Your choice of 4 Learning Perspectives
Work on the dynamics
Identify your audience’s needs and perspective, the impact you want to have on them and your strategy for getting to your desired outcomes
Analyse power differentials, challenge your mental models of the dynamics present in the room
Take a third person perspective to clarify your own role and decide your best outcomes for that meeting or event
Work on the message
Tighten and craft your message
Know what you mean to say and why you are saying it
When needed, break down the point you try to make into a multi-step process instead of a one-time event
Practice tough Q&As
Be your own devil’s advocate
The thoughts in your head are often not what you end up saying. Practising helps.
Work on your emotions
Sometimes the obstacle to your best performance is yourself because of emotions you haven’t been able to manage or digest yet. Your interpretation of certain dynamics, often power dynamics but also fears, concerns, resentments, ambitions, issues of identity and inclusion, envy, guilt, shame, etc. Some emotions have the potential to lock you into a repetitive pattern of behaviour with certain people.
In a standalone session we might not analyse the underlying dynamics of your relationships in depth, but we can still explore how you experience them and use exercises to help you try out new ways. These can inspire crucial tweaks that start unlocking the situation in meaningful ways for you.
Work on your delivery
What you say is not the same as what people get from you. What gets in the way of your best performance might include:
- speed (often too fast)
- energy level (too high or too low)
- contact (usually too little)
- posture (too relaxed or too anxious)
- power differentials (too controlling or too meek).
Coaching you on your delivery is not simply a matter of giving you feedback. It's also exploring how you experience it on the inside and why you need to act as you do. Together, we can then try new attitudes that feel authentic and doable to you until we have addressed your concerns.
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Working as a film director with actors has helped me to learn that we can work from the ‘inside-out’ (If you change how you feel inside, you will look the part outside) as well as the ‘outside in’ (If you change how you appear on the outside, you will feel differently on the inside).
