1. Developing confident communication skills for leaders
Understanding ModernGov– Anne Walsh

2. Developing Confident Communication for leaders
Gain quick tips to come across as a more confident leader
Learn how to be more assertive in the workplace
Tips to use assertive language in the workplace
Communication and personal impact: using breathing and voice tools to keep calm and exert power.
Developing Confident Communication for leaders

3. Amy Cuddy’s Power Poses: Universal postures of confidence and empowerment

4. Open confident posture and gestures

5. Embodying leadership through good alignment

6. The Power is in your hands

7. Rhetoric: the language of confident, assertive leadership
The ancients saw Rhetoric as the ‘essential skill of leadership-knowledge’
Blame - Past tense: Use the past tense when needing to apportion blame.
Values - Present tense: Use the present tense when needing to talk about values
Choice - Future tense: Use the future tense when needing to speak about choice.
Rhetoric: the language of confident, assertive leadership

8. Is used in our major institutions: the Law, for instance:
the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
So powerful it is used at defining moments in history:
Liberté égalité fraternité
But also modern and inspirational: ‘We must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and begin again, the work of remaking America’ (Barack Obama)
The List of Three: complete, memorable, presents the complex in simple form

9. ‘We’ve survived this uncertain period in our company’s history and have been able to take stock and review. Our resilience and ‘can-do’ attitude will safeguard us as we move into the future’.
It’s true, we could have done better in the past, but we are defining a new identity as we speak: we can move forward to a better future with confidence’
Let’s learn from our mistakes. Craft a new vision. Create a confident future.
Use the Power of Three to confidently define your vision and leadership capabilities.

10. Breathing is key for exerting personal power and keeping calm

11. The Confident Voice of Leadership