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Credibility
Credibility has one important piece: expertise in your role.No level of executive presence can compensate for a lack of ability.
You need to be able to communicate your credibility to others. So once you’re sure you know your stuff, how can you work to better convey that?
- Avoid a monotone delivery.
- Avoid using too many filler words—“er,” “um,” “uh”—which can be distracting from the message you’re trying to convey.
- Make sure you aren’t fidgeting or using “props” in a meeting.
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Ease
As with credibility, ease also has several foundational elements. These include making sure you are eating and sleeping well, having social support, and are making time for movement in your day. These things will help build your capacity for resilience under stress.
Other ways to convey ea...
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Ego
With ego, the focus is on true confidence and true humility.
With ego being the denominator in the executive-presence formula, you don’t want to have a minuscule ego, nor do you want an oversized one, since both a negative number and a giant number will mean an erosion of the credibility a...
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Executive Presence
While the underlying components of the formula for executive presence(credibility + ease/ego) are universal, a strong or effective executive presence might look different from one individual, situation, or culture to the next.
People should think of the pieces that make up these...
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Executive Presence Isn’t One-Size-Fits-All. Here’s How to Develop Yours.
insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu
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"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." - Steve Jobs. Striving not to be a follower.
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Win Arguments
... without making enemies:
- Make sure you communicate you are not there to fight (using your tone of voice, for example).
- Avoid making statements; instead, ask questions.
- Defend yourself with confidence, but without coming across as antagonistic.
4 Reasons Giving Constructive Criticism Goes Bad
- You’re not offering anything constructive if all you do is point out problems. You can still direct attention to an issue, but make sure that you follow up with a helpful suggestion.
- You’re offering unrequested input. Before speaking up, ask yourse...
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