Speak Up: Develop Your Executive Presence & Leadership Communication Style

Listen to this episode is you want to feel more at ease at sparking interesting conversations with people you don't know. It's the beginning of the art of conversation. For more communication savvy see www.mixonian.com Your leadership becomes more strategic and inspiring.

Listen to this if you want help on discerning what feedback you get is actually something you should listen to and how to give quality feedback. I also talk about the right attitude to have concerning feedback. See more at www.mixonian.com Your leadership becomes more strategic and inspiring.

Listen to this episode if you want to build your network, connect more effectively with others and win over others to your idea or project. Learn specific tips to connect more deeply in a shorter period of time, even with people "out of your league". See more at www.mixonian.com/blog Your leadership becomes more strategic and inspiring.

Listen to this if life has been challenging this week. It's about changing your self-talk to get different results. Did you know that according to scientific research, 95% of our thoughts are the same thoughts from the day before? Your self-talk offers a great opportunity to move yourself forward. Check out the website at www.mixonian.com Your leadership becomes more strategic and inspiring.

Listen to this episode if you want to know how to really involve your audience in your next presentation, so they connect to you more closely. Learn how people engage mentally, emotionally and physically in a group presentation. This is an indispensable skill for being a thought leader. See more at www.mixonian.com Your leadership becomes more strategic and inspiring.

Listen to this if you want to be a stronger thought leader or beef up an upcoming presentation. Few people realize it takes massive creativity to be persuasive these days. Traditionally, to win people over, the common wisdom has been to tie in the speaker's goals with the interests of the audience. This is still necessary, but not sufficient. Listen to learn more or visit www.mixonian.com Your lea...

Listen to this if you want ideas on how to strengthen relationships and build your network. This episode is about the one thing that doesn't change in building career success: all professional success is built on strong personal relationships. Learn why this is true, what is social capital, some tips for maintaining and strengthening current relationships. See more at www.mixonian.com Your leaders...

Listen to this if you want encouragement and tips for asking other people to help you. Raise your hand if you love asking people to help you [when you could just google it.] Sometimes we forget to make things easier on ourselves by asking for help. Here's A Pro Asking Tip: People actually like helping you.  When you ask someone to help you, you're actually growing your social capital with tha...

Listen to this if you want some ideas about how to communicate in a crisis, or lose-lose situation. Have you ever been in a major lose-lose situation: where your options ranged from really bad to catastrophic? (= Crisis Communication) Early May, 1940, that is precisely where Mr. Churchill found himself as newly-selected Prime Minister of the UK. Yes, he was Prime Minister. Essentially Churchill wa...

Listen to this if you want to raise the level of positivity and energy on your team. Dr. Marci shared solid research on multitasking. When switching one's attention between tasks - aka multitasking - the brain: 1) slows down its processing speed and 2) provides lower-quality processing and 3) consumes more energy leaving the person tired, and with the illusion that one has been productive. Work de...

Listen to this if you want to learn how growth mindset fuels tenacity and helps you not to give up. The basic reason people don't achieve their goals is because they give up too soon. Growth mindset promotes tenacity by seeking a different approach or acknowledging any form of progress. Growth Mindset = Tenacity. Fortunately I discovered growth mindset in 2008, before opening Mixonian Institute in...

Listen to this if you want to learn some tips on mastering perceptions from luxury brand marketing. Luxury brands are those where the product is worth FAR more to clients  than what it costs to make it. I hope that is also how you see yourself: your contribution is worth FAR more than mere years of service + education + skills. Am I right? First, let's review luxury b...

Listen to this if you want to feel more comfortable in networking situations and have more interesting conversations. Own the Room...even when you don't know what to say. I have learned to enjoy networking events.  Even though (they take a lot of energy, - it's totally worth it The thing is to spark INTERESTING conversations, not endure boring ones. (For boring monologues you s...

Listen to this if you feel jealousy and want to know why and what that feeling is telling you. Emotional intelligence is about using your head to manage your own emotions and those of others. Emotions can be positive or negative, high intensity or low, but today's competitive market demands emotionally intelligent leaders. Here's some intel about the feeling of jealousy....a cousin to feeling inad...

Listen to this if you feel like you don't have enough resources to achieve your goals. Learn how your constraints actually help you. Officially defined, conversation imagination is a process, sparked by launch pad, or propelling questions, that drives actions to achieve something previously unconsidered, or thought to be impossible. It's accessible to anyone, any project, any organization. The pat...

Listen to this if you are interested in keeping your energy high and sometimes other people's negativity affects you. To be a high performer you must protect your precious energy for the valuable life force that it is. It's tough. But you actually can build a force field around you where it's like you're Teflon coated and not susceptible to negative Nathaniels. Speaker Jim Rohn (and other thought...

When attention is scattered (aka always), you need creativity and persistence to get the message out. Sometimes you need ridiculous as a communication strategy. Sometimes trying to get your team buy in on something feels like...there's something in the air that keeps them from actually hearing what you're say but they pretend to listen because you're the boss. And they like you. See more at www.mi...

Where is the opportunity in your project(s) to take the "opening credits" to the next level of WOW? Don't restructure the whole company, pick something small that's completely under your control and transform that tiny element into something Wow. See more at www.mixonian.com Your leadership becomes more strategic and inspiring.

Being positive doesn't mean you have to be so nice (aka pleasing others) all the time. You can be firm, calm, clear... you can ask for things politely, request upgrades and water without ice....all without being nice. See more at www.mixonian.com Your leadership becomes more strategic and inspiring.

Decision fatigue is real so if you want to perform at a higher level, you need to address decision fatigue. This podcast gives a few tips on reducing the number of daily decisions and goes through the top 10 topics covered in Mixonian Learning Labs. Your leadership becomes more strategic and inspiring.

Goals are binary, you either make them or you don't. Choosing a theme can help your team persist in their efforts, even when they don't reach all their goals. You can choose a theme for the year, a quarter or a month -- the theme sets the tone for how everyone shows up. Your leadership becomes more strategic and inspiring.

Listen to this if you are interested in leveraging the qualities introverts normally have especially in developing personal relationships. Winning people over seems more challenging for introverts who are often drained by too much conversation. But today, competition for attention is out of control for everyone. When you see someone looking at their watch, you know they're reading t...

In today's global work world the idea that you have to take the reins of your career development is more important than ever. To have your way, you need to think like a free agent no matter who employs you. Sign up for the free 5-day #brandyou challenge and get help developing your own personal brand statement and bio at www.mixonian.com/the-brandyou-challenge Your leadership becomes more strategi...

You can't get better at something without feedback. However, most of it is amateur — including what often passes for feedback at work. Feedback you get on the Internet from people you don’t know (and most Internet content) is not pro. Comments that get back to you from third parties, is not pro. Would you accept a medical diagnosis from the colleague of a colleague who never attended medical schoo...

Listen to this if you work with a toxic, negative, narcsicisstic or volatile person. Working with a know-it-all like Dwight Schrute in The Office is not always fun. Accepting the fact that they exist in every company with more than 2 employees is healthy. These are the people who excel at job interviews. You can't change them; you can be clever and creative in dealing with them in areas...