So we looked at the inner critic and your inner beauty. Now its time to leap. To get real. So come on, do stuff you love. Use your strengths and courage and follow your calling!
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Category: Crafting your career
The art of being yourself
This is a wonderful video about self identity and authentic self expression, by Caroline McHugh. The topic is discussed through a well crafted framework in a form of a story. A story told by the side of the fire on a winters night. I don’t think I can do this video justice through my description – it just has to be experienced.
Caroline will inspire you!
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Inspiring Events, Part 2
This is the second of three instalments of my inspiring events series this month. It was a coaching network event by London Coaches. I was pleasantly surprised and wanted to share some of the ideas in the hope you would find it useful.
The trainer asked us to think about the stories we play out on our lives, the:
- Characters
- Location
- Genres
- Plot lines
He asked one powerful question: Would changing one of the above elements get you
better outcome/story?
For example, do you play the warrior at work but nothing works, everyone is screaming -a horror story. The trainer suggested instead using the character of jester to see if this changes up the energy and gets better outcomes, the story you want. That is slaying the dragon/reaching work goal via humour.
My take away was to be mindful of the narratives we have about ourselves and situations and not to get locked into stories that don’t service you- be flexible. You are the director.
Try it!
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No, really, lean in
I went to this talk by Lazlo Block in May, quite some time ago (sorry, I tweeted but forgot to blog). It was a close call between seeing Lazlo and going to a gender lecture. In the end, I decided to go to the talk where I knew least about the speaker- to learn new ideas.
I wasn’t disappointed. Lazzlo was full of ideas about work. He is the VP for People Operations at google, so Human Resources. He had a lot to say about his own journey, getting to google and where google is going next. All chronicled in his book Work Rules.
A hugely likeable and charismatic speaker, (he once worked as an actor), but don’t let that fool you, he had some hard hitting messages. My favourites were:
- work really hard. not hard, but super hard. that will cover most things
- work with the best and learn all you can, so you can work hard some more
- leadership is about others not you
- but know why you want to lead, what contribution you want to make and be authentic.
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Gloria Larson- Women in Corprate America
Wow, what a talk! Gloria Larson is a former politician and lawyer and in 2007, she was the first woman to be selected President of Bentley University – an american business school. I went to an inspiring event she held a few weeks ago in London . In fact, I got caught in rush hour and missed the first bit, but it was well worth persevering.
Gloria talked about her own very impressive leadership journey as well as wove in lessons from academic research. My take aways were:
- Go for the tough assignments- stretch yourself
- Make your partner a real partner at home
- Breadth of experience is an important as depth
- Do things you love- that passion is needed to go the extra mile.
What have been your leadership lessons? Leave comments in the box bellow.
Navigating Major Career Transitions
Harvard University Prof. Michael Watkins outlines some great advise on career transitions.
Michael tells us that understanding successful transitions is relevant to all and not just when you get promoted. Michael says that due to the impact of economic cycles restructuring and job shifting can be the norm.
What stood out for me was these three gems:
- Understand what you need to do personally to adapt
- Understand what you need to let go of
- Understand that the ability to adapt is a source of advantage.
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Cultivate the leader in you with Gabrielle Bernstein
This is a great 90 minute video training about authentic leadership. Gabriel looks at leadership through the lens of spirituality. This may be, or may not be ‘your thing’- that said, I feel you could swap out the lexicon of spirituality with that of your own and the message will be the same: if you’re called to lead – lead. There are also some practical tips for those who are action oriented. The ‘take homes’ for me in this very engaging video are:
- Lead yourself first, inspire you
- Be authentic
- Deal with your own challenges
- Trust your intuition
- Be grateful for what you have now
- Be specific in your messages
- Cultivate your core audiences
- Lead from where you are
Enjoy!
