Research suggests that thereis no amount of flattery that it's too much. You want to tell themw how much you admire what they've done, and how much you respect their abilities. The same advice holds for speech an communication. And one of the things you should do is, part of the warm up process is calm yourself down.
“Simple language, forceful language, vivid language, and keeping it simple and direct,” says Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer, are all tools to increase the strength of your communication. In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, host and lecturer Matt Abrahams interviews Jeffrey Pfeffer, author of Dying for a Paycheck, about the verbal and nonverbal ways we can harness, or give away, our authority in communication.
To hear more from Jeffrey, listen to Pfeffer on Power, a podcast about accelerating your career.
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