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

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

want to be perceived. I'm Tom Henschel, your executive coach, and today we're talking

about women as powerful communicators. We all benefit from having powerful mentors.

Dr. Lois Frankel is one of mine.

I often provide clients with her international bestseller,

Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office.

I endorse this book not only because she refers to me and some of my coaching tips in it, but because her counsel is truly insightful and practical. And it's not only for women we would all benefit if we could

implement her advice. Lois has written several other books since the

publication of Nice Girls in 2007 2007, her book, C. Jane Leed was published. The

podcast you're about to hear is taken from the online version of an executive

coaching tip that was first posted on the essential

communications website in April of 2007 on the day C. Jane lead was published.

I had asked Lois if she would share a few ideas from C. Jane Leed about how women can look and

sound like leaders. She not only said yes, she actually wrote the following five points.

They're great. If you're a man, don't skip these tips just because of that. You probably

have women whom you'd like to develop. These ideas can help them. And aside from

number five, which is gender specific, I support all of these tips wholeheartedly.

In fact, I hope they'll sound familiar to you. In one form or another, I've expressed many of these ideas myself. Okay, from here

on out I'm speaking Lois's words. If ever there was a time for women to lead, now is that time, and you are the woman.

That's the premise of C Jane Lead.

Throughout history, women have made outstanding leaders.

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