Explore the power of introverted leadership through deeper connections, navigating conflicting feedback, and staying authentic.
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How do you overcome feelings of impostor syndrome and self-doubt when you take on a bigger role? In this episode, Tiffany Ford, JD, MPA, and Deputy Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Health, candidly discusses her journey into leadership.
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Here’s the advice from 11 remarkable female leaders at Philips about speaking up, claiming space, and being assertive to be respected, valued, and empowered to contribute fully.
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Leading as a woman in Engineering is not easy. I’ve interviewed 9 female leaders in Engineering to find out their most memorable courageous conversations that led to breakthroughs in their careers.
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These 9 successful women opened up and shared their personal stories on how they spoke their minds at work. They talk about fears, risks, and conquering while speaking their truth.
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Google researcher Ojuolape shares courageous moves and powerful conversations that led to an important career change, the pursuit o big passion project, and helped her initiate a hard conversation at work.
Maria Kauffman reveals her powerful stories as a woman in male-dominated workplaces: getting a massive salary increase, landing the job she wanted that had already been committed to another person, and saying no to her boss.
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Assertiveness is not a personality or trait, it is a skill. And as a skill, it doesn’t change your personality, it enhances it. Assertive communication is a language that helps you communicate better, like French. As a language, it is a skill that you can learn.
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With remote work, virtual meetings, uncertainty, fast change, and changes in priorities, professionals must become more intentional and effective communicating their thoughts, contribution, value, needs, desires, boundaries, goals, and rights.
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Courage to speak your mind comes from shifting your perspective, not worrying about what people think of you, embracing conflict and confrontation, finding strong reasons to do so, understanding your fears, and knowing how to speak up. These episodes of the Speak Your Mind Podcast will break it down for you.
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You don’t have to fight against or accept offensive vague and judgement honesty. If you want useful feedback, ask for specific fact-based feedback. If you want to defend yourself, acknowledge their perspective and clarify your perspective. If you want to ignore it and move on, acknowledge your fault and change topics.
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The 10 secrets to heart-centered assertive communication are courage, candidness, curiosity, centeredness, calm, connection, confrontation, consideration, care, and clarity.
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Being nice means being agreeable. Being agreeable is good if you agree with the person you are being nice to. But if you don’t agree then being agreeable or nice is not good because it makes you an inauthentic dishonest people pleaser. Instead of being nice, try to be respectful and assertive.
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Discover inspiring assertiveness at work examples for getting a promotion, changing jobs, holding employees accountable, managing own professional brand, being heard and seen, being taken seriously by team members, retaining good employees.
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1) Women dialogue, men monologue; 2) Women apologize, men don’t; 3) Women apply for jobs when 100% qualified; men apply when 60% qualified; 4) Women confront indirectly; men confront directly; 5) Women wait for their turn; men interrupt to speak; 6) Women talk less; men talk more.
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Here are 8 ways to be more assertive with your personal finances: 1) ask your bank, accountant, and financial advisor for references and qualifications even if they get upset; 2) initiate purposeful money conversations with colleagues, family, and friends; 3) make your own financial decisions instead of allowing others to make them for you; 4) be financially informed: know your revenue, expenses, taxes, and investments in detail; 5) prioritize your money; 6) say no to financial commitments that you can’t make in the moment; 7) regularly talk about finances with your spouse, even if they don’t want to; 8) have financial goals instead of allowing others to push their own goals on you.
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Here are 8 ways to speak up to protect your money: 1) clarify with HR all of your employment benefits and rights and how to access them; 2) negotiate your compensation when you get a new job, even if it feels pushy; 3) ask your boss about the path to a raise, and then keep them accountable; 4) source and actively manage your financial team: accountant, financial advisor, spouse; 5) insist about the exact fees, interest rates, penalties, and conditions, even if they change topics; 6) negotiate terms and conditions; 7) ask all your “stupid” financial questions to your accountant, financial advisor, bank even if they try to overwhelm you with jargon; 8) ask your bank or financial advisors if they are fiduciary.
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10 of the top everyday challenges real women have to deal in the workplace are: not taken seriously, perceived as too difficult or too aggressive, constantly questioned, told they are too outspoken or “bitchy”, not treated as an equal, negative spotlight, forced to be inauthentic, bro culture misfit, loneliness, no work-life balance. empathetic assertiveness is a simple tool that can help overcome it.
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