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The Power Of Your Voice: Why You Should Incorporate Speaking Into Your Practice

Consider incorporating public speaking into your career to make your leadership and expertise more visible.

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For many, the thought of stepping in front of a crowd causes fear and anxiety, while others view public speaking as an exhilarating opportunity to share their passions, ideas, and information with a group of like-minded listeners. With the popularity of events such as TED talks and the power of the internet to share these events, those attracted to the public speaking are becoming more inspired to speak than ever before. With this current environment, why get into speaking?

Transform lives

Social transformation begins when individuals are informed. What do you want to change about the present reality? Why change the status quo? How can others support you? What issues would you bring to light to influence a positive change? When done intentionally, public speaking creates an opportunity to transform lives.

Establishing credibility

Conveying expertise and credibility is important for many professionals to manage their reputation and steer their career. Public speaking is a good tool to share your current credible work, history, and thoughts. People who speak to an audience are automatically assumed to be subject matter experts and leaders. Consider incorporating public speaking to make your leadership and expertise more visible.

Increasing learning

Public speaking is an opportunity to expand your own knowledge and challenge yourself. It may lead to spurring dialogs, questions, advice, conversations, and numerous other learning opportunities. You will also discover new resources, studies, experts, and events. Finally, you will be able to expand your community and network of other professionals and stakeholders who can challenge, help, and support you throughout your learning journey.  

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Something to share

There’s nothing like sharing your message and passion with an audience. When on the stage, all minds are focused on you. This is an opportunity to have a larger conversation and invite like-minded people into your life and career. So, begin by asking yourself: what can I share that the world needs to recognize? What information do I have that could provide esteem, transform lives for the better, or decidedly influence others?

Become more entrepreneurial

Entrepreneurship goes together with public speaking. An entrepreneur needs to sharpen their public speaking skills to approach investors, train employees, host workshops, etc. While we are not all full-time entrepreneurs, we can all benefit from becoming more entrepreneurial to achieve our personal and career goals. Public speaking is a great opportunity to learn and practice these skills.

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Olga V. Mack is an award-winning general counsel, operations professional, startup advisor, public speaker, adjunct professor at Berkeley Law, and entrepreneur. Olga founded the Women Serve on Boards movement that advocates for women to serve on corporate boards of Fortune 500 companies. Olga also co-founded SunLaw to prepare women in-house attorneys become general counsel and legal leaders and WISE to help women law firm partners become rainmakers. She embraces the current disruption to the legal profession. Olga loves this change and is dedicated to improving and shaping the future of law. She is convinced that the legal profession will emerge even stronger, more resilient, and inclusive than before. You can email Olga at [email protected] or follow her on Twitter @olgavmack.

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