How to Gain Leadership Presence

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© 2023 Zoryna O’Donnell

This article was first published by The Maverick Paradox Magazine on 18/07/2023

Leadership presence can be defined as the ability to portray the most essential leadership qualities. People with leadership presence communicate effectively, connect with others, act confidently and decisively, and perform well under pressure.

Leadership presence is not something that you acquire with a leadership job title. In fact, many of us could think of at least one person who is not in a position of formal leadership and yet who has a strong leadership presence about them.

“How you act (gravitas), how you speak (communication), and how you look (appearance) count for a lot in determining your leadership presence”, according to  Sylvia Ann Hewlett, author of Forget a Mentor, Find a Sponsor: The New Way to Fast-Track Your Career. The good news is that all these components of leadership presence can be learned because leadership presence is a skill and not a personality trait.

Based on his research, Dr Gavin Dagley defined presence as follows: “A person with executive or leadership presence is someone who, by virtue of the effect he or she has on an audience, exerts influence beyond that conferred by formal authority”.

According to a leadership coach Carol Kinsey Goman, author of The Silent Language of Leaders: How Body Language Can Help or Hurt How You Lead, you can develop your leadership presence by carefully considering your answers to the set of specific questions and by taking appropriate actions to address the areas for development which they will help you to identify. …

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