Powerup – Take command of a room, how to talk to anyone, anywhere, at anytime
Date: December 11, 2015
Name: Powerup – Take command of a room, how to talk to anyone, anywhere, at anytime
Presenters: Henry Liu and Emily Lim
Many young future leaders are struggling their ways to the top, especially in the field of communication. Moreover, great leaders will take advantage of every situation and communicate their way to the top. GetLeadUp meetup invites Henry Liu, the Director of NxWave Marketin Solutions, to discuss his view of strategic communication. Henry Liu will also provide key elements to help young future leaders on their communication skills. In addition, Emily Lim, the Founder of GetLeadUp, will discuss the importance of goal setting. In this presentation, young leaders will learn the key aspects of creating strong communication skills and learn the application of goal setting to prepare for 2016.
Henry Liu is the Director of NxWave Marketing Solutions. In his entrepreneur journey, Liu has been involved with raising capital for many early stage companies. Liu was recognized as top 1% of $12 billion company at the age of 21. Aside from business, Liu is a competitive musician and holds a pilot’s license. Liu is currently involved in brand awareness initiatives, such as marketing advertising, and strategic expansion strategies for a company in the nutraceutical and technology sectors, also taking the lead in a special project called BC2020 Vision Initiative.
How to take control in the room
Young leaders tend to get nervous in meetings. Henry Liu explains this is caused by young leaders with high expectation of wanting to get attention from successful people. Young leaders can reduce their nervousness with personal development, such as listening to audiobooks or reading books. It will take time to build up. Liu believes the most important key is to build character. Young leaders must anticipate what they want. This will allow them to commend themselves and create the confidence.
It is important for young leaders to ask themselves the following question.
“How other people feel when you leave their presence?”
Liu believes it is necessary to leave with happiness. Many young leaders want others to accept them. However, they are focusing on the wrong question. They should ask themselves what they can do for others. Young leaders should always give before receive. This will build up the trust and allows others to go out of the way for them. Sometimes mood and feelings can influence decisions, but young leaders need to keep in mind that they have to go for it no matter what.
Liu believes leadership is the art of influencing other people. Leadership will give young leaders the ability to lead others what they do. By just showing up in an event, young leaders will have the opportunity to lead others. They will never know what will happen next.
Liu shares his business trip story in Philippines. When he arrived at conference meeting at Philippine, he was underdressed. His mind had a strong sense that he should skip the meeting because he feels he was not dressed property. However, he ignored that feeling and went into the meeting. From that meeting, Liu learned the skill of acquisition. He was able to reach more network and exposure. He would not able to learn and receive these if he did not show up.
“Show up is the only way”
In order for young leaders to develop themselves, they need to reach out and serve others. Liu emphasizes people will not give leadership to young leaders, yet they need to earn it first. Mindset is the biggest barrier for young leaders. If they can break the barrier, they can achieve anything. Young leaders must always have motivation mindset, which can help them identify their success.
Successful people have successful patterns. Liu suggests young leaders to pick 3 people in their life and do the 3 steps.
- Discover their common
- Define that pattern
- Follow it
Young leaders must have resistance in motivation. Without resistance, it is not worth going for it. Young leaders should surround themselves with people who are better than them. When young leaders become the poorest in the group, they will discover their weakness and start to learn from others.
Action speaks louder than words. When young leaders do right actions, people will notice and recognize it. People will only want to follow people who are taking actions. The best way to show actions is to serve others. Young leaders must remember that small things really matters. When young leaders watch their mentors’ actions, they will realize the more success people are, the more they will help others.
“The way help you live is in a way that is worth following”
Leadership is a habit and young leaders need to follow it. Young leaders must realize they can make mistakes. What happens in between is journey and experience. Journey and experience shape who they are. Every challenge story is worth remembering and sharing.
When young leaders change the way they see, they will change the way of the situation. It is important to convert everything to positive. In life, no one can tell them what to do and they are the only one who really knows what they are capable of. When young leaders go through challenges, people will know the story and people want to hear their stories. Therefore, leadership is the experience from stories.
Young leaders should always move forward, absorb other’s stories and become their own experiences. Eventually, people will be around them.
“Talent is not the issue, hard work will outwork the talent”
“Hard work beats talent when talent will not work hard”
Liu suggests young leaders to utilize the power of effectuation. They should always talk about others and not themselves. When they introduce others, they connect. Moreover, when they serve others, they are in control of the room.
“People do not want to know you, they want to know who you know and serve others”
Practical leadership application and training
Based on statistic, when people think about their vision and goals, their chance of achieving increases up to 30%. When they write it down, the chance of achieving the goals will increase to 70%.
Emily Lim believes having goals and having ideas are different. Many successful people will write it own and keep it with them all the time. When young leaders take actions, they will lead themselves towards their goals. Therefore, they need to breakdown the goals as specific as possible. When young leaders are able to breakdown into a unit per time, they will discover how much they can lose.
There are too many people who are doing multi-tasking; in fact, successful people will need to be laser focus. Time can pass quickly, so young leaders must be proactive. They should put all their time into activities that will help them achieve their goals.
Lim emphasizes when people who cannot say their goals out loud, they do not own it. Therefore it is recommended to share goals with friends. All intention should focus on the goals.
All successful people have great goal setting skills. Lim suggests young leaders should keep track of their satisfaction scorecard to ensure their goals are align with their daily activities. Young leaders should take time to identify their goals. When they define their goals, they will know what direction they should go.
A good exercise for young leader is to imagine who will be attending their funnel, what they will say, and what they will remember. This exercise will help young leaders to discover if their current situation is leading towards their desire future.