1. What? So What? Now What? - A Talk With Matt Abrahams (Stanford GSB)

10/25/22 • 23 min

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Help To Grow Talk: Effective Communication Skills

Listen, and learn how to overcome your speaking anxiety in this talk with our guest Matt Abrahams, Lecturer at Stanford University Graduate School of Business & Podcast Host of Think Fast Talk Smart. We talk about speaking anxiety sources & solutions, presentation structure: What? - So What? - Now What?, techniques to handle the fear of forgetting, and creating your anxiety management plan.
Links

LinkedIn: Matt Abrahams
Podcast: Think Fast Talk Smart
Book: Speaking Up without Freaking Out
Organization: Toastmasters International
App: Orai - AI-Powered App for Practicing your Presentations
App: Say IT Like So - Your Personal Speech Coach
App: Poised - Free AI-Powered Communication Coach

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LinkedIn: Matt Abrahams
Podcast: Think Fast Talk Smart
Book: Speaking Up without Freaking Out
Organization: Toastmasters International
App: Orai - AI-Powered App for Practicing your Presentations
App: Say IT Like So - Your Personal Speech Coach
App: Poised - Free AI-Powered Communication Coach

Support the show

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Links

LinkedIn: JD Schramm
Book: Communicate with Mastery
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Help To Grow Talk: Effective Communication Skills - 1. What? So What? Now What? - A Talk With Matt Abrahams (Stanford GSB)

Transcript

Note: Podcast transcription edited to improve readability.
Desiree Timmermans 00:07

Welcome to the podcast Help to Grow Talk, where we talk about growing your communication skills. How can you better communicate and change the way you live, work, interact with others, and help make the world a better place?

Matt Abrahams 00:21

“The number one fear people report to me when it comes to speaking anxiety is that they are afr