Executive Presence

When presenting yourself to your audience as a leader, it is vitally important to engage in that presentation with confidence. However, the nature of that confidence is equally important. It is common to assume that an antagonistic authority that relies on dominance is the most compelling source for one's assurance, and it can certainly be effective, as far as that goes, but that distance is short, and the relationships it breeds are brittle.

The more productive approach is one of supportive collegiality: when your positive self-esteem is derived from wanting your team members to succeed, and you afford them the means of achieving that success, you are building for the future and leading in a way that engenders confidence in the people around you, not just yourself.

That is leadership, and the very definition of executive presence.