Recovering Leader

11 Coaching Tips to Seriously Upgrade Your Email Impact

Building executive presence (EP) is a hot topic. A dash of swagger when face to face are crucial; but how do you demonstrate EP on email? EP-busting email habits are rampant, according to my experience as an executive coach. With a few simple practices, and breaking a few habits, you can use email as an instrument of greater influence. Read more →

Four Secrets to Read the Room & Build Your Executive Presence

Failing to read the room and adjust our communication to others is a rampant problem in many if not most workplaces--whether we're too distracted or hurried, or too "busy." Even if you're the smartest most capable person in the world, if you can't read the room, you're going to fall down, time after time, because you lose the people around you. Read more →

Physical Leadership 101: You're Larger Than Life

If you are an executive or emerging leader, you are indeed larger than life because your physicality is watched and read in a highly magnified manner by others. Here’s background and a “larger than life” exercise to help build consciousness and selectivity about your physicality. Read more →

Get Your Gravitas On: 6 Secrets of Executive Presence

For most people promoted to senior positions, having a strong, influential voice at the big table is not standard equipment -- it takes work. Here you will find some practical steps you can take. Read more →

When an Executive Needs More Swagger

Seasoned professionals described as analytical, cautious, or humble may plateau before delivering on their full potential as leaders. It’s avoidable, if the problem is not one of smarts or capability, but of missing a bit of swagger. Keeping too much to yourself, being too cautious or deferential, or talking about too many nuts and bolts when a blueprint will suffice... Read more →