You know you need a seat at the decision-making table, but first, you need to be seen differently. Here are 3 ‘shifts’ you can make, to move from a perception of you as ‘Trouble’ to you as a Vital Partner in the business.
Professional Confidence
Empowering Diverse Teams by Supporting their Professional Growth
Empowering our diverse teams to grow their professional influence using Personal Power, Personal Brand and Professional Confidence.
Developing Your Board Director Brand
For experienced executives moving towards board roles, there are some important personal brand challenges to address. In this week’s workshop for Carnaby’s Director Education Program, we started off with a discussion of these brand challenges.
When do you need to develop your Team Identity?
I regularly talk about the importance of developing a ‘Team Brand’ for each unit within your organisation – each team’s developed sense of who they are and what they bring to internal and external stakeholders. So when do you need to focus on developing team identities with your people?
Do you have a Professional Value Statement?
When everyone in the organisation has a personalised and thoughtfully-crafted go-to statement that they feel authentically speaks to what’s most important about their work, they are much more likely to use it to help build the business.
Confidence in Self-Promotion
In a workshop with new leaders in transport and logistics across ANZ, we reflected on individual and collective strengths… and there were many. Yet, they also reported a reluctance to self-promote!
Guiding internal networking at your organisation
Recently, I’ve noticed clients asking for support in empowering staff to network internally with others at the organisation. These clients tend to be large organisations, or those where staff are working remotely.
Are your staff truly engaging at conferences?
Do you only have a bunch of selfies on Instagram to show for your team’s time attending a conference? Here are some things I’ve learned about how to make the most of attending conferences.
Are your staff truly engaging at your hosted networking events?
What message are your staff sending when they fade into the background, instead of truly engaging at your company events? Are you leveraging your position as event host?
Do your staff see themselves as ‘professionals’?
Working with thousands of people in a range of industries has taught me that those who see themselves as professionals – no matter the sector or the role – tend to behave and perform as such.