How to sound more senior, articulate, and more confident #fyp #careertok #careeradvice #executivepresence #CapCut

There's two books that taught me more about talking to executives than any training that I've ever taken in my career. If you want to sound more senior, I would start with these. The first minute really taught me how to lead with the answer, which is exactly what executives need. They want for you to get to the point. It is a very quick read. And the thing that I found the most valuable from the first minute is this framework called BLUF. It's bottom line up front. So if you ramble, if you're a sequential communicator, so someone who says first this happens, then this happens, then this happens, then you get to the point, you're not communicating effectively with executives and you need to go read this book. And the second book is find out anything from anyone at any time, I'm looking at it on my desk. So the book is basically all about asking the right questions, but there's one strategy that changed the way that I worked with executives, completely super simple. So when a leader gives you a vague ask, the best thing to do is to say, I heard X, I'm going to focus on Y, is that right? And this gives them the opportunity to either confirm your understanding or correct what you're doing. And the moment that I started using this technique, I started coming across as more senior, as someone who was confident enough to confirm what they heard and ask if the next steps were the right steps, instead of being the person who assumed that they had the right take away and then walked out of the room and went completely off track. So my name is Ashley. I'm an executive coach and I help smart people get to where they want to be in their careers and quite honestly for me, it's the director level and above. I also have a weekly newsletter that's unsubscribed and you can subscribe for free at the link in my bio.