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DEVELOPING A STRONG SIGNATURE PRESENCE
The business arena has risks, opportunities, dangers, and dead-ends that can make any leader flinch. Not surprisingly, dealing with organizational change and dilemmas is not for the faint-hearted. Coaches are colleagues to executives at exactly those times when leaders may flinch, fight back, dig in, or react in an unpredictable manner. A coach is likely to show up in the executive’s office when the client is reacting on a visceral level, which is often not the most effective response to a dilemma.
Having signature presence is critical for coaches. A coach must bring her own presence to bear in order to be a contributing partner with her client. Otherwise the client’s interactional force field of dilemmas ...

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