Leadership Material: How Personal Experience Shapes Executive Presence

by Diana Jones

MP3 CD Format Often viewed as 'touchy feely', intangible and invisible, most leaders separate their personal lives from their professional lives. Diana Jones, an executive coach for 30-years, argues that this is unwise. In fact, the 'soft side' of leadership - empathy, compassion, and authentic communication derived from personal experience - is both powerful and essential to enhancing executive presence, influencing others and achieving results. Through compelling stories and examples taken directly from Jones's coaching sessions with experienced leaders, listeners will learn how to make enduring behavioral changes that will produce better business results and create alignment among disparate groups using empathy and leadership language.

Genres: Leadership

Paperback

Published June 1, 2016

Reviews

[Susan Wilson]

An excellent resource…and a leadership text with no mention of armed forces or sport which is so very refreshing. I particularly liked the framing of leadership around having “executive presence” which is defined as influencing and inspiring through genuine relationships. I also liked behaviour being defined as a combination of how you think, feel and act. It wasn’t directly linked in the text but I thought the description of balancing knowing, and doing, so being also fitted well with this. I use Mehrabian in sessions with leaders and have always struggled to link email communication and now have the perfect segue which is that because only 7% of the message is contained in words, every word chosen is important and in email 100% is conveyed through choice of words and how they are written. Thank you Diana Jones. I have my own default behaviours to work on along with some new tools from you for this; and, you have also helped me to enhance the sessions I have with other leaders. Great read.

[Laura Weber · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is amazing. I enjoyed reading it, and there are quotes I totally agree with! I can't say that such a genre is my favorite, but I needed it for my university project. It was dedicated to personal experience, like, in general, and of course, I started looking for something which could be helpful for me. I came across so many resources, sites, exams, and books and decided to read this one. And I also used a lot from https://papersowl.com/examples/personal-experience/ where I was provided different personal experience essay samples, which helped me to "see" what I could write about. Because it's such a general term, and you can write about everything. Very helpful source, and also this book was useful, and I used some quotes from it.