What if you could be more powerful under pressure?
Susan Bernstein, MBA PhD
Guiding leadership teams caught in ongoing conflict to operate harmoniously — and those already collaborating well to take their performance to the next level | Ex-Accenture, Intel
Would you like to feel more powerful under pressure?
Maybe that pressure for you is a looming deadline, a massive unexpected change on a project, or your manager screaming at you for incomprehensible reasons.?
If you’d like to feel confident, strong, and unshakable, try this experiment:?
Think back to a work situation that felt pressure-filled over the past month.?
Bring that situation vividly to mind.?
In you mind’s eye…
See who was there.?Remember what was happening. Recall the emotions you felt.?
On a scale of 0 to 10, how powerful did you feel in that moment?
Now, imagine that you could push a button that would vastly increase your power, so you felt like you could handle anything.?
And remember the pressure-filled situation again.?
What do you notice? What’s your power level now on that 0 to 10 scale?
You might feel a boost in power. Or not. Your imagination may be capable of shifting your experience.?
I wish I could tell you that to feel more powerful, all you have to do is push a button.?
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But honestly, it’s not that much harder! ?
You do have the equivalent of a button inside you, so you can be more flexible, confident, and positively responsive when you’re hit with unexpected pressure.
That “button” for handling challenges is readily accessible wisdom. It's in learning to tap into your body’s deep intelligence.
When you’re stressed, pressured, triggered, it’s tough to think straight. When situations and interactions get tense, challenging, charged, your usually sharp mind can be hijacked by your emotions, and it’s harder to articulate yourself, more difficult to find solutions, harder to stand up for yourself.
But you have an innate resource within you, 24/7, that can help you to avoid getting waylaid by your emotions, so you can access your genius.?
That innate resource? It’s the power of accessing your body to literally feel stronger. Standing straighter to feel more confident, instead of slumping. Breathing more deeply so you’re genuinely more inspired. Raising your eye gaze so that things actually start looking up.?
I love helping my clients to be powerful under pressure. Like a CEO client who I coached to stop screaming at his employees when he gets angry. Or a media who I helped personality speak up for a huge raise that she was scared to request. Or a marketing director who’d been scared to stand up to a bully at work to put that person in their place.
Now, it's your turn to be powerful under pressure.
I’ve been building a training program to help YOU practice being powerful under pressure, by accessing your body’s natural intelligence. When you know how to harness your mind/body connection, you won’t get thrown as easily when unexpected changes, challenges, and chaos show up for you.?
If you’d like to learn the skills for staying powerful under pressure that I’ve been teaching my clients for the past five years, I invite you to join the pilot of the new program, Powerful Under Pressure.?
We’ll meet as a small group, with a maximum of 12 people, on 3 Wednesdays, from 4-5 pm Pacific, 7-8 pm Eastern for three consecutive sessions on November 30, December 7, and December 14. You’ll learn and practice some game-changing skills that will allow you to stay strong and flexible under pressure. You’ll also get a 1:1 private coaching and conditioning session with me, and we’ll customize your pressure-conditioning so you can get better at whatever specific situation tends to frazzle or frustrate you. The pilot price for this truly transformational program is just $495 (a tremendous value given that my coaching packages are 5 figures). I’m testing this as a group program and you’ll get all the workbooks, exercises, and 30 days access to the recordings.?
Interested joining the Powerful Under Pressure program, so you can shift into your innate ability handle pressure better? Message me on LinkedIn or contact me through my website . I’d love to answer your questions about the program and enroll you if it’s a fit.
Don’t let your brilliance be bypassed when you feel the emotional charge of challenging situations. Message me and let’s?chat soon and get you into the Powerful Under Pressure program.?
Now, over to YOU: What’s a moment where you felt powerful lately??
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2 年I love the name of your program! Who wouldn't want to feel more powerful under pressure? I think that's one of the strengths I've gotten from practicing improv!
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2 年This is really a program about emotional regulation at a high level! Love it! I can think of dozens of people who would benefit from this.
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2 年This reminds me of my time at Apple; attending back-to-back meetings and having so much to get done yet faced with strict deadlines.
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2 年I feel powerful when I have to think on my feet and it's because of all the years of reps...almost 25 years doing. It's my element. REPS...pure and simple.
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2 年What an important program, Susan. We all experience pressure, and knowing how to manage it, turn it into power, is vital.