Legendary Leaders: For Female Business Leaders

Welcome to the last episode of November.  If you celebrated Thanksgiving, I hope you had a wonderful holiday with family and friends. As you know, we have spent this month learning about the “Earning It” Mindset. We have identified what it is, why it matters, how it has helped us succeed, and yet how it can hold us back and damage our executive careers if we aren’t intentional about how and when t...

This episode is going to be amazing and I am excited to dive into this topic with you! Last week we talked through the fact that the "Earning It" Mindset is a double-edged sword.  It has very much served us in our careers because it helped us succeed and achieve in school, college, and as we climbed the ranks in our careers. Yet for all the ways it has served us, there have been instance...

Welcome to the third episode in this mini-series on the “Earning It” Mindset. Today is all about how this mindset has served us in our careers. That's right! The "earning it" mindset has served us quite well throughout our lives and it's time to give credit where it's due. Before I dive in, I want you to understand that most behaviors and mindsets that we have tend to serve u...

Welcome to another episode.  We are diving into the topic of “earning it” this month.  When I say “earning it” I am defining that as a believe that an action must be performed to not only receive a reward but more importantly, feel as though we are worthy of that reward. Did you do your homework from last week?  Did you think about your current mindset and the association you have between your act...

Welcome to November; the month of the “earning it” mindset.  80% of success is due to mindset.  If you believe you can, you do, am I right?  We all know how conversations go when we are confident vs. when we are meek and doubtful.  So let’s spend the month talking about what I call the “earning it” mindset.  This is the time of year when you are setting budgets, talking about bonuses, and in activ...

Welcome to the last episode of this series.  We have been talking about some of the common roadblocks of career success. Today, let’s wrap this up by talking about the warning signs. How do you know you have hit a roadblock?  How do you know you are living in the space of career decline vs. career momentum?  You're not hitting your business metric(s) target(s) and you don’t know why.  This is...

We have been talking about roadblocks that prevent career success this month.  Today, let’s dive into the concept of "valuable vs. value-add." While this week's topic and last week's topic are separate, they do tie together to a degree. Last week we talked about the concept of “I gave you everything" or "I've tried everything." If you listened to last week'...

Today is what I call, “I’ve tried everything!” or "I gave you everything!"  When we are trying to create career success, this mindset is one of the most common roadblocks preventing us from moving forward and being successful. Inherently what we like to say are things like, "I don't know why I'm not successful. I give that company everything! I sacrifice, I work extra, I do...

This month we are focusing on a topic that we all think about and talk about, yet many of us avoid actually learning about, it's the roadblocks of career success. I know it's not fun, but know this, if you know exactly what the roadblocks are you can avoid them and get yourself around them if you are currently stuck behind one of them. This month is not meant to be negative but is meant to...

Welcome to the last episode of our monthly mini-series focused on burnout. As we wrap up the month, we can't close out the topic without talking about what I call life-preserver techniques. We already know the clues of a potential burnout situation. How do you handle one of those situations? What if you find yourself moving towards burnout?  The first action you must take is to do what we said...

I hope that you are enjoying this series as much as I am. What a feeling of empowerment we have when we learn how to take control of our lives, our emotions, and our future. At this point, we have spent time defining burnout, and understanding why it happens, and last week we did some internal reflection to ensure we start to see the reality of the situations we are in so we can best cope and navi...

Today we are diving into the truth, because the truth will set you free. How often are you facing the truth at work? I would say as a high-achiever, you're great at facing work problems. Now, personal problems . . . not so much. What does that mean? It means that we are so committed to being the problem-solver in our careers that that commitment can blind us from recognizing the fact that we a...

Let’s dive into a topic that we are all keenly aware of . . . burnout. We are about to enter the holiday months and that means competing demands. So before the holidays are upon us, let’s put together some strategies to help us avoid or even get out of the state of burnout so we can enjoy the last few months of 2023.  Will you commit to spending this month with me learning these strategies? Before...

It’s the end of August.  We are approaching Labor Day weekend.  Maybe some cooler weather is on the horizon.  Who knows, right?  But what we do know is that we have spent this entire month focused on adding value. We know that adding maximum value in our executive roles ensures we are assets to the organization and assets are very valuable to the organization itself. We want to add value to be val...

Have you been adding value this month? Did you do the work last week (rating yourself and getting feedback)? If not, definitely go do that. Today's episode builds on last week's work. Because today, we will be getting down to business and ensuring that when you're "working," you are doing the functions and actions that add the most value. So let’s roll up our sleeves and do i...

We must add value if we are going to be valuable to the organization. Think about it for a second.  How many people actually know that adding value is the secret to success?  How many people, if they would just add value instead of living in fear as we talked about last week, would have an amazing career? Adding value is the space where you must live if you want to create executive success and tha...

The month of August is all about adding value and mastering this critical, yet simple, concept.  The reality is that adding value is the driver of executive success. If we want to have success, then we must add value. It's cause and effect. If we understand that relationship, then what prevents someone from creating success? Fear. Fear is the most common reason why leaders do not add value in...

Let's kick off the first episode in this mini-series focused on adding value as a female exec. I say it in a thousand ways, but ultimately, at Legend Leaders, we help you create the professional success you desire so that you can have the personal freedom you deserve, right? But how do we help you achieve this? How do you achieve professional success?  Here is the answer in a nutshell: add val...

It’s the last episode in the series and I think it's the best episode because we are going to bring everything together and we are going to outline how you can drive change and have an impact in your role today. As we have already discussed, owning your seat is a must as an exec. This ownership is how you add value to the company and adding value is why you exist in the organization. Now, we k...

Last week we agreed that the best way to own our seat at the executive table is to use our voice. So if we know this, why don't we do it? Answer: We are afraid we are going to screw up and damage our reputations or brands. So then let's spend today talking through the best way to overcome that fear, create a process to prevent that damage, and then take action. Let's define success whe...

We are diving into the much-needed topic of “owning our seat” as a first-year female executive.  In short, owning our seat is how we succeed as an executive and yet it's the action we try to avoid the most when we first get promoted. This month we are diving into the psychology behind that avoidance and we are pushing past the fear and doubt in order to create our own executive success. If you...

You’ve always been an owner. That attitude is one of the fundamental reasons you are now a first-year female executive.  But now that you’ve made it into the executive ranks, has that mindset changed? As you look at your actions, are you owning all aspects of your new role? Unfortunately for most new execs, the answer is no. And yet, ownership in this role is just as critical as any other role. So...

 It’s our last episode in this mini-series designed to help first-year female execs bypass the insanity of a 12-month ramp-up period and start generating performance results with speed.  Are you ready to talk about the actions to take to produce results? Before we dive in, let's go through a quick recap. We have identified and discussed the 3 primary reasons for the typical 12-month ramp-up pe...

We are continuing to dive into the speed of success for a first-year female executive.  To date, we have discussed why speed is critical, and yet even though speed matters, it still takes the typical exec 12 months to generate consistent performance results.  Last week we talked about eliminating the guesswork if we want to succeed with speed. Let's talk about clarity today. If we want to go s...

This month is all about speed to success. If results are everything, and the speed at which we get them is critical, then how do we get executive results quickly and consistently? Last week we talked about what holds us back from getting consistent results.  Do you remember the 3 factors? Definition of results: The definition of results changed on us as we moved from mid-level to executive and we...