Category 'Leadership Development'

A director can be substantively right and still lose the room. In the UAE, boardroom presence is not a neutral performance skill. It is read through hierarchy, deference, seniority, and the expectations of the setting. The same intervention that lands with force in a Western-style boardroom can misfire in a majlis-style meeting, and vice versa….

Here’s the thing about virtual meetings that nobody tells you: the camera strips away most of the signals we normally rely on. In person, you can feel the room shift when you walk in. Your posture, your stride, the way you settle into a chair: all of it speaks before you do. But on camera?…