Why the person in the meeting doesn't sound like the person in the CV
One to one you are warm, funny and direct. A senior person joins the call and someone else arrives in your place.
In the corridor you explain the architecture in ninety seconds and the other person laughs at your aside about the vendor.
In the review, with the VP present, you read your points in a flat voice and answer only what you were asked. Colleagues file you as quiet, or hard work.
Natural delivery is whether the real person comes through in English.
Natural delivery is whether the real person comes through in English. Seniority in the audience should change the content of what you say. It should not change who appears to be saying it.
Warm and sharp one to one, smaller and flatter the moment a senior person joins. Colleagues quietly file the person as quiet, or as hard work.
The same person shows up whoever is in the room. Seniority in the audience changes the content, not the delivery.
The bill arrives somewhere else
Teams promote people they can picture in front of a customer. If the person the room meets is a smaller version of the one on the CV, the CV stops being believed, and the reason is never written down anywhere.
"Sometimes I'll just stay quiet, and then wait for the next discussion."
The first language question
With senior people in the room, does your first language personality change too?
Usually much less than it does in English. The size of that difference is informative, and it is what this dimension is scored against.
Scored, not described
Natural delivery, scored on the same 100 point scale
Natural delivery is scored on the same 100 point scale as the other four, in every session, using the same bands. This sample sits in the Emerging band.
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