How to Build an Executive

The Look & Sound of Leadership

Essential Communications - Tom Henschel

Education, Executive Presence, Management, Careers, Executive Coaching, Self-improvement, Business

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

A coaching client wonders what elements need to be present for someone to appear ‘executive.’ Two executive coaches ponder this question and come up with five elements they deem essential.Categories in the archive to explore:Developing New BehaviorsExecutive PresencePerception – How You’re PerceivedSix episodes to dive into:189 - Don’t Take Anything Personally178 - Executive Presence – Three Pillars168 - Influence108 - Shouldering the Burden of Leadership23 - Speed of ThoughtDownload the Six ...

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone. Tom here. A word before we begin. First, happy New Year. I wish us all a year of health and growth.
0:10.8	Next, I want to let you know the episode you're about to hear was originally broadcast four years ago, January 2021.
0:18.0	Back then, it was called the Executive executive. We've retitled it,
0:22.4	How to Build an Executive. Three things to know. First, during the episode, you're going to hear
0:28.2	about a PDF with six books. That PDF is now a tool in the essential tools bin on the
0:34.8	essential communications website. It's essential com with 2Ms.com.
0:39.6	You can download the PDF from there, and there's a link in the show notes.
0:43.5	Second, you're going to hear me reference a special episode called The Show Must Go On.
0:49.6	I know a lot of you love that episode.
0:51.4	If you haven't heard it, it's a true story about a live on-stage
0:56.1	theater catastrophe. I think you will like it. The link is in the show notes. Finally, coaches,
1:02.9	there's a special message for all of you after the sign-off, so stay tuned. Okay, I'll pop back in
1:08.7	to give gratitude. Other than that, enjoy the show.
1:13.9	Welcome back to the look and sound of leadership, an ongoing series of executive coaching
1:19.0	tips designed to help you be perceived in the workplace the way you want to be perceived.
1:24.4	I'm Tom Henshel, your executive coach, and today we're talking about how to build an
1:29.8	executive. Courtney, an old friend and fellow executive coach, was exploring an interesting topic
1:39.3	with one of her clients, a woman named Divya. During her coaching conversations with Courtney,
1:45.1	Divya had wondered, what did it actually mean to be executive? Discounting her company's
1:52.0	specific culture and quirks, what Divya wondered, do great executives share, no matter the
1:58.9	corporation or industry.
2:07.7	When Courtney reached out to me asking for my thoughts about Divya's question, I was intrigued.
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