After chatting with a coach of mine, I came up with an in-depth list of mistakes I see executives make in their leadership communication.
In no particular order, here’s the list:
- Entering a room (Virtual or In-person) with no radiation of warmth and energy and calm enthusiasm.
- Rushing/lack of knowing how to own time, in either movement, gesturing and speaking. Doesn’t know how to own time.
- Lack of awareness in what is open and encouraging body language.
- Lack of awareness of how they’re perceived when under pressure.
- Not knowing how to pair gestures with a word or phrase.
- Not knowing how to determine their key message(s) for a presentation and frame it in a simple way.
- Not having key questions to understand what senior leaders want from them in presentations.
- Unsure of the real reason they’ve been invited to present to Leadership team and boardroom meetings.
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