Communicating With Confidence & Impact - For Women

Learn to speak like a leader, connect with others through storytelling and active listening, and lead with curiosity

What you'll learn

Understand what it means to be a strong communicator, and challenges that hold women back.

Identify leadership presence qualities and implement strategies to increase your leadership presence.

Experiment telling your own unique stories and understand the value of a good story on communications.

Identify what it means to be a good listener.

Practice leading with curiosity to improve communications.

Create your own personalized communications leader mindset, to overcome confidence challenges.

Requirements

This is a starter course. There are no prior course requirements to take it. It has everything you need to communicate with confidence and impact.

Description

Do you want to make an impact when you speak, but worry that you won't be heard? Or maybe you feel afraid to speak up and ask questions in meetings for fear of being judged? Have you wondered how to build more connection when you're communicating in the workplace? Do you want to increase your communications skills to better connect with others to get things done faster and more effectively? As a professional female in the workplace, there are many factors that impact our ability to speak and communicate confidently. From challenges in our own mindset, to direct or unconscious bias, to hearing a variety of communications tips that feel challenging to remember, or sometimes feeling like there just isn't enough time!! It can feel overwhelming to communicate effectively!If you are looking for a condensed communications playbook you can implement immediately, to help you communicate your best, Communicating with Confidence and Impact is the course for you!In this course, we will uncover statistics and biases for women that impact the challenges we must overcome in communications, as well as specific strategies and reframes to communicate with confidence. We'll explore both how we present ourselves in communications through leadership presence and storytelling (the output), as well as the information we must also receive through active listening and leading with curiosity (the input). The course materials are an abbreviated version of corporate workshops I conduct for tech women and leadership groups, narrowed and focused to give you quick, meaningful, and impactful strategies to implement now and start communicating with confidence and impact immediately. It's focused on the female experience, but open to all identifications that want to learn!In this course, you will:Understand what it means to be a strong communicator, and challenges that hold women backIdentify leadership presence qualities and implement strategies to increase your leadership presenceExperiment telling your own unique story and understand the value of a good story on communicationsIdentify what it means to be a good listenerPractice leading with curiosity to improve communicationsCreate your own personalized communications leader mindset to overcome confidence challengesI've led hundreds of employees and leaders in my 15+ year tech career, have led many corporate workshops for top tech companies, and coach high performing professional women. I join this knowledge together with communications tools, strategies, and practices that are used by the top communicators.And now, I want to share it YOU!Join now, and start communicating with confidence and impact!

Overview

Section 1: Welcome

Lecture 1 Welcome to Communicating with Confidence & Impact!

Lecture 2 What You'll Learn

Lecture 3 Setting Your Intentions

Section 2: The Tenants of Great Communicators

Lecture 4 What Strong Communication IS and ISN'T

Lecture 5 Important Statistics Impacting Women & Communication

Section 3: Output: Leadership Presence

Lecture 6 Qualities of Leadership Presence

Lecture 7 Examples of Leadership Presence

Lecture 8 Practice: Time to Bake a Leadership Presence Cake!

Lecture 9 Confidence Challenges of Leadership Presence

Section 4: Output: Storytelling

Lecture 10 Qualities of Great Storytelling

Lecture 11 Examples of Great Storytelling

Lecture 12 Practice: Tell Your Story!

Lecture 13 Confidence Challenges of Storytelling

Section 5: Input: Active Listening

Lecture 14 Qualities of Active Listening

Lecture 15 Examples of Active Listening

Lecture 16 Practice: Be a Great Listener!

Lecture 17 Confidence Challenges in Active Listening

Section 6: Input: Curiosity & Asking Questions

Lecture 18 Qualities of Leading with Curiosity

Lecture 19 Examples of Leading with Curiosity

Lecture 20 Confidence Challenges in Asking Questions

Lecture 21 Practice: Lead with Curiosity & Questions

Section 7: Implementation & Conclusion

Lecture 22 Communications Leadership

Lecture 23 Results of Communications & Why Important

Lecture 24 Your Journey Through Communicating with Confidence & Impact

Section 8: Bonus Section

Lecture 25 Continue Your Learning

The course content is focused on professional women looking to improve their communication skills and communicate with confidence. All genders or identifications are welcome.,This course is made for both individual contributors and leaders who are looking to improve their communication skills in an easy, digestible way.