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Answer These 3 Questions to Help You Fast Track Your Visibility

This week I have been working with emerging leaders to build out their visibility action plans. Although they understand what visibility is now and why it is important, it can be hard for them to come up with the best actions that will help them make a bigger impact. Fear of failure, limiting beliefs, impostor syndrome and self-doubt gets in the way and holds them back. My role as their coach is to ask them questions to help them make…
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What Can Coaching Do for a Leader?

I saw this article from Lolly Daskal, author, and executive coach, called How Can an Executive Coach Make You a Great Leader? It reminded me that there are so many benefits for a leader who has a coach. I wanted to share some of my experience of having a coach and ideas for you to consider should you decide you might want to hire a coach.  The Beginning of My Coaching Experience I remember when I hired my first coach in 2012….
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What is Impostor Syndrome?

Are you familiar with the term impostor syndrome and what it means? Do you know how to recognize it in yourself or in others? The term impostor syndrome was first identified in 1978 by Dr. Pauline Clance and Dr. Suzanne Imes, whose research determined that this challenge impacts overachieving women who try to fit in and be perfect. The high achieving women attributed their success to mistakes, luck, or because someone hadn’t yet figured out that they didn’t belong where…
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What Choice Would You Make?

What would you do if someone stated in front of a room of people that you and/or your team didn’t do what was expected on something? Would you say something to defend yourself and your team or keep quiet? This is a situation that you may not have to face often, but when it happens, it is a bit of a defining moment. Most of the time it comes down to the level of confidence that a leader feels in…
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Is Being Nice a Good Thing or a Bad Thing?

Is there such a thing as being too nice? When you read that question, was your initial response a yes or a no? My parents taught me to treat others with kindness and encouraged my sister and me to avoid conflict with our friends. As adults in the workplace, it isn’t always possible to avoid conflict. There may be issues between departments, team members who don’t get along or managing the work of outside vendors that can lead to conflict….
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What Do You Need To Advance Your Career?

There are three ways to move up in an organization more quickly. You may take advantage of one of them or a combination of all three depending on what support you need.   The first is to take advantage of what your manager has to offer. For those who are working for a strong leader who develops their people, you will learn a lot and gain opportunities based on that relationship with them. They will support your growth and advocate for opportunities…
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Do You Want to Take Some Great Advice?

Whenever you need a little advice, it is great to have a someone to reach out to inspire or motivate you.  This article by Ruchika Tulshyan shares the career advice from eight Seattle women who have found success as they have risen to the executive levels.  Although each one shares a different view on what has made them successful, it is great to take the lessons that they have learned and reflect how they may apply in your own career.  Here…
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Are You Ready to Gear Up for the Success That You Want?

Today’s guest contributor post is by Mona Reiser.  Mona is a former Customer Service and Supply Chain Executive who resides in Atlanta.  She now helps other businesses to be set up for success and will be getting her real estate license soon. Though it’s not wise to measure your progress by someone else’s standards, it’s also the way the world works, more or less, in the practical order of things.  Think about what they’ll be judging, and gear up for…
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Can a Shift in Focus Really Make a Difference?

​Everyone is always looking for tips and tricks to move ahead in their career.  Why struggle to learn all these lessons on your own?  How can you leverage what someone else has learned and adapt it for yourself?  This article called the Top 10 Tips to Fast Track Your Career  by Talane Miedane offers some suggestions to leverage in your own career. I will highlight a few of them here: Strengthen Your Strengths – We used to focus so much on developing…
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Monday Morning Leadership Q & A – 10/2/17

Client Question: “How do you have the conversation with your manager about being ready for the next step in your career?”   These are important conversations to have so that everyone is on the same page.  Sharing your career plan with your manager is a key step to ensure that they are aligned with your next step.  This should ideally be a conversation that takes place when you are ready and not wait until your year-end review.  Sharing your career…
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