Many people dread having to convey their ideas to others in public, it’s a frequent source of anxiety.

🎙️ Hello and welcome to Anxiety at Work. 🎙️ We hope the time you spend with us enlightens and helps shatter the stigma around anxiety and mental health in the workplace and your personal life.

Key Highlights: 📌

Preparation Enables Spontaneity: you can prepare to be spontaneous.
Mindset Over Perfection: Communication should be about connecting with others rather than delivering a flawless performance.
Structure Your Messaging: crafting your message with a clear beginning, middle, and end, much like the problem-solution-benefit structure in advertising.

As you navigate the complexities of communication in both your professional and personal lives, remember that the ability to speak confidently under pressure is a skill that can be learned and improved. This episode is a stepping stone to mastering that skill.

With us is our new friend, Matt Abrahams, author of the new book “THINK FASTER, TALK SMARTER: How to Speak Successfully When You’re Put on the Spot.” Matt is a Lecturer in Organizational Behavior at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business where he teaches popular classes in strategic communication and effective virtual presenting.

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Until next week, we hope you find peace & calm in a world that often is a sea of anxiety.

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Your hosts, Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton have spent over two decades helping clients around the world engage their employees on strategy, vision and values. They provide real solutions for leaders looking to manage change, drive innovation and build high performance cultures and teams.

They are authors of award-winning Wall Street Journal & New York Times bestsellers All In, The Carrot Principle, Leading with Gratitude, & Anxiety at Work. Their books have been translated into 30 languages and have sold more than 1.5 million copies.

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