Francesca asks: How do you appear stable and confident when you're not? Peggy Drexler says the key is to focus on the outcome of a meeting. Confidence means that you are pretty certain things are going to be okay, she says. She also offers tips for how to show up as confident in front of an audience.
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).
Guest expert:
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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