Friday espresso: Think on Your Feet: The Quiet Skill Every Loud Change Demands
Nov 28, 2025 1:01 am
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Think on Your Feet: The Quiet Skill Every Loud Change Demands
Leadership is dialogic. Some days it’s a strategy meeting. Other days, it’s an instant, on-the-spot answer when it matters most—shaping outcomes immediately.
This past mq20 season reminded me how precious those seconds are. Not for delivering the perfect answer, but for offering a steady and impactful one.
And that’s why this year, I chose to step into a programme I deeply love facilitating: Think on Your Feet at our mq20 Anniversary Learning Fest.
👇Catch the video to find out more about Think On Your Feet as well as BTS of the session!
https://youtu.be/NYZ4Y3XboQc
WHY is Presence the New Power Move
🌍 The world may speak fast, but people feel deeper. We may live in headlines, trend cycles, and AI-driven outputs, but trust still forms through tone, pause, and presence.
⚡ Leadership is won in the micro-moments. The moments that don’t show up on slides, the unconscious inhale before answers, the eye contact, the calm when someone else panics.
🤝 Direction is most powerful when delivered personally. Not broadcasted, but passed from one human to another, with clarity, creating favorable impact and result.
WHAT Does Thinking on Your Feet Mean
💡 It reveals thinking, not scripting. Spontaneous responses show how your mind works under pressure. They reveal how you organise ideas, prioritise what matters most, and interpret situations in real time.
🧠 It turns experience into usable insight. Experience alone isn’t enough if it stays in your head. The real skill is translating years of learning into fast, practical guidance that others can use immediately.
❤️ It humanises expertise. Knowledge only becomes leadership when it connects with people. When you respond clearly, kindly, and concisely under pressure, you make expertise approachable.
HOW to Show Up Stronger
🧘♀️ Lead from inner steadiness. Micro-moment leadership starts from a centred mind. Breathe, think, then speak, even if the gap is thin. It helps when we have a structure in our mind.
🧭 Answer with intention, not overload. Say one clear thing they can hold onto. Then another. But not 12. Clarity beats volume, always.
💛 Respond to humans like humans. A great answer doesn’t sound rehearsed. It sounds like you actually heard the question, the person, the emotion under it.
AI will continue rewriting our workflows, roles, and expectations. That part is inevitable.
But presence? Responsiveness? Clarity delivered with heart?
Those are the unchangeable currencies of influence.
Leadership isn’t about being the one with all the answers. It’s about being the one who can hold the moment, carry the thinking, and make an impact through our spontaneous and logical reply.
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Koo Lily
l Founder of mq Training Coaching Consulting l
Leadership Coach l Change Facilitator l Speaker l
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