Think Faster, Talk Smarter with Matt Abrahams

Modern Mentor

Macmillan Holdings, LLC

Careers, Business, Management

4.3 • 720 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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We’re all striving to be better communicators – in both formal and informal situations. Stanford Graduate School of Business Lecturer, Matt Abrahams, shares with Modern Mentor some of his top tips for being more focused, less anxious, and more successful in our everyday communication.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Rachel Cook, your modern mentor. I'm the founder of Lead Above Noise, a firm specializing
0:24.0	in helping leaders and organizations crack their activation codes, finding the simple tweaks
0:28.7	to enhance both performance and employee engagement. In today's episode, I got to speak with
0:34.2	leading communication expert Matt Abrams.
0:42.2	Matt is a lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, teaching strategic communication and effective virtual presenting. Outside of the classroom, Matt is a sought-after
0:47.5	keynote speaker and communication consultant. His online talks garner millions of views, and he hosts
0:53.1	the popular award-winning podcast, Think Fast, Talk Smart.
0:57.2	His new book, Think Faster, Talk Smarter, How to Speak Successfully When You're Put on the Spot,
1:02.8	provides tangible, actionable skills to help even the most anxious speakers succeed when speaking
1:08.2	spontaneously, like navigating Q&A sessions, shining in job interviews,
1:13.2	providing effective feedback, making small talk, fixing a faux pa, and persuading others. In this conversation,
1:19.4	we covered a lot of ground, from managing the anxiety we feel in various speaking situations,
1:24.6	to being a better networker, to persuading your boss to give you a new opportunity,
1:28.7	and so much more. I hope you enjoy my conversation with Matt. Well, Matt Abrahams of the Think Fast,
1:35.3	Talk Smart podcast, welcome to the Modern Mentor Show. I am really excited to be here with you and look
1:41.5	forward to our conversation. All right. You set a high bar. Let's see how we do here.
1:46.6	So, Matt, you and I are here to talk about communication, which is a thing that people generally need to do in work and in life and in our own heads. Goodness knows. You and I were just chatting a little bit before we hit record about
2:01.6	just how many challenges and moments of complication we seem to experience day to day.
2:08.3	So you've got a lot of expertise, kind of a broad range, and we're going to cover the formal,
2:13.3	we're going to cover the informal. But I want to start with just kind of chit-chat.
2:18.4	Is that okay?
2:19.4	Absolutely.
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