Ever feel like some people walk into a meeting and take over before you've finished your first sentence?

For steady and analytical personalities, highly dominant people can be frustrating to deal with. But what if the issue isn't their behaviour but that you're speaking different behavioural languages?

In this article, I explore how to stop getting walked over, understand what drives dominant personalities, and communicate with them in a way they actually respect.

The goal isn't to become the lion

It's to learn how to speak lion

There is a moment you might recognise when you speak in public. Let me paint a picture. You are in a meeting, a question comes your way, and suddenly the ground shifts. What you know does not disappear, but your access to it does. read more…

You’ve seen it happen before, I’m sure.

Someone walks into the room, shoulders back, voice steady and loud, speaking in decisive statements. Within minutes, the room leans in. People nod. Assumptions are made:

They must know what they’re talking about.
They’ve done the work.
They’re leadership material.

No one has checked the facts yet.

That invisible glow around them? That’s called the halo effect…