VP of TA and Development at Hillsdale, Elizabeth Goncalves explains how to execute and build trust and the importance of defining priorities, leadership development, and structuring and delivering individualized leadership programs within your business. She also shares her advice for how to structure your career, skillset, and drive in order to find and secure your dream job.

 

Key Points From This Episode:

 

• Elizabeth's background and how she ended up in her current role.
• How she decided on Hillsdale and grew in her role there.
• Executing and building trust
• How her work priorities shifted as she built up trust for the function of her role.
• Her approach to taking the temperature of what the organization needed.
• Leadership development: how she plans to approach the project and deliver it to their team.
• How Elizabeth is going about figuring out what a leader needs to grow and how to deliver it.
• Her advice for how to structure your career, upskill yourself, and then go out and find your dream job: always raise your hand!

 

Tweetables:

 

"One thing that I've learned in my career thus far: If something scares you, you walk through it. You don't back away from it." — Elizabeth Goncalves [0:06:48]

 

"It took someone like me, who understands what it takes to have a successful firm and to have successful relationships, to come in and asked questions, and then to determine where that would fit in under our priorities." — Elizabeth Goncalves [0:13:52]

 

"It doesn't matter how many years of leadership you have under your belt. There are always things that we can be doing better." — Elizabeth Goncalves [0:21:07]

 

Links Mentioned in Today's Episode:

 

Elizabeth Goncalves on LinkedIn

Hillsdale

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