645: The Counterintuitive Shift Successful Senior Leaders Make to Get Executive Presence Right
Speak Up: Develop Your Executive Presence & Leadership Communication Style

645: The Counterintuitive Shift Successful Senior Leaders Make to Get Executive Presence Right

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 21, 202631 min
  • Business & money

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. What if becoming a better leader isn’t about talking more, making faster decisions, or becoming more extroverted—but learning when to listen, wait, and let others speak first? As you move higher in your career, the skills that made you a successful individual contributor may not be the skills...

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What if becoming a better senior leader is not about talking more, making faster decisions, or even becoming more extroverted, but rather learning when to listen, wait, and let others speak first. Welcome back to Speak Up, the number one rate business communication

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podcast for high performing introvert leaders. Yes, social introverts that includes you. Here we help you turn your brilliant ideas into influence and that influence into better business outcomes Because being super smart does not automatically make you influential

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I am your host Laura Camacho your executive presence the Matajos career accelerator And when the occasion calls for it your professional fairy godmother in today's conversation with chief investment officer Sebastian Page, you're going to discover how speaking last in meetings can help you make better decisions, empower your team, and avoid unintentionally influencing what others tell you.

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