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Enhancing Your Leadership Presence

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Our July 19 Transitions event was on the topic of Enhancing Your Leadership Presencethis afternoon, facilitated by Linda Holroyd. elow are notes from the discussion.

 

Last month, we talked about the importance of knowing yourself and your unique value proposition to any leadership opportunity and started identifying the aspects of your personal/professional brand, and how to leverage it to their advantage. This month, we continued the conversation and focused more embracing and communicating your leadership brand, the way you communicate who you are in person, over e-mail, in other written forms. We will also consider ideas for enhancing your leadership presence and better position and sell their particular brand of leadership while networking, while interviewing, and while communicating in general.

 

Thoughts on Enhancing Your Leadership, adopted from:

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Working from the Inside (inside you)

  • Vision. Outstanding leaders articulate an ideological vision congruent with the deeply-held values of followers, a vision that describes a better future to which the followers have an alleged moral right.

  • Passion and Self-Sacrifice
  • Confidence - demonstrating the ability to state one’s views and make decisions with conviction;
  • Courage — willingness to stand up for one’s beliefs and to challenge fundamental assumptions; Congruence — the ability to be consistent in one’s words and actions
  • Determination and Persistence
 
  • lInspirational Communication — communicating with clarity, persuasiveness and impact
  • Image-building/Comportment — a polished, professional manner and appearance, often geared to the next level in the organization. .
  • lRole-Modeling.
  • lCredibility — being seen as credible in terms of knowledge/expertise, role and level in the organization
  • lConnectivity — the ability to engage, energize and inspire others and to participate and contribute with and through others in a meaningful way to the company
lWorking from the Outside (interacting with others)
 
Benefits of Leadership Presence (from Leadership Presence, by Kathy Lubar, Belle Linda Halpern lhttp://www.amazon.com/dp/1592400868?tag=kamurj0b)
  • Developing deeper and more trusting relationships with your clients
  • Inspiring your teammates to sprint to the finish on an important project
  • Persuading a reluctant recruit she has what it takes to charge up that hill
  • Convincing your investors to fund your next great idea
  • Inspiring a classroom of students to become lifelong learners
  • Encouraging your employees to hang in through tough times
  • Creating enthusiasm in your organization for a difficult change
  • Negotiating a complex contract that benefits all sides
  • Nurturing a corporate culture that engenders loyalty and retention
What is Leadership Presence? Belle Halpern and Kathy Lubar write in Leadership Presence, effective leaders are:
  • Present — Able to be completely in the moment and flexible enough to handle the unexpected.
  • Reaching Out — Able to build relationships with others through empathy, listening, and authentic connection.
  • Expressive — Able to express feelings and emotions appropriately by using all means of expression—words, voice, body, face—to deliver one congruent message.
  • Self-Knowing — Able to accept themselves, to be authentic, and to reflect their values in their decisions and actions.

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