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When Speaking Up Fails: How to Resolve Miscommunication In The Workplace

To resolve miscommunication in the workplace, start by de-escalating tensions through maintaining composure, offering apologies, and allowing time for emotions to settle. Next, actively work on restoring relationships by clarifying your intentions, seeking feedback, and engaging in positive interactions. Lastly, pivot your communication strategy to ensure your message gets across.

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Overcome Invisibility: Claiming Your Space When Overlooked In Meetings

When overlooked in male-dominated meetings, it’s crucial to assert your place. Yes, you belong in that room, and asserting your presence is key. Introduce yourself confidently to make sure your voice is heard. This might be uncomfortable initially, but it is essential for establishing your influence in the workplace.

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9 Pro Tips for Fearless Conversations at Work, Even for Introverts

Overcome the fear of speaking up at work by engaging early, focusing on progress, and preparing through role-playing. Remember past successes and the costs of silence to boost confidence and communication effectiveness.

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Introverted Leadership: Finding Your Authentic Voice in a World of Extroverted Leaders

Explore the power of introverted leadership through deeper connections, navigating conflicting feedback, and staying authentic.

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5 Key Strategies to Overcome Impostor Syndrome in Leadership: Insights from Tiffany Ford

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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Get Promoted Fast

If you’ve been struggling to move up then we can look together and diagnose what is actually going on for you in a FREE “Get Promoted FAST” personal, one-on-one coaching session.

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Speaking Up Advice From 12 Remarkable Women in Leadership at Philips

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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How These 9 Successful Women Speak Their Minds At Work

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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Future Of Work Post Pandemic – What You Need To Know Now

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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Find Courage To Speak Your Mind In These Episodes

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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The 8 Things No One Told You About How To Protect Your Hard-Earned Money (Part 2)

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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The 8 Things No One Told You About How To Protect Your Hard-Earned Money (Part 1)

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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50 Eye-Opening Ways To Speak Up For Yourself

Speaking up doesn’t only happen when someone is treating you poorly. Speaking up happens every time you speak with someone with a clear purpose. Here are 50 opportunities to speak up at work that will bring you closer to your dreams, to your desired lifestyle, and success.

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10 Best Assertiveness And Standing Up For Yourself Books

The Power of a Positive No, Did You Say Something, Susan?, Thanks for the Feedback, Radical Candor, Crucial Conversations, Verbal Judo, The Assertiveness Workbook, When I Say No I Feel Guilty, Your Perfect Right, Boundaries, and Not Nice.

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Bad Day? How To Handle Work Frustrations

Plan your higher inner leader response ahead. For your convenience I’ve created this post in several formats: article, audio version of the article, summary infographic for visual learners, and summary at the end. Enjoy! 😊 By Assertive Way Key Takeaways It is known that you will be frustrated at work, what is unknown is how

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5 Easy Ways to Promote Your Work More Organically

Is This Myth Preventing You From Getting Promoted? By Assertive Way https://youtu.be/SWput0Nw0iA Key Takeaways There is a myth that hard work speaks for itself. I hate to break it to you, but it doesn’t. You need to make your work visible. You have to raise the perceived value so it matches the real value of

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How To Resolve Problems With My Boss?

Avoid these common mistakes when handling boss problems. By Assertive Way When you are a child and your sibling is annoying you, your first line of action is to speak to your parents about it hoping they will solve your problem for you. That works well because you’re pretty confident your parents will defend you,

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Avoid These 10 Painful Regrets in Your 20s

These regrets will surprise you. https://youtu.be/OT1iOwF-caQ By Assertive Way What were your top regrets in your 20s? What would you have done differently? If you are in your 20s, what regrets do you want to avoid? Your 20s are a magical period of life: first time living on your own, no responsibilities for other people,

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Asking questions in Q&A sessions

7 reasons to be the first one to ask a question. By Assertive Way INTRODUCTION What kind of person are you in a Q&A session when the speaker asks: “now we are going to open up for questions, who has a question”? You open up the Q&A session with the first question You wait for

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Is praise and positive feedback the same thing?

No. Positive feedback is better but requires more work. By Assertive Way Praise and positive feedback terms are often used interchangeably. However, they are different. As a manager I found it unnatural to deliver praise such as “well done” or “good job” to my team. As a manager I found it unnatural to deliver praise

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