Determine Your Personal Presence Brand

If you want to be seen as trusted and credible, then your actions must be in alignment with your intentions, both stated and unstated. It’s the only way to be received with clarity.

When I address these top executives, I introduce the concept of the red blinking light. When a leader walks into a room, it’s as though a red blinking light is flashing a message: “This is important!” When the CEO goes into a meeting, the importance of that meeting rises. If he decides to skip a meeting, its importance is reduced. Leaders have to b

People are being asked to strengthen the way they communicate and connect with others to increase their influence in looser and more disparate corporate structures.

a great piece of wisdom: When someone says something unkind to you, it’s more about that person than it is about you.

Accept the feeling. Dwell on it for a moment. Perhaps even name it: “There’s my crazy telltale heart again.” But don’t conclude that it will make you unsuccessful.

For most people, it means you have to make choices about the actions you want to emphasize. The best place to start is by choosing the actions that make up your core values or, in other words, your personal presence brand.

People who maintain optimistic thoughts gain resilience. When they have setbacks, they see the issue as temporary and specific, not permanent and pervasive.

Executive presence begins in your head. It resides in how you think about yourself, your abilities, your environment,