Building Your Professional Presence

Author: Annette Nellen

Your professional presence affects how colleagues, subordinates, superiors, clients, and potential clients react to you, respect you, trust you, and respond to you. Leadership is enhanced by professional presence. This on-demand course reviews skills that enhance one’s professional presence and offers tips for building that presence.

Publication Date: March 2018

Designed For
Those seeking to enhance personal and professional skills and develop a plan for improvement to help advance their leadership skills, improve relationships with clients and others, and increase confidence.

Topics Covered

• Relevance of professional presence
• Defining professional presence
• Assessing your professional presence
• Improving your professional presence
• to develop a plan for building your professional presence

Learning Objectives

• Identify skills and traits that enhance professional presence
• Recognize how to create a plan for enhancing your professional presence
• Identify how personalized leadership is characterized
• Differentiate intrapersonal and interpersonal skills
• Recognize which questions are most appropriate to ask yourself to assess your strengths and weaknesses
• Identify how to employ the A-B-C rating system
• Recognize how to utilize the "Wall Street Journal" test
• Describe the "pushing your chair" analogy
• Identify soft skills
• Recognize the professional competencies listed by your professional organization
• Differentiate your professional presence with regard to interactions with younger generations
• Identify how to best define long-term goals

Level
Basic

Instructional Method
Self-Study

NASBA Field of Study
Personal Development (2 hours)

Program Prerequisites
None

Advance Preparation
None