61: What Executive Presence Actually Means

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

📚 MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

• 10 Ways to Command a Room, the free guide http://www.sistersmart.com/10WaysToCommand