Executive Presence

Tips to improve your "Executive Presence":

• Use random, sustained eye contact with several members of the audience. Focus on a few people here and there while speaking. "If you're looking at everyone in the room - you're looking at no one in the room".

• Make sure that your body language is strong and confident in order to project that with your tone - because your voice always follows your body language.

• Before you start to speak, stand up and stand still for 5 seconds. Doing so will make you look very much in control.

• When addressing a large group from a stage - walk out: stand still for 5 seconds, then start speaking by making eye contact with one person in the far corner of the group to the left, and then one person in the far corner of the room to the right.

• Gesture from the shoulder rather than from the elbow or the wrist because these types of moves make you look more powerful.

• Use your space purposely. Stand still. Make a point. Move as you transition to the next point. Then stand still, make point, move, etc.