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Step Out of the Shadows and Speak!

Dan O'Connor

How is that that some people seem to know just what to say all the time? Would you like to find out? Or are you surrounded by narcissists, psychopaths, and total d-bags at work and you’re sick of feeling like they ”got you?” Whether you’re just beginning to improve your communication skills, or you’re looking for advanced communication skills training, you’ll learn something new and useful in every episode that will help you find your voice, speak up, stand your ground, and hold your own even when up against the most skilled and powerful communicators.
In this podcast, you’ll learn the secrets master communicators use to always seem to have the right words at the right time. Isn’t it time you stepped out of the shadows and spoke? Brought to you by author, keynote speaker, YouTuber, blogger, and the world’s number one tactical communication skills expert Dan O’Connor.

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In that moment between event and response, when we recognize something as a situation that can have significant consequences in our professional future. Those are the moments where before we speak, we want to stop and have something to reference in terms of, all right, who am I? Why am I here? What do I want? Because what most people do is when we are in a difficult situation or something, that's an emotionally charged situation.
It's stressful for some reason. And stressful situations aren't bad. It just signals. Okay, this is going to call for me to dig a little bit deeper. When we find ourselves in those situations, most people think at that moment, OK, what do I want here?
And what's in the brain starts to come out of the mouth? That's a huge mistake. Because during those moments when we are emotionally charged, we become drugged and start to think crazy things, and we start to think we are people that we are not. We all know what that's like when we are in our personal relationships when we find ourselves in a heated debate or a heated argument, or we are in an emotionally charged situation. It could be with a sister or a boyfriend or girlfriend or a spouse or a child.
We say crazy things and they fly out of our mouth. And in that moment, they seem like the exact right thing to say. This is what I'm thinking. This is what you need to hear. I've always wanted to tell you this, and I'm telling it to you now.
And then we have to then go later on and say, I apologize. I don't know what I was thinking. I don't know why I said that. And it's because we were drugged. We were crazy.
We think crazy thoughts and we start thinking things like when we're, let's say, dealing with a difficult person, we think someone needs to teach you a lesson. And lucky for you, today is your lucky day. I am just the person to teach you that lesson. I can be nastier than you. I can be Ruder than you.
I can show you. We start to think these thoughts or we start to think, I'm going to retreat and just not deal with this at all. But what we want to do is long before these situations happen, we want to create some tools, as I mentioned, to reference so that in the sliver in time between event and response, between what happens and how we respond to it or what we say, or if I sliver in time, we want to be able to stop and think, okay, who did I say I was? Who did I affirm that I was when I was sane and sober. Because when we are emotionally charged, we are neither one of those.

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03/08/22 • 7 min

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How to Stop People from Interrupting You

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07/28/19 • 15 min

Do people interrupt you a lot at work or at home?
With this simple three-step process, you'll be able to stand your ground, and maintain the floor.
For more, go to http://www.danoconnortraining.com.
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07/28/19 • 15 min

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How to Respond To Tragic News

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03/17/17 • 1 min

Q:What do I say when someone tells me tragic news?
A: There are some things all savvy communicators are skilled in. Responding to tragic news is one of those things. In this communication skills training podcast, you'll learn to use the two-step process when tragedy strikes someone you know. The two steps are as follows:
1-Tell them specifically what you'd like to do to help, and
2-Ask them to please allow you do do it for them as a favor to you.
Then next time someone tells you about some awful event taking place, you'll be ready, and you'll be seen (as well as feel like) a confident, powerful, savvy communicator.
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03/17/17 • 1 min

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07/27/20 • 23 min

In this lesson, you'll learn how to say no in a variety of different circumstances--and to a variety of different types of people--with power, tact, and finesse.
For the free video and materials that go along with this lesson, go to https://www.Danoconnortraining.com.
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07/27/20 • 23 min

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07/04/20 • 37 min

Do you have people who constantly interrupt you or talk over you or make you feel insignificant or unimportant?
In this lesson You'll learn how to shut down the interruptors in your life using the 3-step anti-interruptor.
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07/04/20 • 37 min

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How to Get a Big Fat Raise in 3 Power `moves

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06/23/20 • 38 min

In today's lesson, Dan teaches you how to get the biggest raise possible, and maybe even a promotion using three proven, effective tools, which are:
The List
The Order, and
The Questions.
For more, check out https://www.danoconnortraining.com
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06/23/20 • 38 min

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https://tinyurl.com/seriouslydan for the free resources that go along with this lesson.
This video is about How to Get People to Take You More Seriously and the 4 secrets revealed both in this video and in the upcoming part 2 to this series.
Do you ever wonder why people don't take you more seriously, or as seriously as they seem to take other people? In today's effective communication skills training course video, communication skills expert, author, trainer, and keynote speaker Dan O'Connor gives you the 4 secrets you can use right now to get people to take you more seriously at work, at home, and everywhere else.
I've broken down this free communication skills online training course below so you can find your way through it and easily review this communication skills course again and again after you download your free course materials at the link provided at the end of the communication skills course online video.
1:40 What to look for
1:57 Brad Smith
2:24 Deborah Birx
3:19 Anthony Fauci
3:57 Andrew Cuomo
4:34 The 4 things we'll focus on
5:30 Ending on an up-note
5:50 Watch Your Melody
8:34 The second thing--hand gestures
11:35 The importance of melody
12:30 What to do about your melody
13:44 How to re-train yourself to use your hands properly
14:57 Advanced body language techniques
15:27 Where to go for more
15:47 The free materials that go along with this lesson
16:23 The one tip I can give you no matter what message you have to send from now until the end of time
****COMMUNICATION SKILLS TRAINING LESSONS PLAYLISTS Full-Length Lessons: https://goo.gl/bDCLjB
Energy Vampires: https://goo.gl/Mn3LzF
Miraculous Principles: https://goo.gl/JSAFWR
Q & A: https://goo.gl/zDPyVp
Power Phrases: https://goo.gl/tLnh1F
Videos:
Most Recent Upload: https://goo.gl/2YG4fJ
Most Popular: https://goo.gl/ch1BeY
https://www.danoconnortraining.com for more free videos on how to communicate with Americans and more.
https://danoconnortraining.com/shop/ For Dan's entire Step Out of the Shadows and Speak! Communication Skills Training Program.
Facebook: https:www.facebook.com/communicationtraining
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/EVSlayer
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dandanhesyourman
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/danoconnortraining/
Website: https://www.danoconnortraining.com
Store: https://www.danoconnortraining.com/all-dan-oconnors-communication-products-video-online-downloadable/
Blog: https://www.danoconnortraining.com/communication-skills-training-blog-2/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danoconnorspeaker/
These professional development classes online and personal development courses are great self-help books in audio and video format like audible, but these lessons are free.
If you'd like to check out his entire communication skills video and audio program, you'll find it here: https://danoconnortraining.com/shop/
Body language secrets, reading body language, body language tells, signs, and more like on TedTalks-- you'll learn it all, and these lessons are great for autistic people of all ages.
If you like these communication skills courses for free online, make sure to check out Dan's effective communication skills training videos and online courses website -link below- where you'll find:
-Communication skills training videos for free
-Effective communication skills courses online
-Audio programs on communication skills
-Books about communication in the workplace
-Customer service skills lessons
-Funny customer service videos
-Webinars on communication and customer service
-Help Dealing with Difficult People
and more.
A little more about this online communication skills training course in English for free:
-Buy The Dealing with Difficult People Book on Amazon.com:
http://amzn.to/2vgARZN
-Free 7-day pass to Dan's Weekly Communication Skills Course Online:
https://www.onlinecommunicationtraining.com
-Download Your Free Copy of Dan's Latest Full-Length Video Program On Communication Skills:
https://danoconnortraining.com/best-of-danger-and-power-phrases/
-Check Out Dan's Other Critically-Acclaimed Book, Say This--Not That!!: http://amzn.to/2uTOQn9
Both of Dan's books sold on Amazon boast a 4.-out-of-5-star rating; something you don't see often, especially with books about hoe to improve your communication skills.
-Check out Dan's website here:
https://danoconnortraining.com
Of course, Dan's most popular communication skills training program in English is Step Out of the Shadows and Speak!! Tactical Communication Learning System. You can find that here:
https://danoconnortraining.com/shop/
Dan can be reached at [email protected]. You can learn more about him and his training on his website, www.DanOConnorTraining.com, or you can call him at 877-570-1573 701-205-4141 if calling fr...
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05/14/20 • 17 min

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In today's episode you'll learn the secret to responding rather than reacting to difficult people and stressful situations.
Dan O'Connor, the world's top communication skills expert, author, and keynote speaker not only gives you the secret to responding rather than reacting, but you'll also learn how to appear to be cool calm and collected even in the most stressful situations.
In addition to this audio, please check out the video and download the free materials that accompany this lesson here.
If you need a keynote speaker, seminar leader, personal coach, or advice on communication skills, dealing with difficult people at work, or even creating miraculous relationships, contact Dan at https://www.danoconnortraining.com, or [email protected].
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05/05/20 • 35 min

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Get all Dan's Resources Here: https://www.danoconnortraining.com/all-dans-products/
Infographic/additional tools: https://www.danoconnortraining.com/?p=50879
4 Secrets for Dealing with Narcissists at work and Talking so Your Narcissist Will Listen.
Wondering how to deal with a narcissist at work? How can you talk so your narcissist will listen and hear what you're saying? In this effective communication skills training lesson by Communication skills expert Dan O'Connor, you'll learn 4 secrets to help you talk so your narcissist will hear you.
*******FREE COMMUNICATION SKILLS TRAINING LESSONS & TOOLS
FREE FULL-LENGTH LESSON: https://goo.gl/53KHFk
****COMMUNICATION SKILLS TRAINING LESSONS PLAYLISTS Full-Length Lessons: https://goo.gl/bDCLjB
Energy Vampires: https://goo.gl/Mn3LzF
Miraculous Principles: https://goo.gl/JSAFWR
Q & A: https://goo.gl/zDPyVp
Power Phrases: https://goo.gl/tLnh1F
Videos:
Most Recent Upload: https://goo.gl/2YG4fJ
Most Popular: https://goo.gl/ch1BeY
https://www.danoconnortraining.com for more free videos on how to communicate with Americans and more.
https://danoconnortraining.com/shop/ For Dan's entire Step Out of the Shadows and Speak! Communication Skills Training Program.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/communicationtraining
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/EVSlayer
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dandanhesyourman
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/danoconnortraining
Website: https://www.danoconnortraining.com
Store: https://www.danoconnortraining.com/all-dans-products/
Blog: https://www.danoconnortraining.com/communication-skills-training-blog-2/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danoconnorspeaker/
These professional development classes online and personal development courses are great self-help books in audio and video format like audible, but these lessons are free.
If you'd like to check out his entire communication skills video and audio program, you'll find it here: https://danoconnortraining.com/shop/
Body language secrets, reading body language, body language tells, signs, and more like on TedTalks-- you'll learn it all, and these lessons are great for autistic people of all ages.
If you like these communication skills courses for free online, make sure to check out Dan's effective communication skills training videos and online courses website -link below- where you'll find:
-Communication skills training videos for free
-Effective communication skills courses online
-Audio programs on communication skills
-Books about communication in the workplace
-Customer service skills lessons
-Funny customer service videos
-Webinars on communication and customer service
-Help Dealing with Difficult People
and more.
A little more about this online communication skills training course in English for free:
-Buy The Dealing with Difficult People Book on Amazon.com:
http://amzn.to/2vgARZN
-Free 7-day pass to Dan's Weekly Communication Skills Course Online:
https://www.onlinecommunicationtraining.com
-Download Your Free Copy of Dan's Latest Full-Length Video Program On Communication Skills:
https://danoconnortraining.com/best-of-danger-and-power-phrases/
-Check Out Dan's Other Critically-Acclaimed Book, Say This--Not That!!: http://amzn.to/2uTOQn9
Both of Dan's books sold on Amazon boast a 4.-out-of-5-star rating; something you don't see often, especially with books about hoe to improve your communication skills.
-Check out Dan's website here:
https://danoconnortraining.com
Of course, Dan's most popular communication skills training program in English is Step Out of the Shadows and Speak!! Tactical Communication Learning System. You can find that here:
https://danoconnortraining.com/shop/
Being a big believer in listening to what the world is telling you to do rather than telling the world what you’d like to do, once he received enough suggestions to get into teaching, Dan started teaching on the elementary level at Harland Johnson Del Bosque before becoming a professor at Autonoma University Guadalajara, and ultimately taking his unique teaching style to the world with Dan O’Connor Training.
Dan divides his time between the United States and Mexico, where he lives just outside of Guadalajara, in a lakeside village nestled in the Sierra Madres. It is there that Dan lives to spoil his two Springer Spaniels—Maggie Mae, his material girl If you have watched Dan’s videos on the 5 languages of love, appreciation, and respect you’ll know, and the four-legged relationship hero that’s changing the course of communication history: Buddy the Dog.
Dan can be reached at [email protected]. You can learn more about him and his training on his website, www.DanOConnorTraining.com, or you can call him at 877-570-1573 701-205-4141 if calling from outside the US.
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03/27/20 • 22 min

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https://tinyurl.com/standupwithdan for the new course.
Looking for help on how to stand up for yourself and shut down difficult people at work?
This audio is taken from module 5 of a new upcoming course I have, "How to #standupforyourself at work." #communicationtraining #communicationskills
If you have been pushed to the limit at work and you’re almost at your breaking point, the problem is what you’re saying and doing. That’s it. It’s not what everyone else is saying and doing, They’re all just fine. They’re not here looking for some relief. You are. And it’s a big deal because until you eliminate the disempowering communication patterns that have brought you to this point and replace them with new ones, it will never get any better no matter where you go.
I know because I've been through it. And I've come through it. And in this new course, I'm going to share with you the secrets to shutting down those big mouths at work and showing them who you really are.
To check out the course, click here: https://www.danoconnortraining.com/stand-up-for-yourself-at-work-masterclass-module-5
Website:
https://www.danoconnortraining.com
Course:
https://www.danoconnortraining.com/stand-up-for-yourself-at-work-masterclass-module-5
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Step Out of the Shadows and Speak! currently has 18 episodes available.

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The podcast is about Training, Skills, Courses, Podcasts, Self-Improvement, Education, Communication and Online.

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The episode title 'Episode 1: How to develop your professional communication skills fast; a step-by-step guide | Episode 1' is the most popular.

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The average episode length on Step Out of the Shadows and Speak! is 17 minutes.

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Episodes of Step Out of the Shadows and Speak! are typically released every 57 days, 22 hours.

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