186. Own Your Impact: How to Communicate Your Personal Power
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Feb 18, 2025
Explore how tapping into personal power can transform communication. A strong belief in oneself enhances the persuasiveness of messages. Discover how mindsets shape interactions, especially in high-stakes situations like pitches. Learn the art of structuring compelling pitches that resonate with audiences by focusing on benefits. Embrace authenticity and master nonverbal cues to engage effectively. This insightful conversation offers research-backed strategies for impactful communication that starts from within.
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Defining Personal Power
Chris Lipp defines personal power as the belief in one's own ability to create impact.
This belief influences our communication style and how others perceive us.
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Action-Oriented Communication
Powerful individuals tend to be action-oriented in their communication.
Focusing on implementation rather than deliberation projects power and leadership.
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Embrace Responsibility
Take responsibility for your actions and emotions to cultivate personal power.
Blaming others signals powerlessness to both yourself and those around you.
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In 'The Science of Personal Power', Chris Lipp explains how personal power, which is rooted in our beliefs about our capability to create impact, can transform various aspects of life. Unlike formal power focused on authority and control, personal power is about internal confidence and its external manifestation. The book offers practical tools and strategies to improve self-confidence, influence others, and drive positive change. It combines research, data, and storytelling to help readers understand and apply the concepts of personal power in their daily lives and professional careers.
Why good communication starts with tapping into your power.
Impactful communication isn’t just about the words you use. According to Chris Lipp, it’s about the power you deliver them with.
“When we have a belief in ourselves, what we say changes,” says Lipp, a professor at Tulane University’s Freeman School of Business and author of The Science of Personal Power. Throughout his career as an academic and communications coach for entrepreneurs, he’s explored how tapping into personal power can transform our messages and the impact they create. "Personal power is our belief in our own capability to create impact,” he says. “When things [take] shape on the inside, we think differently, we behave differently... and other people perceive that power."
In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, Lipp and Matt Abrahams explore how our mindset shapes our message, sharing research-backed strategies for communicating with power. From embracing authenticity to staying grounded in our values, Lipp reveals how strong communication starts by building strength within.
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