HR Coffee Time29 Sep 2023

104 | How to improve your gravitas to make an impact throughout your HR career, with Antoinette Dale Henderson

Gravitas can help you make an impact throughout your HR career, but it can feel hard to define, and even harder to work out how to develop it. Antoinette Dale Henderson is on hand to help. Having made it her life’s work to decode the elements that contribute to gravitas and teach us how to improve our own personal gravitas, she shares some of her key insights and tips in this episode of HR Coffee Time, including:

Antoinette’s definition of gravitas, “The ability to command respect, get taken seriously, and get your voice heard. All while retaining your own authentic self.”
How gender impacts perception of gravitas.
The six components of Antoinette’s model, The Gravitas Wheel.
Internal components: self-awareness, expertise, authenticity
External components: presence, connection, projection
Sitting in the centre of the wheel: purpose
How to plan using OPRAHS to make sure you have maximum presence in a situation:
O: objective – what’s your objective?
P: people – which people will be there & what’s their objective?
R: role – what role am I playing?
A: attitude – what attitude do I need to have?
H: hear – what am I going to hear?
S: say – what am I going to say?
Increasing or decreasing your presence using body language, voice, eye contact and clothing

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