[10:42 AM, 10/4/2018] Atif Sir: How to Communicate More Effectively in the Workplace
Learn a few key strategies for communicating deliberately and diplomatically in the workplace.
How to Recognize & Improve Your Default Public Speaking Settings
To improve, challenge your standard approach.
1. Nervousness Is Normal. Practice and Prepare!
All people feel some physiological reactions like pounding hearts and trembling hands. Do not associate these feelings with the sense that you will perform poorly or make a fool of yourself. Some nerves are good. The adrenaline rush that makes you sweat also makes you more alert and ready to give your best performance.
The best way to overcome anxiety is to prepare, prepare, and prepare some more. Take the time to go over your notes several times. Once you have become comfortable with the material, practice—a lot. Videotape yourself, or get a friend to critique your performance.
2. Know Your Audience. Your Speech Is About Them, Not You.
Before you begin to craft your message, consider who the message is intended for. Learn as much about your listeners as you can. This will help you determine your choice of words, level of information, organization pattern, and motivational statement.
3. Organize Your Material in the Most Effective Manner to Attain Your Purpose.
Create the framework for your speech. Write down the topic, general purpose, specific purpose, central idea, and main points. Make sure to grab the audience’s attention in the first 30 seconds.
4. Watch for Feedback and Adapt to It.
Keep the focus on the audience. Gauge their reactions, adjust your message, and stay flexible. Delivering a canned speech will guarantee that you lose the attention of or confuse even the most devoted listeners.
5. Let Your Personality Come Through.
Be yourself, don’t become a talking head—in any type of communication. You will establish better credibility if your personality shines through, and your audience will trust what you have to say if they can see you as a real person.
6. Use Humor, Tell Stories, and Use Effective Language.
Inject a funny anecdote in your presentation, and you will certainly grab your audience’s attention. Audiences generally like a personal touch in a speech. A story can provide that.
7. Don’t Read Unless You Have to. Work from an Outline.
Reading from a script or slide fractures the interpersonal connection. By maintaining eye contact with the audience, you keep the focus on yourself and your message. A brief outline can serve to jog your memory and keep you on task.
8. Use Your Voice and Hands Effectively. Omit Nervous Gestures.
Nonverbal communication carries most of the message. Good delivery does not call attention to itself, but instead conveys the speaker’s ideas clearly and without distraction.
9. Grab Attention at the Beginning, and Close with a Dynamic End.
Do you enjoy hearing a speech start with “Today I’m going to talk to you about X”? Most people don’t. Instead, use a startling statistic, an interesting anecdote, or concise quotation. Conclude your speech with a summary and a stron…
[10:55 AM, 10/4/2018] Atif Sir: So… you want to be a writer?
This all begins with believing you already are a writer. So let’s start there.
A writer is a writer when he says he is.
—Steven Pressfield
Anyone who writes is a writer, but that doesn’t mean they’re a very good one. So let’s talk about how to become a better writer. We’ll begin with the basics — here are seven key lessons
Writing is simple, but not easy.
Before you get a larger audience, you have to get better.
Practice makes you better; it’s the repetitions that make it effortless.
Until you put your work out there, you’re only screwing around. Write for real.
You can’t practice without discipline. Keep showing up and persevering.
There will always be resistance; type through it, anyway.
Get over your excuses and do the work.
Before getting started
Before you begin writing, ask yourself these important questions:
Why do I want to write?
Who am I writing for?
What’s my message?
Have I found my voice yet?
What am I willing to sacrifice for my craft?
What won’t I give up?
Once you count the cost and make the decision to begin, it’s time to start writing.
Tips for when you begin
I’ve coached and trained other writers for years. I’ve built a powerful personal brand and platform and used it to publish my work. I’ve experimented and seen as much failure as success. Through all of it, I want to use what I’ve learned to help other people.
So my hope this blog serves you in your writing journey in some way. I’ve written hundreds of articles here, which is a lot to sort through. Here is a list of 10 essential tips on writing:
Write every day.
Make sure your writing is effective.
Don’t be lazy; do your best to avoid sounding stupid.
Stay focused! Distraction is the enemy of all great art.
Stop worrying about being a good writer; just write.
Forget about fame; write what’s worth writing.
Get over your perfectionist tendencies.
Don’t write to get published.
Write with conviction.
Read.
Build your platform
Although writers need to write first for the craft, it’s not a bad thing to want to get published. But that’s a byproduct, not a goal (For the real writer, anyway).
Look. This isn’t just something that happens accidentally. You have to work at it. So how do you create work that earns you the attention of publishers, exactly? You build a platform.
These days, a lot of writers use blogs and the power of the Internet to get their writing discovered. There’s no reason you can’t do the same. Here are 10 basic tips on blogging and building an audience that will help you get published:
In order to get noticed, you’ve got to be intentional.
Narrow your focus to broaden your audience.
Learn from copywriters, and write for scanners.
Engage with readers (get more comments on your blog).
Be intentional about growing your blog traffic.
Build an email list (like, yesterday).
Use guest posting to tap into new audiences.
Write great content, but don’t stop there; build relationships, too.
Expect haters.
Help people.
Bonus: For free writing tips delivered directly to your inbox, click here.
Need help with your writing?
Check out the archives of this blog for more articles and resources. And be sure sign up for free updates to this blog; you don’t miss anything.
Now, get on that mailing list while you’re still thinking about it (I never SPAM, promise). You’ll get a free eBook when you confirm your email:
Being a starving artist is a choice.
Bestselling author and creativity expert Jeff Goins dismantles the myth that being creative is a hindrance to success by revealing how an artistic temperament is, in fact, a competitive advantage in the marketplace.
For centuries, the myth of the starving artist has dominated our culture, seeping into the minds of creative people and stifling their pursuits. But the truth is that the world’s most successful artists did not starve. In fact, they capitalized on the power of their creative strength. In Real Artists Don’t Starve, Jeff Goins debunks the myth of the starving artist by unveiling the ideas that created it and replacing them with fourteen rules for artists to thrive.
Learn a few key strategies for communicating deliberately and diplomatically in the workplace.
How to Recognize & Improve Your Default Public Speaking Settings
To improve, challenge your standard approach.
1. Nervousness Is Normal. Practice and Prepare!
All people feel some physiological reactions like pounding hearts and trembling hands. Do not associate these feelings with the sense that you will perform poorly or make a fool of yourself. Some nerves are good. The adrenaline rush that makes you sweat also makes you more alert and ready to give your best performance.
The best way to overcome anxiety is to prepare, prepare, and prepare some more. Take the time to go over your notes several times. Once you have become comfortable with the material, practice—a lot. Videotape yourself, or get a friend to critique your performance.
2. Know Your Audience. Your Speech Is About Them, Not You.
Before you begin to craft your message, consider who the message is intended for. Learn as much about your listeners as you can. This will help you determine your choice of words, level of information, organization pattern, and motivational statement.
3. Organize Your Material in the Most Effective Manner to Attain Your Purpose.
Create the framework for your speech. Write down the topic, general purpose, specific purpose, central idea, and main points. Make sure to grab the audience’s attention in the first 30 seconds.
4. Watch for Feedback and Adapt to It.
Keep the focus on the audience. Gauge their reactions, adjust your message, and stay flexible. Delivering a canned speech will guarantee that you lose the attention of or confuse even the most devoted listeners.
5. Let Your Personality Come Through.
Be yourself, don’t become a talking head—in any type of communication. You will establish better credibility if your personality shines through, and your audience will trust what you have to say if they can see you as a real person.
6. Use Humor, Tell Stories, and Use Effective Language.
Inject a funny anecdote in your presentation, and you will certainly grab your audience’s attention. Audiences generally like a personal touch in a speech. A story can provide that.
7. Don’t Read Unless You Have to. Work from an Outline.
Reading from a script or slide fractures the interpersonal connection. By maintaining eye contact with the audience, you keep the focus on yourself and your message. A brief outline can serve to jog your memory and keep you on task.
8. Use Your Voice and Hands Effectively. Omit Nervous Gestures.
Nonverbal communication carries most of the message. Good delivery does not call attention to itself, but instead conveys the speaker’s ideas clearly and without distraction.
9. Grab Attention at the Beginning, and Close with a Dynamic End.
Do you enjoy hearing a speech start with “Today I’m going to talk to you about X”? Most people don’t. Instead, use a startling statistic, an interesting anecdote, or concise quotation. Conclude your speech with a summary and a stron…
[10:55 AM, 10/4/2018] Atif Sir: So… you want to be a writer?
This all begins with believing you already are a writer. So let’s start there.
A writer is a writer when he says he is.
—Steven Pressfield
Anyone who writes is a writer, but that doesn’t mean they’re a very good one. So let’s talk about how to become a better writer. We’ll begin with the basics — here are seven key lessons
Writing is simple, but not easy.
Before you get a larger audience, you have to get better.
Practice makes you better; it’s the repetitions that make it effortless.
Until you put your work out there, you’re only screwing around. Write for real.
You can’t practice without discipline. Keep showing up and persevering.
There will always be resistance; type through it, anyway.
Get over your excuses and do the work.
Before getting started
Before you begin writing, ask yourself these important questions:
Why do I want to write?
Who am I writing for?
What’s my message?
Have I found my voice yet?
What am I willing to sacrifice for my craft?
What won’t I give up?
Once you count the cost and make the decision to begin, it’s time to start writing.
Tips for when you begin
I’ve coached and trained other writers for years. I’ve built a powerful personal brand and platform and used it to publish my work. I’ve experimented and seen as much failure as success. Through all of it, I want to use what I’ve learned to help other people.
So my hope this blog serves you in your writing journey in some way. I’ve written hundreds of articles here, which is a lot to sort through. Here is a list of 10 essential tips on writing:
Write every day.
Make sure your writing is effective.
Don’t be lazy; do your best to avoid sounding stupid.
Stay focused! Distraction is the enemy of all great art.
Stop worrying about being a good writer; just write.
Forget about fame; write what’s worth writing.
Get over your perfectionist tendencies.
Don’t write to get published.
Write with conviction.
Read.
Build your platform
Although writers need to write first for the craft, it’s not a bad thing to want to get published. But that’s a byproduct, not a goal (For the real writer, anyway).
Look. This isn’t just something that happens accidentally. You have to work at it. So how do you create work that earns you the attention of publishers, exactly? You build a platform.
These days, a lot of writers use blogs and the power of the Internet to get their writing discovered. There’s no reason you can’t do the same. Here are 10 basic tips on blogging and building an audience that will help you get published:
In order to get noticed, you’ve got to be intentional.
Narrow your focus to broaden your audience.
Learn from copywriters, and write for scanners.
Engage with readers (get more comments on your blog).
Be intentional about growing your blog traffic.
Build an email list (like, yesterday).
Use guest posting to tap into new audiences.
Write great content, but don’t stop there; build relationships, too.
Expect haters.
Help people.
Bonus: For free writing tips delivered directly to your inbox, click here.
Need help with your writing?
Check out the archives of this blog for more articles and resources. And be sure sign up for free updates to this blog; you don’t miss anything.
Now, get on that mailing list while you’re still thinking about it (I never SPAM, promise). You’ll get a free eBook when you confirm your email:
Being a starving artist is a choice.
Bestselling author and creativity expert Jeff Goins dismantles the myth that being creative is a hindrance to success by revealing how an artistic temperament is, in fact, a competitive advantage in the marketplace.
For centuries, the myth of the starving artist has dominated our culture, seeping into the minds of creative people and stifling their pursuits. But the truth is that the world’s most successful artists did not starve. In fact, they capitalized on the power of their creative strength. In Real Artists Don’t Starve, Jeff Goins debunks the myth of the starving artist by unveiling the ideas that created it and replacing them with fourteen rules for artists to thrive.
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