Michelle Gladieux – Communicate with Courage
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Episode Overview:
Raising our game as communicators is the best way to make a difference in our careers and relationships, but it takes courage to find our voice, open up, and invite others to open up to us. Improved communication requires taking smart risks to question our beliefs, take a leap of faith, and build our bravery to make a greater impact in our personal relationships.
To help us learn to communicate with courage and overcome the four hidden challenges is communication coach, Michelle Gladieux.
Guest Bio:
Michelle Gladieux is an instructional designer, trainer, and executive coach who is living to help people raise their game as communicators. She has 18 years collegiate teaching experience at three universities in her home state of Indiana, accepting her first adjunct faculty position at age 23.
Her book Communicate with Courage: Taking Risks to Overcome the Four Hidden Challenges offers practical strategies and Pro Moves to improve how we manage messaging in our professional and personal lives. She loves what she does and the people she serves, and it shows.
Resource Links:
- Website: https://gladieuxconsulting.com/
- Product Link: https://amzn.to/3B5uae3
Insight Gold Timestamps:
04:30 Where do we get courage?
06:06 Watch the quality of our self-talk
09:15 I don’t know how you perceive me unless I am brave enough to ask
11:02 When we ask for feedback, we don’t have to use it, but we have to consider it
12:54 Just because you say it with good intention doesn’t mean the impact can’t be harmful or hurtful
16:48 Stop being so darn sure and be more inquisitive
23:25 We are becoming a more enlightened and inclusive society
24:32 What does my best effort look like?
26:29 Re-read once before hitting send
29:57 Public speaking is an antidote to hiding
34:00 Creating a spice file
36:35 Five ways that we can handle disagreement
38:44 Communicate with courage, taking Risks to overcome 4 hidden challenges
Connect Socially:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michellegladieux/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GladieuxConsulting
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gladieuxconsulting/
Email: Michelle@GladieuxConsulting.com
Sponsors:
Rainmaker Digital Solutions: https://www.rainmakerdigitalsolutions.com/
Resources: https://becomingpreferred-podcast.com/resources/
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About the Host, Michael
Michael Vickers inspires enduring success, redefining the possible for today’s sales professionals, leaders, and managers. Whatever the sales or business opportunity, Michael will greatly enhance your odds of success. Every person who has an idea to promote, an employee to motivate, or a deal to negotiate, will attain a new level of success after an event with Michael.
Michael is also the best-selling author of Becoming Preferred: How to Outsell Your Competition, and Dance of the Rainmaker: Creating Authentic Differentiation in Today's Competitive Marketplace, where he shares his secrets to achieving the very highest level of sales mastery.
Whatever the result you’re striving for, if it involves influencing others or achieving success through others, Michael will build your confidence and accelerate your performance.
Michael is the Executive Director of Summit Learning Systems, a company that offers customized in-house training programs to many of today’s leading companies. He teaches thousands of business professionals throughout North America the skills required to achieve optimum performance.