leadership

Getting to Yes: Key Negotiation Skills

Negotiating doesn’t mean you have to rely on hard bargaining, risk feeling taken advantage of, or make unnecessary concessions.

During this training session, Cecilia Gorman, co-founder of Empowership, provided key advice to help teach you more about reaching win-win solutions without giving in or making the other person unhappy.

Teaching Points:

✅ Escaping Negative Stories Around Negotiation
✅ Where to Focus Negotiating Conversations
✅ Three Instant Tactics to Ease How Negotiation Feels

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

Success with Less Struggle with Meta's Neisha Tweed Bell

As Meta's Global Head of Inclusive Content and Experiences, Neisha Tweed Bell has achieved an enviable level of career success. Her accolade list is long - She’s been named a Woke Woman by Essence magazine, a Next Creative Leader by The One Club, and an ADCOLOR Leader - her rise up in the advertising industry is impressive.
 
During this session, Cecilia Gorman, co-founder of Empowership, interviewed Neisha not just about her success, but also about her struggles along the way. You’ll hear Neisha's definition of success and she'll take us through key career struggles that she faced and overcame. 

You’ll hear from Neisha about:

✅ Crafting a Personal Vision of Success
✅ What Struggle Does for Us and our Careers
✅ Tips to Help Us Rise Above Struggles at Work

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

The UPSide of Failure with author Tiana Sanchez

In this interactive discussion, Tiana Sanchez, author of F’d Up: The UPSide of Failure shares how failure can be one of our greatest teachers if we embrace the power of its lessons. Especially now, in this changing work environment, being able to take risks and stretch our skills is critical - which potentially results in failure.

Tiana answered discussion questions and presented ways to impact our belief around failure and boost our resilience to grow from it.

Key Learning Points:
✅ What it takes to harvest a growth mindset
✅ What failure does for us
✅ A new way to look at defeat

Navigating the Time Crunch: How to Prioritize Tasks and Time for Better Work and Home Life

This month, Cecilia taught Navigating the Time Crunch: How to prioritize tasks and time for better work and home life.

Most people are searching for a better balance between work and home obligations, especially as work volume and intensity continue to rise.

During this session, Cecilia shared better tools to help organize a workday, create a system for efficiency, and ideas on how to navigate the never-ending time crunch.

Key points:

  • How to reframe how to look at time management

  • Ways to align work style to productivity

  • Strategies on how to gain time and energy

How Women Rise: Breaking The Habits That Hold You Back at Work

Cecilia will be teaching core lessons from the book , How Women Rise by Sally Helgesen and Marshell Goldsmith.

Together, we'll explore - Breaking The Habits That Hold You Back at Work.

Helgesen and Goldsmith developed a list of 12 habits that hold women back in their careers and in leadership roles, along with solutions to combat these unhelpful habits. In their climb to achieve professional success and establish their own worth in the workplace, women have been found to develop some habits that are preventing them from further strengthening their leadership skills.

On our training call, we'll dig into 3 habits and provide insights and tools to overcome them.

  1. Expecting others to notice and reward your work

  2. The Perfectionism Trap

  3. Minimizing (Physically & Verbally)

 
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