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Projecting Situational Gravitas

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One way to project situational gravitas is to establish your credibility early in a relationship. In these situations, you want to figure out what about your background qualifies you to be speaking to your audience, and why they should bother listening to you. This is one of the 12 secrets to establishing gravitas.

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Demographic vs. Situational Gravitas

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Some people have gravitas — the ability to be taken seriously — while others do not. There are two kinds of gravitas. The first is demographic gravitas. Demographically based gravitas is determined by your DNA and luck. The second type of gravitas is what I call "situational gravitas.". Is this fair?

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Influence is Power

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It’s power through influence or gravitas. Gravitas refers to how seriously others take you and your ideas. Have you been in a situation where one person expresses an idea and everyone ignores it, but then a different person expresses the same idea and gets noticed? It is a function of your gravitas (or lack thereof).

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Being a Trusted Advisor

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This is how you develop the gravitas needed to be a trusted advisor. The key to developing gravitas more quickly is to recognize that some circumstances lend themselves to building trust, and thus gravitas, more quickly than others. The simplest situation to look for is helping someone when they are facing a major headache.

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Why Brilliant Ideas Aren’t Enough Copy

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The short answer is the person who got seen, heard, and acknowledged possessed gravitas — an executive presence where others take your ideas seriously merely because the words came from your mouth (instead of someone else’s). The best idea from a source with GRAVITAS does win. The first step to improving a situation is to notice it.

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How to Incorporate Other Case Interview Prep Resources with CaseInterview.com

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Of the 4 frameworks I use, I really only use 2 of them (business situation and profitability) about 80% of the time I’m using a standard framework at all. If the data points to an industry-wide problem, I would use the same business situation framework but start with the customer analysis first, and the competitor analysis 2nd.

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How to Incorporate Other Case Interview Prep Resources with CaseInterview.com

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Of the 4 frameworks I use, I really only use 2 of them (business situation and profitability) about 80% of the time I’m using a standard framework at all. If the data points to an industry-wide problem, I would use the same business situation framework but start with the customer analysis first, and the competitor analysis 2nd.