Learning how to increase your visibility on LinkedIn is critical for emerging leaders today. Your online presence, and in particular your LinkedIn presence, plays a huge part in your overall leadership brand and leadership reputation. However many emerging leaders neglect LinkedIn. They don’t think it’s important. And they don’t use it consistently to build their leadership brand. I’ve successfully been able to build a solid leadership brand and reputation on LinkedIn which has led to many posit...
Sep 27, 2020•23 min•Season 1Ep. 33
How to be more confident at work. Confidence is an illusive quality that many of us want because we feel we don’t have it. It’s a life-long journey for many professionals whether they’re a new or experienced professionals. Confidence in the workplace, or overcoming lack of confidence in the workplace, are critical issues for emerging leaders to fix. Not feeling confident when you need to can damage your chances at job interviews, meetings, or promotions. Confidence is something that we need to b...
Sep 20, 2020•24 min•Season 1Ep. 32
What are the leadership branding mistakes you should avoid? As an emerging leader, there are a number of common leadership branding mistakes that I’ve come across. These mistakes can immediately detract from your personal brand as a leader. Leading to unnecessary obstacles in your leadership journey. If you’re an ambitious, proactive emerging leader and you aspire to career advancement, you absolutely need to manage and protect your leadership brand. In this episode of the Leadership Pod, I talk...
Sep 13, 2020•25 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Personal branding for leaders is a must for new and emerging leaders. Your personal brand, or leadership brand, should communicate your identity, what you represent and the value you bring to a team, company or client. This is how you build your visibility and influence to get promotions and new clients faster and easier. However many emerging leaders don’t define or build their leadership brand because it takes time. It takes a long-term approach to define, build and communicate your personal b...
Sep 06, 2020•27 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Are you looking for an effective technique to delegate assertively at work? As a leadership coach, I’ve found that many emerging leaders don’t delegate effectively. Either they avoid it because they don’t know how to do it, or their attempts at delegating are not effective As an emerging leader, it’s critical that you know how to effectively delegate to your team. You need to ask them to perform tasks, meet objectives or reach goals. If you avoid delegating because you don’t know how to do it, o...
Aug 30, 2020•16 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Why do leaders need to communicate assertively? Why is assertive communication important in leadership? There are a number of reasons why you should learn how to communicate assertively as a leader. However, many shy away from it, especially if they’re coming from a more passive style of communication. Assertive communication is a critical skill for all emerging leaders to develop. It helps you communicate more confidently, deal with difficult situations with ease, and be more authentic in your ...
Aug 23, 2020•21 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Are you curious about how to have a difficult conversation at work? Do you avoid difficult conversations? Do you get daunted at the thought of having an assertive conversation with somebody? Most people do. However, the ability to have assertive or difficult conversations is critical for emerging leaders. In the workplace, people will overstep your boundaries. You will need to make assertive requests. You will need to say “no”. You will need to express your feelings, opinions and wants. These ar...
Aug 16, 2020•25 min•Season 1Ep. 27
How can you lead authentically? How can you lead by your values? This is a common question I receive from many emerging leaders. You want to feel like you’re presenting a true version of yourself at work. You want to know how to remove your mask and lead more in flow with who you are. You want to show your true self in your workplace interactions. All of this is absolutely possible. You can lead authentically. But the first step to achieving this is uncovering your core values - the values that ...
Aug 09, 2020•23 min•Season 1Ep. 26
How to future proof your leadership career is a topic that many emerging leaders are thinking about right now. We’re in the Fourth Industrial Revolution and as a result, there is an incredible amount of change happening in the workplace today. Many jobs are becoming obsolete or changing because of automation and artificial intelligence. As an emerging leader, it’s critical that you learn how to future proof your leadership career to ensure you stay relevant in all of this workplace change. In Ep...
Aug 02, 2020•29 min•Season 1Ep. 25
How to encourage employees to speak up in meetings is a common question for new leaders. In order for you to get the most from your team and encourage creative thinking or innovative problem solving, you need to get your team to share their thoughts and opinions. However, it isn’t always easy to get people to speak up in meetings, especially if people are introverted, from a non-English speaking background, a minority group, or are a young professional. For these types of people, you must create...
Jul 26, 2020•24 min•Season 1Ep. 24
How to think creatively and innovatively in business. How can you unleash your creative thinking as a leader? Creativity has been ranked by LinkedIn as one of the top soft skills to learn in 2020. It can help you brainstorm new ideas with your team, come up with innovative solutions or brilliant ways to solve problems. As a result, many emerging leaders are discovering how important creativity is to their future career. They’re seeking ways they can learn how to be creative and tap into their cr...
Jul 19, 2020•24 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Why is business etiquette important in the workplace? Why should emerging leaders have skills in business etiquette? Many new leaders and young professionals think that business etiquette is old, stuffy and out-of-date. They think that skills in business etiquette will not prepare them for modern professional life. They overlook this very important skill-set and as a result, often damage their professional reputation, business relationships, and career progression. This is a major but unnecessar...
Jul 12, 2020•21 min•Season 1Ep. 22
What is the impact of Covid-19 on workplace communication? How has workplace communication changed during Covid-19 crisis we’ve been facing the past few months? As many teams have been forced to work remotely or from home during this pandemic, they’ve been physically separated from their coworkers. This has resulted in teams not being able to communicate the way they normally would if they were in the office. Some people may think that the physical distance between employees impacts communicatio...
Jul 05, 2020•21 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Do you have an unfair boss who doesn’t recognise the hard work you do? Do you want to know how to deal with an unfair boss and get them to see the value you contribute? Having an unfair boss is a difficult situation to be in as an emerging leader. If left unresolved, it can lead to you feeling a lot of stress and anxiety in the workplace. It can also lead to you being held back in lower level positions for longer than you should In order for you to advance in your career and level up as a leader...
Jun 28, 2020•22 min•Season 1Ep. 20
How are first impressions formed? How long does it take to form a first impression? What is the psychology behind first impressions? When you know how first impressions are formed, you can control the first impression you give and you can control the first impression other people form about you. First impressions are incredibly powerful for emerging leaders. If you can control the first impression you give, you can guide people to form the first impression you want. You can get people to form th...
Jun 21, 2020•33 min•Season 1Ep. 19
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 begin this episode by talking about the three groups of people who generally have difficulty speaking...
Jun 14, 2020•22 min•Season 1Ep. 18
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 are naturally difficult. In order to make them less difficult, most people make the mistake of tryin...
Jun 07, 2020•27 min•Season 1Ep. 17
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-power poses, you can increase your level of confidence and feel more powerful as a leader. In this e...
May 31, 2020•22 min•Season 1Ep. 16
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 explain why using high-power poses can help you look and feel more confident as a leader. High-power po...
May 24, 2020•23 min•Season 1Ep. 15
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 Visibility and What to Do About It”, you will learn: How formal education and entry-level positions pr...
May 17, 2020•22 min•Season 1Ep. 14
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 issue and share with you seven tips on how you can get honest feedback from your team when you’re the...
May 10, 2020•29 min•Season 1Ep. 13
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, they don’t get new clients and end up wasting their time. In this episode of The Leadership Pod, I delv...
May 03, 2020•31 min•Season 1Ep. 12
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 Pod, you will learn: How emerging leaders, women and people from technical backgrounds find it hard to...
Apr 26, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 11
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 set boundaries to protect your time, priorities and goals. In order to do this, you need to learn how ...
Apr 19, 2020•20 min•Season 1Ep. 10
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 steps to setting boundaries with close colleagues when you get promoted. In this episode, you will lear...
Apr 12, 2020•24 min•Season 1Ep. 9
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 impression to anyone who reads it and helps you get found in LinkedIn search results. In this episode you w...
Apr 05, 2020•28 min•Season 1Ep. 8
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 the breakdown occurs. But it doesn’t have to be this way. In this episode, I talk you through the top ...
Mar 29, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 7
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 your new position. Having a leadership brand that’s not up-to-date can hold you back and keep you away ...
Mar 23, 2020•23 min•Season 1Ep. 6
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 not, hold back. My aim with the episode is to encourage you to speak up more in meetings by sharing w...
Mar 16, 2020•28 min•Season 1Ep. 5
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 this would be the perfect issue to talk about in the first Q&A episode. In this episode, I first ta...
Mar 08, 2020•27 min•Season 1Ep. 4
