? You say yes, the date goes in the diary, and something starts[…]