Month 1 – Professional Presence
The Language of Leadership is a customized platform that provides practical and experiential training to help you build communication and leadership skills. The platform includes daily video lessons exploring in-depth communication themes and interactive exercises designed to put your learning into practice.
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Month One: The Foundations of Purposeful Communications
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List three adjectives of how you think people perceive you and then list three adjectives of how you would like to be perceived
Practice delivering purposeful handshakes
Evaluate your appearance, wardrobe & personal grooming
Develop awareness of your own behavior in listening situations
How am I becoming a more deliberate communicator? To myself as much as to others? Take a moment this weekend to write your thoughts on this
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Appraise your reflection in the mirror
Actively engage in positive body language - smile!
Adopt the power posture
Try out more purposeful gestures
Record yourself presenting & review with the sound turned OFF
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Read, record & listen to your voice reading a passage of text
Read both a familiar & unfamiliar piece of text aloud with equal purpose
Practice controlling your inflection for, 'May I have a glass of water'?
Slow your pace - Record & listen back to your voice reading a memo
Identify any words you are using that may devalue your message
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Appraise your word choice in an existing piece of text
Word choice: Take your first e-mail of the day and expand upon your vocabulary
Professional presence: What does Google search say about you?
Begin authoring & contributing to your own story
Commit to implement, practice & embrace this week's actions so they become second nature