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Executive presence or EP is simply what you signal to the world, what you telegraph to the world in terms of first, are your gravitas? Do you really know your stuff cold? Do you give the impression that you’re three questions deep, you know, in your field of expertise? Perhaps do you have, intellectual horsepower? How do you signal that?
That’s the gravitas piece. Secondly, do you have really serious communication skills? Can you get your ideas across? I mean, can you be heard? Because no matter how profound your gravitas, if you can’t somehow, you know, get it across, it becomes dead in the water.
And then finally, presentation of self. The way you dress, your body movement, the way you stand and walk. All of this incredibly critical in allowing your gravitas again to get across. So the great thing about, you know, this piece of work, we went out to four thousand, professionals, around the US in all kinds of different sectors and three hundred leaders. It was a representative sample, so we do know what our colleagues and what our bosses are really looking for on this front.
And it’s fascinating because it turns out, there really is almost a checklist out there that we can work with, and much of this is very learnable.