Have you noticed how some “experts” make things so complicated? Instead of a one or two layer cake, we get
served a giant piece of gateaux with eight sticky layers.
Executive Presence is one such concept that is often over-complicated
by self-styled experts. In a recent article Scott Eblin tries hard to define executive presence but unfortunately
he does more to obscure its meaning.
Eblin states how executive presence is “about your ability
to get results, especially when the expectations around results are continually
changing.” This is a good strong
statement, however it describes being the kind of leader who takes change in
his/her stride and produces results for the organisation. This statement is not executive presence.
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| A confident executive presence is a career accelerator for you. |
So let’s not over-complicate executive presence and make it
something way out in the stratosphere. Creating
executive presence is a personal concept, it is empowering and it is within
each individual’s control. Simply, executive
presence is managing others’ perceptions positively through our personal
presentation, our interpersonal communication and our choice of actions.
Naturally we shape and implement our executive presence in various
contexts: interpersonally, within our own
team, leading a project, in our interactions and relationships internally and in
selected external forums.
It is inevitable that we create impressions wherever we go
and whatever we do. Impressions turn
into others’ perceptions of us. The most
important element of executive presence building is our heightened awareness
through which we are able to manage how others perceive us in conscious and
deliberate ways. Executive presence is
as simple and un-complicated as that!
In the Executive Presence workshop, we cover executive presence
using the acronym L.A.W. which is an effective and simple way to remember to
plan and do the things that will raise our executive presence and influence.
L is for how
we look, our visual image and personal presentation
A is for the decisions
and actions we take
W is for the
words we use in conversations, meetings and social gatherings
So how simple is LAW!
Executive presence is our unique combination of L.A.W. Each individual has a different thumbprint
and equally each of us has a distinctive executive presence.
Would you like positive momentum, strategies and skills to build your
executive presence in 2013? People
Results offers two versions of our popular half-day Program: the Executive Presence workshop for men and
women and the Executive Presence exclusively for Women workshop. Public workshop dates for February are now available.
People Results programs and services are at www.peopleresults.com.au
People Results email is enquiries@peopleresults.com.au
