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Brandon Homuth (Director of Analytics, Finance Services, Encore Capital Group)
U.S.A - December 19, 2007 |
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Ordinarily, I'm not a big fan of public speaking. During my career, I've had to give speeches on a handful of occasions to audiences of 100 - 300, and the way it typically plays out is as follows: I want to be seen as charismatic, eloquent, "executive", etc. I write out lines, and rehearse, and rehearse, and rehearse. I get really nervous leading up to the event, and during the speech, I can feel nerves in my stomach, or my mouth is dry. If I miss a word, I get rattled, or focus on "what if I forget my next line?" The feedback I then get is that public speaking is not my forte.
At We Lead, the exercise of delivering two different speeches to two colleagues was incredibly insightful. In the first instance, when I was asked to give a speech in order to impress my colleagues with my eloquence, I stumbled for words, I was acutely aware of being judged/competing, I perceived someone laughing at our table as laughing at me. In the second speech, I was asked to imagine I was just casually talking to friends. I was relaxed and communicated from the heart.
Last Friday, I got a real life application of this lesson. At our company's holiday party, I had to present two awards to people on my team for some of the great work they had done this year. The day before, I began to write out my speech and started memorizing, to ensure that my 300 co-workers would be impressed with my performance as a public speaker. Fortunately, I remembered the lesson from We Lead, and decided to scrap the written, rehearsed material. Instead, when it came time to present, I was very relaxed in front of 300 people, and just focused on making my team members good in my speech.
The feedback I got afterward from multiple people was extremely positive. One colleague told me I appeared "relaxed and charismatic, like a CEO." It was really powerful to stop focusing on whether my performance would be good enough, and just focus on what it was I wanted to say. In the end, I finally got the performance I was looking for when I just stopped worrying about it!
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“Brandon is great leader”
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Saikat Mukherjee –Business Analyst, February 09, 2010 |
| I reported to Brandon. He is truest to his heart and a great leader. Just speaking is heart is more than enough to impress any person irrespective of his rank and levels. |
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