The Leadership Pod

How can you confidently speak up during meetings? Speaking up confidently during meetings is a challenge for many emerging leaders, especially if they’re a young professional, a woman, or more on the introverted side. But for advancement into leadership, it’s critical that others hear your ideas and opinions in meetings so you need to speak up! This episode is dedicated to helping you do this.  I...

Do you want to learn how to have difficult conversations at work when you don’t like conflict? Knowing how to have difficult conversations in the office when you don’t like conflict is a common issue for emerging leaders. You may need to give somebody negative feedback. Perhaps you need to talk about a sensitive issue like body odour. Or maybe you need to fire somebody. These types of conversions...

Do you want to use confident body language in the workplace? Perhaps you want to look more confident during business meetings. Or maybe you want to learn how to project confidence in difficult or stressful situations. Body language is incredibly important to project confidence as a new leader in the workplace Studies have shown that by making slight changes to your body language and by using high-...

Do you want to appear more confident as a leader? Studies have shown that by making slight changes to your body language and by using high-power poses, you can increase your level of confidence and feel more powerful as a leader. In this episode, I talk about a popular study on power poses, conducted by Amy Cuddy, Dana Carney and Andy Yap in 2010. And I relate this study back to leadership and exp...

Why do leaders struggle with visibility? Visibility is incredibly important in leadership. As an emerging leader, you need to increase your visibility in the office and show signs that you’re a leader. However, it doesn’t come naturally to everybody. Leaders often struggle with visibility, especially when they’re a new leader or a new manager.  In Episode 14, “Why Brilliant Leaders Struggle With V...

Do you find it hard to get honest feedback when you’re the boss? Feedback is critical for emerging leaders. When you’ve transitioned into a leadership position for the first time, you need honest feedback from your team so you are clear on what areas you need to improve. This will help you grow as a leader and advance in your career.  In Episode 013 of The Leadership Pod, I delve deeper into this...

Do you want to find new clients at networking events? Have you tried networking to land new clients but haven’t been successful? Many emerging leaders who are required to find new clients for their own business, or do business development for their employer, approach networking events the wrong way. They have the wrong expectations and they don’t approach networking strategically. As a result, the...

How can you be self-promotional when you’re a consultant or a new leader? Self-promotion doesn’t come naturally to many people. You might feel like you’re boasting or showing off. This might prevent you from being self-promotional in the workplace and around your clients. There is an art to being self-promotional, and that’s what I share with you in this episode. In Episode 11 of The Leadership Po...

How can you say “no” to others with confidence? Why is saying “no” difficult? Saying “no” to others can be incredibly difficult for emerging leaders and managers. You might be a “people-pleaser”. You might feel guilty whenever you say “no”. Or you might be fearful of hurting or of being challenged. These are normal fears.  However, if you want to advance into leadership, you need to learn how to s...

How do you set boundaries with coworkers and close colleagues after you get promoted? How do you manage former peers when you get promoted? Your relationship with them has changed. They’re used to the old boundaries. But now you have to re-educate them as to where the new boundaries are.  Establishing new boundaries can be challenging for emerging leaders. In this episode, I share with you five st...

The About Section on your LinkedIn profile is confusing for many people. What do you write about? Should you write anything at all? This causes many to leave their About Section blank or to write something vague about who they are professionally. My goal with this episode is to change that. I want you to have an amazing About Section on your LinkedIn profile that gives a great online first impress...

Many new managers aren’t equipped with the soft skills they need to lead a team. They’re usually promoted based on the level of technical skill they have, or the number of years of experiences they have. They’re thrown into the role of a leader, but they don’t know anything about how to lead a team. They have good technical skills, but they don’t have good people management skill. This is where th...

As you rise higher in your career, you will need to reinvent your leadership brand. This can happen when you move up to the next level, for example from manager to senior manager, or if you move to a different industry or start your own business.  Basically anytime there’s going to be a transition, you will need to reflect on your leadership brand and identify whether it’s going to serve you in yo...

One of the biggest barriers to building visibility that I see with my clients is not speaking up in meetings, especially when they have an idea, opinion or suggestion to share with the room. This is such a shame because meetings are the easiest way for any professional to build visibility. But for a couple of reasons that I share with you in this podcast episode, emerging leaders more often that n...

This is the first Q&A Episode for The Leadership Pod. The question for this episode is, “How Can I Get Noticed and Rewarded for the Great Work That I Do?”. This question came to me from one of my Udemy students. Being overlooked, feeling under-appreciated, working harder and longer than everybody else but getting no reward for it, is a common issue for many emerging leaders. So I knew that thi...

You’ve no doubt heard of personal branding. Emerging leaders need something stronger than that. They need to build a leadership brand so they can be recognised as somebody with leadership potential. When you’re aiming for a leadership position, you need to package and market yourself as a leader. How do you do that? How do you create a leadership brand? There are a number of touch points you need...

Many emerging leaders don’t think about their leadership development until something dramatic has happened to them in their career. Maybe they’ve been overlooked for a promotion or perhaps they don’t receive the high-level projects they need to prove themselves.  These critical events push people to start thinking about at their leadership development. Have you experienced critical events like the...

Keeping your head down and doing a good job at work is no longer enough to get noticed and promoted. This is a roadblock that prevents many emerging leaders from climbing up and rising to the level of success they desire.  You put in a tonne of work improving your technical skill and you probably work longer hours than others in the office, only to discover that people with less technical skill th...