id: 2215,B
title: Focuses during communication to improve executive presence.
date: 2024-09-22

Focuses during communication to improve executive presence.

Things to focus on:[^r11]

• Ask questions & then wait—don’t add to them. Count if needed.
• Ask for feedback about executive presence.
• Improve writing by putting more attention into editing.
• Tailor communication style to discussion context: executive discussions are action-focused and brief, other types may allow more exploration.
• Avoid responding immediately where deeper thought offline is needed.
• Speak definitively (remove “I think”), but enable disagreement by asking for weakenesses in ideas.

Similarly:rS13

• Show confidence where experience/data/logic allow; okay to have no opinion.
• Don’t destroy confidence by freaking out—freezing, anger, lashing out.
• Avoid defensiveness. Consider all angles of your role, even if indirect. Avoid whataboutism. Take control of problems leading to excuses.

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