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What is presence?

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In a study of the way entrepreneurs make pitches to potential investors and the investors' responses, the strongest predictors of who got the money were not the credentials or pitch, but rather the traits of confidence, comfort level, and passionate enthusiasm.  Presence is manifested in 2 ways, when we communicate passion, confidence, and comfortable enthusiasm and through synchrony -- an alignment of emotions, thoughts, physical, and facial expressions.  Our body language communicates these emotions: anger fear, disgust, happiness, sadness, surprise, contempt, shame, and pride.  

Presence comes and goes.  It emerges when we feel powerful.  We can't be fully engaged in an interaction when we are busy second-guessing ourselves and attending to the hamster wheel in our heads, the jumbled frentic, self-doubting analysis of what we think is happening in the room.

Describe a situation where you believed and owned your story.    When were you acting in a way that felt right and natural?   Can you repeat that as a leader?

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