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Take the Lead and Play Bigger as an Impact Player
Impact Players are "individuals at any level of an organization who are doing work of exceptional value and having an extraordinary high impact.” Based on Liz Wiseman’s research, here are the key differentiators between Impact Players and their colleagues.
Craft a Compelling Elevator Pitch
Crafting an elevator pitch that showcases your brilliance is part of your self-promotion tool kit. This is the time to amplify your message showcasing the strengths, expertise, and talents you bring to the table. Follow these tips to ensure your messaging is compelling and effective.
Ideas to Leverage Your Influence to Impact Lives
Great leaders don't focus on elevating themselves. Instead, they focus on elevating others. Think about your position, authority, and influence. How are you using them to positively impact the lives of your sphere? Here are a few ideas and encouragement to get you started.
End 2021 Playing Bigger in Your Career
You are meant to rise, in your arena, in the way you are specially shaped to impact your sphere. Don’t let that gap between where you are now and where you want to be in your career, grow. 2021 is coming to a close. Consider how you want to end the year and how you want to position yourself for 2022.
Are You on the Brink of Burnout? Warning Signs and Hacks
In these uncertain, chaotic, and constantly shifting times, if you find yourself feeling unmotivated, blah, unable to focus, frequently tired, or more uptight than usual, it’s wise to check in with yourself to see if you’re edging into burnout. Here are key warning signs and ways to address them.
Why Securing Your Success Squad is Key to Effective Leadership Development
As aspiring or current leaders, we need to cultivate a network of trusted mentors and colleagues to support, champion and advocate for us. No one leads effectively in isolation. Build out your Success Squad with these tips.
Six Key Strategies For Developing A Powerful Professional Personal Brand
The power and effectiveness of your personal brand can help elevate you professionally or minimize your impact. Use these six strategies to ensure you intentionally craft a brand that supports your career goals.
Four Strategies to Develop a Brand Voice that Resonates
Communicating your brand as a business owner is only as effective as your ability to connect and engage with your target market. Here are four strategies that can help you connect and communicate with confidence.
Called to Rise. No More Playing Small, Leader!
I have a vision that women are called to rise for such a time as the one we are experiencing right now. In this vision, with women collectively leading in their brilliance, their influence and impact is unstoppable. Yet so many of us play small. This is a testimony to motivate you to rise.
Leverage Your Leadership Presence: Part 2
Leadership presence is not a given based on your title, smarts, expertise, or leadership skill, but is a quality that needs to be cultivated and managed. Read Part 1 to understand how Command influences your presence. In this post, we’ll explore the power of your Connection, Communication, and your Clothing & Appearance on how you are perceived as a leader.
Leverage Your Leadership Presence: Part 1
Your leadership presence is part of your image. Call it poise, composure, command skills, or clout. Whatever you call it, when someone of significance walks into a room, you know it. Discover how you can cultivate your leadership presence.
The Benefits of Partnering with a Career & Leadership Coach
Hiring a leadership coach is a smart choice for helping women explore their current goals and ambitions, leverage and mobilize their strengths, gain more self-awareness, and achieve new or higher objectives. Here are a few specific benefits purpose-driven women can expect from career and leadership coaching.
Are You Emotionally Intelligent to Lead Effectively?
Possessing Emotional Intelligence or EQ is a crucial component of leadership. Having strong EQ means you can be aware of, control, and express your emotions, as well as handle your professional relationships empathetically. Here are a few EQ basics to ensure you lead impactfully.
Leading in the Unknown
As leaders it’s hard to move and operate in that space of not knowing, having to trust that every faithful step you take will eventually lead you to the right course of action. Here’s a perspective of leading in uncertainty.
Get R.E.A.D.Y to Craft and Cultivate a Memorable & Impactful Brand
Discover the 5 pillars of creating a memorable and impactful business brand. When executed using this foundation, your brand will resonate on an emotional level with your target client or customer, so much so that they are drawn to you and your offerings and become champions for your brand.
Three Leadership Lessons I Learned From Teaching
Teachers make the best leaders, and they have much to teach us about leadership. Leveraging my experience as an adjunct lecturer I share three lessons I learned teaching Community College students, and how those lessons apply to all types of leaders.
Cultivating a Leadership Style True to You
As a leader on the rise, on the make, in transition, or settled in her role, how do you cultivate a leadership style that is aligned with the very best of who you are? The truth is, your values, your persona, your character, your faith, personality, strengths, weaknesses, all inform how you lead others. Here are a few tips to begin your exploration of your style.
5 Strategies to Boost your Leadership Visibility
Visibility is one of the most needed career strategies for aspiring leaders yet one of the hardest to execute. It is especially hard for women who need to do more to prove their competence. Increasing your visibility takes intentionality and strategy. Here are five proven strategies to help you authentically level up your visibility.
Self-Promote Authentically & Effectively
Self-promotion gets a bad rap among women but it doesn’t have to. The truth is that for you to achieve recognition for your accomplishments and successes, your contribution needs to be visible. But it's only visible if you are intentional about making it so. Discover key ways to self-promote authentically and effectively.
What to Expect When Working With a Brand Strategist
As a professional, business owner, coach, or leader, your brand represents your Who and your Do. When those two aspects of yourself are fully integrated into your brand, the result is transformative and magnificent because it will represent the best of who you are and what you bring to the table. Here’s what you can expect working with a brand strategist.