I want to own the room like Bill Clinton
October 25, 2008 6:46 AM Subscribe
I need to stop muttering, talking too fast and slouching if I'm going to progress in my job. Can anyone recommend a "personal impact coach" (what a terrible name) in the Washington DC metro area to turn me into a confident and assured manager?
Individual or group classes would be fine. Cheaper is better as I'll be paying. Good books or DVD courses also would be welcome.
Individual or group classes would be fine. Cheaper is better as I'll be paying. Good books or DVD courses also would be welcome.
The USDA offers public speaking classes. Some of my co-workers took them and liked them.
They're also cheap & in DC.
posted by meta_eli at 8:38 AM on October 25, 2008 [1 favorite]
They're also cheap & in DC.
posted by meta_eli at 8:38 AM on October 25, 2008 [1 favorite]
Are you a confident assured manager? There are two possible issues here. If you're already confident in your skills, then you just need some polish to show that. However, if you don't have your act together as a manager, then no amount of polish is going to hide that for long.
Just polish - toastmasters is widely available and will give you lots of practice public speaking.
More skills needed - situational leadership is one model to consider. The classes are generally available and pretty good.
posted by 26.2 at 8:51 AM on October 25, 2008
Just polish - toastmasters is widely available and will give you lots of practice public speaking.
More skills needed - situational leadership is one model to consider. The classes are generally available and pretty good.
posted by 26.2 at 8:51 AM on October 25, 2008
realistically, everything they would tell you to do you already know how to do yourself. you've already identified your problems and thats the biggest step of all. there are somethings you can't teach yourself though and i'm not from dc, so i can't help you there. just offering some words of wisdom. "Asking the right question is usually more than halfway to the solution of the problem."- w. heisenberg.
posted by docmccoy at 1:25 PM on October 25, 2008
posted by docmccoy at 1:25 PM on October 25, 2008
++toastmasters. i haven't joined, but a friend of mine did and she was really happy with the results of some of the work she did with them.
posted by rmd1023 at 3:49 PM on October 25, 2008
posted by rmd1023 at 3:49 PM on October 25, 2008
Thanks, meta_eli--I had no idea that the Department of Agriculture had an adult education program (beyond crop rotation, etc.)!
posted by brianogilvie at 6:28 PM on October 25, 2008
posted by brianogilvie at 6:28 PM on October 25, 2008
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posted by blue mustard at 7:31 AM on October 25, 2008