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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

253: How to Speak Out…Without a Freak Out with Matthew Abrahams

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 23 January 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Stanford instructor Matt Abrahams teaches techniques to calm speaking anxieties…from managing procrastination to cooling body temperatures, and more.


You’ll Learn:

1) How to attack both the symptoms and sources of speaking anxiety

2) Why to envision communication as a conversation instead of a performance

3) How long to make eye contact


About Matt 

Matt Abrahams is a passionate, collaborative and innovative educator and coach. He teaches Effective Virtual Communication and Essentials of Strategic Communication at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. Matt is also Co-Founder and Principal at Bold Echo Communications Solutions, a presentation and communication skills company based in Silicon Valley that helps people improve their presentation skills. Matt recently published the third edition of his book Speaking Up Without Freaking Out, a book written to help the millions of people who wish to present in a more confident and compelling way.


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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 McChitis.

0:16.0

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 253 with Matt Abrahams.

0:26.4

Matt is talking about speaking anxieties and he has written a book that's gone

0:31.8

through multiple editions of it.

0:33.8

He knows his stuff, so I think you're going to dig his principles and

0:37.3

tactics that could make a world difference for years to come.

0:40.7

So you all learn one, how to attack both the symptoms and sources of

0:44.0

speaking anxiety. Two, why to envision communication as a conversation instead of

0:49.5

a performance? And three, how long to hold eye contact. So if you'd like to check out the show

0:55.2

notes, the transcript or the links to items that we've referenced here it's on

0:58.4

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Now here's Matt

1:33.0

Abrahams is a passionate, collaborative, and innovative educator and coach.

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