Your executive voice is less about your performance; it relates more to your strategic instincts, understanding of context, and awareness of the signals you send in your daily interactions and communications
Rebecca Shambaugh, president, SHAMBAUGH
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For a more strategic executive voice…
1) Understand Context – Knowing or finding out expected role in advance of a group forum or event can guide in determining the voice needed
2) Be Visionary – take an enterprise view with less on self & more on wider organization; also articulate aspirations for the future & a rationale for transformation
3) Cultivate Strategic Relationships – can bring broader strategic perspective of goals, changes, & priorities; also helps avoid getting caught up in day-to-day minutiae
4) Bring Solutions, not just Problems – do homework & take the lead in analyzing situations; brainstorm fresh ideas beyond the obvious; even without a perfect answer, can demonstrate creative solutions
5) Stay Calm in the Pressure Cooker – stick with facts instead of getting swept into emotional tailspins no matter how stressed you feel