How To Stay Calm Under Fire

The Look & Sound of Leadership

Essential Communications - Tom Henschel

Education, Executive Coaching, Self-improvement, Executive Presence, Careers, Business, Management

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

A leader is given a presentation coach and two goals: ‘tell a better story’ and ‘be more responsive in the moment.’ This episode is the coaching conversation about the second goal: be responsive in the moment. This episode is tagged in four categories in the Podcast Library: Communication SkillsExecutive PresencePresentation Skills Self-Talk Six related episodes you might listen to are: #214 How to Turn Data Into Stories #160Prepping Like a TED Talker #157Talking Like a TED Talker...

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the look and sound of leadership.
0:06.3	An ongoing series of executive coaching tips designed to help you be perceived in the
0:11.0	workplace the way you want to be perceived.
0:14.1	I'm Tom Henshel, your executive coach, and today we're talking about how to stay calm
0:20.3	under fire.
0:23.8	Nigel had been hired as a member of the CEO's executive team.
0:28.5	To date, he'd made two presentations to the Board of Directors.
0:32.8	Mandep, the CEO, felt both could have been better.
0:37.8	Mandep felt that Nigel's skills were good overall, but to succeed with this board, Nigel would
0:43.4	need to stretch in two areas, tell a better business story, and be more responsive in
0:48.9	the moment.
0:49.9	Mandep had asked me to coach Nigel on both goals.
0:53.4	Nigel and I had talked about turning data into stories that first goal.
0:59.1	Now we turned to the second goal, be more responsive in the moment.
1:03.9	I asked Nigel, what do you think he means by that?
1:07.2	Nigel answered, I like to stick to my script.
1:10.0	When people start firing questions at me, I get thrown off.
1:13.3	He wants me to, I don't know, go with the flow, I suppose.
1:17.2	I asked, well, but he also wants you to get through your material, doesn't he?
1:21.5	Well, he does indeed, he answered, you see my dilemma.
1:24.8	Why can't they just wait until I'm finished?
1:28.1	What's your concern, Nigel?
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