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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

769: How to Command the Room, Connect with Your Audience, and Close the Deal with Laura Sicola

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Laura Sicola breaks down the communication tools and techniques for building a strong presence and delivering maximum impact. 


— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) How you’re introducing yourself wrong—and how to do it better 

2) The magic words to capture your audience’s attention 

3) What it really takes to persuade your audience 


Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep769 for clickable versions of the links below. 


— ABOUT LAURA — 

Dr. Laura Sicola is a leadership communication and influence expert, speaker, podcast host, and author of Speaking to Influence: Mastering Your Leadership Voice. Laura’s TEDx talk, “Want to Sound Like a Leader? Start by Saying Your Name Right,” has over 6.6 million views. As founder of Vocal Impact Productions, her mission is to help leaders master the Three Cs of Vocal Executive Presence so they can COMMAND the room, CONNECT with the audience, and CLOSE the deal. 

• Book: Speaking to Influence: Mastering Your Leadership Voice 

• TEDx Talk: Want to sound like a leader? Start by saying your name right | Laura Sicola | TEDxPenn 

• Website: VocalImpactProductions.com 

• Podcast: Speaking to Influence 

• LinkedIn: Dr. Laura Sicola 


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Microphone: Shure SM7B 

• Microphone: Shure BETA 87A 

• Study: The Center for Talent Innovation's Key Findings: Executive Presence 

• Book: Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded by Maxwell Maltz 

• Book: Life Is Magic: My Inspiring Journey from Tragedy to Self-Discovery by Jon Dorenbos and Larry Platt 

• Book: Pete the Cat 12-Book Phonics Fun!: Includes 12 Mini-Books Featuring Short and Long Vowel Sounds (My First I Can Read) by James Dean and Kimberly Dean 

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0:00.0

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.

0:04.1

The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required

0:08.6

to flourish at work.

0:10.0

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete McIdest.

0:16.0

Hello, and thanks for joining us here for episode 769 with Laura Secola.

0:23.7

See what I did there?

0:25.4

Not yet, but you will.

0:27.4

Laura is sharing some excellent communication skills, how to bump up your executive presence,

0:32.5

your vocal impact, so you can command the room, connect with your audience, and close

0:36.9

the deal.

0:37.9

So you'll learn one, how you're introducing yourself wrong and how to do it better, two, the

0:43.1

magic words to capture your audience's attention, and three, what it really takes to persuade

0:47.5

your audience.

0:48.5

So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to Alex V.

0:51.1

reference, please pace a visit at awesome at your job.com slash EP 769.

0:58.0

That's awesome at your job.com slash EP 769.

1:02.6

And check out some of our goodies at awesome at your job.com from searchable transcripts

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to gold nugget email summaries, a lot of goodies there, check them out.

1:10.3

And here are some goodies about Laura, Dr. Laura Secola is a leadership communication

1:15.3

and influence expert speaker, podcast host, and author of speaking to influence, master

1:20.3

your leadership voice.

1:21.7

Laura's TEDx talk, want to sound like a leader?

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