UpSkill Talks – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Inclusivity is an essential part of leadership. 
But how do you ACTUALLY be inclusive in your day-to-day life, as a leader? 

In this episode, Michel shares 5 tips on how to help people feel included in social settings, particularly in conversations, to help them feel seen and heard. 

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In this episode, we discussed why you should set a THEME instead of a New Year's resolution to achieve your goals in 2024. 

Michel shares reflections on her word for 2023 -- clarity. Flora shares her theme for 2024. UpSkillers share their stories about persistence, designing life systems, and getting set up for success in four easy steps.

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• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
• Communication
• Soft Skills
• Senior Leadership Training

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In this episode, UpSkillers Michel, Flora, Mimi and Sylvia discuss the keys to creating and maintaining healthy, inclusive, organizational cultures. 

Topics covered include:

• Psychological safety 
• Netiquette: how we behave in hybrid and virtual situations
• People versus team versus outcome orientations
• Rewards, recognitions and evaluation programs
• Performance management

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• Inclusive Leadership
• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
• Communication
• Soft Skills
• Senior Leadership Training

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What is worse:  To be a great leader and assess yourself poorly? 

Or, to be a mediocre leader and assess yourself as “great”?

As leaders, we must have the skill to see and assess ourselves clearly and accurately, so that we may lead most effectively.

In today’s episode, Michel shares the story of an experiment where leaders were asked to assess themselves as leaders. While the results varied, the end result was very few assessed themselves accurately.

Just like looking through a cloudy lens, when we try to “see” ourselves through this blurred vision, we don’t see what’s really there. And as discussed in this episode, it’s better to uncover who you are intentionally, than to have your cover blown unintentionally.

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• Communication
• Soft Skills
• Senior Leadership Training

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As leaders, we are tasked with "showing up" with confidence to our stakeholders, employees and colleagues as well as in our personal lives. 

But how do we know what confidence should look like for everyone?

In one word, community.

In this final episode of the three-part series on confidence, Michel and Peter Walfall discuss the importance of having a community to help guide us to our most authentic selves as leaders. 

In a community, fresh ideas around confidence are safely presented to help us grow. As well, Peter and Michel discuss how new streams of members in a community keep us from getting locked in our own echo chambers. New people with fresh ideas, much like fresh water in a pool, keep our perspectives from growing stagnant and allow us a leaders to continuously grow.

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• Inclusive Leadership
• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
• Communication
• Soft Skills
• Senior Leadership Training

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Asking this question, what is the role of confidence for leaders, sometimes is a little "fuzzy" to answer.

In today's episode, Michel and Peter Walfall continue with part two of their conversation on confidence for leaders. Looking at the role confidence plays for leaders, very often we reach for the "off the shelf" strategies to lead with confidence.  

However, as Michel and Peter discuss in this episode, the role of confidence for leaders often requires  looking deeper within ourselves. And as we begin to look deeply at ourselves, with the assistance of supportive community, we can discover how we show up and lead with the most authentic confidence for our teams, employees and all around us.

If you have not done so, please take a moment and listen to Episode 4 - part one of this three-part conversation surrounding confidence with leaders.

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• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
• Communication
• Soft Skills
• Senior Leadership Training

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As leaders, we are always searching for the most effective tools to lead with confidence in an ever-changing world.

Today on Upskill Talks, Michel sits down with Peter Walfall, fellow UpSkiller in the UpSkill Community for a 3-part conversation on leading with confidence in this new world.

Peter and Michel begin this series by looking at how many of the strategies that once "rang true" for leaders to show up confidently have fallen apart. 

This dismantling has shaken the foundation of confidence for many leaders. As well, Michel and Peter share how vulnerability is emerging as one of the most important attributes for today's confident leaders.

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• Inclusive Leadership
• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
• Communication
• Soft Skills
• Senior Leadership Training

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As we have all seen, the pandemic and the social issues of the past 18 months have rewritten the rulebook for leaders.  

Now, more than ever, we need one another.

In this episode of Upskill Talks, Michel shares the story of Lucy, who was called out by her employees and felt her confidence shaken. To use her words, she simply felt, "dumb". But with these realizations come growth and renewed confidence, and this confidence is not only in our actions, but how we guide our employees to gain their own confidence.

As told through the lens of Michel's upbringing in Jamaica, it's clear that we simply can't go back to normal. And through community, we can grow as leaders and as fellow humans.

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With decades of combined leadership experience, team of coaches, facilitators and subject matter experts can help to UpSkill your organization.

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• Inclusive Leadership
• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
• Communication
• Soft Skills
• Senior Leadership Training

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As leaders, many individuals are counting on you.  Yes, your employees and colleagues, but equally as important, your partner and family.

In this episode, Michel shares the story of Sam and explores how some of us take our "mask" off at home while others put our "mask" on when we get home.  And it was the pandemic that blended these "separate" lives as we had to learn to become whole.

Empathy, for leaders, is such a necessary part of our toolkit. It allows us to get to know our employees better. But as discussed in this episode, the three kinds of empathy allow our employees, as well as our families to know US better.

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With decades of combined leadership experience, team of coaches, facilitators and subject matter experts can help to UpSkill your organization.

We offer corporate training, coaching, e-learning courses and consulting services for:

• Inclusive Leadership
• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
• Communication
• Soft Skills
• Senior Leadership Training

Email us: hello@theupskillcorporation.com

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In this inaugural episode of Upskill Talks, host Michel Shah shares the most transformative experience of her career that forever changed her professional trajectory.

Yes, as leaders, we are measured by our Results. But when we focus solely on the metrics and the measurements that determine success, we lose sight of the personal Stories that shape the human experience of our employees and team members.

As shared in this first episode of Upskill Talks, when we begin with the Stories (before we focus on the Results), the outcome is a team that strives for greater heights. Plus, we help the building of a caring, more meaningful relationship between us (as leaders) and the people who "show up" for us everyday.

At UpSkill, we are building a community of UpSkillers, learning and growing together.

Please listen, subscribe and share!

With decades of combined leadership experience, team of coaches, facilitators and subject matter experts can help to UpSkill your organization.

We offer corporate training, coaching, e-learning courses and consulting services for:

• Inclusive Leadership
• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
• Communication
• Soft Skills
• Senior Leadership Training

Email us: hello@theupskillcorporation.com

Learn more: www.upskillcommunity.com