627: Why Your Team Stops Telling You What You Need to Know—and What It Means for Your Executive Presence
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627: Why Your Team Stops Telling You What You Need to Know—and What It Means for Your Executive Presence

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 16, 202627 min

Know Your Own Executive Presence Strengths & Opportunities: Click here to pinpoint the specific area in your executive presence that’s keeping you invisible to senior leadership and guarantees you stay working hard as a pack mule who never gets promoted. Today you can actually learn how to know if your executive influence is where you think it is. Listen today to learn this life changing skill. Under pressure, it’s easy to slip into a reactive, defensive, or judgmental mindset. But the questions you ask yourself and others can dete...

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and how changing those questions can change how you show up, how to recognize when you've slipped

and the exact question you need to ask yourself to help you design better questions that invite

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Today, you actually learn how to know if your executive influence is where you think it is. Listen today to learn this life-changing skill. Welcome back to Speak Up, the number one rate to business communication podcast, where we help high-performing introvert leaders, including you social introverts,

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turn your ideas into influence and improve business outcomes, because being brilliant does not automatically make you influential. I am your host, Laura Camacho, your career accelerator, executive presence strategist and godmother. And in today's episode, you'll discover why powerful inquiry actually begins with the questions you silently ask yourself,

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and how changing those questions can change how you show up, how to recognize when you've slipped into judge your mindset and intentionally shift back into a curious open-minded learner mindset and the exact question you need to ask yourself to help you design better questions that invite conversation instead of triggering defensiveness.

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