What Executive Presence Actually Means | EP 61

Of all the feedback women get, ‘executive presence’ might be the most common and the least useful. It turns up in your review. It turns up in the conversation about why somebody else got the role. And it almost never arrives with an example you could actually do anything with. So it just sits there. You know it’s the thing between you and the next level, and you still have no idea which part of it you’re meant to fix. That’s not you being slow on the uptake. Those two words cover fifteen separate things, and whoever handed them to you was probably only thinking about one. Nobody tells you which one. So you work on all of it, or none of it, and the feedback shows up again next year. So which one is yours? Tune in to learn: • What each quality looks like when it’s missing, and what it looks like when it’s there • The one that most separates a director from a VP • Why warmth and directness were never opposites 01:54 – The reframe that takes the pressure off before we name the five 03:34 – Confidence, and what it sounds like when you wrap padding around a good idea 05:04 – Composure, and why people read you more the higher up you go 05:44 – The slightly embarrassing thing Jill did in a meeting that taught her this 07:05 – Authenticity, and what it costs you when people can’t get a read on you 09:04 – Assertiveness, and the two ways almost all of us get this one wrong 11:08 – Vision, the quality that most separates a director from a VP 12:33 – What changes around you once you have built all five 13:39 – What is coming over the next five weeks 14:13 – Three shifts you can make this week 📚 MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE • 10 Ways to Command a Room, the free guide http://www.sistersmart.com/10WaysToCo... 🎁 GRAB THE FREE GUIDE: 10 WAYS TO COMMAND A ROOM Ten simple concrete moves that build the exact kind of executive presence we talk about in this episode. Pick one and try it this week. http://www.sistersmart.com/10WaysToCo... ✈️ FREE PASSPORT TO PROMOTION PRIVATE PODCAST: 7 STEPS TO GET PROMOTED FROM DIRECTOR TO VP https://joinsistersinleadership.com/7... 👩‍💻APPLY FOR THE SISTERS IN LEADERSHIP PROGRAM An 12-month coaching program for women leaders who want to rise up and fulfill their career potential and get promoted from director to VP https://joinsistersinleadership.com/ ⭐ SUBSCRIBE AND LEAVE A REVIEW ON APPLE PODCASTS https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... ⭐ SUBSCRIBE AND LEAVE A RATING ON SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/14Yh9jy... 👋 CONNECT WITH JILL Website: https://sistersmart.com/ YouTube: https://linktw.in/uWD3ko LinkedIn:   / jillavey