242: How to Handle Tough Audiences with Deirdre Breakenridge
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
4.6 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2017
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
PR consultant Deirdre Breakenridge teaches how to handle tricky audiences, identify different audience member profiles, and deliver great presentations in tough situations.
You’ll Learn:
1) The best approaches for understanding your audience upfront
2) Three universal practices to command attention
3) Handy strategies to prepare you for the tough questions
About Deirdre
Deirdre has been in PR and marketing for 25+ years helping senior executives in midsize to large organizations communicate to their stakeholders. She is a communications strategist and has worked with clients on many different types of communications programs, including executive communications and thought leadership, image and reputation management, crisis communications, media relations, PR 2.0 and social media programs.
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Deirdre’s Company: Pure Performance Communications
- Deirdre’s Website: DeirdreBreckenridge.com
- Deirdre’s Book: PR 2.0
- Deirdre’s Podcast: Women Worldwide
- Deirdre’s Course: Handling an Unruly Audience on Linkedin Learning
- Author: Mel Robbins
- Book: The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
- App: Grammarly
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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 242 with |
| 0:24.5 | Dider Breckridge. I think you'll find this chat super useful if you are |
| 0:28.0 | entering any tough conversations, presentations, audience situations |
| 0:32.0 | because Didera brings it with her knowledge from her PR experience |
| 0:36.1 | and working with many, many clients. |
| 0:37.8 | So you'll learn one, the best approaches for understanding your audience up front, |
| 0:42.4 | two, three universal practices to command attention, and three |
| 0:47.2 | handy strategies to prepare you for the tough questions. |
| 0:51.1 | So if you'd like to check out the show notes or the transcripts or the links to |
| 0:53.7 | items that we've referenced here, you'll find that over at awesome at your job.com slash |
| 0:58.0 | eep-242. And while you're at awesome at your job dot com I encourage you to check out some of our cool resources. |
| 1:04.6 | One I'll point you to right now |
| 1:05.9 | if you're there on a laptop or desktop, |
| 1:07.9 | you'll see you hello bar right at the very front |
| 1:10.4 | and that will point you to a free trial of many courses from LinkedIn |
| 1:16.2 | learning of which Deidra teaches one so that's pretty cool right at the top |
| 1:19.9 | but awesome at your job.com now here is Deirdre's story. |
| 1:23.9 | Deirdre has been in PR and marketing |
| 1:25.8 | for over 25 years helping senior executives |
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