From the course: Communicating with Confidence (2015)
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Connecting with yourself
From the course: Communicating with Confidence (2015)
Connecting with yourself
- What often keeps us from being a confident communicator is that we get in the way of ourselves. Oftentimes when I coach people after they're done speaking, I ask them whether they felt connected to me and/or others in the room, or were they just hurling words at people, or a combination of both. What I mostly hear back is hurling. People feel themselves hurling words because they are so deep inside their own head, it's almost as if they're talking to themselves. Well after training thousands of people to be confident communicators, I can tell you that the problem is people fall into what I call the endless loop trap. The endless loop trap is where people keep repeating the same relatively ineffective patterns of behavior in the way they communicate. What they do is toss information at people in a detached, disconnected manner. The endless loop trap is essentially a one-way communication, most of it taking place in our head. And that's a sure fire way to lose the audience's attention…
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