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The Look & Sound of Leadership

Inhabiting Executive Presence

The Look & Sound of Leadership

Essential Communications - Tom Henschel

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

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2017

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Getting to the next level of executive presence usually demands the adoption of new behaviors. This month's episode explores a three-step process that helps new behaviors become habits. Helping you change behavior so you can be perceived the way you want to be perceived is the raison d'être of this podcast. If it's time for you develop more effective behaviors, there is an entire category in “The Look & Sound of Leadership" archive that will accelerate your development. The archive is a...

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Look and Sound of Leadership, an ongoing series of executive

0:08.2

coaching tips designed to help you be perceived in the workplace the way you

0:11.9

want to be perceived.

0:13.8

I'm Tom Henschel, your executive coach, and today we're talking about inhabiting executive

0:19.7

presence.

0:24.5

Jenna was not pleased.

0:27.6

She had been expecting a promotion to Vice President, but the committee said she didn't feel like a vice president yet.

0:35.0

The committee, recognizing Jenna as a rising star, said they would promote her as soon

0:39.8

as she developed more executive presence. To show their support, the company invested in a

0:45.8

coach for her and so Jenna and I were brought together. In our first meeting she said,

0:52.3

how do we do this, Tom? Is there some... In our first meeting she said

0:58.0

How do we do this Tom is there some formula for creating executive presence?

1:01.0

There are many I said There are I was joking, are you serious? I was serious. Having talked with

1:08.0

business leaders about executive presence for more than 20 years, I knew many paths

1:12.1

through these woods. I said,

1:14.8

Jenna, you know, given the political climate around here,

1:18.6

the formula I think is going to work best for you and I frankly think that you'll enjoy the most.

1:24.2

I call inhabiting. It has three parts.

1:29.6

She sat forward uncapping her pen.

1:31.6

Okay, inhabiting. what's step one?

1:34.4

Observe, I answered.

1:37.1

Collect data.

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