Welcome back to the Look and Sound of Leadership, an ongoing series of executive

coaching tips designed to help you be perceived in the workplace the way you want

to be perceived. I'm Tom Henschel, your executive coach, and today we're

talking about performing like a TED Talker. Caroline in London wanted to know what to do with her body.

Caroline was one of eight division heads who would speak at the company's annual global management meeting.

The CEO told them they would each talk for 18 minutes just like a TED Talk.

And she said, she wanted each talk to be as riveting as an actual TED Talk.

The division heads asked for help and got paired up with me.

Eventually, I would work with each of them individually, but this was our 90 minute group

kickoff call.

We had discussed how to rehearse, how to build ideas while rehearsing, and whether or not to memorize.

By the way, that conversation that I'm referencing is the episode called Prepping like a TED Talker. It was at the end of that conversation that Caroline

admittedly nervous about delivering any speech at all, asked how they could

rehearse their bodies. I asked what she meant and she said, well I just can't

imagine walking onto that stage and looking out at all those people she said. I'm not

worried about what I'm going to say I can figure that out but

what am I going to actually do with myself that's that is a yawning black chasm to me

thinking I might have an idea to help, I asked, where's the meeting happening?

Vegas, said Marissa from Cupertino.

Is it there every year I asked?

Do you know what it's going to look like?

Adam and Phoenix said, we had it there two years ago.

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