A lot of lawyers tell me they want to speak or present better...but they don't have the time to work on it.

How about if I said you can improve by spending 5 minutes per day?

Pick one of these things and do it every day at work for a month.

1- Make 5 bullets for one meeting or call each day. 1 sentence each.

-> By 9am: choose which communication for that day.

Bullet 1: Intro

• either status: "Here's where we are on ___"

• or list: "Three things matter most on x issue: 1, 2, 3

Bullets 2-4: your 3 points

• The three points. One bullet each

Bullet 5:

• Summary, still unknown or next steps.

2- Slow the heck down during most important meeting/call each day

-> 9am: choose your most important communication that day

• Focus on speaking slower during that meeting

• Add in pauses

• Grade yourself each day. Slower? Why? How much slower? Track it.

3- Use fewer harmful filler words - eliminate "kind of" "sort of"

-> 9am: choose an important communication that day

• Write out the most important 2-3 points you need to make

• Distill those points into 1-2 sentences each.

• GOAL is to not say "kind of" or "sort of" in THOSE sentences.

If none of the 3 jump out at you, making you think, oh yeah that's me...

Do 5 bullets once per day. It improves so many issues:

• You'll be more concise

• Fewer umms, likes and you knows

• You become an organized speaker with structure

• You'll seem more confident, project more authority

Final thing - track your progress. Check this off daily somewhere where you can see it!