Closing The Gender Pay Gap

In this week’s episode, discover the 7 essentials for your LinkedIn profile whether you want to go back to work after a career break, change role, or get noticed by prospective recruiters, employers or clients. Your LinkedIn profile is an essential item in your career strategy toolkit and it needs to show WHO you are and WHAT you do even if you are not currently jobhunting.

You might feel your profile is already in good shape however it makes sense to review on a regular basis.

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HOSTED BY: Sherry Bevan 

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In this week's episode discover how to use 3 coaching skills; skills that I use in my work as a leadership coach and will empower you to lead more confidently.

Coaching skills work for women in leadership because they allow you to play to your natural strengths and get the most out of your team. In this episode, we discuss:

• The different manager types including the attachment manager and the abandonment manager
• How coaching skills help you to develop teams who are better at problem-solving, troubleshooting and decision-making
• The power of active listening
• Open questions
• The GROW model

HOSTED BY: Sherry Bevan 

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In this week’s episode I’m talking to expert Caroline Cavanagh, author of Anxiety Alchemy.

Having the knowledge and confidence in how to support your teenagers is a key element to getting a work-life balance that works.

Caroline runs Anxiety Alchemy. She is a hypnotherapist and NLP practitioner by background, and now specialises in helping teenagers (and their parents) deal with anxiety.

I took so many notes listening to Caroline! In summary, in today’s episode, we discuss:

• The 3 main pillars of of anxiety for teenagers today
• How parents can unwittingly add to the pressure
• How the brain processes information as an adult and as a teenager
• What we can do to help our teenagers and teenagers-to-be, especially in the season of mocks, exams and SATs
• How to give advice without giving advice
• How to avoid conflict and confrontation

Caroline's top tips for parents of teenagers: Love them and accept your teenagers for who they are. Remember that this too will end.

GUEST: Caroline Cavanagh
HOSTED BY: Sherry Bevan 

Caroline's website: Adding Zest
Caroline's book: Anxiety Alchemy
Caroline on Facebook: @AddingZestLtd
Support group for Exam Stress: Anxiety Alchemy for Exam Stress

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In this week’s episode about the imposter syndrome, I’m talking to Julia Bramble of Bramble Buzz.

While Julia, mum of 6, is now an award-winning specialist and small business social media expert, her career started in the Metropolitan Police Forensic Science Lab in London. She wrote the training material and trained more than 20 hugely resistant, highly respected, court reporting officers who didn’t believe in this new-fangled DNA testing being introduced.

In Julia's next role, she was responsible for setting up a new unit to create the first national DNA database. In her new role she was responsible for recruiting, training and leading a team of 60 scientists and yet she only worked 3 days a week. Julia demonstrates that YES leadership on part-time hours can be done.

In today’s episode, we discuss:

• How a forensic scientist ends up as a social media expert
• How to effectively lead a team of 60 people when you work part-time
• How to engage and motivate the individuals in a large team
• The change management required to successfully introduce a new way of working

Julia's top tips for women in leadership: don't try and do everything. Delegate effectively which means giving responsibility, backing and support. 

GUEST: Julia Bramble
HOSTED BY: Sherry Bevan 

Julia's website: Bramble Buzz
Julia on Twitter: @JuliaBramble
Julia on Facebook: @BrambleBuzzSocialMedia

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In this week's episode about the imposter syndrome, I’m talking to Rebecca Pintre who runs Artemis Mindset Coaching.

Rebecca provides mindset coaching and training to help women beat their self-confidence demons, increase their productivity and focus and fulfill their potential. The imposter syndrome is one of Rebecca's specialist topics.

Originally from the North of England, Rebecca moved to Paris when she was 18. She now lives in a tiny village near the border with Luxembourg and Germany with her husband and two girls.

In today's episode, we discuss:

• What is imposter syndrome is
• Who does it affect
• What are the typical signs
• How can you can beat it.

GUEST: Rebecca Pintre
HOSTED BY: Sherry Bevan 

Rebecca's website: Artemis Mindset Coaching

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This week's episode is about how to have those difficult conversations in the workplace, and especially when it's about poor attitude at work.

I’m talking to Sue Ingram from Converse Well. Sue initially trained in HR and worked in the City, and then in a number of pressurised sales environments. She discovered that the key to business success is the right people in the right jobs.

Sue is now an Author, Speaker and Facilitator on Difficult Conversations in the Workplace. She helps managers handle difficult conversations and provide feedback to their staff.

Today we are talking specifically about how to handle those difficult conversations with somebody in your team about poor attitude.

Sue shares with us:

• How to start that conversation about poor attitude
• What puts us off having those conversations
• Who benefits (and how) from tackling those conversations
• Her top tips for ambitious women who want more confidence to deal with those difficult conversations

GUEST: Sue Ingram
HOSTED BY: Sherry Bevan 

Sue's website: ConverseWell.com
Sue on LinkedIn: Sue Ingram
Sue on Twitter: @SueIngram
Sue's book on Amazon: Fire Well: How to fire staff so they thank you
Amy Cuddy's TED talk: Your body language shapes who you are

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This week's episode is about speaking up with confidence in meetings.

I’m talking to Susan Heaton-Wright from Executive Voice. Susan helps people get heard in meetings, presentations or public speaking. I originally interviewed Susan for my first online conference in 2015. There's a whole chapter in my book based on that interview about how to project confidence through your voice and presence.

Today we are talking specifically about how to speak up confidently in meetings without being pushy. This is for you if you worry about speaking up in meetings because you don't want to be laughed at or be ignored. Or your voice doesn't get heard.

Many of the women that I work with tell me that they presented a great idea, for it to fall on deaf ears. Ten minutes later, somebody else presents that very same idea and everybody loves it. Susan shares her secrets on how to avoid that happening ever again.

We also talk about:

• The common worries that we have about speaking up at meetings
• How to project confidence through our voice even when we don’t feel it inside
• How to sit at the table
• The importance of the non-verbal communication
• How to 'take up space' in meetings so that your presence is noticed
• One story I hear all the time “I made this great suggestion and it fell on deaf ears. Two weeks later, the same idea was presented by a man, and suddenly everybody loved it”. Can we fix that?
• Susan's respect and admiration for Betty Boothroyd, first female Speaker in the House of Commons
• How to prepare for a meeting

GUEST: Susan Heaton-Wright
HOSTED BY: Sherry Bevan 

Susan's website: www.ExecutiveVoice.co.uk
Susan on LinkedIn: Susan Heaton-Wright
Betty Boothroyd clip: "Order, Order"
Sheryl Sandberg's book: Lean In
Sherry's Women's Confident Leadership programme: get in touch to find out more

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This week’s episode is about going back to work after a career break and how you can do this with confidence. I invited former client Ashley Aspin to share her personal experiences.

Ashley graduated from Cardiff University with a degree in Music in 1997 and started her working life in London with a leading classical music management agency.  Two years later she took a post with the BBC Classical Music Department assisting the managing editor and working on some unique television programmes and events such as the Queen’s Jubilee Concerts at Buckingham Palace.

Seeking a career change two years later, Ashley joined the fast-track management training scheme for Davy's Wine Bars in the City of London gaining great experience in the trade and learning about wine. She transferred these skills to recruitment in the hospitality sector and became Davy’s recruitment consultant at agency Berkeley Scott before taking a career break to bring up her young children. In 2012 she moved from London to the town of Marple, a small town in Greater Manchester on the edge of the Peak District.

Whilst on her career break, Ashley took up several charitable causes. She volunteered for the National Childbirth Trust, as editor of the local branch newsletter; raised over £2000 for St John Ambulance by running the London Marathon and supported the local primary school by organising major fundraising events.

She is now the HR Officer for the Laurus Trust, a newly established multi-academy trust in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport. She continues to contribute to the local community by assisting as a coach support worker for the girls teams at Marple Cricket Club which has over 90 junior members attending weekly, and of whom over a third are girls.

In the show we discuss:

• How to maintain the intellectual challenge during your career break
• How volunteering helps you to acquire new skills and maintain existing ones
• The value of your skills gained through volunteering 
• Ashley's big worries before going back to work and how she worked through them all
• How to find work you love that fits around family

Ashley's top tips for ambitious women who want to go back to work after a career break AND balance work and life “Stop looking for the perfect role and think about your skillset. The perfect balance is elusive but check in with yourself on a regular basis. Be honest with yourself and decide whether or not you need to take action. Be flexible in your approach and be adaptable to what you best can match.” 

GUEST:  Ashley Aspin
HOSTED BY: Sherry Bevan 

If you want to go back to work after a career break, check out Sherry's unique offering as mentioned by Ashley: Back to Work Confidence.

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This week's episode is about work life balance and how you can achieve it. I invited Clara Wilcox at The Balance Collective to join me to discuss this topic.

Clara has built on over 15 years of recruitment, leadership, and coaching experience, and the most important qualification of all in her eyes, being a parent, to create The Balance Collective.

Her fascination with what “makes a person tick” and personal development started with her degree in Psychology, many moons ago, and has continued through her work as a Branch Manager of a bespoke recruitment consultancy, to her Management role in a not-for-profit employability skills organisation.

An eternal student, she is also a qualified Project Manager, DISC practitioner and is currently completing her coaching accreditation. Her clients comment that her approach “makes sense”; she likes to call it “coachject management” (coaching and project management combined!)

The Balance Collective is a social enterprise working towards reducing maternal unemployment through training and coaching.  Clara helps parents to create the work-life balance they want through career and return to work individual and group coaching, as well as offering CV and flexible working request feedback, mock interviews and consultancy to business.

In the show we discuss:

• A definition of work-life balance
• How important is it to have that balance
• How, as parents, we are role modelling for our children
• The difference between 'want' and 'should'
• Why it feels so hard to get that balance right - technology and society's expectations
• For women going back to work after a career break, how to approach employers about flexible working or part-time work

Clara's top tips for ambitious women who want to confidently balance work and life "You can do anything but you can't do everything. Be realistic about what you can achieve in a day." 

GUEST:  Clara Wilcox
HOSTED BY: Sherry Bevan 

Clara's website: The Balance Collective
On Facebook: her page
The Balance Collective with Clara Wilcox group

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Following last week's conversation with former BBC Apprentice candidate, Aleksandra King, this week I talk to Rebecca Jeffery fired in Week 6, after confusing tagine with tahini and soup for soap. And anyway, how's a Manchester girl supposed to know how far Streatham is from Canary Wharf.

Known as Becs, she is a freelance copywriter, bookworm, mum, tea drinker and sausage dog owner.

She joined her sister's company 3 years ago; together they have built a successful design & marketing business that fits around life and family. Her business plan for The Apprentice was built around recruiting other parents who want work that works.

Our conversation (over a cup of tea, of course) discussed:

• how lonely it can be working for yourself
• the pros and cons of running a business with your sister
• how to make business work around your children
• she applied for The Apprentice on a whim, encouraged by her brain surgeon brother-in-law
• outsource the skills you don't have (like accounting which Fi & Becs outsource to their Dad!)
• being a parent doesn't make you any less ambitious in your career or your business

Her top tip for ambitious women "Don't apologise for wanting to work in a different way." 

GUEST: Rebecca Jeffery
HOSTED BY: Sherry Bevan 

Becs' website: fiandbecs.com or connect on Twitter @_rebeccajeffery, Instagram _rebeccajeffery.

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