Own the Room

INTRODUCTION

THE MYTHS OF LEADERSHIP PRESENCE

Do you know how to fill a room? Can you hold your own and connect with others? Perhaps you’ve mastered owning the room in your current role, but now, are you ready for the next one? In today’s organizations, the demands on managers like you are constantly evolving—promotions, shifting responsibilities, new bosses or team members, an altered industry landscape. And if you don’t evolve with them, you will fail to be effective. Yet we have seen many successful leaders wrongly assume they don’t have to adapt. They presume that the skills and qualities that enabled previous achievements will ensure they thrive against any and all future challenges. “After all,” they say, “isn’t this what my success was ...