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How to exude confidence polish and poise of executive presence

Achieve Executive Presence

The secret to exuding the confidence, polish and poise imagined with executive presence.

One Step for Success

Success today does not equate to success tomorrow. If you want your career to grow, consider this one thing.

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Your Reputation Preceeds You

Your reputation precedes you. Do you know what yours says? Catch a clue of what others say about you.

One Skill Builds Trust

Reinforce social bonding and build trust with this one simple, but meaningful skill.

Stop oversharing and start influencing. Learn to say more and speak less

Say More. Speak Less.

The seven most dreaded words at the beginning of every meeting are, 'Today we are here to talk about.'

The Right Fit

Accountability partners can help us success at accomplishing our goals. How to find the right fit.

Make It Work

You are 65% likely to complete a goal if you tell someone else you're committing to doing it.

Feedback can make us feel vulnerable, offended and defensive, yet it holds the key to our professional growth.

When Feedback Hurts

Feedback can make us feel vulnerable, offended and defensive, yet it holds the key to our professional growth.

Why are we so willing to embrace the pain and discomfort of strengthening our bodies but fight against the pain and discomfort of strengthening our influence?

Embracing Discomfort

Why are we so willing to embrace the discomfort to strengthen our bodies but fight against the discomfort to strengthen our influence?

Keep the Momentum

Keep the momentum to raise your communication skills to the next level.

3 Ways to Captivate Audiences and Listeners with Creative Stories

Captivate with Stories

Stories are a powerful way to influence action. These three steps will capture your listener's attention and keep them engaged.

Ditch Meeting Madness

Did you know that 67% of employees agree that meetings are too long? And yet, leaders are doing nothing about it.

Clear Calls to Action

Want to close more sales or increase productivity? Learn to communicate clear calls to action that compel your listener to act.

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Discipline Creates Freedom

43% of our actions are habit. Great leaders have one thing in common: personal discipline to practice new habits and skills.

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Identify The Why

Employee believe 71% of meetings are considered unproductive. Find their 'why' and they'll find value in what you have to say.

Actions Speak Louder

We are in a crisis of leadership where trust and respect between leaders and employees grow. Don't let feelings be your guide. Find out why.

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Goals Require Accountability

We are 95% more likely to reach our goal when we enlist the help of an accountability partner. Why do we fight the need for help?

Technical Blunders Cost

We are well beyond the grace period for people to forgive our technical blunders. Why do virtual employees continue to make them?

Stop Talking. Start Acting.

People observe what leaders do versus what they say, especially when there is perceived hypocrisy. Start acting your expectations.

Accountability requires intentionality if you want employees to deliver

Hybrid Team Intentionality

Today's working world requires intentionality. If you want employees to consistently deliver, you must hold them consistently accountable.

Show Up Consistently

In a virtual environment, listeners only see what we are willing to show them. If you want to earn trust, consistency is key!

Earn Trust with Consistency

To earn trust, your personal brand must be reliable, consistent and dependable. When inconsistencies occur, people can't trust you.

Successful Hybrid Meetings

Without clear guidelines, hybrid meetings are doomed to fail. Here are three ways to ensure yours isn't one of them.

Interact with Visual Aids

Stop competing with visual aids for attention. To earn and keep attention, the relationship you need is with your listener, not your slide deck.

3 Steps to Engage, Connect and Inspire Listeners with Storytelling

Impact & Influence Listeners

Three steps to storytelling to improve memorability and message strength while creating a connection between you and your listeners.

Overcome Overwhelm

Manage the overwhelm of endless commitments to unrealistic deadlines, tasks and meeting madness before it affects your brand.

Influence Remote Employees

How to create an environment where trust and respect flourish, whether employees are in-person, hybrid or virtual.

Ask for help from an accounability partner to reach your goals

Be Memorable

You want to be remembered for the right reasons. Solicit feedback and seek the help of an accountability partner in these three steps.

Motivate action by communicating with brevity.

Impact with Brevity

If you want to motivate action, be brief. Clear, effective and engaging conversations require brevity so ideas easily remembered.

Break bad virtual workplace habits before returning to in person work.

Break Bad Hybrid Habits

Working from home has left us all with very bad habits. Before you return to work in person, it is time to polish your persona.

Leading Hybrid Teams

Establish clear communication channels to ensure collaboration and inclusivity among hybrid team members.

How to crush your hybrid meetings and be the best host!

Crush Hybrid Meetings

Hybrid meetings aren't easy. As the host, you must engage, impact and influence listeners whether in person or remote. Here's how.

How to keep listeners engaged in back-to-back virtual meetings.

Zoom Fatigue is Real

Zoom fatigue is real. When you are faced with back-to-back virtual meetings, here are three ways to maintain your level of influence.

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20 Leadership Lessons

The 20 lessons learned after 20 years of leadership I remember each and every day.

Managing Your Personal Brand

How you show up daily shapes your personal brand. Enhance your brand in four easy steps.

Influence with Active Listening

Good listening is much more than being silent while the other person talks.

Feedback: Not a Four-Letter Word

It is normal to feel defensive when hearing feedback; but it is key to building trust.

Earn Trust and Influence

Over promising compromises the trust people have in you and your word.

The 7 Do’s and Don’ts to Building Trust

What we've learned about eye contact is wrong. Eye connection is key to building trust and credibility. Here's how.

Leaders must acknowledge the impact their words have on others. If you want your words to stick, consider these three steps.

Make Your Words Stick

Leaders must acknowledge the impact their words have on others. Make your words stick.

Practice makes permanent, so what you practice matters.

Practice Make Habits Stick

Practice makes permanent, so what you practice matters. Here are four keys to reinforce what you’re doing and why.

Host Hybrid Meetings Like a Pro

Ensure attendees trust your hybrid meetings are a productive and valuable use of their time with these 10 easy steps.

Demonstrate Executive Presence

Every professional who exhibits executive presence has chosen to become a better communicator at some point in their career.

Improve Your Game

You will never improve without practice, but it requires being conscious of what you can practice during every interaction.

Three ways for professionals to grow your influence and show up consistently in an ever-changing hybrid workplace

Hybrid Workplace Influence

Three ways to grow your influence by showing up consistently in an ever-changing hybrid workplace.

Think Before You Act!

How leaders can avoid the embarrassing foot-in-mouth moments that challenge their personal brand and cost them their reputation.

Great leaders who demand success continually develop their sales professionals and commit to doing the same themselves.

Coaching Sales Professionals

Great leaders who demand success continually develop their sales professionals and commit to doing the same themselves.

Five techniques to guarantee the hybrid meetings you lead are interactive, engaging and valuable without contributing to Zoom fatigue.

The Cost of Zoom Fatigue

Five techniques to guarantee the meetings you lead are interactive, engaging and valuable to everyone who took the time to attend.

Spare your video victims from their ongoing fear by changing these frightful ten habits by this Halloween.

10 Scary Zoom Habits to Stop by Halloween

Spare your video victims from their ongoing fear by changing these frightful ten habits by this Halloween.

When listeners are consistently distracted during meetings and conversations, you need to ask yourself why.

Consistently Earn Influence

When listeners are consistently distracted during meetings and conversations, you need to ask yourself why.

Teams who turn on their cameras during virtual calls regularly feel 32% more connected and build stronger interpersonal trust.

Turn On Cameras to Turn Up Influence

Teams who turn on their cameras during virtual calls regularly feel 32% more connected and build stronger interpersonal trust.

individuals actively engaging in personal development are 45% more likely to earn higher salaries over their careers.

Invest in Your Development

Individuals actively engaging in personal development are 45% more likely to earn higher salaries over their careers.

You’ll never know if you have earned their business if you fail to ask for the sale.

Want the Sale? Ask for It!

You’ll never know if you have earned their business if you fail to ask for the sale.

If you only follow through when you need something and don’t respond the same way to others, you jeopardize your reputation and credibility.

4 Actions to Follow Through

If you only follow through when you need something and don’t respond the same way to others, you jeopardize your reputation and credibility.

Accountability is key to changing habits and reaching goals.

Development Accountability

Don't tackle new goals with old, unsuccessful habits. Set yourself up for success with five steps to ultimate accountability.

Adapt your message in two minutes to become more influential in your conversations.

Adapt in 2 Minutes

Adapt your message in only two minutes so you build trust, credbility and connect with listeners in an influential way.

Take the 30-day challenge today to ensure you consistently have influence and impact in virtual environments.

30-Day Virtual Challenge

There are three action steps you can take today to ensure you consistently have influence and impact in virtual environments.

Surround yourself with the right people, thoughts, and resources daily to steer you past negativity and self-doubt to enhance your influence.

Condition Yourself to Win

Surround yourself with the right people, thoughts, and resources daily to steer you past negativity and self-doubt to enhance your influence.

Zoom fatigue is real, but it’s not inevitable. Leaders, your decisions can help!

Long Meetings = Zoom Fatigue

Zoom fatigue is real, but not inevitable. Leaders, your decisions can help! Create a virtual environment that’s energizing, and sustainable.

Probably the biggest, or one of the biggest "a-ha," was the brevity and being in sales. We lack the brevity.

Brevity in Sales

The biggest "a-ha," is brevity and being in sales. That's one thing that we all have in common right now. We get so excited, and we're so passionate about our product, our services and our industry that we forget that not everyone we talk to is as excited as we...

Influencing Through a Tile

NOTE: the power of technology allowed my client and I to record this video while each of us were sitting in different locations. Drop me a note to share what you will do THIS MONTH to hold yourself accountable. Tag me on my Facebook page. If you...

To ensure you have consistent influence now more than ever, we need to be more self-aware of our virtual presence.

Presence In Virtual Settings

To ensure you have consistent influence now more than ever, we need to be more self-aware of our virtual presence.

Purposeful gestures create a visual around your words, which increases learner retention, credibility, and impact.

Virtual Distractions

Have you ever wondered what to do with these? Suddenly, we turn on our webcams, and it no longer matters what distractions we make. It’s a question our clients frequently ask, “How do I gesture through a box?” 1st, you need the proper setup. Position your camera or...

When you’re consistent, you eliminate doubt in your listener’s mind. Consistency equals authenticity, which equals trust.

Consistency On Camera

When you’re consistent, you eliminate doubt in your listener’s mind. Consistency equals authenticity, which equals trust.

Mastering the Skill of Influence Through Video

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When you commit to the action steps, you're ready to identify what you're willing to do to ensure that your influence improves every 30 days.

Commit To Your Goal

When you commit to the action steps, you're ready to identify what you're willing to do to ensure that your influence improves every 30 days.

How We Can Help Your Teams Influence Through a Virtual Environment

3 Mistakes that Cost You Your Credibility

Credibility isn’t built overnight, but it can be lost in an instant.

6 Tips for Influential Meetings and Engaged Attendees

Drop me a note to share what you will do THIS MONTH to facilitate meetings that have influence. Tag me on my Facebook page. If you missed one of Stacey’s previous blogs or tips, visit her online. What Achievers Read Atomic Habits: An Easy...

4 Steps to Taking the Pressure Off of New Year’s Resolutions

Drop me a note to share what you will do THIS MONTH to create, edit, and commit to your 2020 action steps. Tag me on my Facebook page. If you missed one of Stacey’s previous blogs or tips, visit her online. What Achievers Listen To 10...

5 Ways to Retain Your Customer’s Business

Drop me a note to share what you will do THIS MONTH to apply these five steps for retaining your customers. Tag me on my Facebook page. If you missed one of Stacey’s previous blogs or tips, visit her online. What Achievers Read...

3 Words Influential Leaders Avoid

Drop me a note to share what you will do THIS WEEK to avoid these three words. Tag me on my Facebook page. If you missed one of Stacey’s previous blogs or tips, visit her online. What Achievers Read The Intention Imperative: 3...

Actions to Successfully Transition from Peer to Boss

In a perfect world, promotions would come with congratulations from new employees ready to follow your every decision. Previous peers would believe that you were the obvious choice for the leadership role you've acquired. Being promoted from a position of equality...

Communication Mistakes We Cluelessly Make

How we think we are perceived is not always reality. Many professionals believe they're doing a great job selling themselves, but they fail to acknowledge the mistakes that erode their credibility. People's perception isn't based on who we are, but rather their...

The Secret to Overcoming your Resistance to Goals

If you want to overcome your resistance to goals, finding an accountability partner is crucial. It's harder to make excuses when someone else we respect is involved. Then, establish a regular meeting held during the same time each week or month. Discuss your...

4 Steps to Ensure Follow Through

Some leaders seem to think that because they are in a role of leadership, they can evade the reputation of doing what they want to do rather than showing respect by following through. Leaders set the tone of the company. They don't get a free pass because of who...

Bad Behaviors Threatening Your Influence

Drop me a note to share the action steps you and your team will take this month to stop the ineffective behaviors you may have that is disrupting your influence. Tag me on my Facebook page. If you missed one of Stacey’s previous blogs or tips, visit her...

4 Steps to Avoid the Superficial Apology

Drop me a note to share the action steps you will commit to this month to increase your awareness of how you come across rather than what you believe to be true. Tag me on my Facebook page. If you missed one of Stacey’s previous blogs or tips, visit her...

How To’s For Communicating Confidence

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3 Best Practices For Projecting Your Voice To Be Heard

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Put Down the Phone and Start Influencing

Drop me a note to share the action steps you and your team will take this month to prevent the temptation of technical distractions. Tag me on my Facebook page. If you missed one of Stacey’s previous blogs or tips, visit her online. What Achievers Read The...

Fast Company- 5 Mistakes People Make When They (Try to) Apologize

Five Tactics for Retaining Top Talent and Preventing Employee Turnover

Drop me a note to share the action steps you and your team will take this month to prevent turnover. Tag me on my Facebook page. If you missed one of Stacey’s previous blogs or tips, visit her online. What Achievers...

Four Steps Sales Leaders Can Take to Influence Sales Team Success

Drop me a note to share the action steps you and your team are taking this month to close more deals and increase numbers. Tag me on my Facebook page. If you missed one of Stacey’s previous blogs or tips, visit her online. What achievers...

Using Webcam Technology to Increase Your Influence

Drop me a note to share the action steps you are willing to commit to THIS WEEK to increase your webcam use. Tag me on my Facebook page. If you missed one of Stacey’s previous blogs or tips, visit her online. What Achievers...

3 Actions for Leaders to Earn Employee Trust

Drop me a note to share the action steps you are willing to commit to THIS WEEK to check-in on how trustworthy you REALLY are. Tag me on my Facebook page. If you missed one of Stacey’s previous blogs or tips, visit her online. Check out...

Did You Know…

…we also deliver keynotes for conferences and events? Are you looking to increase awareness, as well as provide practical and immediate how-to's for growing both yourself and/or your team’s influence? This is our sweet spot. We present to sales, leadership...

3 Action Steps to Push Through Your Own Resistance

Drop me a note to share the action steps you will commit to this month to push through your resistance. Tag me on my Facebook page. If you missed one of Stacey’s previous blogs or tips, visit her online. What Achievers Read: The...

The Greater the Outcome, The Greater the Demand on Practice: 4 Accountability Challenges

Drop me a note to share the action steps you will commit to this month to practice your influence skills. Tag me on my Facebook page. If you missed one of Stacey’s previous blogs or tips, visit her online. What achievers listen...

Focus Outward Rather Than Inward 4 Steps to Adapting to Your Listeners Why

Drop me a note to share the action steps you will commit to this month to adapt your message on the fly to resonate with what’s important to your listener. Tag me on my Facebook page. If you missed one of Stacey’s previous blogs or tips, visit her...

How Influential Are You, Really? 4 Steps to Increase Your Self-Awareness

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3 Steps to Master the Art of Selling

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3 Steps to Master Storytelling

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We’re Celebrating 16 Years in Business!

Stacey Hanke Inc. is celebrating 16 YEARS in business! A huge thank you to my talented team and all of the outstanding clients who partner with us! Please enjoy my interview to hear about our 16 year adventure and what we have planned for the future!

The Boring Leading the Boring – 4 Actions to Lead Meetings with Influence

Drop me a note to share the action steps you will commit to this month to make sure the meetings you lead drive influence. Tag me on my Facebook page. If you missed one of Stacey’s previous blogs or tips, visit her online. Download the full report - 5 Risks to...

You May Not be as Influential as You Think You Are if…Others Don’t Respond to Your Text and Email Messages

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3 Steps to Building Your Influence on Social Media

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Are you REALLY Influential? 3 Consistent Steps TRUE Leaders Take Who Have Influence

Drop me a note to share the action steps you will commit to this month to build your influence Monday to Monday®. Tag me on my Facebook page. If you missed one of Stacey’s previous blogs or tips, visit her online. Please enjoy a complimentary chapter of my latest...

3 Steps to Actively Listen to Increase Your Influence

3 Steps to Actively Listen to Increase Your Influence Drop me a note to share the action steps you will commit to this month to make sure you’re NOT just listening but ACTIVELY listening. Tag me on my Facebook page. If you missed one of Stacey’s previous...

Interrupting…Whose Fault Is It? 5 Actions to Eliminate Interruptions

Most people believe they get interrupted because that is simply how the interrupting person behaves. In reality, the blame more often lies with the speaker rather than the interrupter. Your listeners may be interrupting you because you take too long to get to the...