In order to communicate appreciation authentically, one needs to be able to have the capacity to receive it as well. Mirea: Recognize why you're impatient and what can you do about it in that moment. If there's nothing you can do about it, then you need to stick with where your audience is. Netsuite.com slash women at work has a special financing offer of no payments or interest for six months.
Communicating clearly and persuasively sets you up to have the impact and influence you’re after. But what if you’re running on empty? Expressing your ideas and giving direction when you’re sleep-deprived, burned out, grieving, or in perimenopausal brain fog…can feel nearly impossible. So, what then?
Leadership development coach Muriel Wilkins talks us through communication techniques that meet you where you’re at mentally and emotionally so that you can rise to the moment (even when you’re worried you can’t).
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Muriel Wilkins is the co-founder of the executive coaching and leadership development firm Paravis Partners. She hosts the HBR podcast Coaching Real Leaders.
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