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Smooth gestures
Keep your gestures fluid if you want to highlight your message and build your leadership presence.
If you are continuously moving your hands in the same way, you are connecting your behaviors to your feelings, consciously or not. You want your gestures to be connected to your message, not your mood.
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Balance
Quieter people tend to make themselves small, tight. You don't have to make yourself large, just centered.
- If you’re standing, get in a strong stance: put one foot slightly in front of the other to avoid swaying.
- If you’re sitting, sit so that you are able to m...
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Strategic movement
Don’t just pace around the room—move with purpose.
- You can move between points like through the white space between paragraphs.
- You can also use movement to create highlights and emphases.
- If you stop suddenly, your audience will wonder why. Now you have their ...
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Eye contact
You may struggle with eye contact and need to learn how to focus your gaze to build leadership presence.
But controlling your gaze is not about going eyeball to eyeball. You have to try and make eye contact with each person, for at least five second.
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Vocal resonance
You need to resonate your voice in your mouth, not your nasal passages or your throat.
To see what it feels like to have your voice resonate in your mouth, make an “mm” sound so that your lips begin to tingle. Then, say “me” and note what it sounds like. By moving your sound forward ...
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Introverts and authenticity
If you’re an introvert, you don’t need to change your personality to develop leadership presence. You just need to learn a few skills.
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Use Your Hands
- If you usually use your hands when you talk, be careful to match your gestures with what you're saying. Your hands should add meaning to your words.
- If you’re not a person who talks with your hands, that’s okay, too. Drop them to the side.
A greater sense of community
Sometimes you will speak to an audience of people who are all struggling with the same issues.
Ask yourself if you are able to create a more connected community with your message.
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