Management Mastery

There are a number of ways you can stand out as a performer in your company or department. All of them require you to have mastered all aspects of your current role first, and then to have your head up so that you’re listening, observing, and understanding the goals of your department and company. In this way you’ll be able to be productive for your department and yourself. We’ll talk about that in this week's Management Mastery episode.

Executive presence is a critical component of being a successful senior manager. It’s the ability to project an image of confidence, competence, and leadership, inspiring trust and respect in others. As you continue to grow your career, developing and exhibiting the behaviors that define executive presence will be important for your growth as a manager. In a previous episode, we discussed the important quality of Gravitas. In this episode we’ll the other key elements of Executive presence: inclusiveness, communication, and authenticity.

In our episode entitled “The Basics of Speechmaking” from February 18, we said that half of the world’s population was terrified of making a speech and we discussed the basics of making a speech. In this episode we’ll discuss how to think about your presentation and how to share what you’re passionate about with others.

In previous episodes we’ve spoken about “Designing Jobs” and “Assessing Staff Wellbeing.” Now we want to talk about you and some issues related to managing your own career. It’s important to remember that you’re both a manager as well as an employee of your company. So, not only are you a boss, you also have a boss. In this episode we’ll discuss how to deal with your own manager in ways that’ll, hopefully, make you both more successful.