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WSJ: How to Look and Act Like a Leader

Perfect Presence

To Improve Your Executive Presence:
*Sit on one hand if you gesture excessively
*Avoid interruptions by counting to four before you reply
*Stand or sit large to demonstrate you take up space
*Use few qualifiers as they imply lack of confidence
*Don’t clasp your hands behind your back because you’ll
look deceptive
*Practice a firm handshake
Source: Dee Soder, founder of CEO Perspective Group, an executive-assessment and advisory concern in New York.

Executives with presence act self confident, strategic, decisive and assertive, concludes a study released late last year by the Center for Work-Life Policy, a New York think tank.

Click here to read the full report from the Wall Street Journal