4 Ways Clarity Can Help You Influence Others
Have you ever failed to influence someone? (Of course, we all have!) Maybe you tried to introduce a bold new initiative—but couldn’t get support from your manager. Or, maybe you tried to get your team to collaborate on a cross-departmental project—but it fell apart...
Got Clarity? Team Performance Depends on It!
Many teams have worked together virtually for years, but for others, adapting to remote teamwork has been a new challenge. Virtual and hybrid environments offer fewer opportunities for learning how to connect and communicate with each other. In either case, working...
3 Ways to Develop Your Leadership Presence
Others will not see you as a leader until you look and act like a leader. While projecting Leadership Presence in-person can be a challenge, the virtual environment creates additional obstacles. Yet the ability to project Leadership Presence remains a key skill for...
Own Your Career: Build Your Personal Brand
Since early 2020, working in remote or hybrid environments means less in-person interaction. Our teams or responsibilities may have changed, even if we haven’t changed roles. With these transitions, it can be harder to find our footing, let alone look for ways to...
Prep Your Mind for Effective Listening
Prep Your Mind for Effective Listening by Amy Glass | Dec 28, 2020 | Listening Go ahead, hit PAUSE. In the middle of everything else you’re doing, it’s hard to find the time to prepare yourself for yet another virtual meeting. But you deserve that time, and so do...
Conquering Stage Fright
No matter how cleverly you construct a presentation—no matter how eye-catching your slides or how insightful your anecdotes—none of it will do you any good if you walk out onto the stage, knees knocking, and freeze! Whether this is your first presentation, or your...
3 Ways to Increase Connection with Remote Customers & Team Members
Remote work is no longer a remote possibility for most workers. Long before COVID-19 forced us to shelter in place and work from home, large numbers of workers were finding themselves working more consistently in settings remote from their company offices. The...
Negotiations Gone Virtual: Tips to adjust and excel
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, we were seeing a shift to more business being conducted virtually. Difficult communications such as negotiations have not been spared from this shift. Negotiation can be part of a change in your work responsibilities or an agreement...
4 Tips to Drive Connection with Your Remote Audience
There is a vivid example that BRODY trainers share about conducting virtual meetings. An insurance executive told his BRODY coach, Marjorie Brody, “Everyone loves my webinars!” Pete was confident in his ability to connect with and engage his audience. Marjorie’s...
4 Techniques to Diffuse Hostile Questions
In our Ace the Q&A blog, we talked about the importance of planning how you will handle questions. The last tip is about reading your audience, because you may have someone who wants to challenge you. In you get hostile questions in your next presentation, here...