{"id":1478,"date":"2018-10-18T02:35:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T02:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.resourcezoneinternational.com\/?p=1478"},"modified":"2019-06-27T10:18:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T10:18:12","slug":"what-is-leadership-presence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.resourcezone.com.au\/?p=1478","title":{"rendered":"What is Leadership \u201cPresence\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While leadership can be characterised as being effective when a few very specific skills or competencies are demonstrated (for example: being goal-oriented, well-organized, and effective at communicating), a less tangible but important aspect that is often overlooked is having a sense of \u201cpresence\u201d as a leader. In this brief article we want to look at what it means to have presence.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

As a ministry grows larger not only must key leaders be broadly competent and manage well but they also need to have presence. In other words, they need to show high levels of confidence, be strong in their efforts to steer teams in the right direction and be able to bring people together for a common purpose or goal\u00a0\u2013 both within their own team and when it extends to other teams. This is what we mean by leadership presence because it\u2019s not just a shallow layer that a leader might \u201cwear\u201d (such as being well-dressed or talking in a louder or more confident tone) but something deeper that makes people want to pay attention and be happy to follow that individual. It therefore pays for every ministry to think about what this quality of presence really is and how it might be developed.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

In general, research suggests that most people say that a person has leadership presence when he or she is perceived to be authentic, is deemed to be competent, has natural influence, exudes confidence (even when only listening and not necessarily speaking), and is clear and decisive. Let\u2019s therefore look briefly at each of these characteristics:<\/p>\n