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Expressing yourself with ease and clarity in a professional context is a measurable competency: neither eloquence nor an innate gift.
Speaking up is the ability to convey information clearly and effectively to a group, adapting one's speech and posture to the audience.
It differs from eloquence, which polishes form without guaranteeing that the message stays, and from public speaking alone, which only covers the stage context: an excellent speaker can be inaudible in a board committee. Concretely, it is the person whose message is remembered three days after the meeting.
Like all Core Skills, it is not a personality trait but a trainable cognitive ability, which rests on identifiable mechanisms and expresses itself in observable professional behaviours.
What kinds of tasks: presenting results, defending an idea in committee, sales pitch, facilitating a meeting.
In which contexts: budget arbitration, defence, committee with no second round (when the decision is settled in the room).
At what level of mastery: structuring one's message for a given audience and holding one's position against objections.
Speaking up belongs to the Innovation & Communication family of our framework of 18 soft skills (Rising Up Core Skills).
In an environment where clarity of expression conditions collective decisions, speaking up is a measurable driver of performance:
A sound idea poorly expressed carries no weight: speaking up decides whether a message is heard and acted upon, and often counts more, over a career, than technical expertise itself.
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In hiring, measuring speaking up in advance detects future managers able to convince in committees as in front of a client, not merely to speak well.
Institutions that certify speaking up strengthen the employability of their graduates in management, sales, consulting and executive roles.
This soft skill is embedded in our development paths and certifying assessments at Rising Up.
Book a demoIn organisations where every collective decision goes through speaking up in committees, team meetings or in front of a client, technical expertise does not guarantee that the talent will deliver a message that stays. The Rising Up Soft Skills Scan objectively measures speaking up in your talents to identify profiles capable of structuring, convincing and aligning. The result: faster decisions, better-aligned teams and reinforced trust. This competency is particularly important for managers, sales professionals, trainers, consultants and executives.
CV and interview no longer suffice to distinguish real speaking-up competency from a learnt interview front. The Rising Up Soft Skills Scan measures speaking up before the interview through several contextualised evaluation methods, and gives you actionable behavioural data. You gain an objective behavioural signal to limit the risk of a bad hire on exposed roles. This competency is particularly important for managers, sales professionals, trainers, consultants and executives.
Employers in management, sales and consulting fields expect graduates to be able to speak up with clarity and impact, an ability rarely measured objectively in traditional curricula. The Rising Up Soft Skills Scan measures this competency, develops your students through the Soft Skills Enrichment programme, then certifies their level at the end of the curriculum. You strengthen graduate employability. This competency is particularly important for managers, sales professionals, trainers, consultants and executives.
Through the Rising Up Soft Skills Scan, speaking up is measured scientifically on a 0-100 scale, using different evaluation methods, from situational exercises to contextualized questionnaires, calibrated by our scientific team, led by Dr Nawal Abboub (PhD in cognitive science, lecturer at ENS-PSL, co-founder of Rising Up), in collaboration with researchers from the CNRS, ENS-PSL and Université Paris Cité.
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Then, the modules of the Soft Skills Enrichment programme allow you to improve this skill through presentation challenges, realistic simulations and reflections guided by our proprietary CoreSkills AI.
Public speaking refers to a specific context: stage, large audience, prepared speech. Professional speaking up is broader: it covers meetings, committees, presentations, interviews, team-position taking.
An excellent conference speaker can be mediocre in a leadership meeting. Rising Up measures speaking up in varied professional contexts, not just stage performance.
Yes. Cognitive science research shows that speaking up is a trainable competency at any age through repeated contextualised practice, breathing, message structuring and targeted feedback.
Our Soft Skills Enrichment programme offers exercises to develop speaking up, with AI-based progress tracking through CoreSkills AI.
Declaring yourself comfortable is easy; being so in a hostile executive committee is harder.
The Rising Up Soft Skills Scan evaluates speaking up by combining situational exercises and contextualized questionnaires where the candidate must structure, defend and adjust their message before a simulated audience. It is the in-context response that is scored, never an abstract self-assessment.
Behavioural skills predict professional success, contribute to it causally, and can be developed (research by James Heckman, Nobel laureate in economics). In management, speaking up is at the heart of team alignment, project defence in committees and strategic vision advocacy.
A manager who fails to deliver their messages can have excellent technical expertise and remain stuck at the same hierarchical level. Measured speaking up is therefore a central criterion for promotion to executive roles.
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