Building presence in the workplace involves strategic career thinking, improving influence, enhancing meeting effectiveness, and mastering networking skills. In this session, we’ll share research-based career tips to help you realise your potential within your current role and build the foundation for future success, from addressing impact and influence to understanding organisational culture and your boss’s priorities.
Led by leadership expert Dr Malcolm McGregor, the session will cover:
Presence and Authority
- Do men and women communicate in different ways – according to the research
- Ensuring your voice is heard in meetings
Your Network
- The importance of being a strong self-advocate
- How to be strategic with your networking and take ownership of your career
Your Influence
- What it is and why it matters
- Some potent influencing skills to master
This virtual event is free to Full and Directors’ Circle members. It will also include an opportunity for Q&A and sharing experiences with other members of our network, under Chatham House rule.
Speakers
Dr Malcolm McGregor
Head of Leadership Development, WB Directors
Malcolm’s background is in UK food retailing, where he worked for 10 years, before leaving to take up a role as an international leadership consultant that has spanned twenty-five years. Working across multiple sectors and diverse organisations, Malcolm specialises in executive coaching; team and Board facilitation and the design and delivery of leadership programmes.Malcolm’s passion is on helping individuals and teams deliver their maximum impact for both organisational and career success. As a result, he invests significant time in academic institutions to ensure the latest evidence-based research is used to inform his practice.
Malcolm has spent 10 years as an associate and Ambassador with WB Directors, delivering their flagship C-Suite leadership programme. He currently lives in Edinburgh and is a keen walker, swimmer and cyclist. In his spare time he enjoys his garden and being an active singer with the Gilbert and Sullivan chorus.