Both in-house and external presentation skills training can produce real results. The deciding factor usually isn’t budget. It’s whether you have someone internally who can run live practice under genuine pushback, and whether your team will take feedback from a manager the same way they’ll take it from an outside [...]
The Leadership Style You Default To Is Probably The Wrong One In fifteen years of leading teams and coaching the people who lead them, I’ve watched a strange pattern repeat itself. Smart, experienced executives — people who can read a balance sheet in thirty seconds and a boardroom in less [...]
The SBI feedback framework: a script for feedback that doesn’t damage trust SBI stands for situation, behavior, impact. It’s a three-part structure for feedback conversations: name the situation (when and where), describe the behavior you actually observed (not your read on someone’s character), then state the impact it had. [...]
How to structure a presentation your leadership team will actually remember A presentation that sticks states its point in the first minute, not the last slide. Most presentations to leadership open with context instead: background, agenda, “today I’ll cover three things.” By the time the actual point arrives, the room [...]
Freezing in front of senior leadership is rarely a confidence problem. It’s an unpracticed-scenario problem. Someone can be completely at ease presenting to their own team and lock up the moment a VP is in the room, because the stakes changed and the script they’d rehearsed didn’t account for it. [...]
Executive presence gets treated like a personality trait. Something you either have or don’t. It isn’t. It’s a set of specific, observable behaviors: how someone speaks when they’re uncertain, how they hold a pause, how they respond when challenged, how much space they take up in a room without demanding [...]
