Improving Communication Skills for Executives

I want to share with you in this video the secrets and the methodology behind how

I'm able to record forty-five-minute to an hour-long YouTube videos

and say insightful things, compress my ideas down to the minimum

viable essence of what I'm trying to say, and do this relatively

effortlessly. This is a skill that I've trained in myself.

We teach this inside of our program, Elite Speak, to executives,

entrepreneurs, and CEOs, and I want to share with you the secrets

behind increasing your value per minute.

That is gonna be one of the main metrics that we're talking about that we use to

measure good communicators. How valuable are they being to the people,

whether it's their company, their family, their colleagues, their investors, the

people in their life that they serve?

So the way that we increase value per minute,

and I learned this from a mentor of

mine a long time ago, any good idea

exists in a rough first pass. You have to be

comfortable with just turning on your voice memos on your phone

and talking about an idea, just talking about it.

You're not recording it, you're not sharing it with the world just

yet, you're

going through the rough first pass. I call this my forest walk.

If I'm working on a speech, if I'm working on a concept,

I will go out into the

forest, I will find nature, whatever my zone of comfort is,

and I will just talk to myself. Not in a crazy, like homeless person way.

I will literally just talk through an idea and record and

treat that environment as if I'm giving the speech.

The dandelions have seen me give many a TED Talk before.

The second thing that I'll do is I'll do it again,

but I'll do it again after

reviewing my rough first draft. I'll listen back to it and I'll say,

"Okay, I

really like that point. I felt I was going somewhere there." I will

self-assess,

and then I will do it a third time recording it.

I will talk about the idea, and usually by then the story has

emerged. Whatever the narrative is, whatever the big piece of information

is that I

wanna share, it has bones, it has legs, it has a soul.

And then I do the final record. And the final record,

I have a technique and a

process for convincing myself that it's still just a rough first draft,

but I will

go through it and I will treat it as if

I'm just talking to a friend. I have a p- a certain person in mind who I'm always

speaking to. The camera's not a camera. I'm not speaking to a black void.

I'm talking to someone who I know, and it causes me to be

normal, it causes me to be natural, comfortable in my own body, comfortable

in my own voice, and that allows me to achieve maximum recall

of

information. So what I would distill all of this down

into is

if you ever see a great recording that I've done or any of the clients

that we've

worked with, they're doing it multiple times.

They're okay with putting an idea out there.

There's an equation of clarity we talk about where clarity is the outcome of

consistent output. Consistent output just means

share it, express it. The idea takes shape in the

expression. Then you have the ability to distill it

down to

its essence, and then you can be a lot more pointed to

increase your

value per minute. And a bonus tip that I'll give you too is

value per minute is about how intelligent your questions can be that you're asking

yourself in the moment. So I might say something like, "What

is most

valuable to my audience right now? What are they thinking about?

What can I clarify with what I said that the audience might

appreciate?" And I'm doing this multiple times as I'm speaking, even in this video.

I might say a term and then I'll describe it.

I might share a practice and then I will show how I apply it.

I'm always asking myself, "What is most valuable to the people I'm

serving?"

So I hope this helps. Get in this practice and realize

that what you're seeing on

camera has a whole process and methodology behind the scenes.