Powerful, subtle techniques to ‘own a room’

Picture this. You’re about to present to a roomful of executives senior to you. How can you ‘stamp your ownership’ on the room?

Here’s one way…

(1) Get to the room early and ‘walk’ the room.

That is, walk from the middle front of the room to the right front corner of the room. Look back to the middle front of the room and imagine your voice ‘traveling’ to that corner. Then walk to the back right corner of the room. Turn around and imagine your voice traveling from the front of the room to that corner. Walk to the back left corner. Look back to the front and do the imagining. Walk to the front left corner; Look to the front and do the imagining.

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