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Executive  Presence

About this episode: 

This episode is for leaders in their role as mentors and role models. 

•  How important is executive presence, and how much should it play into your hiring process 
•  Succession planning 
•  Management training, Branding, Marketing, and HR considerations 
•  And for you as a leader, are there things that you can do to improve - or update - your executive presence?

Part 1

Part 2

Topics Discussed (with timestamps)

•  How to talk about executive presence with your team? (00:52)

•   True or False: Is executive presence hard to define? (10:09)

•  People with Executive Presence are promoted over more capable employees who lack it: What does this say about how we want to be led? (13:08)

•  Executive Presence vs Professionalism. (21:54)

•  Executive Presence as a learnable skill: Can anyone get there or are some personalities better suited? (22:52)

•  Has the perception of what "Executive Presence" is evolved, or are leadership skills timeless? (28:29)

•  Having Hard Conversations: How do you talk about "Executive Presence" with your employees? (31:52)










•  Why do you think people avoid being mentored to have an executive presence? (0:09)

•   What are the key things to change to develop executive presence? (6:25)

•  Do you think our perceptions of executive presence are very cultural to our geography? Is it easier to be that executive within your geography? (11:36)

•  Do you think it's easier to signal executive presence just by more mature age or do you think age is not that factor and it's just how you show up? (16:02)

•  Where should our minds be when looking at the executive presence of women? (19:22)

•  What's your opinion on where you see women undercutting themselves in terms of how they show up with their executive presence? Is there a blind spot that you can generalize? (20:20)

•  *As your company grows, does executive presence change too? (20:20)

•  How come we don't see questions about executive presence more predominantly in average job descriptions or for candidate reference checking questions? What were those criteria in the hiring process? (27:03)

•  What would you say to someone who says this doesn't feel like me? Who feels demoralized by the journey that has to be made? (31:02)

•  What value is there to a high-level discussion? How far can somebody go with just high-level thinking? (36:09)

Curious? Questions? Interested in exploring the possibilities?