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How to handle Q&A sessions like a pro
Many of my coachees ask me how to handle Q&A sessions in presentations or meetings. While delivering a presentation can be daunting, at least you can prepare and be in control of your message and contents. When the Q&A session starts, the big black hole of the...
Strategies that sabotage your communication
What is your standard response to stress and how does it affect your communication and your relationships? When under pressure or exposed to conflict, we tend to cope along three dimensions: by moving move toward people (compliance), against them (aggression), or away...
Why you need to involve your audience – and why you may be hesitating
We all know what it’s like to sit through boring presentations and meetings being force-fed facts and figures. We start daydreaming, checking our e-mail, send a text message, or even fall asleep. From the speaker’s point of view, it’s not that fun either. Seeing a sea...
Fear of speaking – shifting the spotlight away from your ego
Being one of four daughters of hard-working parents, getting somebody's undivided attention was rare when I was a child. Until when at age seven I was asked to sing solo at the school end-of-year festivities. Suddenly all eyes and all ears were on me - and I found...
What has trust got to do with executive presence? Everything!
Trust is foundational to your executive presence and all successful business relationships. You need other people to feel comfortable about your motives and credibility to invest in you as a person - let alone to allow themselves be influenced or led by you. Trust has...
Breathe life into your presence
Human beings can survive without food for weeks, without water for days, but without air only for a few minutes. Our breath is the source of our life as well as the source of our voice. Yet, the breath is one of the first things to be affected by stress and distress...
Enhancing your presence one baby step at a time
Have you ever cultivated the thought that you could benefit from enhancing your personal presence, but struggle to find the time and energy to do anything about it? Here are some small steps you can take to move you in the right direction. Step one - find out how you...
4 ways to bring out the good vibes in your voice
Not enough sleep, too much travel, a budding cold, or simply a lack of motivation? Your voice is a sensitive barometer that quickly gives away your physical and emotional state. Yet, in the harsh reality of life we often need to sound engaged and convincing also when...
Your body – simple brain-taxi or dormant leadership asset?
If you have ever been around a great leader - be it a boss, a parent, a famous politician - you will have experienced their embodied presence. The way they enter the room, the way they command respect as they speak, and the way they make you feel seen and listened to....
Open your presentation with PUNCH
No, I'm not talking about the drink. And yes, I am against violence in the workplace or anywhere else. But I'm also against imposing unnecessary boredom on people and alienating your audience within the first minute of your presentation. If you want people to hear...
Express Vocal Tips – helping you to power your voice
https://youtu.be/9Soikx8ufok Welcome to this series of Express Vocal Tips to help you power your voice and speak so people want to listen. I will be posting weekly until the end of this year, providing you with easy and actionable ways to get more out of your voice...
Watch your tongue – it may get you into trouble
The tongue has a reputation of being the single human organ that gets us into the most trouble. While that usually refers to the things we say, the tongue is capable of meddling with our lives in so many other ways. Just to mention a few, it may propagate tension in...
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Client Reviews
“Maria has a tremendous ability to very lightly bring the voice one wishes to have, to life. Who knew I didn’t know how to breathe? Now, I do. And that makes everything better. She is enormously perceptive and unfailingly positive and runs a transformational workshop in a spirited and graceful way. I highly recommend you work with Maria to make your voice a tool that springs you forward.”
Caroline Rennie
MANAGING PARTNER AT REN-NEW CONSULTANCY
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