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How to Present Yourself to Executives - 5 Quick Tips
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You are acquainted with your team members, colleague. As you work daily with them, you come to know their likings and hence by knowing their behavior you can live & work with them freely. • What happened when you get a chance to present yourself to executives? Do you know their style of working and communicating? Have you thought? • Executives give more responsibility to those who are trustworthy to them. If you want to earn a trust from executives, know the following quick tips.
Get to the Point Within a Minute • Executives have more responsibilities, they are working in high pressure environment and they are very punctual. • Before presenting yourself to the executives, study which points are important for them, prioritize them and present the points starting from the primary, then secondary and so all. If from the primary points itself executives get all the idea, then they will happy with your presentation and you will become trustworthy.
Think about the Long Term not Short-Term • Think and research about the next challenges and talk about it. • Executive are not interested in today’s problems, they are interested in coming market shift, new innovations, new customers and revenue generation. • If your idea is excellent, then definitely you will win their trust.
Present Idea with the Vision of Better Future • Don’t talk about idea generation, how it came, investment required for implementing it. Talk about the benefits after implementing it. • Keep the vision of company in mind and its advanced and better future. Cost is the secondary thing to the innovative idea.
Story-telling is better than data driven insights • Data driven insights and making decisions is not the successful metric for project management. • Some projects are failed by taking the support of data driven insights. • Executives prefer customer stories, quotes from channel partners and competitor moves. Present the scenario with lots of stories, and then come to data to back it up.
Don’t be Fearful of Executives • During presenting yourself don’t be fearful of executives, present in the confidence way. Don’t project your lack of confidence and talent. • The executive wants talented people to lead the organization to achieve the vision.
Executives have more power, more responsibility, confidential information, project milestone, organization goal, team members and investment. • Present the effective project proposal, help them to fulfill responsibility and win their trust.