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A podcast episode from my Sage Sayers show: "How to Be Brief With Your Brag." Learn to update your leaders and other impatient stakeholders in a minute or less using these storytelling and brevity techniques.

How to Be Brief With Your Brag

Coaching isn't the only way to actively listen; but the ICF training I'm receiving as a certifying MCC coach has fortified my skills. I've learned to hold back offering solutions in the ideation phase, (so hard!). I encourage instead. I can slow down. I can condense my questions to stay open and short vs. mirroring back it all. In this recorded coaching call, which I've published (with her request) on my Competency No 5 podcast, hear my client empower herself to solve a huge problem, within 40+ minutes, with minimal pouring in from me.

How to Speak for Only 10% of the Time

“It’s not bragging if you can back it up.”&nbsp;So said Muhammad Ali — the late boxer, social activist, and cultural icon known as&nbsp;The Greatest. My Medium article offers self-coaching tips to help shift your mindset from humility to confidence. We've also five tips to write a self-appraisal or self-assessment that helps you brag like a boss, back it up, and delight your reader. (Meaning: they&nbsp;enjoy&nbsp;vs endure the read.)&nbsp;

It's not bragging if you can back it up

Listening like a Boss goes beyond silent, bobbing heads and affirmations. Listening deeply requires asking powerful questions like a boss too. But how? In this podcast episode, I share my top ten methods to ask questions that invite reflection, eureka moments, and pause.

Ask Like a Boss. Mastering the art of asking powerful questions

Become that 'great listener' who gets promoted. Earn clients' and team's trust. Gain better intel. Steady everyone (even those at home).

Fortune 100/500 Communications Coach

Google

Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

BlackRock

Deloitte

Snowflake

Debbi McCullough

I've coached 1k+ leaders and 9k+ sessions. Most of their careers sky rocketed. 

<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.library.hbs.edu/working-knowledge/did-you-hear-what-i-said-how-to-listen-better">Harvard Business School research</a> reminds us why we need to listen better; and that few leaders know how. Employees who feel well heard feel more motivated, engaged, and creative. Employees who feel misheard leave their jobs. Leaders who listen can articulate visions well, resolve problems and shepherd decisions through. Deeper listening generates deeper questions and with that, truth. The best part? From listening well, you feel more energized and stay way more informed. You discover what others really care and worry about and empower them 10X more.Listen Like a Boss brings you my proven process, secrets, and habits I've built as a trusted communications coach with Google, the US Air Force, Dell, American Express, and major global finance houses and banks.Since entering the coaching industry five years ago, I've coached over 1,000 leaders across 9,000 sessions.By listening, asking questions, and pausing for answers, I've helped leaders know themselves and improve their communications in ways that win them their next big job. I can teach you how. It starts with committing to becoming a better, more curious and intentional listener, and differently to before.

Companies want CEOs and leaders who listen and converse well. Few know how. 

Learn my active listening playbook built over 9,000+ coaching sessions

Understand how we typically listen and what results. Unblock your blockers. 

Become an excellent bearer of concise, clear questions which reveal great intel

Get more comfortable with silence and pause. See shifts in your personal brand. 

Gain brevity training in how we ask questions, offer our insights, even advice

Transform how you use small talk, using active listening and curiosity.

C-Suite Leaders and Managing Directors needing to listen, not instantly solve nor lecture, to help win back client's trust

Chatty leaders seeking frameworks to bottom line and listen better, if they want to know what’s on the minds of many.

Leaders needing the coach approach to leadership, but who lack the time nor interest to formally certify with the Intl Coaching Federation.

Be brief with your brag. How to update folks in 1 minute.

D G McCullough

Communications coach for Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 leaders

Hook and retain your high-stakes audiences without frustrating them with vague, wordy descriptions of what you did well

Showcase and bottom line your victories in crisp, clear ways

Feel less brain freeze with where and how to start. Learn to synthesize complex information using grammar and structure

Apply a tight paragraph format to our spoken word

Improve your word bank. Rediscover the power of simple, relatable language. Create space for personal, poignant insights

Replace popular, but useless jargon with better words

How to feel less awkward with pause (with a live demo)

Communications coach for Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 Leaders

Witness the clarity and empowerment that comes from comfort with silence. Ask us anything. Walk away with powerful tools

See a live coaching demonstration with spacious questions

Feel clearer about our discomfort with pause in conversation, and why we often try to fill it

Discuss our blockers with silence in conversation

Hear how I self calm, view silence as a powerful tool, and with that build stronger trust and connections

Learn my top three listening tactics to pause for longer

Specifics are in vogue. Let's add some to your work story

DG McCullough

Communications Coach for Fortune 500 & Fortune 100 Leaders

Replace vague, ambiguous descriptions of your work with intriguing specifics which help us get it—and celebrate it

Gain more notoriety and recognition. Improve your brand

Learn crisp ways to apply data, details, and context from a former reporter at the Economist, FT of London, & Guardian.

Employ 5 journalism tactics to add specificity to your work

Vagueness disconnects. Specifics connect. Get more comfy adding colorful gems, meaningful facts, and depth. Worry less.

Coach to our blockers. Discuss how vagueness helps & hinders

Brag Anyway. How to Defy Our Cultural Norms.

Coach D G McCullough

Trusted communications coach for military and business leaders

Air the cultural lessons we learned around self-promotion. Permit ourselves to speak proudly and clearly about our work.

Feel more comfortable owning your successes

Shift the focus from you to the outcome. Include who helped your efforts. See the emotional shift—and  clearer language.

Learn to ground your brag in facts

Practice applying all you've just learned by describing a recent win in five sentences. Share and celebrate.

Practice bragging with a new take and reframe on the act

Brag Like a Boss: Nail Your One-Liner

Learn journalistic and coaching tips to distill your life’s work into a memorable line that invites curiosity for more.

Learn to brag in a line that sounds clear, bold—and like you

See before and after intros as fodder to craft your own.

Cut out the fluff. Add in the substance.

Start to think differently on that vital introduction moment, and become more audience centered.

Brag more briefly. Land stronger.

Ask Like a Boss: How to Ask Questions that Matter

Executive Communications Coach for Fortune 100 leaders

Help shift perspectives, unlock possibilities, and dissolve limiting beliefs with deep curiosity

Surface to depth. Go beyond trite with powerful questions

Get more comfortable with stillness, which brings space for deeper reflection and bigger connections

The Power of Pause

Become more precise and concise. Powerful questions encourage brevity and clarity, driving bigger impact and saving time

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