public speaking

The Art of Selling Yourself: Interview with Lisa Earle McLeod

Selling yourself, your work, and your greatness can feeling challenging, especially for women. During this call Lisa will share:

✅  The elements of confidently selling yourself 
✅  What to do when your high quality-work isn’t enough to get you the rewards you seek
✅  How to strengthening personal worth 

Lisa will take tools and insights from her book Selling with Noble Purpose, geared towards sellers, and share them through a lens which can be utilized by anyone marketing for selling themselves.

Lisa is a global advisor, consultant and speaker. She is an expert in sales, leadership and emotional engagement helping major companies such as Sales Force, LinkedIn, and Dave and Busters. She’s the author of five bestselling books.

Back Pocket Confidence

Confidence is a key component of workplace success. When we feel confident, we present, speak, and act in ways that are most effective and make an impact. 
 
During this session, Chelsea Szabo, co-founder of Empowership, provided a mental model for confidence and powerful tools and insights to navigate that model to bring more workplace success. 

Teaching Points:

✅ What Confidence Really Is
✅ The 3 Types of Confidence
✅ Tips to Boost All 3 Types of Confidence

Unleashing Creativity at Work - For Everyone

The word "creative" has been used as an adjective for about 500 years and as a noun for around 200 years. The word "creator" (small c) has only been coined for 11 years (by Youtube).  Each generation has a stronger desire to be identified as creative - 1/3 of Boomers, 1/2 of Millenials, and 2/3 of GenZ.

During this call, Jing Herman, co-founder of 28Muses (learn more) — a company that stimulates team engagement and confidence through unique, live art workshops, shares: 

✅    The evolution of creativity and what recent shifts mean to the workplace 

✅    What “flow state” is, why it is important, and how to tap into it

✅     An interactive Chinese Calligraphy Activity

BONUS - You’ll also get to participate in one of 28Muses’ popular art activities – Invent Your Name in Chinese. During this short experience, you’ll use the transformational power of Chinese Calligraphy to reinforce your identity.

Additional links related to this month’s topic:

Psychology Today: How to Be More Creative

HBR: So, You Think You’re Not Creative

Safe to Speak Up: Closing the Gap Between What You Feel and What You Say

At the intersection of psychological safety and personal motivation lies a space where silence can lurk. For many reasons, people are inclined to keep their feelings to themselves at work rather than risk speaking up to address the issues driving the feelings.

In this training call, Cecilia uncovered the reasons we withhold our thoughts and feelings at work and share strategies to build up our “upward voice.” When we feel safe and empowered to communicate and contribute more readily, our mental and physical well-being improves, as well as our ability to affect change and growth in our careers.

Power Call: 5 Things to Know About Presenting

Power Call: 5 Things to Know About Presenting

This is the archive for our Power Call called 5 Things to Know About Presenting. Whether you are presenting 1-on-1 , in a meeting, as part of a presentation or pitch, or speaking in front of a large audience, it can be intimidating. This call provides 5 things to think about when approaching your next presentation, and gives you instant tips to use at work starting today.

Pop-Up Call: Unlock the Power Of Your Voice with Heather Lyle

Pop-Up Call: Unlock the Power Of Your Voice with Heather Lyle

You’ll learn:

  • Why and how the voice shuts down on a biological level

  • Vocal exercises to overcome the unconscious (and limiting) reactions of the “fight or flight” response on the voice. 

  • Insights and exercises to strengthen your voice through breath-work