This course is for anyone who wants to be seen as a more effective, trusted, and respected professional. You’ve probably worked hard to develop the expertise and skills required to succeed, but unfortunately that isn’t always enough. To live up to your full potential and to advance in most organizations, you must pair an underlying competence with a package of qualities that encourages people to believe you and believe in you, to trust you, and, for aspiring leaders, to follow you. This package is known as executive presence.

Executive presence isn’t just for executives. Everyone in the workplace consciously and unconsciously communicates their competence to bosses, coworkers, employees, and customers, regardless of rank.  It starts your first day on the job. In fact, it starts before your first day, as executive presence will play a critical role in your chances of getting hired. It’s never too early—or too late—to start working on that presence. The good news is that a more effective presence can be taught, and that’s exactly what this course does: it teaches you how to always present your best professional self.

This course will give you a head start on making the transition to the working world and will help you come across in interviews and on the first day of work as a serious professional others will want on their team.

No matter how good your work is, your effectiveness as an analyst will depend on how you personally come across to your peers, bosses, and clients. Mastering the rules of executive presence with the help of this course will help you maximize your impact.

“The course is awesome!  One of the best, if not the best, courses I have ever taken.  Thank you!”

“The material was presented in a well-organized and thoughtful manner. Interjecting with real life examples really helped drive the points home.”

“Loved this course. I really appreciated the acknowledgement that ‘things aren’t always fair’ but there are ways to improve your chances of handling unfair situations in the best way possible… Highly recommend!”

In this course, you’ll learn:

• Exactly what executive presence is and isn’t and why other people’s perception of you, particularly your bosses’, can matter just as much as your ability to carry out your job responsibilities
• The ways you are formally and informally assessed, how different groups may judge you, and how each of those groups tends to be looking for something different from your presence
• Gravitas, the most critical element of executive presence, including what it is, why it’s so important, and how to make it work for you
• How to ensure your face-to-face, virtual, and written communication all enhances the presence you hope to project
• How your appearance influences your presence and how other people perceive your professionalism when they first meet you
• The secret ingredient of executive presence that, if added properly, will make you seem more charismatic, confident, and appealing
• Why feedback on your presence is so critical and rare and what you can and should do to get it

What Is Executive Presence?

This lecture is part of the JTG Proficiency1 course Mastering the Unwritten Rules of Executive Presence by Chris Savos.