Speak Up: Develop Your Executive Presence & Leadership Communication Style
Laura Camacho
🏆 Ranked #1 Business Communication Podcast by Million Podcasts
Do you often feel sidelined in discussions, wanting to speak up and have more influence?
Ever experience that you say something in a meeting and then it seems like people maybe are still not getting what you’re saying?
Do you need more executive presence in high stakes meetings?
Discover tactics to confidently assert yourself and make your ideas count on Speak Up, the podcast for high-performing introverts and ambiverts.
You'll learn:
1. Visibility Strategies from the art of persuasion, ensuring your voice is heard and respected in meetings and sought after for key projects
2. How to expand your influence, to reclaim your recognition, get green lights, and avoid your ideas being taken credit for by others
3. How to develop your confidence, to participate actively in senior leadership and executive meetings and beyond
Host Laura Camacho, with 20 years of coaching experience, guides high-performing professionals to express their ideas clearly and build executive presence.
Tune in every Monday for a 10-minute executive communication skill, Wednesdays for a half-hour industry leader interview, and Fridays for a 8 to 10-minute charisma or leadership tip from leading personalities like JK Rowling and Elon Musk.
If you're ready to move forward in your career, listen to Speak Up episode 390: These 12 Science-Backed Charisma Tactics Skyrocket Executive Presence & Leadership Impact: https://pod.fo/e/2c2b5e
Do you often feel sidelined in discussions, wanting to speak up and have more influence?
Ever experience that you say something in a meeting and then it seems like people maybe are still not getting what you’re saying?
Do you need more executive presence in high stakes meetings?
Discover tactics to confidently assert yourself and make your ideas count on Speak Up, the podcast for high-performing introverts and ambiverts.
You'll learn:
1. Visibility Strategies from the art of persuasion, ensuring your voice is heard and respected in meetings and sought after for key projects
2. How to expand your influence, to reclaim your recognition, get green lights, and avoid your ideas being taken credit for by others
3. How to develop your confidence, to participate actively in senior leadership and executive meetings and beyond
Host Laura Camacho, with 20 years of coaching experience, guides high-performing professionals to express their ideas clearly and build executive presence.
Tune in every Monday for a 10-minute executive communication skill, Wednesdays for a half-hour industry leader interview, and Fridays for a 8 to 10-minute charisma or leadership tip from leading personalities like JK Rowling and Elon Musk.
If you're ready to move forward in your career, listen to Speak Up episode 390: These 12 Science-Backed Charisma Tactics Skyrocket Executive Presence & Leadership Impact: https://pod.fo/e/2c2b5e
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Oct 7, 2020 • 44min
Episode 118 Shaping the Experience of You with Brand Expert Kimberly Sundt
In this high-energy conversation, brand experience expert, Kimberly Sundt, spills the tea on all the things customer experience. She dives into the branding side of client experience as well as the personal brand aspect for corporate leaders.
Specific take-aways include:
: How client experience became a thing
: Different ways to begin a customer experience analysis
: How customer experience relates to branding
: Example of budget brand delivering top customer experience in healthcare
: Who is actually responsible for client experience at the company
: How to know the way others experience us
: Things to consider about your onboarding process
: Zoom communication tips galore!
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Jul 21, 2020 • 48min
Episode 117 Being Indispensable at Work & In Leadership with Bruce Tulgan
Learn in Laura Camacho's interview with Bruce Tulgan exactly what it takes to be THE go-to person at work, without working yourself to misery. Bruce shares tips from his recent Harvard-published book, "The Art of Being Indispensable at Work: win influence - beat overcommitment and get the right things done".Work has changed so that people are getting requests from across the organization. It's a fresh challenge to deal with so many people asking for so many things across various channels. In this intense interview, Bruce and Laura discuss:: Defining what it takes to be the go-to person: The specific challenges the go-to person faces: How to deal with the avalanche of internal customer requests: How to hold your peers accountable: The causes of overcommitment syndrome: What you need to know about making really good yes/no decisions: All about alignment and how that helps you: How your boss wants your help in managing you: The unique mathematics about real influenceFor more culture-fixing and communication savvy visit www.mixonan.com
Jul 14, 2020 • 39min
Episode 116 Comedy At Work With Charlie Nadler, CCO LaughDealers
In this episode learn from Charlie Nadler (CCO of Laugh Dealers) how to use comedy to make your work and your culture better. Charlie's job is to help professionals be more funny. Here he shares knowledge goodies like these...
: How the Lunch Club helps people network during Covid
: What makes comedy work for you
: How humor can affect your culture
: Why certain sarcasm misses the mark
: The best tool for being funny at work
: What to NEVER do with humor
: How to test your material
: The ins and outs of self-deprecation
: Humor and our current cultural crisis
: Succeeding in a tough conversation
: Opportunities happening right now.
Find more about Charlie Nadler and Laugh Dealers at www.laughdealers.com.
Get more culture-building communication tips at www.mixonian.com
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May 29, 2020 • 42min
Episode 115 Joel Schwartzberg Asks What's Your Point?
The number one complaint about communication at work is about people not getting to the point, or taking too long to make a point.
ASPCA Senior Director of Strategic and Executive Communications, Presentation Coach, and Harvard Business Review contributor, Joel Schwartzberg, is also author of the award-winning book "Get to the Point! Sharpen Your Message and Make Your Words Matter."
In this Speak Up podcast episode, Joel generously shares his communication tools for getting your point across to your audience. Listen to our delightful conversation to learn things like:
- The most likely reason you're not getting to the point
- How to know if you even have a point to share
- The kinds of words that detract from your message
- How having too many points confuses your audience
- One simple thing you must do when speaking on a teleconference to be elevate perceptions of you as a leader
See more culture-building communication tips at www.mixonian.com.
Apr 23, 2020 • 44min
Episode 114 Beyond Wins & Executive Presence With Mala Subramaniam
In this episode Laura Camacho interviews communication expert Mala Subramaniam, author of Beyond Wins. Mala takes the whole concept of negotiating and reframes from the most strategic, introvert-friendly point of view.Laura and Mala geek out on all things persuasion, success and relationship oriented, sharing the following:- The difference between a winning mindset and a success mindset and which one takes you farther- How get your mind clear before a scary meeting- A broader, more useful way of defining what it means to negotiate- The most dangerous emotion and what to do about it- How she teaches Asian Indians to work well with U.S. Americans (hint: sometimes they mistake our directness for rudeness)- What we need communication-wise to get past COVID-19Get your copy of Mala's book, Beyond Wins: Eastern Mindset for Success in Daily Business Negotiations.See more communication and culture savvy at www.mixonian.com.
Apr 17, 2020 • 18min
Episode 113 Elevate Your Executive Presence For Online Meetings
The medium is the message.
So said communication scholar, Marshall McLuhan. His pithy remark sums up the idea that messages change from one communication medium to another, like from newspaper to television.
So too, your message adjusts when you are in online meeting. Your IRL executive presence does not automatically transfer to the virtual environment. Your team members and colleagues are looking to you to inspire trust and confidence.
Listen to this episode to learn how to model executive presence and come across as confident, calm and collected online. This is THE success skill you need moving forward.
See more culture and communication savvy at www.mixonian.com
Mar 26, 2020 • 27min
Episode 112 Use These Brain Redirects to Get Through this Crisis
In this episode Laura discusses the concepts of Pre-Trauma Stress and Post-Trauma Growth. She then shares 8 default thought patterns in time of crisis and what specifically you can think about to gain better use of your most precious asset, your brain.
+ You're in a bad situation, don't make it worse
+ How helping others helps you
+ Now is the time to build relationships with family, team members, clients, bosses, friends and anyone you know in need.
+ Why your thoughts go down that negative spiral so easily
+ The various upsides to this and any crisis
See more at www.mixonian.com
Mar 18, 2020 • 17min
Episode 111 Corona Brain Reset
It's time for a Corona Brain Reset. How can you benefit from this current crisis?
Listen to learn...
+ It's critical to distinguish fact from feelings
+ How the news industry is structured
+ What you can focus on now to get stronger
+ If someone on your team is worried about dying from the virus
+ How to think about money right now
+ One experiment you can do to help everyone.
For more culture fixing savvy visit www.mixonian.com
Mar 17, 2020 • 24min
Episode 110: Culture, Calm And Crisis
Today's episode deals with how to stay calm, be anti-fragile and build culture during a crisis.
A healthy culture is one where everyone feels heard, understood and valued.
Listen to learn
+ The cost of not being calm to your job and your health
+ The collective emotional contagion we are seeing
+ What your team needs from you right now
+ The hidden opportunity for you and your team
+ Ways to better structure your communication for remote work
For more visit www.mixonian.com
Feb 25, 2020 • 31min
Episode 109 Elizabeth Beasley Challenges and Opportunities for Extraverts in Remote Jobs & Leadership
Senior copywriter Elizabeth Beasley shares her creative career path from Cartoon Network in Atlanta to remote Projectline job in Shelburne Falls, MASS. Elizabeth, a charismatic extravert, has adapted to working from home by being proactive and using the right tools.In this episode she shares how she came to embrace this new opportunity of cultural immersion in a small town. She sees herself as a "digital settler".Listen to this episode to learn:- How an extravert manages to thrive in remote work- What to do to build relationships when you don't see people- The hidden opportunities in accepting remote jobs- The value of cultural immersion in a small town- Resources for finding remote jobs and communication toolsDiscover more fresh content from Laura Camacho at www.mixonian.com
