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Hi, and welcome back to the Big Deal podcast. I'm Cody Sanchez.

If you want to be respected for your words to carry weight, then this episode is for you. I'm breaking down the

communication techniques, the top 1% use to get people leaning in, not tuning out. By the end,

you'll know how to stop sounding like everyone else and start speaking like the leader

people want to follow. So today, I want you to steal my confidence and respect. First, speak in headlines.

Start with the point, not the preamble. I obsess on my first sentence. Why? Executives don't waste

time on throat clearing or setting up a big runway before they get to the takeoff. By giving

the headline first,

you frame the conversation and make people lean in instead of tune out. This is also how you never

have somebody repeat your idea to a group of people and be able to take credit for it again, right?

When you speak decisively and you say something in front of a group, it would be ridiculous

for somebody else to reframe your ideas and take them as your own.

This is called decisive speech. Here's what that means. Clear, direct statements, limited hedging,

and using few qualifiers or apologies. That's really signaling, I am competent. Let's say you want to

talk to someone for a few minutes. You're trying to get a few seconds with them, a boss, a coworker. I brought this up last week. And what I think we should do instead is probably talk about this a little bit more. Or we could table it and talk about it later. Can I steal a few minutes? Is now a good time? Hey, hey, can we talk about that? A good time for what? Why? Why do you need to steal my minutes? Where are they going?

What you don't realize? Most people sound like that. You instead will sound something like this.

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