Think on Your Feet: Tips and Tricks to Improve Your Impromptu Communication Skills on the Job
Think on Your Feet: Tips and Tricks to Improve Your Impromptu Communication Skills on the Job
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Think on Your Feet: Tips and Tricks to Improve Your Impromptu Communication Skills on the Job by Jen Oleniczak Brown
“[Think on Your Feet] is a helpful maven’s guide ideal for anyone who views a podium with fear and trembling.”—Publishers Weekly Get out of your own way! Our professional lives are full of situations outside of our control. A job interviewer asks a question out of left field. A coworker puts you on the spot in front of the boss. Your PowerPoint presentation crashes at a critical moment. Most people react to the unexpected with anxiety and unease. We get rattled, stumble over our words, and overthink the situation. Others, though, handle it with self-assurance and aplomb. They gain a sense of empowerment and energy when the pressure is on. Like great improv actors, they’re able to think on their feet. The great thing is, improv isn’t about winging it or flying by the seat of your pants; improv at its core is about listening and responding. It’s based on rules and techniques, and it taps directly into your soft communication skills. By incorporating it into your prep work for professional situations, you’ll learn how to retrain your brain for the unexpected and get out of your own way in those unexpected—and expected—professional situations. Practicing improv isn’t about being funny. Instead, it’s about developing the mental agility to spin any surprise in your favor and to communicate with confidence. Filled with engaging improv activities, this interactive guide will ensure you never come away from a tough moment pondering the woulda, coulda, shoulda! again. You’ll learn how to nurture your personal style for communicating in every professional situation. From effective listening in the office, giving presentations, and leading meetings to negotiating a raise, acing an interview, and more, you’ll start communicating with confidence and stop letting the unexpected hold you back. Take your workplace communication—and your career—to the next level by mastering the art of Thinking on Your Feet.Jen Oleniczak Brown is the founder of The Engaging Educator, a company owned and operated by women that helps business professionals find their unapologetic, authentic, and best voice/communication style through improv-based education. Her work has been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, Bustle, and Moneyish.
Jen has given three TEDx Talks on the power of improv in our daily lives and firmly believes that everyone can immediately level up their lives with a little more active listening. In another life, she performed off-Broadway for 10 years and has been teaching improv for over half her life. Follow her adventures online at www.jenbrown.co or on Twitter (@JenOleniczak).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781260457032 |
| ISBN 10 | 1260457036 |
| Title | Think on Your Feet: Tips and Tricks to Improve Your Impromptu Communication Skills on the Job |
| Author | Jen Oleniczak Brown |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | McGraw-Hill Education |
| Year published | 2019-11-18 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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