Leading with Grit, Gravitas and Grace

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Leading with Grit, Gravitas and Grace

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Leadership Complexity

• The test of a first-rate intelligence is the
  ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the
  same time and still retain the ability to
  function F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Grit, Gravitas and Grace are three opposing
  ideas leaders need to hold at the same time

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Leadership Grit

• Courage
• Guts, Determination
• Stamina
• Traction

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Gravitas

• Expert
• Authoritative without being Authoritarian
• Wise
• A heavyweight

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Grace

• Good manners politeness
• Show kindness
• Listening to others
• Enough eye contact
• Do what is for the highest good

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Craft Key Messages

• Start with premise, vision or principles
• Brief and powerful messages
• Repeat, repeat and repeat
• Bridge questions to your messages

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Bridge
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Set the Mood

• Upbeat and positive
• Pause as you reply to be thoughtful
• Keep up the energy with most people
• Standing works rise up on your toes

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Media

• Careful with your messages for press
• TV is 90 visual expression matters
• Radio needs a higher level of energy
• Show your passion
• Use your key messages again and again

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Know Your Audience

• For each audience give them WIIFM
• Connect and touch your audience
• Know their concerns use those as soundbites in
  examples
• Connect to their values and emotions
• Talk about a struggle or conflict
• Resolve the struggle with your messages

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References

• How to Get Your Point Across in 30 Seconds or
  Less, Milo Frank, Pocket Books, 1990
• Perfect Phrases for Executive Presentations, Alan
  Perlman, McGraw- Hill,2006
• The Articulate Executive Learn to Look , Act and
  Sound Like a Leader, Granville Toogood,
  McGraw-Hill, 1995