The Leadership Pod is the podcast for emerging leaders who want to build their visibility and influence so they can unlock their leadership potential. Each month, your host Kara Ronin shares with you strategies, insights or Q&A episodes around leadership development, building your leadership brand, communication skills, and workplace interactions so you can excel into leadership. Keeping your head down and doing a good job at work is no longer enough to get you noticed and promoted. Success in leadership requires a different set of skills; ones you didn’t learn in business school, but you will in this podcast.
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Master These 7 People Skills to Become a Great Leader [093]
Season 3 · Episode 93
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 • Duration 29:20
In this episode, I share 7 people skills you need to become a great manager or leader. Aspiring managers or leaders who show a high level of technical skill are often seen as competent enough to get promoted into senior levels. However, what often happens with these types of skill-based promotions is that while the individual has the technical skills necessary for the job, they often lack the people skills they need to manage and lead well. And this can lead them to underperform in their new position or for their boss to question whether they’re the right person for the job. I created this episode to help you avoid this dilemma.
Other podcast episodes I refer to:
- EP073 How to Be Confident When You Lack Confidence in Your Capability
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3 Harsh Leadership Truths Nobody Prepares You For [092]
Season 3 · Episode 92
Thursday, November 30, 2023 • Duration 11:50
When you get promoted into leadership, there are a lot of things that people don’t warn you about. For some, these things can be really unsettling and can cause you to regret getting promoted. Because I want you to be as prepared as you can be for this transition, I’m revealing three of these challenges to you in this episode.
In this episode, I talk about:
Jealousy
Fear
Being scrutinised
Other episodes I referred to:
- EP 067, How to Be Assertive On-The-Spot
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Why You Struggle to Sound Articulate When You Speak [091]
Season 3 · Episode 91
Tuesday, October 31, 2023 • Duration 15:52
Have you ever been in a situation where you struggled to sound articulate when you speak? Maybe your thoughts were muddled and you couldn’t communicate them in an organised way. Maybe your mind went blank because you forgot what you wanted to say. Struggling to articulate your thoughts and communicate them clearly is a very common problem and there are a number of reasons why this happens.
In this episode, I reveal seven common reasons as to why you struggle to sound articulate when you speak. I talk about:
Jumping in too fast
Communicating too much information
Not clarifying the problem/question
Wanting to sound intelligent
Vocabulary tips
Anxiety when speaking
Reading and writing for better speaking
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How I Learned to Speak With More Clarity [090]
Season 3 · Episode 90
Saturday, September 30, 2023 • Duration 14:36
For a long time, I felt that I didn’t speak with clarity. I would jump from thought to thought without any intelligent connection. I wouldn’t finish my thoughts properly leaving people with an unfinished thought. Overall, my communication was jumbled and all over the place. I realised that I needed to learn how to speak with more clarity. After spending a long time researching and trialling different methods, I narrowed it down to seven things that helped me the most.
In this episode, I take you through the method that has helped me to speak with more clarity. It includes:
To be honest, the corporate world can be rife with office politics. You’ve probably experienced or witnessed office politics at some stage in your career. It’s bad enough when coworkers engage in office politics, but when it’s a leader, that’s a whole different problem.
In this episode, we’re going to look at seven office politics that exist. I also explain why each office politic is bad and what you should do instead. Some of these office politics are common in the workplace, while others are more extreme.
By learning about these office politics, I hope to not only bring your awareness to them, but also help you avoid getting embroiled in these office politics. Because they will have a detrimental effect on you, your leadership reputation and your future career success.
What Nobody Tells You About Leadership: 6 Secrets You Need to Know About! [088]
Season 3 · Episode 88
Saturday, July 1, 2023 • Duration 18:24
When you land in a leadership position, there will be a number of things that surprise you. Things that you may not be aware of. Things you may not have prepared yourself for. The power shift can take people by surprise. Other times jealousy can unsettle emerging leaders. And then there are issues of office politics and higher expectations that you’ll need to get used to.
Many emerging leader dive into leadership completely unaware of these changes. But by listening to this episode, you’ll be one step ahead of them! You’ll not only be aware of what secrets await you, you’ll also have some guidance on how to deal with them. This episode is for emerging leaders who want to better prepare themselves for everything leadership will throw at them.
Communicate Effectively With Executives - 6 Tips! [087]
Season 3 · Episode 87
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 • Duration 14:14
Communicating with executives is different to communicating with your coworkers. Executives think on a deeper level. Their conversations are more focused. Their reactions are direct. There’s basically no time to waste when communicating with executives. This means that in order to communicate effectively with them, you have to tweak and change your style of communication.
There are a number of ways you can change your communication style so its more tailored for executives. In this episode, I share six different techniques that you can use. Depending on the situation, you may choose to utilise one or a number of them in the one conversation. You’ll learn all about them in this podcast episode!
In this episode, I talk about:
Changing your focus so it aligns with that of executives.
Getting to the point.
How to answer their questions adequately.
Importance of knowing facts and numbers well.
Speaking with conviction.
How to ask good questions to get noticed.
Resources that I mentioned in this episode:
EP077 Speak Like a Leader in Meetings
EP078 Sound More Decisive When You Speak
Kara’s YouTube channel playlist for “Be More Articulate and Well Spoken”
Expand Your Vocabulary and Memorise New Words to Improve Your Speaking [086]
Season 3 · Episode 86
Sunday, April 30, 2023 • Duration 15:48
When you want to improve your speaking, it’s important to expand your vocabulary. When you expand your vocabulary, you elevate your mental dictionary and give yourself the chance to use words that are more descriptive, precise and articulate.
But learning new words to expand your vocabulary isn’t just a matter of picking up a dictionary. It requires a more thoughtful process of finding the right vocabulary, recording it, memorising it and using it. When each of these steps are performed in the right way, it will definitely help you to commit new words to your mental dictionary so you can recall them at a later time and improve your speaking.
In this episode, I talk about:
5 Steps to expanding your vocabulary so you can improve your speaking
How to find new vocabulary to learn
The word journals that I use for Japanese, French and English vocabulary
Digital apps to learn new vocabulary, record and memorise those words
Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve
Moving new vocabulary from short term to long term memory using Spaced Repetition
Using new vocabulary to memorise it better
The first word you should put in your word journal
Resources that I mentioned in this episode:
Moleskin Notebooks or Paperage notebooks (for word journal)
Kara’s YouTube channel playlist for “Be More Articulate and Well Spoken”
3 Phrases to Communicate More Effectively as a Leader [085]
Season 3 · Episode 85
Friday, March 31, 2023 • Duration 15:21
Leaders who are good communicators often have a number of go-to phrases that they use throughout their communication. They have phrases that help them jump into conversations during meetings, disagree with people or share a different perspective, and encourage others to elaborate on their idea more. Good communicators don’t shy away from these situations. They are confident in approaching them and the phrases they use help them do that in a sophisticated way.
In this episode, I share with you three very helpful phrases that good communicators use, and you can too. These phrases will help you to:
jump into conversations during meetings so you can add your own thoughts and perspective,
disagree with someone or offer a different perspective in a balanced way, and
show interest in what someone has said and encourage them to elaborate more.
These are all situations that emerging leaders will encounter. You can do it with confidence and sound sophisticated by using these phrases.
Listen to this episode where I share the exact phrases you should use with examples on how you can use these phrases.
6 Crucial Leadership Skills You Need to Succeed This Year! [084]
Season 3 · Episode 84
Tuesday, February 28, 2023 • Duration 22:31
In leadership, there are a multitude of skills that you need to succeed. But with changes in business or economic environments, there are usually a specific set of skills that break apart from the rest. A set of skills that you need to cultivate if you want to succeed. And in this episode, you’re going to find out what those skills are for this year.
I start the episode by sharing three major shifts that are happening in the economy and world of work. Then I delve into each of the six different skills you need to succeed in this new environment and explain how you can cultivate those skills.
To be the most cutting-edge leader in your organisation this year, listen in to this episode!
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Download 21 ideas on How to Become Known as a Go-To Expert: https://www.executive-impressions.com/gotoexpertseries
Check out Shortform, the world’s best book guides!
Check out books on Shortform to help you be more articulate! Get 5 days of unlimited access to Shortform and an additional 20% discount on the annual subscription through my special link shortform.com/kararonin.
Download 21 ideas on How to Become Known as a Go-To Expert: https://www.executive-impressions.com/gotoexpertseries
Check out Shortform, the world’s best book guides!
Check out books on Shortform to help you be more articulate! Get 5 days of unlimited access to Shortform and an additional 20% discount on the annual subscription through my special link shortform.com/kararonin.
Download 21 ideas on How to Become Known as a Go-To Expert: https://www.executive-impressions.com/gotoexpertseries
Check out Shortform, the world’s best book guides!
Check out books on Shortform to help you be more articulate! Get 5 days of unlimited access to Shortform and an additional 20% discount on the annual subscription through my special link shortform.com/kararonin.
Download 21 ideas on How to Become Known as a Go-To Expert: https://www.executive-impressions.com/gotoexpertseries
Check out Shortform, the world’s best book guides!
Check out books on Shortform to help you be more articulate! Get 5 days of unlimited access to Shortform and an additional 20% discount on the annual subscription through my special link shortform.com/kararonin.
Download 21 ideas on How to Become Known as a Go-To Expert: https://www.executive-impressions.com/gotoexpertseries
Check out Shortform, the world’s best book guides!
Check out books on Shortform to help you be more articulate! Get 5 days of unlimited access to Shortform and an additional 20% discount on the annual subscription through my special link shortform.com/kararonin.
Download 21 ideas on How to Become Known as a Go-To Expert: https://www.executive-impressions.com/gotoexpertseries
Check out Shortform, the world’s best book guides!
Check out books on Shortform to help you be more articulate! Get 5 days of unlimited access to Shortform and an additional 20% discount on the annual subscription through my special link shortform.com/kararonin.
