This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.

Executive presence gets described as something you either have or you do not. It is a set of specific behaviours, and every one of them can be named. Here are 324 tools to work on them one by one: 240 ready-to-use procedures, question lists, checklists and scripts, 78 models and methods, 5 services shown on screen and a working file.

Open a lecture, take the script, use it in the next room where you usually go quiet.

Why the vague version of this advice fails

People are told to be more confident, more strategic, more visible. None of that is actionable, so nothing changes, and the person concludes it is a personality problem. It usually is not. Nobody has shown them the list: which competencies senior credibility is assembled from, what happens in the body two seconds before they speak, what scale they are being read against in a high-stakes room, and why the same argument lands differently depending on who runs the meeting.

What changes after this course

You know which behaviours you are judged by and where you stand on each. You catch your reaction before it speaks for you. You understand how a high-stakes conversation is scored. Your message reaches people who were not in the room. You can run a meeting with senior participants and close it with decisions. And you can say no and keep your standing.

A note on the material

Two blocks are taught from the other side of the table. The assessed conversation is shown as an interviewer designs and scores it, so that you see the scale you are read against. Communication beyond the room is shown on internal company communication. The rest of the course speaks to you directly.

What is inside: 324 tools, counted lecture by lecture

You do not have to take this number on trust. Open any lecture and read its description: every tool inside is listed there by name.

• 39 downloadable resources: the lecture presentations plus a working file, the Senior Room Script and course transfer worksheet
• 240 ready-to-use tools inside the presentations:
• 79 step-by-step procedures and workflows: internal consulting, traffic light emotional regulation, elevator pitch, responding to interruptions
• 67 question lists and scripts: conditional negotiation scripts, ideal self coaching, discussion redirection script, constructive feedback scripts
• 41 checklists: meeting attendance, pre-decision preparation, effective message, bad news communication
• 35 templates and sample documents: colleague interest map, individual development plan, effective message, one-on-one meeting agenda
• 11 scorecards, rubrics and matrices: active listening competency, communication openness, stakeholder influence and interest, personal energy assessment
• 6 other working tools: resonant leadership reflection, developmental relationships reflection, effective employee behavior comparison
• 1 metric set
• 78 models and methods explained with examples: active listening, resonant leadership, Radical Candor, Goleman’s six leadership styles
• 5 services shown on screen: CliftonStrengths, VIA Character Strengths Survey, HIGH5, Workvivo and StressAssess

Where the tools are

• Start here (1 tool). The Senior Room Script worksheet.
• What presence is made of (3 sections, 41 tools). The competency map, integrity, relationships, learning, judgement and decisions.
• The internal layer (3 sections, 25 tools). What you feel before you speak, awareness, empathy, self-image and vision.
• The assessed conversation (2 sections, 47 tools). How you are read, scoring, bias and feedback.
• Communicating beyond the room (2 sections, 45 tools). Audiences, messages, channels, bad news and measurement.
• Holding a room (2 sections, 102 tools). Facilitation: preparation, running a session, closing, alignment and difficult rooms.
• Leading (2 sections, 74 tools). Style, motivation, inspiration, coaching and order.

Who is teaching

I am Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy, with 1,800,000+ course enrollments from 170,000 students, and the author of about 200 books on Amazon. I built the people system at Preply as it became a unicorn and worked at Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank across 20 years in HR. I hold PHRi, SHRM-CP and HCI sHRBP certifications and represent HRCI in Eastern Europe.

I remember my first training as a trainer. My throat went dry, my cheeks turned red, I could hear my own pulse, I lost words and my voice disappeared. Then came talks in front of an audience, at a conference with several hundred people, and online in English at international conferences. You cannot say you will ever be fully ready. And I once picked up a phrase from my own manager. At a group meeting a subordinate began to be rude to the general director, who reacted at once: "If you do not stop now, this is how it will all end." Nobody understood what exactly would end, and it sounded very strong. Later, as an HR director, I used the same phrase with people who came to me furious, and it worked like a cold shower.

How to use the course

Start with the first lecture and its Senior Room Script worksheet. Then take the competency map, and after it the block for the room you find hardest: the meeting you run, the conversation where you are assessed, or the message that has to travel. Section and lecture titles show how many tools are inside, and each lecture description lists them by name.

What is included

• 40 lectures across 15 sections, 20.5 hours
• 39 downloadable resources: lecture presentations and a worksheet
• 324 tools across the lessons, including 5 services shown on screen
• Lifetime access to all materials
• Active instructor support in the Q&A section
• A Udemy Certificate of Completion

Where to start

Name the room where you go quiet. Open the first lecture, fill in the Senior Room Script for the next meeting there and decide on the one thing you will say in the first ten minutes. Enrol now and start your first lesson today.