‘And the third major challenge of a remote working environment identified by business leaders was the lack of observational learning.’
“I wouldn’t be chief executive of Dexus today if I didn’t have the learnings over a 30-year period. And that’s just simple things like being in meetings with people, watching how they interact and dealing with problems or how they change plans working through a development,” Mr Steinberg said.”
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“Incentivise awareness
… managers should reward employees who detect flaws in their thinking and correct course. At the NeuroLeadership Institute, we have a ‘mistake of the month’ section in our monthly work-in-progress meetings to help model and celebrate this kind of admission.
To use a sports example, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady reportedly pays is defence if they can intercept his passes in practice . . . The takeaway: By making error detection a team sport, you destigmatize the situation, highlight the learning opportunities, and increase the likelihood of making better decisions in the future.”
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Speaking, usually, is easy – especially when the stakes are low.
Speaking well, consistently – in any interaction, encounter, meeting, presentation, no matter the level of pressure, no matter the level of audience seniority or size of audience – for most people, is not easy.
Why do I mention this?
My view is that when you speak, you’re always auditioning for leadership. For example, if you make a cogent remark in a boardroom meeting where people with clout are sitting around the table – those people will remember you and your remark, and it might be the reason why you outpoint a colleague for a future, plum, high profile role.
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Once again Barack Obama gave a pitch-perfect, luminary presentation at the 2020 United Stage Democratic National Convention.
Overall, Obama’s most powerful channel was not his words, cadence, voice or body language. But his feeling tone.
It was a feeling tone that conveyed deep concern, sadness, pain, frustration and hope.
2:04 – 2:10 minute mark: Use of the literary technique of ellipsis; ‘…marched for, went to jail for, fought for and died for’
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If you’re like everyone I know – you, on occasion, insert an ‘um’ or an ‘ah’ filler syllable into your speaking.
If the ‘ums’ and ‘ahs’ are infrequent, they usually won’t be noticed by your listener and won’t distract the listener from your messages.
However, when your ‘ums’, ‘ahs’ become noticeable and/or when people start counting the number of ‘ums’, ‘ahs’ as you are speaking – my suggestion is that you aim to reduce them in your speech.
Here’s a method to reduce ‘ums’ and ‘ahs’ that is sourced from my therapy techniques as a speech pathologist.
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