Influence & Impact for Leaders – Details, episodes & analysis

When we think of a confident leader, we might imagine someone who always knows the right thing to do straight away or who has all the answers.  And then we feel bad because we like to think things through before responding, or we don't always know the answer.   

Some of us can spend a fair bit of time negatively comparing ourselves to this fictional and seemingly perfect leader! That mental energy could be going somewhere far more productive so in this mini episode I want to unpick the myth that a good leader always has the answers. 

This is Influence & Impact for Leaders with Carla Miller, the podcast that helps leaders like you increase your impact and build a happy and high performing team. Each episode delivers focused, actionable insights you can implement immediately, to be better at your job without working harder. 

Stay in Touch: If you're tuning in on Apple Podcasts, click follow so you never miss an update. 

Spread the Love: On June 16th or 17th, share the podcast on social media or leave a review on Apple podcasts. Snap a screenshot and send it to hello@carlamiller.co.uk, and I'll send you an exclusive pack of my Influence & Impact affirmation cards as a thank you. 

Work with Carla: To chat about hiring Carla as your coach or to work with your team book a call or visit carlamiller.co.uk. 

Work can be a lot sometimes!  How often do you find yourself feeling overwhelmed by all the things you need to do and how much work it’s going to take to do them properly? It’s making me stressed just thinking about it!   

In this mini episode, I’m going to share with you a simple but truly effective way to dial back that overwhelm and make things simpler for yourself.   

This is Influence & Impact for Leaders with Carla Miller, the podcast that helps leaders like you increase your impact and build a happy and high performing team. Each episode delivers focused, actionable insights you can implement immediately, to be better at your job without working harder. 

Stay in Touch: If you're tuning in on Apple Podcasts, click follow so you never miss an update. 

Spread the Love: On June 16th or 17th, share the podcast on social media or leave a review on Apple podcasts. Snap a screenshot and send it to hello@carlamiller.co.uk, and I'll send you an exclusive pack of my Influence & Impact affirmation cards as a thank you. 

Work with Carla: To chat about hiring Carla as your coach or to work with your team book a call or visit carlamiller.co.uk. 

We all know we should be coaching our teams but it’s hard to know how to do that without going on a coaching for managers course.  Until now!   

In this week’s episode I interview Jude Sclater about her book ‘Think Like a Coach’ which is a wonderfully practical step by step guide that any manager can use to become a coach-like manager.  Jude simplifies coaching for us, defining it as giving someone your attention while they think out loud and emphasizes the importance of listening and asking questions 

We discuss… 

- Jude’s 3 principles to help you become more coach-like with your team 

- When to coach your team and when not to! 

- Jude’s ‘Two Step’ approach to get you coaching straight away 

- The number one step you can take to create psychological safety in your team 

- How to coach in 5 minutes or less 

- How to support a team member experiencing strong emotions  

My name’s Carla Miller, leadership coach, author and trainer. And this is the Influence & Impact podcast for women leaders, helping you confidently navigate the ups and downs of leadership and feel less alone on your journey as a leader.  In fortnightly episodes I share practical tools and insights from myself and my brilliant guests that will help you succeed in your career. 

FREE RESOURCE - How To Say No Challenge: 

If you struggle to say ‘no’ then this free 5 day challenge is for you.  You’ll receive a short email each day containing a short video taking you through the 5 steps of my How To Say No framework. We’ll get you happily saying no in just 5 days! 

Influence & Impact: 

Join the next cohort of Influence & Impact to learn how to tackle self-doubt, increase your impact and become brilliant at influencing.  It’s a small cohort working closely with me and includes 6 workshops and 2 peer coaching sessions. 

Be Bolder 

My Be Bolder 4 week confidence and assertiveness course will be running again in February.  In it we cover: 

⭐ Tackling imposter feelings and self-doubt 

⭐ Mastering your mindset 

⭐ Courageous conversations 

⭐ Speaking up  

Women Leading: 

My Women Leading community gives you the support and strategies you need to: 

This episode is inspired by the International Women’s Day 2022 theme #BreaktheBias and I’m talking about how men can be really powerful allies for gender equality in the workplace.   I would love you to share this episode with your male colleagues and the men in your life as well as listen to it yourself.

Men are so important to helping the women that they work with be recognised and valued at work.

 This episode is about encouraging this and sharing some practical ways men can support the women they work with.

Listen for:

• Why gender equality matters in the workplace
• The different stages of allyship
• What men can do as colleagues, managers and leaders to promote gender equality in their organisation
• Ways men can support women at home to positively impact their careers

You can get in touch with Carla about IWD or inclusion week talks at hello@carlamiller.co.uk

WORK WITH CARLA

As well as coaching women leaders to have more influence, make more impact and be kinder to themselves in my programme Influence & Impact, I also give keynote speeches and trainings to organisations wanting to develop women in leadership roles.

Get in touch to find out more or book a call with me.

Keynotes, training and coaching: https://www.carlamillertraining.com/employers

Influence & Impact: https://www.carlamillertraining.com/influence-impact

INFLUENTIAL LEADER MASTERCLASS

You're invited to my free masterclass - How To Be An Influential Leader without Self-Doubt Holding You Back!

Learn how to avoid the 3 big influencing mistakes that keep many female leaders feeling stuck and frustrated, the steps you can take to become a more influential leader within your organisation and what you can do to turn down the volume on your inner critic. 

Join the masterclass here: https://carlamiller.lpages.co/leader/

CONNECT WITH ME:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlamiller1/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisiscarlamiller/

Website: https://www.carlamillertraining.com/

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Have you discovered your purpose, passion and love for what you do? Do you feel connected to who you are and are you living aligned to your values?

Nicola Buckley calls this your fire and today she’s sharing her On Fire Leadership model to help you find your own fire. 

Nicola is a leadership coach and neuroscience expert. Over the last four years she has helped thousands of women globally to become clear and confident leaders, go for the promotion, and challenge the status quo, without sacrificing themselves and compromising family time.

We discuss:

• How to discover your values and start living by them
• Upgrading your beliefs and stories about yourself
• The importance of language and how you talk to yourself
• How to access your magic and embrace who you are

CONNECT WITH NICOLA

Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicola-buckley-strongher/

Female Leaders on Fire Podcast: 

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/female-leaders-on-fire/id1576857410

Visit Nicola’s website: https://nicolaskorko.com/

BE BOLDER

Increase your confidence and assertiveness at work in my new 4-week course for women.

Learn how to set healthy boundaries, say no more often, speak up more confidently in meetings, worry less about what others think of you, have the courage to have challenging conversations and be more assertive in your communication.

Each weekly session is delivered as a 2 hour online workshop, starting on Wednesday 23 February.

Find out more here: https://www.carlamillertraining.com/be-bolder

INFLUENTIAL LEADER MASTERCLASS

You're invited to my free masterclass - How To Be An Influential Leader without Self-Doubt Holding You Back!

Learn how to avoid the 3 big influencing mistakes that keep many female leaders feeling stuck and frustrated, the steps you can take to become a more influential leader within your organisation and what you can do to turn down the volume on your inner critic. 

Join the masterclass here: https://carlamiller.lpages.co/leader/

CONNECT WITH ME:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlamiller1/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisiscarlamiller/

Website: https://www.carlamillertraining.com/

HOW CAN I SUPPORT THE PODCAST?

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Share this episode with a friend

Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify

I would love to hear your feedback on this week’s podcast. Please leave a review or come say hello on social!

Thank you for listening, see you next week!

The struggle to be heard and taken seriously as a woman in the workplace is real, particularly when presenting to senior stakeholders.  In this episode I share how you can successfully speak the language of senior stakeholders.

I share:

• The 4 questions people ask and how to use those to influence effectively
• A simple tool for communicating with impact
• Strategies for communicating to busy senior people

Take one of these tools and put it into practice this week and let me know how you get on!

HELPFUL LINKS:

The Fix podcast featuring Mary Ann Sieghart https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-authority-gap-mary-ann-sieghart/id1336361820?i=1000533999695

BE BOLDER

Increase your confidence and assertiveness at work in my new 4-week course for women.

Learn how to set healthy boundaries, say no more often, speak up more confidently in meetings, worry less about what others think of you, have the courage to have challenging conversations and be more assertive in your communication.

Each weekly session is delivered as a 2 hour online workshop, starting on Wednesday 23 February.

Find out more here: https://www.carlamillertraining.com/bebolder

FREE CONFIDENCE QUIZ

Do you wish you felt more confident at work? Take this fun, 2 minute quiz to help you discover your biggest confidence block and how you can overcome it!

With your result, I also share two coaching tips that you can put into action this week which will make a big impact on how you show up in your role and organisation.

Take the quiz: https://www.carlamillertraining.com/confidence-quiz

CONNECT WITH ME:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlamiller1/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisiscarlamiller/

Website: https://www.carlamillertraining.com/

SUPPORT THE PODCAST

You can now leave a review on Spotify as well as Apple Podcasts. Reviews help more people to find the podcast and for us to help more women in leadership.

You can also share the podcast with a friend, colleague or on social media.

Thanks for your support, speak to you next week!

This week it’s a podcast takeover! Tahirih Mclaren-Brown takes over the mic to talk about ways that you can stress less at work.

Having awareness of how you experience stress and strategies to ease those feelings can transform the way you approach work, help you to handle challenges and feel calmer each day.

Tahirih shares: 

• What happens in our bodies and minds when we get stressed
• Your stress cycle and how to complete it
• Creating your own stress game plan
• A guided meditation for calming your body and mind

Reducing stress is a practice. The more you do the steps in the Stress Game Plan, the more they’ll become your default way of responding. I hope these practices are there to help when you need them!

HELPFUL LINKS:

Ep 56: How to stop overthinking: https://carla-miller.mykajabi.com/blog/ep-56-how-to-stop-overthinking

Blog: 6 Mindfulness Strategies To Reduce Overthinking: https://carla-miller.mykajabi.com/blog/reducing-overthinking

Burnout: The Secret To Unlocking The Stress Cycle: https://www.burnoutbook.net/

FREE CONFIDENCE QUIZ

Do you wish you felt more confident at work? Take this fun, 2 minute quiz to help you discover your biggest confidence block and how you can overcome it!

With your result, I also share two coaching tips that you can put into action this week which will make a big impact on how you show up in your role and organisation.

Take the quiz: https://www.carlamillertraining.com/confidence-quiz

BE BOLDER

Increase your confidence and assertiveness at work in my new 4-week course for women.

Learn how to set healthy boundaries, say no more often, speak up more confidently in meetings, worry less about what others think of you, have the courage to have challenging conversations and be more assertive in your communication.

Each weekly session is delivered as a 2 hour online workshop, starting on Wednesday 23 February.

Find out more here: https://www.carlamillertraining.com/bebolder

CONNECT WITH ME:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlamiller1/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisiscarlamiller/

Website: https://www.carlamillertraining.com/

SUPPORT THE PODCAST

You can now leave a review on Spotify as well as Apple Podcasts. Reviews help more people to find the podcast and for us to help more women in leadership.

You can also share the podcast with a friend, colleague or on social media.

Thanks for your support, speak to you next week!

“It is the responsibility of each one of us to learn and understand how people have different experiences in their lives”

In this week’s episode, I interview Tala Hassoun - an international development and humanitarian expert, and gender, diversity and inclusion lead facilitator.

We discuss:

• What intersectionality is and why it matters in the workplace
• Tala’s own experiences as a migrant to the UK, woman of colour and young leader
• How leaders can best support people who face additional barriers because of their identities
• Creating a safe environment to learn about intersectionality, share experiences and support others.
• What individuals can do to help create a diversity-supportive workplace

Tala is passionate about influencing organisational change by ensuring an inclusive culture and driving transparent dialogue across differences.

If you’re interested in learning more, connect with her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tala-hassoun-2a957b212/

HELPFUL LINKS

How to Talk to Your Boss About Race – Y-Vonne Hutchinson: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/672435/how-to-talk-to-your-boss-about-race-by-y-vonne-hutchinson/

Ep 74 - Is the CV dead? With Khyati Sundaram: https://www.carlamillertraining.com/blog/ep-74-is-the-cv-dead-with-khyati-sundaram

Ep 46 - Being an Inclusive Leader with Haseena Farid: https://carla-miller.mykajabi.com/blog/ep-46-being-an-inclusive-leader

FREE CONFIDENCE QUIZ

Do you wish you felt more confident at work? Take this fun, 2 minute quiz to help you discover your biggest confidence block and how you can overcome it!

With your result, I also share two coaching tips that you can put into action this week which will make a big impact on how you show up in your role and organisation.

Take the quiz: https://www.carlamillertraining.com/confidence-quiz

BE BOLDER

Increase your confidence and assertiveness at work in my new 4-week course for women.

Learn how to set healthy boundaries, say no more often, speak up more confidently in meetings, worry less about what others think of you, have the courage to have challenging conversations and be more assertive in your communication.

Each weekly session is delivered as a 2 hour online workshop, starting on Wednesday 23 February.

Find out more here: https://www.carlamillertraining.com/bebolder

CONNECT WITH ME:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlamiller1/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisiscarlamiller/

Website: https://www.carlamillertraining.com/

SUPPORT THE PODCAST

You can now leave a review on Spotify as well as Apple Podcasts. Reviews help more people to find the podcast and for us to help more women in leadership.

You can also share the podcast with a friend, colleague or on social media.

Thanks for your support, speak to you next week!

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If you want to develop your career, it’s important to be able to communicate your strengths and successes to others, and be visible to key stakeholders within your organisation.

Does the thought of doing this make you feel uncomfortable? Many women feel the same.

However, a lack of visibility could be holding you back from reaching your career goals and getting the recognition you deserve for the brilliant work you do.

In this episode I share:

• Why visibility is essential for influencing and making an impact in your role
• How to overcome your fears of criticism and judgement
• Why we need to stop believing the myth of meritocracy
• 6 practical ways to increase your visibility in your organisation

After listening to this episode, I encourage you to choose one way you’d like to build your visibility and take baby steps towards doing it.

Ep 44: How We Give Our Power Away: https://carla-miller.mykajabi.com/blog/ep-44-how-we-give-away-our-power

KEYNOTE SPEECHES

Does your organisation have any events planned for International Women’s Day in March? If you’re looking for a keynote presentation, a speaker or a workshop, please get in touch.

I love to talk about developing female talent, helping women succeed, creating a workplace that works for women and how women can increase their influence and impact.

Get in touch to find out more, book a call or share my details with your HR team.

https://www.carlamillertraining.com/employers

BE BOLDER

Increase your confidence and assertiveness at work in my new 4-week course for women.

Learn how to set healthy boundaries, say no more often, speak up more confidently in meetings, worry less about what others think of you, have the courage to have challenging conversations and be more assertive in your communication.

Each weekly session is delivered as a 2 hour online workshop, starting on Wednesday 23 February.

Find out more here: https://www.carlamillertraining.com/bebolder

CONNECT WITH ME:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlamiller1

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisiscarlamiller

Website: https://www.carlamillertraining.com

SUPPORT THE PODCAST

You can now leave a review on Spotify as well as Apple Podcasts. Reviews help more people to find the podcast and for us to help more women in leadership.

You can also share the podcast with a friend, colleague or on social media.

Thanks for your support, speak to you next week!

Are you getting in your own way when it comes to influencing?

When we're trying to influence, we often make it about other people and believe that they’re the problem. However, the way we are showing up greatly impacts our ability to influence effectively.

In this episode, I share the common ways you might trip yourself up and how to adjust your approach for a more positive result.

Listen for:

• How to recognise when you’re reacting and what has triggered it
• Using the 90 second rule as a tool for responding
• Identifying your unspoken rules and values in the workplace
• What unconscious needs are and how they influence our actions

After this episode I encourage you to explore your unspoken rules, values and unconscious needs, and reflect on how they’re impacting you as a leader.

HELPFUL LINKS

Harvard Business Review – Achieving Gender Balance Article: https://hbr.org/2021/11/achieving-gender-balance-at-all-levels-of-your-company

Ep 75: Are You A People Pleaser?: https://www.carlamillertraining.com/blog/ep-75-are-you-a-people-pleaser

Jill Bolte Taylor - The 90 Second Rule: https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-right-mindset/202004/the-90-second-rule-builds-self-control

BE BOLDER

Increase your confidence and assertiveness at work in my new 4-week course for women.

Learn how to set healthy boundaries, say no more often, speak up more confidently in meetings, worry less about what others think of you, have the courage to have challenging conversations and be more assertive in your communication.

Each weekly session is delivered as a 2 hour online workshop, starting on Wednesday 23 February.

Find out more here: https://www.carlamillertraining.com/bebolder

WORK WITH CARLA

 As well as coaching women leaders in my programme Influence & Impact, I also give keynote speeches and trainings to organisations wanting to develop women in leadership roles. I would like to work more with organisations that are committed to gender equality and reducing their gender pay gap.

Get in touch to find out more, book a call or share my details with your HR team.

https://www.carlamillertraining.com/employers

CONNECT WITH ME:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlamiller1/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisiscarlamiller/

Website: https://www.carlamillertraining.com/

SUPPORT THE PODCAST

You can now leave a review on Spotify as well as Apple Podcasts. Reviews help more people to find the podcast and for us to help more women in leadership.

You can also share the podcast with a friend, colleague or on social media.

Thanks for your support, speak to you next week!