Demonstrating Executive Presence

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Leading from Your Best Self covers proven techniques for building self-confidence, making personal connections, and developing a powerful professional presence. The book’s author, Rob Salafia, shares his perspectives and insights from the book in this video-based course.

Duration: 23 minutes of video lessons

The course covers:

  • Discovering Your Best Self
  • The Art of Landing and Expanding
  • Developing Physical and Vocal Presence
  • The Arts of Transitions, Storytelling, and Influence
  • Making Great Presentations

The target audience for this course is anyone who wants to improve their executive presence and their ability to influence and inspire others. The value of this course to participants and the organization are:

  • A better sense of self which makes you more comfortable and compelling in front of others
  • Stronger influence skills which enables you to persuade others more effectively
  • A better ability to inspire others which can lead to improved organizational performance

Rob Salafia is a principal at thoughtLEADERS. He combines two decades of experience as a top leadership development executive with a well-established career in the performing arts. For the first half of his career Rob was a performing artist where he traveled the globe delivering his unique, one-person variety show. He studied the art of tap dance with Gregory Hines. Rob is a lecturer in the MIT Sloan School of Management and a member of the coaching cadres for MIT’s Sloan Fellows, AMP and EMBA Programs. He also cultivated a lasting partnership with Harvard Business School resulting in the integration of experiential programming within the Harvard MBA curriculum and Executive Education Leadership Programs serving thousands of global leaders. He’s the author of Leading from Your Best Self.

 

Master High-Stakes Communication

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When pitching ideas and trying to influence others in high-stakes situations, it’s important to take a deliberate approach to your communications if you want to get recommendations approved.

Duration: 24 minutes of video lessons

The course covers:

  • Understand the Audience and Their “Button”
  • Know the Players, Agendas, and How Decisions are Made
  • Get Input on Your Narrative
  • Let Others Think the Idea is Theirs
  • Bring the Right Facts to the Conversation

The target audience for this course is anyone who has to communicate and influence others in high-stakes situations. The value of this course to participants and the organization are:

  • Faster approval ideas leading to shorter time to impact
  • Quicker approval processes which saves time and effort

Mike Figliuolo is the founder and managing director of thoughtLEADERS. He is an internationally recognized author, trainer, speaker, and blogger on the topics of leadership, communications, strategy, decision-making, problem solving, and other critical business skills. An honor graduate from West Point, Mike served in the US Army as a combat arms officer. Before founding thoughtLEADERS, he was an assistant professor at Duke University, a consultant at McKinsey & Company, and an executive at Capital One and Scotts Miracle-Gro. He is the author of three books: One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership, Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional Results, and The Elegant Pitch: Create a Compelling Recommendation, Build Broad Support, and Get it Approved. Mike is also one of the most popular authors on LinkedIn Learning where he has published 30 courses that have been viewed millions of times by learners from around the world.

 

Compelling Executive Presence

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Build your ability to connect with your audience and convey your ideas in a clear and resonant way. Create meaningful connections between you and your audience to build momentum and buy-in.

Duration: 2.5 hours (Approximately 90 minutes of video lessons and 60 minutes of exercises)

Compelling executive presence relies upon your ability to connect with your audience and convey your ideas in a clear and resonant way. This course teaches you how to create meaningful connections between you and your audience. The tools and techniques covered in class help you be more authentic and comfortable in a variety of situations.

In this course, you’ll learn and apply an integrated framework covering all aspects of executive presence. The course covers:

  • Techniques for getting present in the moment
  • Ways to help you more easily be your authentic self
  • Tools and techniques for connecting with your audience
  • Approaches for getting your audience to connect with your content
  • Methods for getting momentum for your ideas

Throughout the course, you’ll be introduced to concepts and techniques for being more authentic, connecting more effectively with your audience, and being more comfortable in front of audiences from 1 to 1,000.

The course consists of instructor-introduced concepts, practical application exercises, and supporting materials.

The target audience for this course is any manager, senior leader, or executive looking to learn more than clichéd “do this/don’t do that” presentation platform skills to focus on the true techniques required for demonstrating executive presence: getting present, getting authentic, getting connected, and getting momentum. The course benefits are:

  • More compelling leadership presence and personal brand
  • An improved ability to achieve audience buy-in
  • An expanded toolkit to connect audiences to content
  • Increased audience involvement and support for your ideas

Mike Lynn has been helping people learn for 25 years. His experiences span informal and formal training, extensive delivery and facilitation, one-on-one coaching, virtual learning and training management. He has run the training function for a 300 person global consulting firm, served as the local office learning manager for the Midwest office of McKinsey & Company, trained extensively on professional skills, communications, and problem solving. He served numerous clients in an individual coaching capacity. At McKinsey & Company he focused on training and individual coaching on a wide range of communications topics, and then broadened his role to focus on problem-solving skills, management, team development, and MBTI. Mike was responsible for leading training programs for new consultants and engagement managers. Mike is a principal at thoughtLEADERS where he leads training on communications, chart design, problem solving, and executive presence.

Rob Salafia combines decades of experience as a top leadership development executive with a well-established career in the performing arts. He helps leaders build emotional and narrative intelligence and share vision and strategy in a compelling and relevant way. He’s the author of Leading from Your Best Self. For the first half of his career Rob was a performing artist where he traveled the globe delivering his unique, one-person variety show. Rob is a lecturer in the MIT Sloan School of Management and a member of the coaching cadres for MIT’s Sloan Fellows, AMP and EMBA Programs. He also cultivated a lasting partnership with Harvard Business School resulting in the integration of experiential programming within the Harvard MBA curriculum and Executive Education Leadership Programs serving thousands of global leaders. Rob is a principal at thoughtLEADERS where he leads training on executive presence.