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You Don’t Need to Be Loud to Stand Out as a Leader, But You Do Need to Have Presence

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Whether you want to make an impact in the boardroom, improve your effectiveness as a leader, get a promotion, or make a career change, exuding leadership presence will increase your ability to influence. This will make the outcome that you want to achieve much easier. As a leader you either have presence or you don’t. […]

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3 Strengths Introverted Women Leaders Can Utilise to Increase Their Influence and Impact in Meetings

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When I was younger, I never realised that my quietness and reflective thinking style wasn’t because I was shy, or because I lacked confidence. Like many other introverted women, I had bought into the misconceptions around introversion and this had shaped my perception of myself. I used to wish I could just blurt profound things

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The Introverted Women’s Road Map to Overcome the Fears Holding Them Back as Leaders

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Whether it is a fear of failure, fear of success, fear of rejection, fear of not being good enough, imposter syndrome, self-doubt, perfectionism, or other self-limiting belief, for many of us fear prevents us being our best selves and achieving our full potential as leaders. As an emotion, fear can be pretty intense. The more

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5 Ways Introverted Leaders Can Raise the Energy in the Room When Public Speaking and Still Be Themselves

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Contrary to what many believe, there ARE many introverts who enjoy public speaking, just like there are many extroverts that don’t. But one challenge some introverts face when public speaking is keeping the energy up in the room so that their audience remains engaged. Because of our temperament, being in environments where there are lots of

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7 Mistakes Women Make When Starting out in Business

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With one million British SMEs having women at the helm and the UK having been voted the best place in Europe to start a business, there has never been a better time than now for women to start their own businesses. Tired of the ‘politics’ and limitations posed on them, increasing numbers of women are exiting

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