#Boardroom101: Cultivating your “Executive Presence”
You’ve
missed out on a promotion, even though you were told you’re technically
competent and good at what you do, and yet you didn't make the cut. This week Hixonia Nyasulu talks about Executive Presence.
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You ask for feedback and are told you lack “Executive Presence”, but no-one tells you what that is, and how you can cultivate it. Economist Sylvia Ann Hewlett describes Executive Presence as “the missing link between merit and success”.
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It’s a combination of verbal and non-verbal signals that a person needs to send to the leadership of the organisation, and encompasses things such as your handshake, eye contact, gait, speech, empathy, posture, and so on.
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