SPEAKING
LISA KALMIN
You may have clicked on this tab to see if I speak and what I speak about.
So here are my five tips to impacting your audience and being an influential speaker:
- What is your purpose? What is the experience you are committed to leaving your audience or team with? What is the difference your time with them will make? Believe it or not, most people don't think about this enough before they speak in front of people. And if all you want is a sale or to have them purchase something from you...I invite you to really get clear on the value you will be giving them. The sale will happen from there. And people can "smell" your agenda a mile away.
- Clear Yourself Before. Make sure you are clear of anything filling your head...whether you had a fight with your partner or you are afraid you will forget something in your speech or talk. You can clear with yourself by breathing or meditating or clear with a mentor or coach. The more clear and available you are, the more space and impact you will create.
- Make it participatory. "Catch a man a fish and you feed him for a meal. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." We learn and are influenced by what we experience in our cells. Evoke participation, generate sharing and experiences. Your influence will sky rocket!
- "There is nothing happening in here (your head), everything is happening out there (the audience.)" Keep yourself out there, focused on them...not in your head remembering your talk. If you go in your head, come right back out. Let your intuitive knowing take over....you will be more impactful.
- Talk about real life. Even if you want to influence someone about a computer program...find a way to make it real in their life experience. As an often frustrated user of technology, I wish my tech coaches, consultants had used my real life needs (like opening an encrypted email and how important my security is) more personal.
- Use personal stories to connect and explain. The more personal and authentic (without being overly emotional) you are, the more your audience will connect and be impacted by you. Personal stories should be relevant to your topic or an analogy for your topic. I use my experience of snow skiing to talk about the "counter intuitive" leaning down the mountain to demonstrate how much of life we get to surrender to vs. try to control.
Yes! I love speaking to your teams, organizations, clients, or raving fans!
“What a great and engaging one-day workshop. Never did I feel that the session was dragging or was I itching for the day to end. And the application of our education was so relevant! Not only for future necessities, but immediate needs. 48 hours after the workshop and my first day back to work, I used an applicable approach to an employee issue that had been dragging on here for years. Applying Lisa’s methods not only instantly made the conversation less confrontational and defensive, but it extracted an end result that other team members are benefiting from. We as an organization are able to move our vision forward more effectively from just one troubled employee engagement. Thank you, Lisa for sharing your wealth of knowledge!”
– Anonymous
Topics I love:
- Vision Driven Leadership
- Personality Styles and Communication
- Mindset Shift
- Teamwork and Win-Win
- Enrollment (some people call it Sales)
Lisa Kalmin is a transformational trainer extraordinaire. Several years ago I was personally involved in some of the powerful work she was doing. Still more than a dozen years later, we make comments in our home like “Lisa said” or “Lisa would have told us”! Lisa’s trainings are mind-altering and life-changing. Fast forward to this year and we hired Lisa to do some work with a larger group of approximately 90 managers. She completed a 6 hour training that was very impactful and again, life changing for some in the room. Seeing Lisa move from her training environment to that of the boardroom or corporation was fantastic! Lisa was funny, to the point and really held everyone’s attention for the entire 6 hours!
Lisa comes on highest recommendation for the corporate setting for mindset work and transformation.