This month’s coaching conversation is between Tom and Courtney, another executive coach. What traits, they wonder, do effective executives share? If rising leaders wanted to reverse engineer what it means to be executives, what would they put in the mix? The five qualities Tom and Courtney identify are: Resilience -- get over hurts and setbacks  Influence – build a natural reserve of strong relationships  Organization –  create lead-time and eliminate fire drills  Scope – maintain the highest altitude possible; resist the weeds Speed of Thought – exert alertness and be mentally nimble   At the end of this month’s commentary, Tom lists six books, each one different, but all leading towards personal growth and professional development. They are… Change Your Questions, Change Your Life The Confidence Code Crucial Conversations or Difficult Conversations EQ Applied Self-Esteem at Work The Four Agreements   Want a free PDF of these titles, including who might prefer which? Click here and put “6 Books” in the subject line. We’ll send you the PDF.   Want to win an hour of free coaching with Tom? Complete this short survey to be entered in a drawing. https://essentialcomm.com/survey/   To dig deeper into your own development, search the episode archive using these filters: Executive Presence Managing Yourself Relationship Building   Specific episodes relating to this one are: Executive Presence – Three Pillars “Don’t Take Anything Personally” Influence Shouldering the Burden of Leadership Speed of Thought   The entire free archive of Executive Coaching Tips is available at: http://essentialcomm.com/podcast/   Subscribe to the HTML version at: https://essentialcomm.com/subscribe/   Be in touch with Tom at: info@essentialcomm.com   Stay positive! Test negative! See you next month! All of us here at “The Look & Sound of Leadership” wish you grace in this new year.   COACHES: The Executive Coaching Special Interest Group sponsored by ICF Los Angeles will meet six times in 2021.  Icfla.org February 12 — 9:00 - 10:30 am Pacific April 9 — 9:00 - 10:30 am Pacific June 11 — 9:00 - 10:30 am Pacific July 9 — 9:00 - 10:30 am Pacific September 10 — 9:00 - 10:30 am Pacific November 12 — 9:00 - 10:30 am Pacific   You can learn about all the SIGs here. I’d love to see you there! Here’s a link to the first episode of season two of Against The Rules, the podcast by Michael Lewis: Don’t be Good – Be Great. Enjoy!