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Leading from Your Best Self: Develop Executive Poise, Presence, and Influence to Maximize Your Potential
Proven techniques for building self-confidence, making personal connections, and developing a professional presence that’s powerful, authentic, and effective .
Increase your poise, presence, and influence for more dynamic leadership
Are you showing up as the best version of yourself? Are you aware of how others experience you? By cultivating executive poise and presence, we not only improve how others see us but enhance our capacity to lead a life of our choosing. While leadership styles may vary, all great leaders are able to connect with others while staying true to themselves. By remaining true to the best aspects of your personality, you too, will be able to lead effectively in every situation.
Leading from Your Best Self delivers a roadmap for developing the poise, presence, and influence needed to succeed at work and in life. As a theater professional, Rob Salafia cultivated a mindset of excellence and learned how to truly connect with his audiences by tapping into and developing his own intrinsic gifts as a performer. He realized that these skills could be put to great use in the business world where it is just as important to build authentic connections with key stakeholders―in this case, employees, bosses, and customers. Now, he shares his insights with you, making this book the next best thing to having your own personal executive coach.
Through specific techniques, activities, and personal stories, Salafia illustrates how to tap into your own inner resources and experiences, show up with greater self-confidence, and make the shift to more inclusive modes of leading. He shares exercises and narratives from real-life clients who have struggled and succeeded to break past their self-imposed limitations.
Leading from Your Best Self shows you how
•Be present and open•Discover your Signature Stance•Maintain poise under the most stressful of situations•Create a solid foundation of self-confidence and your own genuine leadership style•Develop a System for Learning, a Platform for Failure, and a Mindset of Excellence•Connect authentically with others and build lasting relationships based on trust•Use storytelling and metaphor to make your messages meaningful and memorable•Understand the sources of influence and power within organizations•Create a culture of learning within your own team and organization
Everyone has the capacity to be extraordinary by appreciating and nurturing their best qualities and gifts. This book will help you uncover yours and reach your true potential as a leader and communicator.
Increase your poise, presence, and influence for more dynamic leadership
Are you showing up as the best version of yourself? Are you aware of how others experience you? By cultivating executive poise and presence, we not only improve how others see us but enhance our capacity to lead a life of our choosing. While leadership styles may vary, all great leaders are able to connect with others while staying true to themselves. By remaining true to the best aspects of your personality, you too, will be able to lead effectively in every situation.
Leading from Your Best Self delivers a roadmap for developing the poise, presence, and influence needed to succeed at work and in life. As a theater professional, Rob Salafia cultivated a mindset of excellence and learned how to truly connect with his audiences by tapping into and developing his own intrinsic gifts as a performer. He realized that these skills could be put to great use in the business world where it is just as important to build authentic connections with key stakeholders―in this case, employees, bosses, and customers. Now, he shares his insights with you, making this book the next best thing to having your own personal executive coach.
Through specific techniques, activities, and personal stories, Salafia illustrates how to tap into your own inner resources and experiences, show up with greater self-confidence, and make the shift to more inclusive modes of leading. He shares exercises and narratives from real-life clients who have struggled and succeeded to break past their self-imposed limitations.
Leading from Your Best Self shows you how
•Be present and open•Discover your Signature Stance•Maintain poise under the most stressful of situations•Create a solid foundation of self-confidence and your own genuine leadership style•Develop a System for Learning, a Platform for Failure, and a Mindset of Excellence•Connect authentically with others and build lasting relationships based on trust•Use storytelling and metaphor to make your messages meaningful and memorable•Understand the sources of influence and power within organizations•Create a culture of learning within your own team and organization
Everyone has the capacity to be extraordinary by appreciating and nurturing their best qualities and gifts. This book will help you uncover yours and reach your true potential as a leader and communicator.
240 pages, Hardcover
Published November 19, 2018
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February 2, 2019
I’ve spent a lot of years learning how to run a business. Then realized the special sauce isn’t only about the processes, but about real leadership. About leading people and developing them to lead others. This is no easy task and I will always be striving for perfection.
I met Rob on an airplane during a trip from Boston to Denver. We chatted a bit about our lives and soon discovered some crossover. Rob is a coach in the truest form. He lives and breathes authenticity, truth, poise, and presence. During the flight he recommended I come try his 3 day courses in Boston called: Leading from your best self: executive poise and presence.
I was hesitant at first but soon discovered that it was exactly what I needed. It taught me the art of authentic leadership and how to present my best self at all times. Or at least strive towards that.
I took his course and needless to say, in my 15 years in a leadership role, it was the most profound experience I’ve ever had.
Then, Rob releases this book. And goes over the entire course and then some. It has been an extremely great reminder to what I learned with Rob and how to carry myself. I use his teachings from his course and from this book as a daily practice for myself, but I’ve also passed on the knowledge, almost daily, in our business.
If Brene Brown teaches us what leadership is, Rob teaches us how to apply great leadership through poise, presence, and storytelling.
Buy this book. Practice and teach its content. Do the work. :-)
I met Rob on an airplane during a trip from Boston to Denver. We chatted a bit about our lives and soon discovered some crossover. Rob is a coach in the truest form. He lives and breathes authenticity, truth, poise, and presence. During the flight he recommended I come try his 3 day courses in Boston called: Leading from your best self: executive poise and presence.
I was hesitant at first but soon discovered that it was exactly what I needed. It taught me the art of authentic leadership and how to present my best self at all times. Or at least strive towards that.
I took his course and needless to say, in my 15 years in a leadership role, it was the most profound experience I’ve ever had.
Then, Rob releases this book. And goes over the entire course and then some. It has been an extremely great reminder to what I learned with Rob and how to carry myself. I use his teachings from his course and from this book as a daily practice for myself, but I’ve also passed on the knowledge, almost daily, in our business.
If Brene Brown teaches us what leadership is, Rob teaches us how to apply great leadership through poise, presence, and storytelling.
Buy this book. Practice and teach its content. Do the work. :-)
August 11, 2019
"Leading from Your Best Self: Develop Executive Poise, Presence, and Influence to Maximize Your Potential" by Rob Salafia is a smoothly written guidebook to improving social interactions and self-promotion. With relatable real-life stories, clear explanations, and exercises to recognize goals and work towards them, this smoothly written book is perfect for teens and adults seeking focus.
I had the opportunity to meet this Massachusetts author at a literary event. His calm demeanor and genuine desire to share his knowledge, along with his professional yet approachable image, showed me that he knows what he is writing about.
I had the opportunity to meet this Massachusetts author at a literary event. His calm demeanor and genuine desire to share his knowledge, along with his professional yet approachable image, showed me that he knows what he is writing about.
April 16, 2023
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Good book on The importance on Mission, Vision and Values.
👀 How this book changed my daily live (Takeaways)
The apprentice model of learning involves four stages:
1. Novice
2. Apprentice
3. Journeyman
4. Master
⁉ Spoiler Alerts (Highlights)
In learning to navigate transitions, we can increase the quality of our relationships, effectiveness, and overall contributions.
The external process is about developing a reputation for leadership potential and competency; it can dramatically change how we see ourselves. The internal process concerns the evolution of our own internal motivations and self-definition; it doesn’t happen in a vacuum but rather in our relationships with others.
Good book on The importance on Mission, Vision and Values.
👀 How this book changed my daily live (Takeaways)
The apprentice model of learning involves four stages:
1. Novice
2. Apprentice
3. Journeyman
4. Master
⁉ Spoiler Alerts (Highlights)
In learning to navigate transitions, we can increase the quality of our relationships, effectiveness, and overall contributions.
The external process is about developing a reputation for leadership potential and competency; it can dramatically change how we see ourselves. The internal process concerns the evolution of our own internal motivations and self-definition; it doesn’t happen in a vacuum but rather in our relationships with others.
July 9, 2024
3.5 stars
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