10 Signs Your Leaders Lack Executive Presence

10 Signs Your Leaders Lack Executive Presence

Business success depends on the future of having leaders who can bring change. If you notice any of these symptoms, your top teams are probably the results, and it is time to act.
Executive presence is the hallmark of every successful leader. The ability to think, act and communicate as a leader is based on communication skills polished. Leaders with a more powerful presence. They are important for the team. People want to work with them. By signing up and engaging the best resources, they deliver outstanding results, again and again. Consider good leaders such as John Chambers, Cisco CEO since 1995. Chambers overcame childhood dyslexia and today is his enthusiastic style of communication as a facilitator can-do optimism that helped lead CISCO atop a hard, fast moving industry and chambers was elected to the Harvard Business Review Top 5 most valuable directors in January 2010.

Directors without the presence of the remaining directors. Their low-energy display of distrust and causes the audience to tune within minutes. I can not think of their feet, or compose a message clear, convincing and motivating. Their communication style frustrating for the leaders, so their ideas are ignored and resisted.
Without the direction of their credibility suffers. They are less effective in their role in their struggle to gain support from key stakeholders. They must work harder to make a difference. Duda, frustration and insecurity creep in.
Searching for these 10 warning signs. When the leader of a lack of executive presence, which are:

1. They are nervous and fragile against high
People judge you when you're talking about. They make assumptions about you based on the characteristics of how you express yourself effectively.
While this may not seem fair, it is a fact of life - and even at the executive level. Executives who seems nervous labeled less effective. How many times have you seen someone with superior communication skills, promoted by a partner who has a better technical knowledge? Responding to the high credibility of halting and uncertain impact, while executives of confidence that arise in a high pressure meeting are marked as future leaders.
Recently promoted to general manager of a technology company that is difficult to deal with foreign businessmen in the meetings of the management review. Managers began to question his promotion. Armando the quick thinking of several tools that have allowed the executive to be better prepared, which increases their confidence.

2. Speak without a clear message
The leaders of technical disciplines such as economics or engineering, often have a misconception that the technical potential is more important than effective communication. The skills that make the success of technical experts actually prevent them from being promoted to management. They focus too much on the process and the small details when the situation calls for something more concise. Unlike the junior leaders, is a leading managerial role is to communicate a clear and convincing message.
Marcos, a presence to understand how to tell the story behind the numbers, well-balanced image with great detail. Top executives such as Steve Jobs, to communicate effectively with simple language and concise message that conveys powerful and memorable. Jobs perfected this technique in recent years and its launch product contains gems like: "Today Apple reinvents the phone" The launch of iPhone in 2007. This ability to express a situation in its simplest form is often overlooked by technical staff. However, all executives effective communicators have mastered this art.

3. Put the audience to sleep
Voice makes or breaks a presentation. A monotonous puts people to sleep and a whisper voice is a liability when it tries to convince senior management. Great presenters have honed his vocal range. They are able to attract the attention of an audience and keep a wide range that combines rhythm, pitch, resonance, rhythm, accent and pause to add the impact of the messages.
Many entrepreneurs are willing to talk and introverted, as a customer of a bank recently, which had limited vocal range. After working in a variety of exercises, his song grew and began to make a better impression of conference calls and presentations.

4. Dumping data for the connecting
The facts are interesting, but do not motivate anyone. But many leaders still think the data wins the day. Despite nearly 100 years of research on what motivates people, many managers still a heavy blow to public data presentations. Then they are surprised by the lack of commitment and change the results. The presence of leaders and are able to connect and get people at many levels of understanding why people are motivated to act.
A CEO of a rapidly growing distributor missed opportunities to obtain the support of the strategy of its more than 500 senior executives at the quarterly meetings. Using a three-step process, we helped to identify the underlying message of all these facts and figures, and he delivered a memorable speech that sticks with the team management after his speech. It was a great improvement of its previous approach to the statistics from the records.

5th Consider presenting your PowerPoint
Many leaders spend time doing heavy bridges instead of a slide-preparation tool, which is very powerful exercises.
Executives engaged in making and reading the slides to your computer to forward a boring, banal and forgettable. The best leaders combined with whole brain thinking in their presentations with a story line, flow, and anecdotes as well as the relevant facts, figures and slides.
A CEO with a strong technical background realized he needed to break the bad habits built up over decades. He stopped using the slides in three months, a leap of faith. So he focused on his message and got comfortable talking with some well-designed slides that were visual and memorable. The change was dramatic and became a model for other leaders.

6. Appear evasive and uncertain when questions
Some managers tend to wander around a subject before expressing his opinion. This tendency is aggravated when faced with a very direct, aggressive style interrogation to intimidate the officers, who are often in their second language. Executives who can not handle this pressure suffer from stress, anxiety and loss of confidence. Marcos, with a presence are able to handle difficult questions and answers sharp, punchy and concise toughest questions.
A CFO of a leading specialty chemicals, even if it is an expert in his office and industry, was overwhelmed when world leaders fired questions at him. Use of media techniques, we helped him stay calm and composed while in the spotlight.

7. Choke during important presentations
Managers are expected to intensify and to work on during important meetings. Unfortunately, many managers leave the path of the pull down. They forget their message, hesitant and jerky in their presentation, and freeze while responding to questions. In the eyes of their superiors in public, they appear to be lacking, convincing and insecurity.
The CEO has recently used a training technique, which moved him out of what could go wrong, and gave him the opportunity to focus on its central objective. This allowed him to better deal with high-pressure meetings and stay on schedule.

8th blame culture and language are too often
Even the successful leader of the apology. A common excuse among the Chinese leaders are a multi-national, cultural differences and language skills lead to ineffective communication. There is no doubt that culture plays an important role in communication. However, it is often abused due to misunderstandings between the leaders. The presence of leaders and weigh the cultural aspects of the presentation before, and allows them to undermine their message or tone.
As experts based in China, often support executives, including leaders of the country, out of this situation. Many of them humbly believe that their language skills or lack of study abroad is the main reason why they can not get message to the leaders, but many similar questions in their native language. So focus on basic communication skills that can help the most vocal and proactive executive.

9th are not aware of their power of communication
When administrators are not aware of their style of communication that are deaf to the world. They seem as rigid as they cling to a style for all environments. This causes friction between the management team and delays in decision-making. Executives have to be versatile to the subtleties of each opportunity.
A CEO of a multinational manufacturing used to give back to the audience during presentations important to read your slides. This reduced the credibility of the Executive in senior management. Comments intense video work helped to become more aware of the CEO positions and speaking more effectively.

10. They are the discreet to the point of invisibility
Managers may underestimate the power of meetings to improve their skills. Frames are full day of meetings, regular weekly calls with line managers, monthly conference calls with senior management and critical business quarterly. It is often miss opportunities to show their potential as high performance director with an ability to lead the company forward. Effective leaders take every opportunity to enhance their reputation in the eyes of their peers and superiors.
A partner of a professional services firm needed to increase its visibility in important meetings with the global management team. His qualities are not clear to spend during these meetings, even if an administration capable, was not able to project their own views with confidence. We help you to take a more active role that enhances his reputation. His ideas had more air time and their recommendations were accepted quickly.
If you've read these warning signs and thinking "that sounds like a leader on my team," then it is time to contact us. We specialize in management support to overcome these challenges and others as they learn to talk to the presence of management. Call us so we can help you find the best way forward.
I support the executives working for multinational companies in Greater China, which lacks the presence Executive to effectively influence key stakeholders. Although these leaders are very intelligent, very knowledgeable and talented, a key element missing. Executive communication skills need polishing.
I help executives to create a solid basis for executive communications, so they are better able to think, speak and act as leaders to set and implement the strategy.
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