The Dealership War Room

Command Presence

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Description

Stop talking louder. Start leading stronger.

If your team only listens when you raise your voice, you don’t have leadership—you have volume.

In this episode of The Dealership War Room, Chris Hunsicker breaks down the lost art of Command Presence—how to shift a room, reset your culture, and create clarity before you say a single word.

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⚙️ What You’ll Learn:

• The difference between leading and managing energy

• Why your nervous system is your leadership system

• How to apply the C3 Model: Calm, Clear, Charged

• A simple 5-second Pre-Entrance Ritual to reset your state before every meeting

• How to use AI to rehearse presence and precision

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🧠 LEADERSHIP REFRAME:

“Your presence speaks before you do. And if your energy is leaking, your influence is, too.”

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⚔️ WAR ROOM CHALLENGE:

Before your next meeting:

✅ Get calm.

✅ Get clear.

✅ Get charged.

Then walk in like a leader who already owns the result.love the show? like, rate, review and share

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Get Chris Hunsicker’s free leadership tools, frameworks, and daily execution challenges — plus access to a private community of dealership leaders who are building unstoppable teams, mastering execution, and winning the inner game of leadership.

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Recommended Next Steps for New Listeners

  1. Pick your first battle. Scroll through past episodes and start with one that calls you out.
  2. Make it your morning fire ritual. Seven minutes before the chaos begins — listen, learn, lead.
  3. Bring your managers in. Share an episode and challenge them to take one daily action.
  4. Track your wins. Stack 30 days of execution and see how fast the culture shifts.

Share the War Room

If this episode sparked something for you, share it with another leader today. Copy the link, drop it in a text, and tell them:

“You need to hear this — it’s only 7 minutes, and it will make you better today.”

Remember:

You don’t need a better market.

You don’t need better leads.

You don’t even need better people.

You need to become a better leader.

Let’s go create some leadership fire.