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Are you a woman in leadership who is tired of feeling stuck in your career? Like your work isn’t getting the recognition it deserves? Like your voice doesn’t have the influence it needs to contribute to better solutions? Like no matter what you do, you can’t get promoted?While these challenges don’t discriminate against gender, women need different solutions to overcome them. It’s not enough for women to simply get leadership training and career advice. They need to learn how to lead with their feminine energy and use it as their biggest advantage. On this show, career success coach Jill Avey and her guests explore how women can rise from director to vice president and beyond by fully leaning into their feminine energy as their biggest advantage. In each episode, you’ll understand how women need to lead differently and how by doing so, women leaders gain influence and respect among their colleagues, restore balance to their role, and receive the recognition and promotions they dese
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- 4 days ago17 min
61: What Executive Presence Actually Means
Of all the feedback women get, ‘executive presence’ might be the most common and the least useful.It turns up in your review. It turns up in the conversation about why somebody else got the role. And it almost never arrives with an example you could actually do anything with.So it just sits there. You know it’s the thing between you and the next level, and you still have no idea which part of it you’re meant to fix.That’s not you being slow on the uptake. Those two words cover fifteen separate things, and whoever handed them to you was probably only thinking about one.Nobody tells you which one. So you work on all of it, or none of it, and the feedback shows up again next year.So which one is yours?Tune in to learn:• What each quality looks like when it’s missing, and what it looks like when it’s there• The one that most separates a director from a VP• Why warmth and directness were never opposites📚 MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE• 10 Ways to Command a Room, the free guide http://www.sistersmart.com/10WaysToCommand🎁 GRAB THE FREE GUIDE: 10 WAYS TO COMMAND A ROOMTen simple concrete moves that build the exact kind of executive presence we talk about in this episode. Pick one and try it this week. http://www.sistersmart.com/10WaysToCommand—Register for the Free Executive Presence for Women Masterclass: The 3 keys to Increase Authority and Influence, happening live on Thursday, August 8 at 12 PST.A replay will be available for those that register! https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkdOsrDItGdHchQv1BXFozsGRUjL74xlK#/registration —🌟 FREE MASTERCLASS: Achieve Your VP Promotion: 3 Steps to Success in the Next Yearhttps://sistersmart.com/register-sil—✈️ FREE PASSPORT TO PROMOTION PRIVATE PODCAST: 7 STEPS TO GET PROMOTED FROM DIRECTOR TO VP Get access to the Passport to Promotion Private Podcast—👩💻 APPLY FOR THE SISTERS IN LEADERSHIP PROGRAM An 12-month coaching program for women leaders who want to rise up and fulfill their career potential and get promoted from director to VPJoin Sisters in Leadership to Get Promoted to VP—💻 EXPLORE OUR LEADERSHIP COURSESWe offer a few leadership courses for you to begin sharpening your skills from meeting management to executive presence and productivity.Sign Up for a Leadership Course—👋 CONNECT WITH JILL 🌐 Website: https://sistersmart.com/ 🎥 YouTube: https://linktw.in/uWD3ko 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jillavey/
- 1 weeks ago19 min
60: How to Answer "What do you want in your career?"
One of the things women hardly ever do is own their strengths.We're taught to be humble. To not get a big head. To not be too full of ourselves. So when you do sit down and really look at what you're good at, it can feel like you're overstepping.So most of us just never do it. We stay busy and we do the work well and we never put words to any of it.Then someone senior asks what you want next, and there's nothing there to draw from.Because we try to answer "What do I want?" before we've ever really answered "Who am I?" And those are two really different questions.Most people have never thought that through.Jill is joined by SisterSmart mindset coach Kan Yue for this one.Tune in to learn:• Why ‘knowing your genius’ has to be written down and not just vaguely understood• The difference between your skills and your genius, and why women mix them up• Which of the five areas of your life is almost always the empty one📚 MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE• Episode 59, on your zone of brilliance and your realized and unrealized strengths https://youtu.be/aZ1jOrKc6H4• Kan Yue’s first appearance on the show EPISODE 48 https://youtu.be/5rZsBuWvpYs• Knowing Your Genius, the twelve part worksheet all of Module 1 converges on• The aspiration statement, the piece that comes after it👋 ABOUT KAN YUEKan Yue is a leadership coach, speaker and economics professor. She works with women leaders on self-leadership and emotional resilience, helping them turn uncertainty into clarity, doubt into confidence and ambition into meaningful impact.Kan is a Mastery Method Certified coach through the Institute of Coaching Mastery. She has her PhD in Economics from Purdue and teaches as Associate Professor of Economics at Xavier University in Ohio.—Register for the Free Executive Presence for Women Masterclass: The 3 keys to Increase Authority and Influence, happening live on Thursday, August 8 at 12 PST.A replay will be available for those that register! https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkdOsrDItGdHchQv1BXFozsGRUjL74xlK#/registration —🌟 FREE MASTERCLASS: Achieve Your VP Promotion: 3 Steps to Success in the Next Yearhttps://sistersmart.com/register-sil—✈️ FREE PASSPORT TO PROMOTION PRIVATE PODCAST: 7 STEPS TO GET PROMOTED FROM DIRECTOR TO VP Get access to the Passport to Promotion Private Podcast—👩💻 APPLY FOR THE SISTERS IN LEADERSHIP PROGRAM An 12-month coaching program for women leaders who want to rise up and fulfill their career potential and get promoted from director to VPJoin Sisters in Leadership to Get Promoted to VP—💻 EXPLORE OUR LEADERSHIP COURSESWe offer a few leadership courses for you to begin sharpening your skills from meeting management to executive presence and productivity.Sign Up for a Leadership Course—👋 CONNECT WITH JILL 🌐 Website: https://sistersmart.com/ 🎥 YouTube: https://linktw.in/uWD3ko 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jillavey/
- 2 weeks ago15 min
59: Work on Your Strengths not Your Weaknesses
Every leadership development plan starts in the same place. Here are your gaps. Now go work on them.It is the most standard advice in corporate life and almost nobody stops to question it.And you have done it. You took the feedback seriously. You worked the list quietly and mostly on your own time. You did get better at those things.And the promotion still went to somebody else.Here's the thing. Senior leaders were never reading down your gap list. They are trying to answer a completely different question about you, and getting better at your weaknesses does nothing to help them answer it.Nobody has ever told you what that question is. Or that there are two kinds of strengths, and that the one that could change everything for you is the one you have never once been asked to use.So what are they actually looking for?Tune in to learn:The one question senior leaders are actually trying to answer about youThe two kinds of strengths almost nobody has ever explained to youWhy your 'zone of brilliance' is the one thing you cannot see in yourself📚 MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE• Episode 35, where Wendy tells this whole story herself: https://youtu.be/HE48xkQ-1xM• The Strengths Profile assessment, which returns your realized and unrealized strengths• Knowing Your Genius, the worksheet all of this converges on inside Module 1—Register for the Free Executive Presence for Women Masterclass: The 3 keys to Increase Authority and Influence, happening live on Thursday, August 8 at 12 PST.A replay will be available for those that register! https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkdOsrDItGdHchQv1BXFozsGRUjL74xlK#/registration —🌟 FREE MASTERCLASS: Achieve Your VP Promotion: 3 Steps to Success in the Next Yearhttps://sistersmart.com/register-sil—✈️ FREE PASSPORT TO PROMOTION PRIVATE PODCAST: 7 STEPS TO GET PROMOTED FROM DIRECTOR TO VP Get access to the Passport to Promotion Private Podcast—👩💻 APPLY FOR THE SISTERS IN LEADERSHIP PROGRAM An 12-month coaching program for women leaders who want to rise up and fulfill their career potential and get promoted from director to VPJoin Sisters in Leadership to Get Promoted to VP—💻 EXPLORE OUR LEADERSHIP COURSESWe offer a few leadership courses for you to begin sharpening your skills from meeting management to executive presence and productivity.Sign Up for a Leadership Course—👋 CONNECT WITH JILL 🌐 Website: https://sistersmart.com/ 🎥 YouTube: https://linktw.in/uWD3ko 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jillavey/
- 3 weeks ago28 min
58: How To Stop Self Sabotaging Your Career
You’re up for the VP role.On paper you’re the obvious pick. You have the results, receipts, and a team that would follow you anywhere.And still there is a voice in your head that keeps you a half step back.It tells you to check that deck one more time before you send it. To hold the work close because your team is maxed out already.That voice feels like the very thing that got you there, your work ethic.But what if you’ve been successful in spite of that voice and not because of it?There are ten of these voices. One master and nine accomplices. Most women have no idea which ones are running the show.So which ones are yours?Jill is joined by SisterSmart coach Monica for this one.Tune in to learn:• What a ‘saboteur’ is and why yours shows up hardest at the director to VP line• The two that almost nobody guesses about themselves• What to do the moment you catch one in action👋 ABOUT MONICAMonica is a SisterSmart coach covering the UK and European time zones. She has been using Positive Intelligence and saboteur work with her clients for more than five years and brings it into her coaching with senior women leaders.💻 READY TO LEAD WITH THEM INSTEAD OF AGAINST THEM?Once you know your saboteurs, the real work is learning to lead with them. That is exactly what we do inside the Strategic Leadership Lab for Women. Six weeks, moving you from doing to leading, where you learn to catch that reactive voice and choose the response a senior leader would make. The next group starts September 11. https://sistersmart.com/SLA—Register for the Free Executive Presence for Women Masterclass: The 3 keys to Increase Authority and Influence, happening live on Thursday, August 8 at 12 PST.A replay will be available for those that register! https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkdOsrDItGdHchQv1BXFozsGRUjL74xlK#/registration —🌟 FREE MASTERCLASS: Achieve Your VP Promotion: 3 Steps to Success in the Next Yearhttps://sistersmart.com/register-sil—✈️ FREE PASSPORT TO PROMOTION PRIVATE PODCAST: 7 STEPS TO GET PROMOTED FROM DIRECTOR TO VP Get access to the Passport to Promotion Private Podcast—👩💻 APPLY FOR THE SISTERS IN LEADERSHIP PROGRAM An 12-month coaching program for women leaders who want to rise up and fulfill their career potential and get promoted from director to VPJoin Sisters in Leadership to Get Promoted to VP—💻 EXPLORE OUR LEADERSHIP COURSESWe offer a few leadership courses for you to begin sharpening your skills from meeting management to executive presence and productivity.Sign Up for a Leadership Course—👋 CONNECT WITH JILL 🌐 Website: https://sistersmart.com/ 🎥 YouTube: https://linktw.in/uWD3ko 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jillavey/
- Aug 20, 202618 min
57: How To Identify Your Core Values
You have two real options in front of you.The promotion and the other thing. Or the stretch role and the job you already have.And you are good at making decisions. You make hard calls at work every single day.So you build the list. You weigh it out. You ask your boss, your mentor, your husband, the friend who always tells you the truth. Every answer makes sense and not one of them settles it.Then it’s three in the morning and you’re lying there running it again. Same two options. Same ceiling.Here’s the thing. You’re not stuck because you’re bad at this. You’restuck because you keep asking which one is the better opportunity, and that question has no answer. They’re both great opportunities. the whole problem.There’s a different question sitting underneath it, and almost nobody has ever handed you the tools to ask it.So what is that stuck feeling actually trying to tell you?Tune in to learn:• What a ‘peak experience’ is, and why the small strange ones matter most• How to read the values hidden inside your own life• Why one crushed value can make a good job feel unlivable—Register for the Free Executive Presence for Women Masterclass: The 3 keys to Increase Authority and Influence, happening live on Thursday, August 8 at 12 PST.A replay will be available for those that register! https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkdOsrDItGdHchQv1BXFozsGRUjL74xlK#/registration —🌟 FREE MASTERCLASS: Achieve Your VP Promotion: 3 Steps to Success in the Next Yearhttps://sistersmart.com/register-sil—✈️ FREE PASSPORT TO PROMOTION PRIVATE PODCAST: 7 STEPS TO GET PROMOTED FROM DIRECTOR TO VP Get access to the Passport to Promotion Private Podcast—👩💻 APPLY FOR THE SISTERS IN LEADERSHIP PROGRAM An 12-month coaching program for women leaders who want to rise up and fulfill their career potential and get promoted from director to VPJoin Sisters in Leadership to Get Promoted to VP—💻 EXPLORE OUR LEADERSHIP COURSESWe offer a few leadership courses for you to begin sharpening your skills from meeting management to executive presence and productivity.Sign Up for a Leadership Course—👋 CONNECT WITH JILL 🌐 Website: https://sistersmart.com/ 🎥 YouTube: https://linktw.in/uWD3ko 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jillavey/
- Aug 13, 202625 min
56: How To Find a Strategic Project at Work with Jen
Somebody finally tells you to go be ‘strategic’.So you sit down to pick a project, and you stare at a blank page.You are a doer. You solve problems. Nobody ever taught you how to go invent something big and shiny to sit on top of the fifty things already on your plate.You keep waiting for the right one to come along. And every week you keep quietly mopping up the same mess nobody else will touch.Truth is, that mess is the project.Jen is a senior leader at a professional services firm and she came to Jill completely stuck. One question changed what she was looking for, and what she found had been sitting in plain sight the whole time.It became, in her words, probably the biggest thing her firm has done.Tune in to learn:• The one question that turns a blank page into an obvious project• How Jen built the support to change how very senior people behave• What it did for the firm, and what it did for how the partners see herABOUT JENJen is a senior leader at a professional services firm and a seasoned project manager. She leads internal operations and professional development and is known inside her firm as the person who solves the problems nobody else will pick up. Jen is a graduate of the Strategic Leadership Lab for Women.💻 READY TO FIND YOUR OWN STRATEGIC PROJECT?The Strategic Leadership Lab for Women is a six-week live cohort led by Jill where you learn to be seen as strategic and walk out with a strategic project of your own. The kind of thing you can point to for years, the way Jen can. The next group starts September 11 and early bird pricing closes August 15. https://sistersmart.com/SLA—Register for the Free Executive Presence for Women Masterclass: The 3 keys to Increase Authority and Influence, happening live on Thursday, August 8 at 12 PST.A replay will be available for those that register! https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkdOsrDItGdHchQv1BXFozsGRUjL74xlK#/registration —🌟 FREE MASTERCLASS: Achieve Your VP Promotion: 3 Steps to Success in the Next Yearhttps://sistersmart.com/register-sil—✈️ FREE PASSPORT TO PROMOTION PRIVATE PODCAST: 7 STEPS TO GET PROMOTED FROM DIRECTOR TO VP Get access to the Passport to Promotion Private Podcast—👩💻 APPLY FOR THE SISTERS IN LEADERSHIP PROGRAM An 12-month coaching program for women leaders who want to rise up and fulfill their career potential and get promoted from director to VPJoin Sisters in Leadership to Get Promoted to VP—💻 EXPLORE OUR LEADERSHIP COURSESWe offer a few leadership courses for you to begin sharpening your skills from meeting management to executive presence and productivity.Sign Up for a Leadership Course—👋 CONNECT WITH JILL 🌐 Website: https://sistersmart.com/ 🎥 YouTube: https://linktw.in/uWD3ko 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jillavey/
- Aug 6, 202615 min
55: 5 Pillars of Strategic Leadership How to Be Seen as Strategic at Work
Have you ever walked out of a meeting knowing you saw the whole thing coming before anyone else did?And then watched someone else walk away with the word 'strategic' next to their name instead of yours?So most of us do the only thing we know how to do. We work harder. We take on more. And still that word floats just out of reach.Here's the thing. Jill doesn't believe that's the truth about you. You're not un-strategic. You're just not being seen that way yet.So what are the women who get promoted doing that you aren't?Tune in to learn:The five pillars of strategic leadershipWhat each pillar feels like when it's missing, and what it feels like when it's thereHow to tell which pillar is costing you right now💻 READY TO ACTUALLY LIVE THESE FIVE?The Strategic Leadership Lab for Women is a six week live cohort led by Jill where you work these pillars in real time alongside a small group of women leaders making the same move. Six live sessions. Your own Big 5 of Strategy assessment and report. A real project from your real job. The next cohort starts September 11 and early bird pricing closes August 15. https://sistersmart.com/SLA✈️ FREE PASSPORT TO PROMOTION PRIVATE PODCAST: 7 STEPS TO GET PROMOTED FROM DIRECTOR TO VP https://joinsistersinleadership.com/7-steps👩💻 APPLY FOR THE SISTERS IN LEADERSHIP PROGRAM A 12-month coaching program for women leaders who want to rise up and fulfill their career potential and get promoted from director to VP https://joinsistersinleadership.com/💻 EXPLORE OUR LEADERSHIP COURSES We offer a few leadership courses for you to begin sharpening your skills from meeting management to executive presence and productivity. https://sistersmart.com/leadership-courses⭐ SUBSCRIBE AND LEAVE A REVIEW ON APPLE PODCASTS https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sistersmart-leadership/id1705796088⭐ SUBSCRIBE AND LEAVE A REVIEW ON SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/14Yh9jytQjaYRwmeiT5pBsCONNECT WITH JILL🌐 Website: https://sistersmart.com/ 🎥 YouTube: https://linktw.in/uWD3ko 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jillavey/#StrategicLeadership #WomenInLeadership #DirectorToVP #ExecutivePresence #WomenLeaders #LeadershipDevelopment #StrategicThinking #ExecutiveWomen #CareerGrowthForWomen #FemaleLeadership #GetPromoted #LeadershipSkills #WomenInBusiness #LeadershipPodcast #SisterSmart—Register for the Free Executive Presence for Women Masterclass: The 3 keys to Increase Authority and Influence, happening live on Thursday, August 8 at 12 PST.A replay will be available for those that register! https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkdOsrDItGdHchQv1BXFozsGRUjL74xlK#/registration —🌟 FREE MASTERCLASS: Achieve Your VP Promotion: 3 Steps to Success
- Jul 30, 202623 min
54: How to Prioritize When Everything Is a Priority and Your Boss Wants It All
How do you decide what to work on first when your manager hands you a list of ten priorities with no order and no deadlines, and every single item on that list is something she needs done right away?This is the exact same question that our client Mandy was facing when she joined the Strategic Leadership Lab for Women.Tune in to hear how Mandy found her starting point, what she carried into her next one-to-one with her manager and the surprising thing that shifted between the two of them once she did.Mandy walks through all of it in this episode. Where she started. What she built. What she carried into the one-to-one that shifted everything. And the one sentence she began saying to herself before every meeting with her boss.If you are a woman in leadership who is buried under competing priorities and quietly wondering whether you are the problem, this conversation is for you.IN THIS EPISODE YOU WILL FIND OUT▪︎ The three questions Mandy asked about every item on the list before she touched a single one▪︎ The rule she pulled out of the Strategic Leadership Lab that finally told her where to start▪︎ What she built on a spreadsheet and why the tabs were ordered the way they were▪︎ What she brought to her next one-to-one instead of a status update▪︎ The sentence she started saying to herself before every meeting with her manager▪︎ Why her manager never changed her communication style and the whole dynamic still turned around▪︎ What surprised her most about being in a cohort with other women leaders▪︎ The question you can ask that makes a boss choose between her own priorities📚 MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE▪︎ The Pareto Principle, also called the 80/20 rule. Taught in Week 4 of the Strategic Leadership Lab for Women.▪︎ The Vital Few, from the Sisters in Leadership curriculum on the busyness trap.▪︎ Strategic Leadership Lab for Women. Next cohort starts September 11. Early bird pricing closes August 15. https://sistersmart.com/SLA▪︎ The saying Mandy carries with her: no good sailor was made in calm waters.👋 ABOUT MANDYMandy leads a clinical department inside a large hospital system where competing priorities shift by the minute. She is a graduate of the Strategic Leadership Lab for Women and a member of the SisterSmart community.RELATED TOPICSThis episode covers how to prioritize when everything is a priority, what to do when your boss gives you too many priorities at once, how to prioritize tasks at work as a manager, the Pareto principle and the 80/20 rule applied to a real workload, how to manage up when your manager does not set a clear vision, how to build trust with a difficult boss, how to run a better one-to-one with your manager, how to stop being reactive at work, prioritization frameworks for leaders, workload overwhelm and burnout prevention for women in leadership, how to delegate and get input from your team, career advice for women in healthcare leadership, executive presence for female leaders, leadership development for women, women in leadership podcast episodes and how to get promoted from director to vice president.—Register for the Free Executive Presence for Women Masterclass: The 3 keys to Increase Authority and Influence, happening live on Thursday, August 8 at 12 PST.A replay will be available for those that register! https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkdOsrDItGdHchQv1BXFozsGRUjL74xlK#/registration —🌟 FREE MASTERCLASS: Achieve Your VP Promotion: 3 Steps to Success in the Next Yearhttps://sistersmart.com/register-sil—✈️ FREE PASSPORT TO PROMOTION PRIVATE PODCAST: 7 STEPS TO GET PROMOTED FROM DIRECTOR TO VP Get access to the Passport to Promotion Private Podcast—👩💻 APPLY FOR THE SISTERS IN LEADERSHIP PROGRAM An 12-month coaching program for women leaders who want to rise up and fulfill their career potential and get promoted from director to VPJoin Sisters in Leadership to Get Promoted to VP—💻 EXPLORE OUR LEADERSHIP COURSESWe offer a few leadership courses for you to begin sharpening your skills from meeting management to executive presence and productivity.Sign Up for a Leadership Course—👋 CONNECT WITH JILL 🌐 Website: <a href="https://sistersmart.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_
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Are you a woman in leadership who is tired of feeling stuck in your career? Like your work isn’t getting the recognition it deserves? Like your voice doesn’t have the influence it needs to contribute to better solutions? Like no matter what you do, you can’t get promoted?While these challenges don’t discriminate against gender, women need different solutions to overcome them. It’s not enough for women to simply get leadership training and career advice. They need to learn how to lead with their feminine energy and use it as their biggest advantage. On this show, career success coach Jill Avey and her guests explore how women can rise from director to vice president and beyond by fully leaning into their feminine energy as their biggest advantage. In each episode, you’ll understand how women need to lead differently and how by doing so, women leaders gain influence and respect among their colleagues, restore balance to their role, and receive the recognition and promotions they dese
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