Glossary
Assessment Tool: our 3-stage Assessment process includes:
- Self-Assessment Report
- EP360™ Report
- Debriefing
Developed in collaboration with the Business Psychology team at Self Management Group, recognized for its talent solutions, this exclusive tool reports individual Executive Presence strengths. The result is a practical report with immediate application.
Board Presence: is training to interact with the Board of Directors. The 2-Day Board Presence Workshop prepares senior leaders, senior executives, and management to interface with the Board of Directors – to become familiar with its unique procedures, protocols, and specific presentation guidelines.
Customized Workshops: comprise Executive Presence Training specifically tailored to your organization’s professional development objectives for every organizational level – from C-Suite and senior leaders to emerging leaders, management, and high-potentials. Content is modified according to corporate goals and the organizational level of participants.
Executive Presence: is more than looking and acting the part. It is far more than skills, ability and talent. Executive Presence combines leadership qualities, communication skills, and engagement expertise in a powerful mix that leads to continuous upward mobility.
Executive Presence Training: is professional development that builds:
- Team productivity across all levels
- Expertise to lead others
- Capabilities required for advancement
The process includes a series of group sessions, coursework, and coaching. It often includes assessments with feedback from colleagues, peers, and management, as well as a self-assessment, along with private debriefings to review these reports.
Healthcare Professionals’ Workshop: from formal presentations and conferences to impromptu meetings, participants learn to deliver on-point messages, whether speaking to large groups, or small. Our system delivers powerful presentation techniques and strategies.
Leadership Presence: is training exclusively for Team Leaders to develop the skills and expertise to lead their teams to greater productivity. This marks the second level of Executive Presence training where participants benefit from the previous experience at our workshops.
Licensee Programs: provide preparation for professional HR specialists and L&D managers to become Licensed Executive Presence System Coaches with the credentials and qualifications to present EP training across the corporate spectrum. We offer programs expressly designed for both Corporate trainers and Individual consultants.
Lunch and Learn Sessions: are free-standing, 60-90 minute group training modules that may be combined for half-day programs. There are 15 topics to choose from covering Communications, Best Workplace Practices, Networking and Professional Appearance.
Modular Sessions: are 90-minute sessions for Individuals held in our Toronto boardroom. Each session is dedicated to a specific Executive Presence building block. There are 10 sessions, scheduled from September through June.
Professional Presence: for New Recruits, New Hires, Orientation and Onboarding. It provides a foundation, essential for the next generation of leaders to understand the diverse combination of skills that comprise Executive Presence.
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Public Workshops: are open-to-the-public, based on availability. There are five Workshop options: Executive Presence, Leadership Presence; Presentation Skills; EP Advanced; Goal Setting and Tracking.
The Look of Success™: offers proven techniques to achieve a consistently professional appearance.
Building Blocks of Executive Presence
Body Language: is the nuanced ability to manage the non-verbal cues we transmit and the skills to “translate” and respond to the unconscious signals others send. Advancement to a high-profile leadership role automatically increases visibility, where Body Language plays a heightened role in projecting Executive Presence.
Digital Presence: is consistently projecting Executive Presence through the impersonal medium of virtual or techno-communications.
Emotional Intelligence: is the ability of people to recognize both their own and other people’s emotions – and decide on the best course of action. This all happens in a split second. The intelligence part is what people do with this information to manage and modify behavior in varying circumstances – and achieve goals.
First Impressions: are formed on very little information. We tend to make assumptions and judgments based on spur of the moment hunches and “intuition.” They are formed during that first call or meeting with a new client, new team member, new boss, and with the first voice mail message or visit to a LinkedIn profile.
Gravitas: refers to the actions and behavior that ultimately determine a person’s C-Suite potential. “Having gravitas” implies that a person has both the authority for a position and commitment to manage the role in a compelling manner.
Hosting Business Meals: is an expectation for business professionals today. Executive dining skills are pivotal to business occasions where food and drink are served, as clearly, every business meal represents an opportunity for relationship building. The ability to dine confidently anywhere and with anyone is an intrinsic part of Executive Presence.
How to Command and Work any Room: is the ability to successfully maximize networking opportunities at meetings, conferences and social events.
Key Conversations: refers to the inevitable, challenging exchanges business professionals continuously face. Learning to deflect potential conflict, ease tension and move things along to achieve optimum results, reflects Executive Presence.
Office Politics: is a fact of Corporate life. Aspiring leaders need to understand the subtleties of both actions taken and words spoken by both others and themselves to move forward. Identifying personal leadership and negotiating styles is part of learning to showcase – and stretch strengths – to navigate inner business circles.
On Stage Presence: is the confidence to walk into any kind of meeting or presentation, regardless of the audience, with the self-assurance to positively influence the outcome – and deliver on-point messages.
Personal Branding: is fundamental to establishing a genuine Executive Presence imprint. When people define and refine their leadership strengths to fine-tune their own Personal Brand, it leads to the development of a truly authentic Executive Presence.
Reputation: is the only building block that other people control. It is extremely fragile; Reputation is established and nurtured by what other people say about a person – and the Presence they have, when they are not at hand.
Well-being: is a personal commitment to a healthy regime that allows aspiring leaders at every level to confront pressure, burn the midnight oil and meet exacting deadlines –when faced with the inevitability of crunch time.
