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Are You Missing Out on an Opportunity?

Using Your Influence… In addition to my book, The Visibility Factor Podcast is one of the ways that I use to influence leaders on leadership, visibility and using their voice. It is a medium to help me scale the message of visibility to more people. This week I published the 100th episode which is a big milestone! When I put together the top 10 episodes, one stood out to me. It was a solo episode called Mastering the Art of Influence….
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Managerial Alignment Makes All The Difference For Your Success

I have had several conversations this week on the importance of aligning with managers and stakeholders. It seems like common sense, but in the day to day of getting stuff done, it is something that may be forgotten. When I ask them about it, they usually think that their manager “probably” knows what they are doing, but they aren’t sure. It is important to always consider whether you have done it or need to do it. This is a type…
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How to Build Self-Trust as a Leader

I was just reading an article from the co-founder of Netflix, Marc Randolph, about the 25 year anniversary of the company. He shared that “they simply believed that there “had to be a better way” to rent movies but along the way, we ended up not just changing the way the world consumes content, but how that content is created.” He also mentioned that every single person told him in the beginning that what he wanted to create with Netflix “would never…
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The Five Things That Helped Me Grow as a Leader

Which leader in your life made a difference for you in your career? I can think of several throughout my career, although they may not have even known it. They didn’t see what they did or said as anything special. To them, they were just doing their job and what they thought was right for me.  If I had to narrow it down, I would say there were 5 key things that they did for me: Stretched me out of my…
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How Are You Building Your Influence?

I met with a new client the other day and he mentioned that he wanted to work on influence. I asked him to share more about what influence meant for him. He said, “I see influence as one of the more important things that you can do as a leader. I should use it with my team, my management, clients, and peers, but I don’t.” When I pressed him to share why, he said “I think it is fear. What…
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Want an Advantage? Use Influencers to Help Push Your Ideas

The most important thing when you have an idea is to get it implemented, right? Does it matter to you if you are the one to sell the idea or if someone else does it for you instead? It doesn’t mean that you are going to give your idea away or lose the credit for the idea. It just means that depending on the situation you are in, you may have to do things differently to move your idea forward.  You…
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Is It Important To Prepare When You Want To Sell Your Ideas?

Although it may seem like the right thing to do to run and share a new idea with everyone, you may want to consider being more strategic about the conversations.  This is especially true knowing that you really only have 7 seconds to make a good impression according to a Harvard Business School Study on Communications.  If you don’t make a good impression then you will need to meet with them 7 more times to reverse that initial first impression! …
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Monday Morning Leadership Q&A – 11/27/17

Client Question: “I would like to be a better influencer. What are the characteristics of good influencers?” Can you think of anyone that you work with who is good at influencing? What is it about them that makes them good at it? There are some characteristics that are pretty common across all of the people who are considered strong influencers. Here are a few of them: Credibility They are people that took risks, had many experiences and demonstrated past successes…
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Want To Be More Effective at Selling Your Ideas?

Yesterday’s post was focused on using assessments as a team and working together in a more productive way.   My friend Mona reminded me of the other ways that using these assessments can be helpful.  I will share a few of them: It is beneficial to know what the type is of an individual or members of the group prior to presenting to them.  You could most likely guess by how they act or speak about things.  But let’s just assume…
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Monday Morning Leadership Q&A – 6/5/17

Monday Morning Leadership

Client Question: “I am interested in moving to a different area of my organization. What are some steps that I should do to make this happen? The first step is to connect with some of the people who already work in that area. This is more of a knowledge exchange to find out about the area and share information about yourself. You can say that you are exploring multiple areas of the company to learn more about them. • Identify…
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