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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

229: How to Wow with Powerful Words and Presence with Frances Cole Jones

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

Success, Career, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Sharpening, Business, Education, Selfhelp, Collaboration, Winning, Meaning, Development, Mockaitis, Skills, Training, Mental Health, Speaking, Decisions, Careers, Interview, Fun, Money, Writing, Thinking, Wins

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Communications consultant Frances Cole Jones shares her best strategies to address her clients’ most pressing questions. You'll Learn: How to tell if you’re a boring speaker...and what do about it. The key word that instantly makes your message more engaging Another power word that increases listener buy-in from 60 to 94% About Frances: Prior to founding Cole Media Management Frances worked first as a nursery school teacher and then as an editor of commercial nonfiction in NYC. Being a teacher helped hone her negotiating skills (If you can handle 12 toddlers you can handle any CEO.). Her experience helping authors find their voices is something she uses with all her clients to ensure they sound like themselves-- themselves on their best day. View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep229 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

0:10.0

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.

0:14.0

With your host, Pete McKitis.

0:16.0

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 229 with Francis Cole Jones.

0:27.0

I think you're going to love this episode because Francis speaks from experience working with so many clients in high stakes communications type situations

0:36.4

that you could have just an extra degree of confidence that she knows what she's talking about

0:40.3

and it makes great sense and I've been trying to incorporate several key

0:45.0

lessons she shared here in these podcasts themselves and I will reveal which ones

0:50.0

in particular at the end how's that for a teaser you'll learn one, how to tell if you're a

0:54.8

boring speaker and what to do about it. Two, the key word that instantly makes your message

0:59.7

more engaging, and three, another power word that increases listener buy-in from 60 to 94 percent.

1:08.0

So if you'd like to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that we've referenced here,

1:12.4

you can find that over at awesome at your job.

1:14.0

dot com slash f-229.

1:17.0

Now here's Francis's story.

1:19.0

Prior to founding coal media management,

1:21.0

Francis worked first as a nursery school teacher and then as an editor of commercial non-fiction in New York City.

1:27.0

Being a teacher helped her hone the negotiation skills, because if you can handle 12 toddlers you can handle any CEO.

1:34.0

Her experience helping authors find their voices is something she uses with all her clients

1:38.5

to ensure they sound like themselves.

1:40.4

Themselves on their best day.

1:43.0

Here is Francis.

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