Inhabiting Executive Presence
The Look & Sound of Leadership
Essential Communications - Tom Henschel
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🗓️ 12 January 2017
⏱️ 17 minutes
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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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