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Confidence Isn’t Something You Do
One thing that has come up repeatedly in my coaching conversations recently is confidence. What strikes me is how often very capable, experienced people believe confidence is something they need to do. They tell themselves they need to prepare more, think more, polish more, or rehearse more. If they can just get the slides perfect […]
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Executive Presence Isn’t Polish, It’s Trust
I recently read a Fast Company article describing executive presence as “the new currency of business growth.” It struck me because it names something that comes up constantly in my work with senior leaders, even if people rarely say it quite that directly.
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When Your Job Shakes, You Don’t Have To
In a world of restructures, “strategic realignments” and never-ending change, it’s no surprise that so many high-achieving professionals feel like the ground beneath them is never fully stable.
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Not every coaching session happens in a meeting room. This week, I met a client in a rehearsal room just off Tottenham Court Road. They have a high-stakes event on Friday, and rather than spending the session rehearsing answers, we started somewhere much more fundamental. We lay on the floor. More specifically, in semi-supine, which […]
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I ran a group session at Vorboss on Friday, and one theme came up again and again: the voice in our heads. The judge. Not presentation technique. Not lack of knowledge. Not even confidence in the obvious sense. It was that inner voice that says, “Don’t say that,” “You’ll sound silly,” “Everyone else knows more […]
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One thing that has come up repeatedly in my coaching conversations recently is confidence. What strikes me is how often very capable, experienced people believe confidence is something they need to do. They tell themselves they need to prepare more, think more, polish more, or rehearse more. If they can just get the slides perfect […]
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been coaching several senior leaders who, on paper, have absolutely no reason to doubt themselves. They’re experienced, knowledgeable and trusted. Many lead teams, influence strategy, manage significant budgets and make important decisions every day. Yet when they walk into certain rooms, something changes. It might be a Board meeting, […]
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