How often do you pause to consider if the way you and your team are communicating is helping or actually hindering success? Here’s the thing: Great communication starts with empathy and intentionality. Before hitting send on your next email or Teams message, ask yourself: “Am I crafting this to suit me or the individual I’m addressing?” Adjusting […]
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Listen up. Your presentation should do one thing: support your story. Your slides are not meant to replace you, nor should they compete with your voice. Yet, it’s easy to fall into the trap of overloading slides with text or data, trying to anticipate every possible need. Here’s the challenge: when you present overloaded slides, your audience tunes
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Some people just know how to read a room. They have this seemingly uncanny ability to perceive and understand the emotions, attitudes, and dynamics of a group of people in a given setting — and tailor their communications and behaviors in real time to make the most of the moment. Guess what? Those who do
I coach a lot of life science and biotech clients who create scientific and technical presentations. From pitches to high stakes regulatory meetings, time and again speakers overload their presentations (slides and talking points) with data — with the expectation that the data will do the job that the speaker actually needs to do themselves…
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Leadership and executive presence have evolved far beyond traditional stereotypes. I coach a lot of leaders on presence, and I’ll tell you right now that there is no “template” or “one way” to have presence. You need to do the work to find your authentic way to show up for yourself, and for the people
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