career growth

What Every Employee Needs to Know About Leading a Team (Even if You Don’t Lead a Team)

In this training session, we learn tools to be a stronger leader, no matter your job title. We cover essential self-leadership skills and give you ideas to help you positively contribute to the work culture around you.

Key learning points: 
✅  The #1 Leadership Enhancer - Boosting self-awareness is easy and impactful
✅  One size doesn't fit all - Learning how to flex your communication and approach
✅  Your Difference Maker - Getting intentional with feedback to speed up growth and development

 
 
 
 
 

Additional Resources Coming Soon

Why Self-Leadership?  by Birkman.com- Delves into the benefits of self-leadership, including increased self-esteem, better decision-making, and improved resilience. It emphasizes that self-leadership is crucial for all individuals, regardless of their formal position.    (Article)

"The Look & Sound of Leadership" with Tom Henschel
This podcast frequently addresses adaptive leadership strategies, focusing on how leaders can enhance their leadership presence and tailor their communication to different team members. Listen here. (Podcast)

"Insight: The Surprising Truth About How Others See Us, How We See Ourselves, and Why the Answers Matter More Than We Think" by Tasha Eurich (Revised Edition, 2018)
This book delves deep into self-awareness, providing tools and techniques for leaders to better understand themselves and their impact on others. (Book)

Communication Powerhouse: 4 Essential (& Less Talked About) Skills

Whether negotiating a promotion, leading a team, or navigating challenging conversations, you'll emerge from this session better equipped to communicate in the workplace.

In this call, Cecilia will delve into:

✅ 4 Essential Skills that Help Promote Effective Communication

✅ How Relationships, Time & Trust Play Into Communication

✅ The Equal Importance of How You Receive Others’ Communication

 
 
 
 

Additional Resources Coming Soon

"Thanks for the Feedback" by Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen (2014) dives into the importance of feedback, and specifically, how to receive it effectively. The book highlights the challenges of receiving criticism, even when we want to improve.

"The Confidence Code for Women Leaders" by TED Talks Daily (March 2024): This podcast episode features social psychologist Claire Shipman discussing confidence and communication for women in leadership roles The Confidence Code for Women Leaders by TED Talks Daily.

"5 Powerful Strategies To Build Trust In The Workplace" by Forbes (April 2024): This article discusses how trust in the workplace leads to a positive and productive environment where employees feel valued and respected. This can be achieved by building authentic connections, actively listening to colleagues, and encouraging transparency from leadership.

"Communication Is at the Heart of Positive Employee Relationships" by MIT Sloan Management Review (June 2023): This articles talk about how effective communication is essential for building positive relationships with employees. Employers should communicate openly and honestly with staff throughout the hiring process, including providing clear expectations and offering feedback. Open communication is also important for maintaining a positive work environment.

Reflection Pitfalls: Improving How You Look Back to Boost How You Move Forward

This month’s call is on the topic of Reflection Pitfalls: Improving How You Look Back to Boost How You Move Forward. Cecilia will share new ideas on how to reflect on 2023 in a way that serves your growth and optimism for the new year ahead.

The end of a year is a great time to reflect and a lot of people are doing so in a way that doesn’t serve them. On this call, we’ll learn common habits and pitfalls that you might be doing and gain new ways to extract lessons and learnings to better impact 2024.

We'll cover:
✅ 3 Common Reflection Practices and Why They May Not Work
✅ A New Model to Review Your Year
✅ Tips to Impact Your Work and Life in 2024

Additional Resources

"The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle - This book explores the importance of living in the present moment and the impact of reflection on personal growth. (Book)

"Atomic Habits" by James Clear - While not about reflection per se, it provides insights into building positive habits, which often involves reflection on one's behaviors. (Book)

"Making a New Year's Resolution? Don't Go to War With Yourself." Interview from The Atlantic discussing resilient goals and how "the difference between not doing anything at all and doing 10 minutes a few times a week is absolute." (Article)

"Stop Being So Hard on Yourself" from Harvard Business Review discussing how you can take a more balanced, emotionally equanimous approach to your performance. (Article)

"The Power of Mindfulness: What You Practice Grows Stronger" by Shauna Shapiro. Shauna Shapiro discusses the transformative power of mindfulness and how it can enhance self-reflection. (TED Talk)

The Art of Selling Yourself: Interview with Lisa Earle McLeod

Selling yourself, your work, and your greatness can feeling challenging, especially for women. During this call Lisa will share:

✅  The elements of confidently selling yourself 
✅  What to do when your high quality-work isn’t enough to get you the rewards you seek
✅  How to strengthening personal worth 

Lisa will take tools and insights from her book Selling with Noble Purpose, geared towards sellers, and share them through a lens which can be utilized by anyone marketing for selling themselves.

Lisa is a global advisor, consultant and speaker. She is an expert in sales, leadership and emotional engagement helping major companies such as Sales Force, LinkedIn, and Dave and Busters. She’s the author of five bestselling books.

Daring to Lead: Interview with Susie Lim, GCD WundermanThompson

Brené Brown shares her candid and powerful perspective on leadership in her book, Dare to Lead.

In this session, Cecilia interviewed an advertising creative veteran on her steady rise up the ranks. They used Brené's book as a framework for the discussion and revealed Susie's insights and tips that relate to the Dare to Lead message and uncover how Susie boosted her leadership impact and overcame challenges along the way.

Teaching Points:

✅ Daring Leadership and Vulnerability
✅ The Risk of Emotional Exposure
✅ Where Leadership Needs Us to be Most Courageous

Back Pocket Confidence

Confidence is a key component of workplace success. When we feel confident, we present, speak, and act in ways that are most effective and make an impact. 
 
During this session, Chelsea Szabo, co-founder of Empowership, provided a mental model for confidence and powerful tools and insights to navigate that model to bring more workplace success. 

Teaching Points:

✅ What Confidence Really Is
✅ The 3 Types of Confidence
✅ Tips to Boost All 3 Types of Confidence

Building the Most Impactful Yet Forgotten Leadership Skill: Patience

When working in fast-paced, high-demand workplaces, patient people can quickly flip to impatient. Yet, patience is often the key to connected work relationships, high performance, and overall success. 
 
During this monthly training call, Chelsea Szabo, co-founder of Empowership, deep-dives into harnessing the skill of patience. You’ll gain the insights, tools, and motivation needed to up the ante on your ability to tolerate delays, changes, surprises, and other patience-tested experiences faced at work. 

You’ll learn:

✅ Why we often lack patience and techniques to get more of it

✅ The difference between inner and outer patience 
✅ How patience can boost workplace performance, with tools you can utilize immediately

Unleashing Creativity at Work - For Everyone

The word "creative" has been used as an adjective for about 500 years and as a noun for around 200 years. The word "creator" (small c) has only been coined for 11 years (by Youtube).  Each generation has a stronger desire to be identified as creative - 1/3 of Boomers, 1/2 of Millenials, and 2/3 of GenZ.

During this call, Jing Herman, co-founder of 28Muses (learn more) — a company that stimulates team engagement and confidence through unique, live art workshops, shares: 

✅    The evolution of creativity and what recent shifts mean to the workplace 

✅    What “flow state” is, why it is important, and how to tap into it

✅     An interactive Chinese Calligraphy Activity

BONUS - You’ll also get to participate in one of 28Muses’ popular art activities – Invent Your Name in Chinese. During this short experience, you’ll use the transformational power of Chinese Calligraphy to reinforce your identity.

Additional links related to this month’s topic:

Psychology Today: How to Be More Creative

HBR: So, You Think You’re Not Creative

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