Confidence

How Can You Use the Right Questions to Change Your Visibility?

I can remember that I had questions in meetings, but I stayed quiet. I can see now that I wanted to avoid judgment, didn’t want to be wrong or waste other people’s time and I made the assumption that the attendees probably already knew the answer and I didn’t. I would hold on to my questions and ask someone after the meeting had ended. I was avoiding visibility. How often has this type of situation happened to you? What prevents…
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Are You Willing To Take No For An Answer?

It is about taking the opportunity to use your voice to make a difference and do something that others can’t imagine doing, but you can. Kris put together this great new program for her company. It was well thought out and although it would take a lot of work to implement, it would be a game changer. Kris was viewed as a risk taker, who could think outside of the box and wasn’t afraid to be bold. She had already…
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How Can You Build the Confidence and Visibility of Your Team?

One of the best ways that you can create visibility for your team members is for you to talk about their accomplishments in front of management and influencers. It helps to build their brand in the eyes of decision-makers. The team members may not be in meetings with these people yet so they can’t always advocate for themselves. Management will take the credibility that you have and give it to the team members that you lead because of what you tell them. …
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Do You Have All The Qualifications For The Job?

What percentage of the qualifications on a job description do you need to meet in order to apply for a job? In an article by Yvonne Chen, she shared a study from a Hewlett Packard internal report by Tara Sophia Mohr published in HBR.org that shows women will only apply for a role when they meet 100% of the requirements and men will apply when they have at least 60%. This is not an isolated circumstance that has happened at only one…
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Are You Limiting Yourself?

What are the beliefs that you have about yourself? Are they confident beliefs that push you outside of your comfort zone or do you have limiting beliefs that hold you back. These limitations can prevent you from moving forward in your life if you let them. Self-limiting beliefs are those things that you have been telling yourself for years. The story in your head says” I am not good enough.” or “I could get to the next level if I…
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Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary – 7/7/17

Welcome to the Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary! This week’s summary includes: How to stop saying yes, ways to bring out the best in others, building company confidence in a first time leader, how to be a future leader, getting everything done, 4th of July, know your worth, are you ready to reconnect? Articles/Ted Talks/Quotes: How to Stop Saying Yes When You Want to Say No @LollyDaskal http://on.inc.com/2mvEkjA Here are 17 smart ways to say no when you need…
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Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary – 6/23/17

Welcome to the Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary! This week’s summary includes: ways to be a respected leader, signs that you are doing better than you think, self-aware leaders, optimizing your communication, stop being a boss and be a leader, being a leader not a doer, don’t focus only on results, know who you are as a leader, building a strong executive team Articles/Ted Talks/Quotes 6 Key Ways to Become a Highly Respected Leader http://buff.ly/2kO4lGB By Andy Margison Master these skills…
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What Actions Will You Take to Improve Your Confidence?

When it comes to confidence, you have probably heard the phrase “fake it until you make it.” For some people that will work, but not for everyone. Confidence is a hard thing to shift. You may appear confident, but inside you may be feeling like an impostor and that you don’t have all the skills or capabilities that you need. The irony here is that you do have them, but your fear is trying to protect you from failing or…
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Are You Willing to Ask for What You Want?

With a daughter in college now, I have seen shifts in how things work from when I went to school. Colleges have far more focus on “field experiences and internships” now. My college roommate had an internship, but she was one of very few that had one. Now there are many more opportunities to get those experiences and the students are “highly encouraged” to do them. Part of it is to discern if they are going to be happy in…
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Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary – 4/28/17

Welcome to the Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary! This week’s summary includes: creating a personal breakthrough, assume positive intent in others, the power of networking, keys to success, ways to restore your confidence, managing organizational change from three perspectives: the impacted employee, the leader of the team and the organization itself Articles/Ted Talks/Quotes What You Must Do To Create A Personal Breakthrough by Tim Denning http://buff.ly/2oK3EQy A breakthrough is something that changes the course of your life going…
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Are You Ready For a Transformation?

I was watching a video by Dr. Benjamin Hardy, who is the author of many books including the one that I am reading now called 10x is Easier Than 2x. His book, that he co-authored with Dan Sullivan, is focused on ways to achieve more by doing less. In the video, he discussed some of the concepts from the book, he shared that, “courage is the starting point of all transformation.” If I look back on my own transformations throughout my career, that…
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How to Master Project and Program Visibility

If you have been following me for any of amount of time, you know that getting visibility for you and your team is important. However, there is also an opportunity for you to consider creating visibility for projects and programs too. Let me share an example: A client of mine shared the details of a discussion that he had with an executive leader about a project that would be kicking off soon. My client intended to walk through the proposed…
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Leading Through Uncertainty: Strategies to Develop Stronger Leaders

Change is a constant, especially when it comes to business. Companies and their leaders need to anticipate customer needs, focus on internal business changes, retain employees and grow the company at a rate that is acceptable by their management and shareholders. Navigating through all of this change isn’t easy for leaders today and it isn’t going away. The Current State This quote was shared from an article on hrexecutive.com, “increasingly, employers report that new hires lack the necessary skills for the job….
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