30. Your Courtroom Comeback, with Carol Sowers

As social distancing and K95s finally become visible in the rearview mirror, communications expert Carol Sowers returns to the podcast to coach listeners through the yips of post-lockdown performance anxiety and rusty face-to-face social skills, and to discuss the remote advocacy habits we created that are worth keeping and refining. She also touches on a few subtle ways lawyers inadvertently undermine their authenticity and credibility.  Topics2:57  Staring down the yips9:46  Our best work adaptations and habits  14:20   Court activities that might remain remote17:20  Framing yourself19:45  New rules for eye contact 22:02   Mumbling the play-by-play24:00  Preparing for in-person presentations28:22  Distractions and attention span30:20  Practice, practice, practice31:20  Virtual backgrounds35:56  Signoff questions Quote“I know it’s so boring to hear communications specialists talk about practice. It’s what we all say, and what we all have said, and what we all will continue to say. But I think it’s even more vital now. If you’re not practicing, I think you’re doing yourself a disservice, and I think that you’re doing your case and your client a disservice.” Carol Sowers ResourcesNITA 1:1 Coaching (link)Celebrating Carol Sowers’ Nearly 30 Years with KHQA (YouTube) Taste: My Life Through Food, by Stanley Tucci (book)The Dropout (Hulu)