To speak successfully, first you must listen. In today’s episode, I explore the three main strategies of listening to your audience when you are the one doing the speaking. Whether you have an interview, meeting, or a public speech in front of thousands, your listening and perception skills are crucial to your success. Listen to today’s episode to get ideas on how to learn from your audience what they most need to know.
Like many of us, you probably don’t like hearing the sound of your own voice on messages or recordings. Please remember that unless you are using a $5000 microphone and great headphones, you are not getting a realistic representation of what you sound like. So, don’t judge yourself harshly. However, there’s a really simple trick…
The Employee Owners of Vegan Cafe Seitan Rising Are Innovating How Cafes Run and Succeed Two of the employee-owners of the cafe, Christina Verna and Amanda Fox join me to chat about how they are reinventing how the restaurant industry does business. From the woman-owned, queer-owned, employee-owned cafe, Seitan Rising. This cafe is the product…
Today’s Show Up! Journal power words: they really say at all. In business, in life, and our professional and personal relationships, I think that’s the way to go.
Yesterday, I learned a lesson about the importance of working with the people who will best respond to your efforts. I have read a great deal about identifying your avatar and then producing and marketing to that avatar. The avatar can be defined as the ideal receiver of your product. It could be the ideal…
Music is the universal language. If you want to understand another culture, listen to their songs. There are so many things I love about doing world music at colleges and universities. I get to expose students to new cultures and languages. I get to introduce them to music they would otherwise never hear. And they…
Should You Always Be Closing? In today’s “Lights, Camera, Wisdom!” I’m thinking about a sort of a modification of the quote that Alec Baldwin’s character, Blake, says in Glengarry Glen Ross, the famous one. Basically, he says you should always be closing. No matter what is going on, go for and get the sale. Regardless…