The Essentials: Executive Presence

Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

Entrepreneurship, Workplace, Business/management, Business/entrepreneurship, Progress, Resources, Gender, Equality, Business/careers, Women, Hbr, Careers, Management, Business, Harvard, Human

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🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Executive presence is a mix of gravitas, communication skills, and appearance. But what does that look and sound like in practice? To help a fully remote insurance underwriter think through ways she can act like a leader, we bring in a role model of hers and an expert in strategic communication.

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0:00.0	Once your business gets to a certain size, the cracks start to emerge.
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0:23.0	slash Women at Work.
0:25.0	You're listening to Women at Work
0:31.0	from Harvard Business Review.
0:32.0	I'm Amy Bernstein. to Women at Work from Harvard Business Review.
0:32.8	I'm Amy Bernstein.
0:34.0	Welcome to season.
0:41.0	Welcome to season four of the essentials. This is a series in which Amy G and I
0:46.2	cover key career skills by bringing together experts in those skills with audience
0:52.1	members who are looking to get better at them. in those individual women's experience is how it makes management principles less theoretical
1:05.5	and practical advice more realistic.
1:08.8	Not only for that one woman participating in the conversation, but for all our listeners in all sorts of industries.
1:17.0	Here at HBR I'm a vice president and I'm pretty confident that I come across as a leader.
1:27.0	But a couple of jobs back, let's say 15 years ago, I had an executive title and yet according to my boss at the time I didn't
1:38.2	act the part.
1:39.7	In fact, she told me so.
1:41.8	She said, Amy, you need to work on your executive presence. I was baffled. I had no idea what she was referring to. I ran back to my office and I googled executive presence.
1:55.0	I realized what she was talking about.
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