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SOWhat you need to know about interacting with execs and senior leaders 👇🏼
The difference is (1) time (2) altitude.
1️⃣ Every hour of an executives’s time is scheduled. You need to get to the point more quickly, and make your presentations shorter than with anyone else you interact with.
2️⃣ Execs see from a completely different perspective. They’re thinking about the biggest company priorities and problems, from a high altitude, and constantly context switching between dozens of topics and sub-teams each day.
It’s an information firehose.
You want to break it, get their attention and hold it.
Here’s how:
1. Know what’s important to them
2. Frame your message around that
3. Start your presentation with the ‘So What?’
4. If you’re selling in an idea, use storytelling (not just data)
5. If you’re giving an update, keep it to 3 bullets
6. Plan for it to be more of a discussion than you speaking at them
7. Ask *them* questions (and prep for them to ask you)
⚡I talk about exec presence and communication in my free newsletter 👉🏼 link in the usual spot.
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