Focus on the purpose of your communication

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When you're not feeling motivated to move forward, focus on the outcome and purpose rather than how you're feeling. This can help you overcome emotions and avoid burnout. The outcome includes not only the task result but also how you want to leave the conversation and make others feel. Shift your focus to the energy you want to create in the conversation.

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.