by Rachel Beohm | Breathing, Confidence, Delivering Negative Information, Ideal Life, Leadership, Management, Nonverbal Communication, Nonverbal Skills, Posture & Body Position, Presence
One Key Way to Demonstrate Confidence In the face of crisis, you cannot stay calm without confidence. You can be apathetic. That’s nihilism, not calmness. That’s doubtfulness and uncertainty that leads to giving up—the complete opposite of confidence. True...
by Rachel Beohm | Adaptability, Breathing, Leadership, Management, Nonverbal Communication, Presence, Receptivity
Start Using Your Whole Brain It’s the time of year when spirits—and tensions—are high, schedules are out of whack, and everyone is consuming way more sugar and alcohol than usual. (Well, maybe not everyone. My kids haven’t had any alcohol lately.) A friend...
by Rachel Beohm | Adaptability, Body Language Myths, Breathing, Confidence, Group Dynamics, Leadership, Nonverbal Communication, Nonverbal Skills, Posture & Body Position, Presence, Presenting to a Group, Space
How Good Leaders Handle Stress When I think back over all the dinner parties, showers, church gatherings and various events I’ve hosted over the years, one stands out as a complete and total disaster: Turkey Day in May. Several years ago, after eight months of...
by Rachel Beohm | Breathing, Dealing with Difficult People, Leadership, Management, Nonverbal Communication, Nonverbal Skills, Presence, Uncategorized
How to Move Past Emotions When You’re Stuck Do you consider yourself an emotional person? Some highly sensitive people may immediately shoot their hands up and say, “Yes, that’s me!” Other more stoic types might shake their heads no, possibly derisively. Here’s...
by Rachel Beohm | Body Language Myths, Breathing, Confidence, Gestures & Hand Position, Interviews & Promotions, Leadership, Nonverbal Communication, Nonverbal Skills, Posture & Body Position, Presence, Presenting to a Group, Word Choice
Power Poses: Science or Snake Oil? Have you heard of “power poses”? Between Amy Cuddy’s TED talk (one of the top 20 viewed TED talks of all time), her book called Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges, numerous parodies and all the...
by Rachel Beohm | Adaptability, Breathing, Confidence, Eye Contact, Interviews & Promotions, Nonverbal Communication, Nonverbal Skills, Presence
How to Own the Room in a Job Interview It’s not uncommon to feel as though a job interview is an interrogation and that your entire life is on display for the interviewer to pick apart. But an interview is actually a two-way dialog. In our conversation on the...
