Master Your Style

Under Stress

Learn to communicate with clarity and kindness when the pressure is on.

When stress becomes the driving force behind your words, it damages relationships, undermines trust and perpetuates a cycle of heightened tension. As we all experience more stress, anxiety, and overwhelm than ever before, building effective communication skills have never been more important.

The ability to master your style under stress is an acquired skill, a defining trait of genuine leadership. It unveils the depth of character and flexibility that distinguishes those who not only navigate challenges with grace but also inspire and shape outcomes through their interactions.

Regardless of whether your style veers toward highly assertive or silent withdrawal, this course equips you with practical techniques and real-life strategies to maintain composure, clarity, and compassion when the pressure mounts.

In this course, you will learn how to:

  • Recognize your style under stress and the impact you have on others.

  • Apply proven methods to maintain clarity and kindness during stressful moments.

  • Break free from stress reactions and manage your daily stress.

  • Clear the air to repair relationships and rebuilt trust.

  • Instill daily practices to stay mindful of stress, strengthen well-being, and expand self-awareness and EQ.

For: Organizations, leaders, and teams.

Live Training: 4 sessions, each 90 minutes.

Online Training: 90-day access to the video lessons, downloads, and resources that deepen skill-building.

Reflection Exercises: Downloads help you to access personal insights and build your daily practice.

Customization: Content is tailored to address your team’s needs and goals.

Coaching Add-on: Personal coaching sessions can be purchased for those needed additional support.

Course Design

Each class builds the foundation for the next.

Module 1

Communicate at Your Best Under Stress

  • Learn to recognize the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that “tell” you when you’re communicating from your style under stress.

  • Identify effective strategies for communicating effectively under stress.

  • Practice choosing your response vs reacting under pressure.

  • Activate a jumpstart strategy within 24 hours to experience what you’ve learned.

  • Instill daily practices the keep you mindful of your style expression and help you manage daily stress.

Module 2

Move Out of Stress Cycles

  • Learn to identify emotional triggers that tip you into your style under stress.

  • Discover simple techniques for breaking out of a stress response.

  • Learn how to instill a growth mindset and learn through experience.

  • Activate a jumpstart strategy within 24 hours to experience what you’ve learned.

  • Instill simple, daily rituals that help stay calm under pressure and move out of a stress reaction when triggered.

Module 3

Clear the Air

  • Learn to recognize the impact you have on others when you’re under stress.

  • Learn techniques to expand your self-awareness and EQ.

  • Identify any unresolved issues and take responsibility for resolving them.

  • Activate a jumpstart strategy within 24 hours to experience what you’ve learned.

  • Instill a daily reflection practice to foster a growth mindset and identify any issues you may have creates, so you can address them and (re)build trust.

Module 4

Renew Your Energy

  • Discover how your energy and well-being impact your communication style.

  • Learn how to restore your energy physical, emotional, and mental energy so you can communicate from your healthiest style expression.

  • Determine where you most need to renew your energy to create a strong foundation of well-being.

  • Activate a jumpstart strategy within 24 hours to experience what you’ve learned.

  • Instill daily energy renewal practices that reduce your stress, raise your level of well-being, and bring more peace into every day.

Studies show that 90% of the information you learn in a training is forgotten within a week, and 70% happens within a day! Our approach remedies that.

Our Design Sets You Up For Success

Every live class comes with online training to deepen your understanding and instill the practices that build communication skills.

We learn and retain information through repetition and experience. Our design maximizes skill development through a combination of live and online training that deeply connects you to the concepts, activates insights, and instills practices to build strong communication skills.

Live Trainings

Our live trainings teach you what you need to know to build each communication skill.

Daily Practices

We activate daily practices on day 1, to help you learn through experience and start building new skills.

On Demand Training

Online video lessons reinforce what you’ve learned in the live trainings to deepen your understanding and practice.

Reading & Exercises

Reading and reflection exercises surface personal insights and guide you to create your daily practice.

Coaching

Personal coaching is available as an add-on for those bumpy times when you need support.

Hi, Maryanne O’Brien.

I’ve spent my entire career working to improve communication within Fortune 100 and small businesses. For the past 15 years, I’ve been educating, training, and coaching leaders and teams to consciously communicate, strengthen well-being, and deepen trust so they can create a bigger impact and live a happier life.

The key to it all? Learning to master your communication style and build the skills that transform the way you express yourself and build relationships. It takes practice and I’m here to teach you everything I know.

FAQs

  • Each class has recommended reading and reflection exercises to help you deepen your understanding, surface personal insights, and build your daily practice.

    The assignments typically take 30-45 minutes to complete.

  • You receive a 90 day subscription to our on demand training modules with enrollment, so you can continue to revisit the lessons to deepen your understanding and practice.

  • Yes. We offer 30 and 60 minute coaching add-on sessions.

    If you’re interested in receiving some coaching to support, you can schedule a time for us to talk about your needs here.

    You may also want to consider joining on of our Live Training and Coaching program, where live group coaching is part of the program design.

  • Yes! We offer a 20% discount for non-profits. All you need to do is share the name of your organization and request the code here.