Executive Presence for Women

Despite the increasingly notable achievements women are making in business, they still may find themselves trying to conform to outdated or preconceived notions of executive presence rather than one that authentically reflects their own inherent power as a leader.

This newly revised course offers you a more personalized approach to redefining, developing and enhancing your executive presence for today’s workplace. You’ll learn to fine-tune an authentic presence, incorporate emotional intelligence, improve resilience and recovery skills, gain strategies to overcome impostor syndrome and much more.

• Identify the drivers supporting self-efficacy, confidence and executive presence
• Apply proven skills and techniques that lead to authentic and powerful presence
• Acquire verbal and nonverbal strategies to exhibit presence, confidence and influence
• Develop a professional brand based on emotional self-management and empathy
• Recover from setbacks and reassert yourself as a powerful voice in the room

• Connecting research to how you can become and remain more confident
• Reframing self-talk and physiological responses that keep you from displaying strength
• Assessing your visual, verbal and vocal behaviors relative to executive presence
• Owning your success when you feel like an “impostor” (Impostor Syndrome)
• Creating an authentic, consistent and coherent professional presence and brand
• Defining emotional intelligence as it relates to executive presence
• Identifying ways to proactively apply self-care and avoid emotional takeovers
• Gravitas: Learning how to achieve your brand by managing first impressions and perceptions
• Exhibiting presence using the 3V’s of presentation skills and storytelling
• Identifying a variety of actions to take to recover from a presence slip-up
• Defining courageous steps you will take to establish your brand and executive presence

Learning Objectives

• Identify the Foundational Brain-based Drivers Supporting Self-efficacy, Confidence, and Executive Presence
• Apply Proven Skills and Techniques that Lead to Authentic and Powerful Presence
• Acquire Verbal and Nonverbal Strategies to Exhibit Presence, Confidence, and Influence
• Create a Professional Brand that Displays Strong Emotional-self Management and Empathy
• Recover from Presence slip-ups and continue to be a Powerful Voice in the Room and at the Table

Brain-based Techniques to Achieve Confidence and Presence

• Connect Brain-based Research Findings with how you Become and Remain Confident
• Reframe Self-talk and Physiological Responses That Keep You from Acting with Strong Presence
• Apply Presence Techniques Using Brain-body Connections

Authentic Presence and Professional Brand

• Define Emotional Intelligence as it Relates to Developing Executive Presence
• Review and Assess Impactful and Empathetic Listening When Building and Maintaining Presence
• Assess Your Visual, Verbal, and Vocal Behaviors Relative to Your Desired Executive Presence
• Identify Techniques to Proactively Apply Self-care and Avoid Unhelpful Emotional Takeovers

Gravitas: Impressions and Finding Your Voice

• Review How to Achieve Your Presence Brand by Managing First Impressions and Perceptions
• Practice Postures That Make You Feel Confident and Powerfully Impact Your Executive Presence
• Exhibit Presence Using 3V’s Presentation Skills and Storytelling

Strong Presence Using the 3 Rs: Resilience, Relating, and Recovery

• Reflect on Thinking That You Can Become Traps for Achieving Genuine Confidence
• Identify a Variety of Actions to Take When Needing to Recover from a Presence Slip-up
• Detail What Courageous Steps You Will Take to Define Your Brand and Executive Presence

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