What is your weather forecast?
My favorite keynote topic to teach my audiences is: What Is Your Weather Forecast?
It starts with 3 questions:
- What Is Your Pace? FAST or EVEN
- What is Your Priority? TASK or PEOPLE
- Your Daily Emotions? EXPRESSED or CONCEALED
Sleuthing out these simple self-awareness facts helps us better understand
🔴 How we lead
🔴 How we impact others
🔴 How people see & perceive us
Self-awareness eliminates the angst of being social, but even better, it helps us quickly read & understand how others hope to be treated.
I call that a win/win for daily Situational Success.
So what is your weather forecast?
YOUR VIRTUAL PRESENCE: 24 Hour Resume
If people Google you, what do they find? What are you relaying and conveying? Do you appear Credible and Confident or Awkward and Uneasy?
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I am a good communicator when I…
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