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3 Ways to Sidestep Career Blocking Branding Moves - EP085

lundi 8 août 2022 • Duration 15:11

What projects do you want to be known for?

Do you want to be known as a leader or the go-to name for your dream project?

Are you sure about what you’re projecting when it comes to your personal brand?

It can be challenging to stay focused on who we are, so we project the right things in our personal brand while working on projects, paying bills, and raising our families.

But if you don't take charge of evaluating and solidifying your brand, who will?

And if you're not taking the time to check in on your personal brand, it can lead to a significant gap in how others perceive you and how you see yourself as a professional.

So how can you evolve your brand to ensure it aligns with where you want to go next?

On this episode of Career Confessions, I'm sharing two topics that have recently been a recurring theme in my coaching practice. I'm also sharing some personal insight into how something I visualized for over a year came to be and how I intentionally released my emotions about the end of one big project before beginning a new one.

I'll walk you through some insider information I shared with my group coaching clients and some advice I gave a private client about why you must advocate for yourself in your career and how you can do so in a way that feels organic to you.

Listen in as I share the 3 things you must continually evaluate and reevaluate for limiting factors in your brand. Plus, I offer some homework for my listeners to help you make sure your brand aligns with where you want to go next.

I have one private coaching spot open, and I'd love to take you to the finish line! But the only way to work with me is to apply—so fill out the form NOW!

Key Takeaways

Why it’s vital to release emotional baggage to keep it from coming along on your career journey

2 reasons why it’s so hard to advocate for yourself at work

How to share your wins so it doesn’t feel like bragging

Why flexing your problem-solving nature is not just your win, but a victory for the whole team

What things to look at when auditing your brand to be sure it aligns with your goals

How taking the time to get honest about where you are gives you the clarity to toward the right opportunities

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3 Tips to Successfully Manage a High-Powered Career and a Family—with Richard Burke - EP076

lundi 25 avril 2022 • Duration 26:38

Managing a high-powered career while raising a family and maintaining a happy, healthy marriage can be difficult. Usually, the end of the workday doesn’t leave much of you left for your family.

So, how can you successfully leave work at work, and switch gears so you can be present for your family?

Richard Burke is a Certified Professional Coach, Experienced business consultant, Educator/Professor, and Digital Marketing Expert. He’s spent his career in leadership roles, including 10 years as President of a $25 million eCommerce company and five years as Vice President of eCommerce at a Fortune 500 Company. He’s also been married for almost 40 years and successfully raised three children.

So how did he do it all, and do it all well?

On this episode of Career Confessions, Richard sits down with me to explain how he successfully put his wife and family first while navigating a highly influential career. He shares the 2 keywords you need to focus on to be successful in any relationship and 3 tips for successfully managing a high-powered career while being sure your real world doesn’t crumble around you.

Richard discusses his family first, work second philosophy and how having only one schedule can help you give everything that’s important to you the proper priority. We discuss how he managed his decision-making process for taking the next step and grabbing the next opportunity.

Now, Richard is coaching people with transition journeys, whether that be Veterans transitioning out of military service, recent college graduates, or executives focused on growing their careers and their businesses the right way while maintaining a successful personal life.

Listen in for insight on ways you can look at things through a different lens by following Richard’s advice for a successful work-life journey so you can feel reach your full career potential while living life on the terms you want.

Key Takeaways

Richard shares his family first, work second philosophy

How to be present and listen for a successful relationship

How you can be effective at work by being effective at home

Richard shares the date night tradition that led to a happy marriage, and a high-powered career

How combining your professional and personal schedule helps you give everything the proper priority

How successful leaders raise their team up by getting out of the way

The key to taking in as much knowledge as you can through observing the leaders you work for

How Richard’s love for sharing knowledge led him to his coaching journey

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How to Resolve Conflict Through Clarity - EP075

lundi 18 avril 2022 • Duration 14:04

How do you deal with misunderstandings?

Do you find yourself wishing you would have said something or worse, wishing you had said something else?

Do you shut down, zone out, and reach for the ice cream instead of moving through it and forward?

Sometimes a conversation makes us feel like our judgment is being questioned. Or maybe we’re having a discussion where we feel like we’re not being listened to, heard, or (my biggest pet peeve), feeling like we’re being dismissed.

We all have those triggers when we’re communicating with others that just seem to get under our skin and hang on long after we’ve said goodbye.

Sometimes, we try and brush the situation under the rug, thinking it’s best to just move on. But that technique for dealing with conflict can leave you feeling exhausted, reaching for the remote to watch something or mindlessly scrolling to zone out and put off work.

Conflict is a natural part of human relationships, but unresolved conflict can damage our relationships, leave us feeling powerless, and can even stunt our growth.

So, what can you do to deal with conflict in a healthy, empowered way?

Today on Career Confessions, I’ll walk you through the process I use for addressing conflict that allows me to understand both myself and the other person better, leaving us both feeling more empowered.

Listen to this episode to learn how to deal with conflict in a way that will help you show up better, and maybe even move you closer to becoming the person you want to be, in business and in life.

After you listen, don't forget to tag me to share your takeaways.

Key Takeaways

The first thing you should do when you find yourself in conflict

How to keep from jumping to conclusions that will only make the situation worse

Why putting our ego aside is the hardest thing to do

How gaining clarity can help you lead from a place of power and move forward

How being transparent in conflict can lead to stronger relationships
How determining your personal pet peeves can prepare you for handling future conflicts

The number one way to navigate conflict in a way that will leave you better not bitter

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How to Take Ownership of Your Actions - EP074

lundi 11 avril 2022 • Duration 12:03

Where does empowerment begin?

It begins with taking ownership of our thoughts, decisions, and actions.

Are you happy with the ownership you are taking in your personal and professional life?

If not, when was the last time you did an ownership checkup?

Maybe you’ve had the feeling for a while that something is impeding your progress. Perhaps you’ve been indulging in more ice cream than usual, skipping workouts for marathon Netflix sessions, or arguing with your partner more than you would like. We all have those times when we realize we’ve stopped putting our best foot forward.

But have you taken the time to figure out what is driving your unnecessary stress and causing you to present yourself in a way that isn’t making you proud?

There’s a difference between just making yourself feel better for the moment and doing the things that are going to help you do better.

Zoning out to your favorite episode of NCIS makes you feel good, but the good feeling of that kind of stress release is fleeting. And inside we know that.

We are the owners of everything that happens in our lives, but we cannot fix what we don’t know exists. Maybe it’s time to have an honest conversation with the CEO of your life by taking a hard look in the mirror.

Today on Career Confessions, I’m sharing the 2 questions I ask myself to make sure I’m leaning into the things that will assure I do better and not just feel better.

Listen in to hear how you can take ownership of your thoughts and actions by seeking out the support systems that will put you on a solid path to better long-term outcomes and a brighter future.

Key Takeaways

Who has the authority to change your life

Why there are no shortcut solutions to being better

The one word you need to speak out loud to help you hear what is going on inside

The secret to determining your own ‘work in progress’ areas

How to use challenges to help you visualize your true growth

How to invest in yourself to create a sustainable growth plan

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The Great Resignation—with Evan Sohn - EP073

jeudi 7 avril 2022 • Duration 27:23

Career Confessions EP73

The Great Resignation—with Evan Sohn

From remote to hybrid, part-time to freelance, life balance and skills-based, the way the world works is changing, and how we look for the next opportunity and discover top talent is changing with it.

It’s more than the great resignation, it’s the great revolution.

So, where do you turn when you need to hire? How can you connect with your next great position?

Evan Sohn has 25+ years of experience in eCommerce at Fortune 500 and successful start-up environments. He joined Recruiter.com in 2019 as the CEO. Recruiter.com is a destination site for all things talent acquisition and recruiting. At Recruiter.com, their mission is to empower businesses to recruit specialized talent faster with a virtual team of recruiters.

Evan says, “At Recruiter.com we're helping companies large and small with what is really their most precious asset.”

On this episode of Career Confessions, Evan joins me to explain why he isn’t calling the current economic trend of employee resignations the great resignation, he has a different name for it and what it means in terms of leveraging the plethora of opportunities available for those who are ready to make a move.

Evan discusses the new definition of a great employee and why in today’s climate if you aren't moving, you aren't growing. Plus, he walks us through why everybody is more valuable now than they were two years ago.

Listen in for insight on what employers need to be doing if they want to retain their best and brightest people and how employees can leverage their skills to get what they really want from their work life.

Key Takeaways

What most people don’t know about the great resignation

Evan offers his insight into the new definition of a great employee

How we’re transforming the way we look at work and what the new “benefits” are

Why employers who aren’t paying attention are losing on 2 different fronts

What’s behind the rise of the 80% employee

How employees can best leverage their skills to land where they want

The key to hiring and retaining the best and the brightest people in this economy

The one question Evan is asking to move the needle at Recruiter.com

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Strategizing Your Growing Pains - EP072

lundi 4 avril 2022 • Duration 16:50

Do you find that your career growth trajectory sometimes feels overwhelming? What do you do when you are face to face with a problem you don't see a solution for?

Over the years, I have learned reaching for new heights in your business or professional life means facing new obstacles. As you continue to scale the summit, eventually, you will find yourself face to face with a bigger challenge than you have ever met before. And the bigger you've grown, the bigger that problem is going to be. Especially with rapid growth.

Recently, I had a problem that kept me up for several nights in a row. It felt insurmountable. I wondered how I would solve it. But I also wondered why this particular thing was causing such a monster disruption. It felt like I was in a perfect storm. I knew there was a solution, but I was having trouble finding it on my own.

On this episode of Career Confessions, I share the story of how looking outside of myself, and beyond those in my day-to-day life helped me overcome that struggle in my upward growth trajectory. Plus, I share the best investment I’ve ever made in myself and my business.

Listen in as I discuss what those big problems really mean and the importance of investing in yourself so you can continue chasing your BIG dreams.

Key Takeaways

What do you do when you’re facing a problem you don’t see a solution to
How growing pains are a sign you are on the right path
Why growing your career is like changing your workout regime

What it takes to keep pushing through when your career challenges keep getting bigger

Why your husband isn’t the best sounding board for your business challenges
How I invested in myself to grow in my career and businesses
The secret support system behind most successful professionals

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How to Develop Your EQ to Elevate Your Career - EP071

jeudi 31 mars 2022 • Duration 14:26

What is the most important skill of a good leader?

Think back to the great bosses you have worked with. What qualities did they have that you wanted to emulate? Were they great at the technical aspects of their job? Did they have a good head for business or a high IQ? Or was it something more?

Being equipped with the hard skills necessary to perform your position is important. But other skills, like communication, collaboration, empathy, and adaptability, are equally valuable and should not be overlooked.

Those are soft skills. They include the personal qualities you bring into every boardroom. They are the traits that help you elevate individuals, empower teams effectively, and make a lasting impact.

We can always learn technical skills, and hard skills are ever evolving. Yet, a leader with a highly defined talent for communication or collaboration will always affect positive change in the work environment.

On this episode of Career Confessions, we’re going to take a closer look at what it takes to deep dive into improving your soft skills, so you catapult your career growth.

Let me be honest with you, it can be hard for us to recognize our own innate soft skill superpowers. And it can be even more difficult to determine the areas where we need improvement. Working on elevating yourself is not something that comes naturally.

Listen to learn how having the right coach in your corner can help you improve your technical skills while growing your soft skills so you can make a bigger impact.

Key Takeaways

Why technical skills will only take you so far in your career
How to become a leader that effectively solves problems

The key type of growth that pays the most dividends
Why soft skills are vital to workplace culture

Why it’s so hard to assess your personal soft skills
How to pave your own way by leaning into your unique interpersonal attributes

My strategy for unearthing your soft skill superpowers

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3 Steps to Taking on an Official Leadership Role - EP070

lundi 28 mars 2022 • Duration 12:11

Are you ready to transition from individual contributor to direct supervisor? If you want to be responsible for other people’s performance, you need to do some intentional preparation to take on a leadership role. On this episode of Career Confessions, I explain why it’s crucial to understand the audience who will advocate for your promotion, exploring how to connect with key decision-makers who may not realize you’re ready for direct reports.

I challenge you to ask for feedback from the right people to understand how you impact others, describing how to identify your leadership blind spots and develop a plan to improve.

Listen in for insight on what questions to ask if you’re already responsible for a team and learn how to make the leap to direct supervisor, elevating everyone who reports to you!

Key Takeaways  

How to transition from individual contributor to direct supervisor

How to equip your boss to advocate for you when challenged

What to do if key decision-makers don’t think you’re ready for a leadership role

Why it’s crucial to understand the audience you need to advocate for your promotion

How to leverage networking to minimize threats to your career growth

The value in learning the political dynamics of the next 2 levels of your organization

What it looks like to ask for feedback from the right people

Why diversity of thought is critical to building a high-performing team

How to identify your leadership blind spots and develop a plan to improve

What questions to ask if you’re already responsible for a team

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Growing Through the Pain and Staying True to Your Dreams - EP069

jeudi 24 mars 2022 • Duration 23:11

Do you want to grow your career, but feel stuck? Do you find yourself walking the line between being challenged and being overwhelmed?

Over the years, I’ve learned that if I want to be successful in business, I need to work to understand myself and grow as a person. If I am not in tune with my thoughts, feelings, and intentions, I cannot show up as my best self to serve others.

I have hit my fair share of bumps in the road, but I have never thought about quitting. Expanding myself out of my comfort zone keeps me performing at the highest level, but it’s never easy… and it shouldn’t be.

On this episode of Career Confessions, I share my thoughts on the growing pains I’ve experienced throughout my career and the obstacles I’ve faced as I’ve elevated myself.

Listen in as I discuss the importance of thinking ahead, investing in yourself, and staying true to your dreams.

Key Takeaways

How I decided I needed to invest in myself to grow more businesses

Why I started working with a coach to better understand myself and serve as many people as possible

The importance of thinking ahead in all aspects of business

Why I am a better person when I’m expanding outside of my comfort zone

The difference between overwhelming yourself and challenging yourself

Why I have never thought about quitting, but instead, always strive to improve

Why we should all invest in ourselves long before we see the return on investment

The importance of staying true to your dreams even as your life evolves

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