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This Jedi Leadership Trick is for complex situations where seeing things from a single perspective won’t cut it.

Example: senior leaders in your organization make a decision and ask you to “communicate the message to your team.”

You’re preparing to meet with one person on the team, and you know she won’t be pleased by what she hears. You want to be loyal to senior leaders yet are concerned about the impact on her. And you’re not sure how you feel about it yourself. What do you do?

Listen in as I describe:

The three default moves many of us make in this situation–and the risks of each
Why it’s important that your response embrace not one, not two, but three different perspectives
The three steps you can take to embrace this complex situation with greater skill and less stress

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Leadership presence. In some organizations, you hear the phrase all the time. Sounds impressive, but does anyone know what it actually means?

Do you?

Now, you’re a smart person, so let’s assume you have a definition ready at hand. Leadership presence is about how other people perceive you. And power.

Through this lens, the greater your presence, the more powerfully you show up in others’ assessments. Most of us want to be perceived as powerful. So leadership presence is a good thing, right?

Yes, but only if it means showing up powerfully as ourselves. Not imitating someone else, but expressing the highest and most authentic version of who we are.

When you do this, you’re not renting someone else’s space or personality.

You own the room.
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