Developing Your Leadership Voice for Presence and Impact

Looking in the mirror

• Discovering your personal values
• Mapping your roles and identity
• Decoupling authority from power

The Persuasive Leader

• Leading with logic, credibility and emotion
• Selecting supporting tools
• Building a strong opening

The Honest Leader

• Integrating who you are with what you do
• Ensuring clarity, consistency and integrity
• Building your leadership voice
• Preserving authenticity when adapting your style

Communicating to achieve results

• Defining your leadership goals
• Envisioning a new future
• Mitigating the change impact on others
• Applying a whole-brain approach
• Turning resistors into supporters

Developing communication outcomes

• Planning winning outcomes
• Translating objectives into communication outcomes
• Evolving outcomes
• Building your change champions
• Delivering the right message at the right time

Improving your political game

• Investing in reputation and credibility
• Customizing your communication strategy
• Combining logic, emotion and credibility for the right mix
• Connecting with your audience
• Choosing a powerful network

Employing nonverbal skills for greater impact

• Preparing and knowing when to stop
• Communicating with more than words
• Interpreting body language

Crafting compelling messages

• Simplifying and strengthening the message
• Packaging messages to achieve desired outcomes
• Asking "What's the point?"

Exploring communication styles

• Discovering your communication style
• Identifying how others communicate
• Flexing your style

Rallying your team

• Storytelling to connect with others
• Communicating with emotional intelligence
• Working appropriately with reasoning and logic
• Linking your message to core motivations
• Drawing successfully on emotional appeal

Triggering change is just the beginning

• Dealing with stages of change
• Defining your team's needs
• Planning for progression
• Adapting to organic change

Dealing with difficult conversations

• Coping with anxiety
• Leveraging self-awareness
• Moving discussions forward
• Managing conversational traps
• Prioritizing people before process

• Identifying your personal target
• Building a campaign
• Clarifying your short- and long-term priorities
• Combining tactics to maximize presence and impact
• Encouraging others to take action
• Transferring your skills from class to workplace