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How to Improve Your Executive Presence Quickly and Easily
When you think of executive presence, what comes to mind? Is it looking rested and like you just came back from a vacation? Having just the right outfit for every event? Having a booming voice that enables the speaker to be heard over chaos? After decades of working with leaders throughout my career, I can tell you that you don’t need self-tanner, a personal shopper, or elocution lessons to have executive presence. (In fact, being inauthentic can actually hurt, rather than help, the cause.)
Serve Your Network a Little ICE: 3 Ways to Serve Your Network
Building your network is an obvious and important step to build your career. So important that we’ve written before about three common networking mistakes you can avoid, how holiday parties can help you expand your network, and our four part series on building a network from scratch in 15 minutes per week. Once you’ve built your network, though, then what?
Herminia Ibarra, in her book Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader, states, “…just because a person knows that a network is important to her success, it doesn’t mean she is devoting sufficient time and energy to making it useful and strong.”