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It’s Your First Time Speaking as a New Leader to Molly, a Long-Time Employee with a Difficult Reputation, and Guess What?

You’re afraid.

Deep down inside, you feel you’re not good enough.

You feel it’s unacceptable that her work is of only passable quality.

But you really don’t know how to be with her.

You come off as either too heavy-handed, or too easy.

It can come as a shock to new leaders. Handling the increased speaking responsibilities that are part of leadership can be harder than expected, at first. There are several ways to prepare yourself to be at your best.

Find out more about how to speak with confidence by clicking the picture below.

There Are Times When You Need a Combination of Confidence and Speaking Ability to Express Your Qualities of Leadership – Even If You Don’t Have a Leader’s Title

Especially when it matters most.

My keynote speech, “Crisis in the Backcountry: Emergence of a Hidden Leader,” is designed to inspire professionals to switch on their leadership potential.

The method: experiencing my story of what it was like to be lost and going in circles during a fierce September snowstorm that unexpectedly slammed our backpacking expedition in the Canadian Rockies.

The accompanying photo shows you what the conditions were like when we got hit by 18 inches of snow in Banff National Park in Alberta without a working GPS (I'm second in line, in red jacket) and were left blundering around in the mayhem, trying to find a trail.

The turnaround in our fortunes occurred after about 4 hours, when a member of our group, who’d kept a low profile up till then, stepped up to say it was time to backtrack. Taking over the proceedings, he got everyone's agreement on an escape plan and then led us out of the snowdrifts.

To learn more about this talk and how I give attendees a renewed sense of the values and actions that matter most in a crisis, DM me or check out my talks at michaelbarris.com.

The Path to Get People to Act Is through Their Emotions

Show how your offer solves their problem (EXCITING!)?

Paint a picture for them of how great they’re going to feel when you solve their problem (RELIEF! HAPPINESS!)?

But DON’T talk too much about yourself (BORING! DISMAYING! OFF-PUTTING!) when you should be talking about them and their problem (GRATITUDE! APPRECIATION!)?

Click on the picture below for a free series that will show you how to leverage your words to get the results you want (GRATIFYING! REWARDING!)?

MICHAEL'S MOTIVATING MISSIVE

Experience is not what happens to you, it is how you decide to act and react to - and with - what happens to you. Bear in mind: each day brings its own gifts.

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And remember, as the US business consultant and author Price Pritchett says: "If you must doubt something, doubt your limits."

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