Michael Kelly quoted in the Financial Review article – How to avoid a car crash interview

In an article by Patrick Durkin – BOSS Deputy editor of the Financial Review – Michael Kelly comments on what leaders can learn from Woolworths CEO Brad Banducci’s recent interview.

“Leadership and communication coach Michael Kelly asks “when will these CEOs learn that they need to work on the way they deliver, as much as what they are saying?”

“Anything could happen and you need to be brutal in your preparation,” he says.

“One of the key messages I share, when working with leaders in how to listen and speak under pressure, is that ‘he or she who loses their cool, loses’. Losing his cool in his ABC interview is a telling example of what not to do, when under pressure.”

The original article can be read here

When under pressure, are you brilliant at the basics?

Late last year I was talking with a client of mine, Justin Stark, Managing Director at Accenture. Justin said that the phrase that was circling around his organisation was, ‘Brilliant Basics’.

That is, there was a focus on people in the organisation doing the basics of business, extraordinarily well.

Doing the basics extraordinarily well is a message I share ad nauseam with my clients. I do this, because many of the my techniques seem on the surface, to be too basic to be effective. Their power is in their execution, particularly when the pressure is on. And if you do the basics very well, in how you present yourself and communicate your ideas,

you’ll separate yourself from a ‘sea of talking heads’.

And as you know there are a lot of talking heads aroun

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