I slipped on my comfortable dark blue Crows and very quickly went home to pick up my son. Although it was a bit after 5:30 pm, darkness completely fell throughout the area. I bought a special treat for my son, a piece of candied ginger. His face shone like a beacon when he saw this spicy treasure. When I asked Ian what he wanted to do for dinner, he said, "Go with dad to get some sushi." This nascent father and son ritual began a few weeks ago when Ian asked me what I did on that particular day. I told him: "Dad had conversational work, and then there was sushi for lunch." He immediately said: “I want to get some sushi”, “ssses & # 39; both in some, and in sushi, mixed in one three-year word.
Last night I celebrated a new Japanese restaurant, and he said: “Not the one”. He wanted to go to the restaurant where we went for the first time. I said: “It’s good to try different restaurants, and besides, he has a fish in a tank (and not a man in a can).” My explanations sound like the first page of Dr. Seuss. Yang said, "Let's go and see the fish in the tank!" The fish was a good distraction while we waited for our order. I have to give a loan to Jan; He ate two slices of California roll (cooked crab and avocado). When I ate a piece of sushi, Jan used his children's chopsticks and took what he said was part of the avocado. He put a small piece of wasabi in his mouth instead of avocado and immediately got that petrified look on his face. His lower jaw dropped when his lips closed tightly; his whole body looked as his eyes watered for a few seconds. I wore mixed emotions of horror and humor, not quite sure what to do. Then Yang grabbed his plastic cup with water and literally sucked the whole contents through a straw. He looked at me, paused and said: "Spicy."
When I told my wife about our experience, she laughed out loud. She asked Ian if he wanted to go with dad again to get sushi sometimes, and he said, “Oh, ha!” My wife commented that this is our only thing or, as I said, our ritual. Having one thing to focus on when we eat will help my three-year-old child to remember the key moments of his childhood. We also have one workout when we train. I tie him in the co-pilot's seat in the back seat of my mountain bike and reduce the Capital Crescent track to Georgetown, while Ian shouts, "Hurry, dad, hurry." According to Masaru Emoto, author of the True Power of Water, everything has a unique vibration or one thing that resonates with someone else. He said: “Our mind and body are affected by this, depending on what internal vibrations we resonate with. In human relations, we often say that we are either not on the same wavelength with someone. ”
When I work with managers to improve my communication power, my task is to find one thing that resonates with them. Why do I want to choose one thing? I can and I give managers a small shopping list of major and minor items that they succeed in, and others who need improvement through multidisciplinary rehearsals. However, I say that they bought to start with this first. Providing too many solutions at the same time can paralyze progress. I recently worked with six different executives, and each of them was one of them that they could improve on, for example, relax, appearance, presence, personal stories, pause meals and bind key messages.
Relax - exercise before you speak, practice deep breathing, or even get a massage. Relaxing will slow the pace of your presentation and allow you to work in a better message.
Appearance - when you match your appearance (referring to the topic) with how you feel inside, you are more congruent and will have more opportunities to communicate.
Presence - the presence of a greater presence through the correct use of body language can mean an awareness of where you are standing. Being closer to the audience, she binds more passion. He is aware of what you are doing and his meaning.
Personal stories - signature stories that characterize the dynamics, make you remember. Try to come up with 2-3 signature histories that take from 30 seconds to 3 minutes. For extra power, link your personal stories to key messages.
Power Pause - using um & # 39; filler & # 39; words distract from the effectiveness of communication. Replace placeholder words with silence. When you dwell on power, you will be perceived as more confident, and then more effective.
Weave Key Messages - take key topics and weave them through the presentation, and then through each section. Remember, take your topic, link it to a story or point, and then tell the audience why this is important to them.
By choosing one item from the top and truly demonstrating the improvement, you can increase your communication power. It will be much easier to choose than trying all six at once. Plus, you'll see results in one area faster, and this will give you the necessary motivation to continue to improve your speech. Warning, you need to try various sushi restaurants to determine their degree of spiciness.
