Everyday Reflections

While executive presence is a valuable quality to have as a leader. Employees at any level can develop this important trait to use throughout their careers. Executive presence can not only lead to promotions and professional advancement but can also be an inspiration to others and increase productivity in the workplace.

Executive presence is a learned set of behaviors and personality traits that allow you to command attention and authority. This quality often centers on how one acts, speaks and looks, and while it may come naturally for some, it’s a quality you can strengthen, grow or create. Developing executive presence can show others that you’re a capable employee, as well as improve your confidence no matter your position, role or career path.

Following aspects are important to build executive presence:

1. Positive mindset : You will not everything and every aspect of your job but you can define one for yourself to remain motivated and goal oriented & find others who can do rest of it for you. If you do not do so you will feel overwhelmed and lead yourself into a negative mindset spiral.
2. Remain Focussed in your interactions : Every opportunity which you get through your meetings do not let it go waste but try to to increase your network by treating it as a connect and not transaction.
3. Use your body language : Very important and everso more now with hybrid work environment to get your body language right. It is an expression and important one. Eye contact means a lot in conversations!
4. Improve speaking skills : Alongside speaking and breathing , improve on how you present yourself. Statements from your side should that of positive tonality , record yourself and see if you were the audience how you would have felt about it. Voice modulation and clarity of speech are important tools to make a difference.