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I’ve got another episode where I am a guest for you, this time I’m talking about how to get your voice heard at work with Aoife O’Brien on her Happier at Work podcast.
One of the key issues we discussed was the challenge of being interrupted in meetings, particularly for women. I provide strategies for managing interruptions and finding opportunities to speak up, including utilising allies and the powerful strategy of amplification.
In this episode you’ll hear more about…
The impact of gender bias on confidence.
Strategies for managing interruptions and finding opportunities to speak up.
The importance of integrating body language tools and my "Cloak of Authority" to feel more in control in challenging situations.
The significance of delivering feedback upwards in a diplomatic and solution-focused manner.
The importance of body language and ending contributions with confidence.
My name’s Carla Miller, leadership coach, author and trainer. And this is the Influence & Impact podcast for women leaders, helping you confidently navigate the ups and downs of leadership and feel less alone on your journey as a leader. In fortnightly episodes I share practical tools and insights from myself and my brilliant guests that will help you succeed in your career.
FREE RESOURCE - How To Say No Challenge:
If you struggle to say ‘no’ then this free 5 day challenge is for you. You’ll receive a short email each day containing a short video taking you through the 5 steps of my How To Say No framework. We’ll get you happily saying no in just 5 days!
Influence & Impact:
Join the next cohort of Influence & Impact to learn how to tackle self-doubt, increase your impact and become brilliant at influencing. It’s a small cohort working closely with me and includes 6 workshops and 2 peer coaching sessions.
Be Bolder
My Be Bolder 4 week confidence and assertiveness course will be running again in February. In it we cover:
⭐ Tackling imposter feelings and self-doubt
⭐ Mastering your mindset
⭐ Courageous conversations
⭐ Speaking up
Women Leading:
My Women Leading community gives you the support and strategies you need to:
⭐ Set boundaries and expectations
⭐ Prioritise your wellbeing
⭐ Coach your hybrid team effectively
⭐ Stop people pleasing
⭐ Lead under pressure
All for just £49/month
And if you’re not already an avid listener to Aoife’s Happier At Work podcast go follow it now. She has some fantastic guests talking about all aspects of work.
We all know we should be coaching our teams but it’s hard to know how to do that without going on a coaching for managers course. Until now!
In this week’s episode I interview Jude Sclater about her book ‘Think Like a Coach’ which is a wonderfully practical step by step guide that any manager can use to become a coach-like manager. Jude simplifies coaching for us, defining it as giving someone your attention while they think out loud and emphasizes the importance of listening and asking questions
We discuss…
- Jude’s 3 principles to help you become more coach-like with your team
- When to coach your team and when not to!
- Jude’s ‘Two Step’ approach to get you coaching straight away
- The number one step you can take to create psychological safety in your team
- How to coach in 5 minutes or less
- How to support a team member experiencing strong emotions
My name’s Carla Miller, leadership coach, author and trainer. And this is the Influence & Impact podcast for women leaders, helping you confidently navigate the ups and downs of leadership and feel less alone on your journey as a leader. In fortnightly episodes I share practical tools and insights from myself and my brilliant guests that will help you succeed in your career.
FREE RESOURCE - How To Say No Challenge:
If you struggle to say ‘no’ then this free 5 day challenge is for you. You’ll receive a short email each day containing a short video taking you through the 5 steps of my How To Say No framework. We’ll get you happily saying no in just 5 days!
Influence & Impact:
Join the next cohort of Influence & Impact to learn how to tackle self-doubt, increase your impact and become brilliant at influencing. It’s a small cohort working closely with me and includes 6 workshops and 2 peer coaching sessions.
Be Bolder
My Be Bolder 4 week confidence and assertiveness course will be running again in February. In it we cover:
⭐ Tackling imposter feelings and self-doubt
⭐ Mastering your mindset
⭐ Courageous conversations
⭐ Speaking up
Women Leading:
My Women Leading community gives you the support and strategies you need to:
⭐ Set boundaries and expectations
⭐ Prioritise your wellbeing
⭐ Coach your hybrid team effectively
⭐ Stop people pleasing
⭐ Lead under pressure
All for just £49/month
About Jude Sclater:
Jude Sclater is a coach, author, and trainer. Her book, “Think Like a Coach: How to empower your team through everyday conversations,” introduces the innovative Coaching Two-Step model that simplifies coaching down to its core principles, enabling you to swiftly adopt a coaching management style.
Over 20 years her career has spanned audit, project management, and learning and development for companies such as Deloitte. Pearson and Penguin Books. She draws on this vast experience to coach and train managers from consulting, legal, and financial service industries, guiding them from individual contributors to great team managers.
Links from Jude:
Website: www.thinkwithjude.com
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/judesclater
Instagram: www.instagram.com/thinkwithjude
Blog Signup: www.thinkwithjude.com/signmeup
Booksellers: www.thinkwithjude.com/think-like-a-coach#buy
This week’s episode is a little different in that I am the guest and you get to hear me being interviewed for once! In this episode I recorded for Lucy Gernon’s 360 LeadHERship podcast you’ll hear…
The story of my career and how and why I became a coach
My top tips on making the right first impression on a new line manager or senior stakeholder
How to hold your own and build your influence with the key stakeholders in your organisation
Some of my top tips for being confident around senior people
My name’s Carla Miller, leadership coach, author and trainer. And this is the Influence & Impact podcast for women leaders, helping you confidently navigate the ups and downs of leadership and feel less alone on your journey as a leader. In fortnightly episodes I share practical tools and insights from myself and my brilliant guests that will help you succeed in your career.
FREE RESOURCE - How To Say No Challenge:
If you struggle to say ‘no’ then this free 5 day challenge is for you. You’ll receive a short email each day containing a short video taking you through the 5 steps of my How To Say No framework. We’ll get you happily saying no in just 5 days!
Influence & Impact:
Join the next cohort of Influence & Impact to learn how to tackle self-doubt, increase your impact and become brilliant at influencing. It’s a small cohort working closely with me and includes 6 workshops and 2 peer coaching sessions.
Be Bolder
My Be Bolder 4 week confidence and assertiveness course will be running again in February. In it we cover:
⭐ Tackling imposter feelings and self-doubt
⭐ Mastering your mindset
⭐ Courageous conversations
⭐ Speaking up
Women Leading:
My Women Leading community gives you the support and strategies you need to:
⭐ Set boundaries and expectations
⭐ Prioritise your wellbeing
⭐ Coach your hybrid team effectively
⭐ Stop people pleasing
⭐ Lead under pressure
All for just £49/month
And if you’re not already an avid listener to Lucy’s 360 LeadHERship podcast go and add it to your follow list now.
Whilst some women sail through perimenopause, lots of us struggle with symptoms including brain fog, sleep issues, hot flushes and anxiety. Those symptoms can impede our ability to work, impact our confidence and cause an alarming number of women to leave their jobs.
I explore this with my guest Emma Thomas, founder of Managing the Menopause and host of the Middling Along podcast.
We discuss:
Why employers should care about supporting women through this transition
What managers can do to be supportive of colleagues struggling with perimenopause symptoms
How to talk to your line manager about your symptoms and what support you can request
Emma’s SENSE model for managing symptoms through lifestyle changes
Insights on how caffeine and alcohol impact your sleep
Emma is also teaching her SENSE model inside my Women Leading community at our bi-monthly menopause gatherings where we meet to share experiences and coping strategies.
My name’s Carla Miller, leadership coach, author and trainer. And this is the Influence & Impact podcast for women leaders, helping you confidently navigate the ups and downs of leadership and feel less alone on your journey as a leader. In fortnightly episodes I share practical tools and insights from myself and my brilliant guests that will help you succeed in your career.
FREE RESOURCE - How To Say No Challenge:
If you struggle to say ‘no’ then this free 5 day challenge is for you. You’ll receive a short email each day containing a short video taking you through the 5 steps of my How To Say No framework. We’ll get you happily saying no in just 5 days!
Influence & Impact:
Join the next cohort of Influence & Impact to learn how to tackle self-doubt, increase your impact and become brilliant at influencing. It’s a small cohort working closely with me and includes 6 workshops and 2 peer coaching sessions.
Be Bolder
My Be Bolder 4 week confidence and assertiveness course will be running again in February. In it we cover:
⭐ Tackling imposter feelings and self-doubt
⭐ Mastering your mindset
⭐ Courageous conversations
⭐ Speaking up
Women Leading:
My Women Leading community gives you the support and strategies you need to:
⭐ Set boundaries and expectations
⭐ Prioritise your wellbeing
⭐ Coach your hybrid team effectively
⭐ Stop people pleasing
⭐ Lead under pressure
All for just £49/month
About Emma Thomas:
Emma is the founder of Managing the Menopause - her experience in coaching, internal communications and change management make her perfectly placed to help organizations plan and execute strategies to become more ‘menopause-friendly.’ Emma lives in Oxford with her husband and two children, and is also a Director of the Udjat CIC, which operates a wide-range of projects within Oxford and beyond.
Emma’s website: www.managingthemenopause.com
Emma’s podcast: www.middlingalong.com
When I was sent a book called The Emotional Overdraft I instinctively knew that this was a topic that was going to resonate with me personally and you as listeners to this podcast.
An emotional overdraft is when you as a leader habitually overcome your employer’s challenges at the cost of our own physical and mental health. Sound familiar?
I am seeing this happening a LOT at the moment with the women within my Women Leading community so I was excited to dive into the topic with the book’s author Andy Brown.
We discussed:
My name’s Carla Miller, leadership coach, author and trainer. And this is the Influence & Impact podcast for women leaders, helping you confidently navigate the ups and downs of leadership and feel less alone on your journey as a leader. In fortnightly episodes I share practical tools and insights from myself and my brilliant guests that will help you succeed in your career.
FREE RESOURCE - How To Say No Challenge:
If you struggle to say ‘no’ then this free 5 day challenge is for you. You’ll receive a short email each day containing a short video taking you through the 5 steps of my How To Say No framework. We’ll get you happily saying no in just 5 days!
Influence & Impact:
Join the next cohort of Influence & Impact to learn how to tackle self-doubt, increase your impact and become brilliant at influencing. It’s a small cohort working closely with me and includes 6 workshops and 2 peer coaching sessions.
Be Bolder
My Be Bolder 4 week confidence and assertiveness course will be running again in February. In it we cover:
⭐ Tackling imposter feelings and self-doubt
⭐ Mastering your mindset
⭐ Courageous conversations
⭐ Speaking up
Women Leading:
My Women Leading community gives you the support and strategies you need to:
⭐ Set boundaries and expectations
⭐ Prioritise your wellbeing
⭐ Coach your hybrid team effectively
⭐ Stop people pleasing
⭐ Lead under pressure
All for just £49/month
About Andy Brown:
Andy has over 30 years’ experience as an award-winning adviser and coach for people-based businesses. He’s also a podcast host and the author of Amazon #1 best seller, ‘The Emotional Overdraft: 10 simple changes for balancing business success and wellbeing’ a book for entrepreneurs, leaders and founders that articulates the often overlooked mental and physical costs of leadership
Links from Andy:
Buy the book in the UK
Complete the free Emotional Overdraft Self-Assessment
Connect with Andy
Follow Emotional Overdraft on Instagram
Get all the latest Emotional Overdraft articles
Do you worry about what other people think of you?
Perhaps it stops you contributing in meetings for fear of judgement from others.
Or keeps you awake replaying conversations in your head feeling like you said something wrong.
Or it means when you’ve got something challenging to say you water it down to the point where you’re barely making a point anymore.
If any of that sounds familiar then keep listening because in this short episode I’m going to give you some insights and strategies you can use to reduce those worries and allow you to perform at your best at work.
This is the third in a series of three podcasts this summer around mindset so if you’ve not already listened to episode 166 on overcommitting and episode 168 on people pleasing do bookmark those to listen to.
One of the most powerful things you can do is learn how to say no which is why I’ve created my free How To Say No challenge which will take you from saying yes and regretting it to feeling comfortable saying no in just 5 days. Head over to carlamillertraining.com/sayno to access that.
My name’s Carla Miller, leadership coach, author, trainer and founder of Women Leading, the community that helps women lead without overwhelm. I’m on a mission to empower women leaders in the workplace and make leading less lonely.
And this is the Influence & Impact podcast for women leaders, helping you confidently navigate the ups and downs of leadership and feel less alone on your journey as a leader. In fortnightly episodes I share practical tools and insights from myself and my brilliant guests that will help you succeed in your career.
FREE RESOURCE - How To Say No Challenge:
If you struggle to say ‘no’ then this free 5 day challenge is for you. You get a short email containing a short video each day, taking you through the 5 steps of my How To Say No framework. We’ll get you happily saying no in just 5 days.
Access it at carlamillwertraining.com/sayno
Influence & Impact:
Join the September cohort of Influence & Impact to learn how to tackle self-doubt, increase your impact and become brilliant at influencing. It’s a small cohort working closely with me and includes 6 workshops and 2 peer coaching sessions.
Find out more at https://carlamiller.co.uk/influence
Women Leading:
You can now join over 40 women in Women Leading for just £49 a month and learn to lead without overwhelm. It includes peer support calls, group coaching calls, regular menopause events and a live leadership or wellbeing workshop each month on topics including…
Find up more and sign up at https://www.carlamillertraining.com/womenleading
You may also find episode 32 Why we look to others for validation useful
Today’s guest Sue Musson has handled many a crisis in her career, including leading one of the largest NHS Trusts through the pandemic. In this episode she shares what she’s learnt about keeping calm in a crisis.
We discuss:
Sue’s overall philosophy for coping with a crisis
How to calm yourself down from the initial state of panic
How to keep your team calm in a crisis too
The importance of taking personal responsibility as a leader
What to do when you don’t know what the right decision is
The keys to successful communication when managing a crisis
Sue shares some great stories from her own leadership experience, as well as her 6 step crisis management framework from her book Firecracker Leadership.
My name’s Carla Miller, leadership coach, author, trainer and founder of Women Leading, the community that helps women lead without overwhelm. I’m on a mission to empower women leaders in the workplace and make leading less lonely.
And this is the Influence & Impact podcast for women leaders, helping you confidently navigate the ups and downs of leadership and feel less alone on your journey as a leader. In fortnightly episodes I share practical tools and insights from myself and my brilliant guests that will help you succeed in your career.
About Sue Musson:
Sue Musson achieved her first board-level leadership role at the age of twenty-seven. She is keen to share what she has learned to help other women build their confidence and impact.
For 30 years, Sue has led numerous organisations including her own successful businesses under the Firecracker brand. She recently completed her term as Chairman of Liverpool University Hospitals, one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, with 14,000 staff and a turnover of £1.2Bn. Sue led the trust through a merger, the pandemic and the opening of a new hospital by the Prince and Princess of Wales.
Her experience of leadership spans the full gamut of highs and lows, which she recounts with honesty, insight and humour in her new book, Firecracker Leadership.
The book achieved number one bestseller status in three categories on Amazon and became a top ten bestseller in the USA. Firecracker Leadership is endorsed by the Mindvalley Book Club: “We are happy to endorse Firecracker Leadership (which) is a wonderfully written and structured book. It is packed with great ideas and quote-worthy wisdoms…It is a wonderful book that we are happy we got our hands on.”
Concepts from the book have been featured in publications like Forbes, European Business Review, Elite Business, She Can Code, HR News, Startups Magazine, Training Journal and The HRDirector.
Having served for fifteen years as a non-executive director and chair of five of the UK’s most significant healthcare organisations, Sue continues her public service by chairing panels to appoint UK judges in addition to running her own businesses.
Sue’s website - https://www.suemusson.com/
Sue on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sue-musson-a0119416
FREE RESOURCE - How To Say No Challenge:
If you struggle to say ‘no’ then this free 5 day challenge is for you. You’ll receive a short email each day containing a short video taking you through the 5 steps of my How To Say No framework. We’ll get you happily saying no in just 5 days!
Access it at carlamillertraining.com/sayno
Influence & Impact:
Join the September cohort of Influence & Impact to learn how to tackle self-doubt, increase your impact and become brilliant at influencing. It’s a small cohort working closely with me and includes 6 workshops and 2 peer coaching sessions.
Find out more at https://carlamiller.co.uk/influence
Women Leading:
My Women Leading community gives you the support you need to:
⭐ Set boundaries and expectations
⭐ Prioritise your wellbeing
⭐ Coach your hybrid team effectively
⭐ Stop people pleasing
⭐ Lead under pressure
You can read more and sign up here: https://www.carlamillertraining.com/womenleading
Think you might be a people pleaser? Perhaps you’ve got poor boundaries with others, really want to be liked or need a lot of external validation to feel that you’re good enough to be in your role?
In this solo episode I’m going to share some of the signs that you’re a people pleaser, what it’s costing you and 4 practical strategies you can use to break free from your people pleasing patterns and start prioritising your own needs.
This is the second in a series of 3 podcasts this summer around mindset and setting boundaries and if you’ve not already listened to episode 166 on overcommitting.
One of the most powerful things you can do is learn how to say no which is why I’ve created my free How To Say No challenge which will take you from saying yes and regretting it to feeling comfortable saying no in just 5 days. Head over to carlamillertraining.com/sayno to access that.
My name’s Carla Miller, leadership coach, author, trainer and founder of Women Leading, the community that helps women lead without overwhelm. I’m on a mission to empower women leaders in the workplace and make leading less lonely.
And this is the Influence & Impact podcast for women leaders, helping you confidently navigate the ups and downs of leadership and feel less alone on your journey as a leader. In fortnightly episodes I share practical tools and insights from myself and my brilliant guests that will help you succeed in your career.
FREE RESOURCE - How To Say No Challenge:
If you struggle to say ‘no’ then this free 5 day challenge is for you. You get a short email containing a short video each day, taking you through the 5 steps of my How To Say No framework. We’ll get you happily saying no in just 5 days.
Access it at carlamillwertraining.com/sayno
Influence & Impact:
Join the September cohort of Influence & Impact to learn how to tackle self-doubt, increase your impact and become brilliant at influencing. It’s a small cohort working closely with me and includes 6 workshops and 2 peer coaching sessions.
Find out more at https://carlamiller.co.uk/influence
Women Leading:
You can now join over 40 women in Women Leading for just £49 a month and learn to lead without overwhelm. It includes peer support calls, group coaching calls, regular menopause events and a live leadership or wellbeing workshop each month on topics including…
Managing an Overwhelmed Team
How and When to Coach Your Team
Reducing Drama in your Team
Giving Feedback Without Feeling Awkward
Find up more and sign up at https://www.carlamillertraining.com/womenleading
What is executive presence? Why does it matter? And what can we do to increase our executive presence?
These are the questions I explored in a fantastic chat with fellow women’s leadership coach Lucy Gernon in this week’s podcast episode.
We also discussed…
There is a lot of gold in this episode!
My name’s Carla Miller, leadership coach, author, trainer and founder of Women Leading, the community that helps women lead without overwhelm. I’m on a mission to empower women leaders in the workplace and make leading less lonely.
And this is the Influence & Impact podcast for women leaders, helping you confidently navigate the ups and downs of leadership and feel less alone on your journey as a leader. In fortnightly episodes I share practical tools and insights from myself and my brilliant guests that will help you succeed in your career.
About Lucy Gernon:
Lucy Gernon is an Irish mom of 3, Multi Award-Winning Executive Coach, host of The 360 LeadHERship Podcast and acclaimed international speaker supporting women in senior leadership roles to accelerate their careers with confidence and develop as leaders without sacrificing work-life balance. She is sought out by Fortune 500 companies for her expertise in executive presence, confidence building, leadership, conflict management, healthy productivity, personal branding and more. Lucy is the Founder of 3SIXTY Leaders Club—the only positive psychology-infused membership focused on career advancement, leadership and work-life balance. Lucy is a certified positive psychology coach, holds Bachelor and Masters Degrees in Science, Diploma in Integrative Coaching, and had a 20-year career in leadership roles in American & British multinationals. Her corporate CV and business experience, combined with her extensive executive coaching and business experience gives her a unique perspective on the needs and ambitions of female leaders and how to get them there
Website: www.lucygernon.com
Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-360-leadhership-podcast/id1596311791
Executive Presence Course: www.lucygernon.com/ep
Instagram: www.instagram.com/lucygernon
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/lucygernon
HBR Article Exec Presence that Lucy refers to in this episode: https://hbr.org/2024/01/the-new-rules-of-executive-presence
FREE RESOURCE - How To Say No Challenge:
If you struggle to say ‘no’ then this free 5 day challenge is for you. You’ll receive a short email each day containing a short video taking you through the 5 steps of my How To Say No framework. We’ll get you happily saying no in just 5 days!
Access it at carlamillertraining.com/sayno
Influence & Impact:
Join the September cohort of Influence & Impact to learn how to tackle self-doubt, increase your impact and become brilliant at influencing. It’s a small cohort working closely with me and includes 6 workshops and 2 peer coaching sessions.
Find out more at https://carlamiller.co.uk/influence
Women Leading:
You can now join over 40 women in Women Leading for just £49 a month and learn to lead without overwhelm. It includes peer support calls, group coaching calls, regular menopause events and a live leadership or wellbeing workshop each month on topics including…
Find up more and sign up at https://www.carlamillertraining.com/womenleading
Do you find yourself overpromising and creating unnecessary stress for yourself? Or putting in lots more effort than anyone expects, or needs you to? How about saying yes when you’ve got no capacity to get more work done or jumping into help when no-one has asked you to?
If any of those resonate it sounds like you may be overcommitting - constantly trying to show how much value you add, by going above and beyond when it isn’t needed.
In this episode I’m going to…
break down the ways we overcommit
explain why we overcommit
share the questions you can ask to help you dial back the overcommitting (and still do a great job!)
I also share a brilliant new free resource I’ve created for you – the How To Say No Challenge which you can sign up to at carlamillertraining.com/sayno
This is the first in a series of 3 podcasts this summer around mindset and setting boundaries and you can expect an episode on people pleasing and another one on worrying too much what people think of you. I’ve also recorded some great guest interviews such as exclusive presence and managing the menopause which we’ll be releasing in the coming months.
My name’s Carla Miller, leadership coach, author, trainer and founder of Women Leading, the community that helps women lead without overwhelm. I’m on a mission to empower women leaders in the workplace and make leading less lonely.
And this is the Influence & Impact podcast for women leaders, helping you confidently navigate the ups and downs of leadership and feel less alone on your journey as a leader. In fortnightly episodes I share practical tools and insights from myself and my brilliant guests that will help you succeed in your career.
FREE RESOURCE - How To Say No Challenge:
If you struggle to say ‘no’ then this free 5 day challenge is for you. You get a short email containing a short video each day, taking you through the 5 steps of my How To Say No framework. We’ll get you happily saying no in just 5 days.
Access it at carlamillwertraining.com/sayno
Women Leading:
You can now join over 40 women in Women Leading for just £49 a month and learn to lead without overwhelm. It includes peer support calls, group coaching calls, regular menopause events and a live leadership or wellbeing workshop each month on topics including…
Managing an Overwhelmed Team
How and When to Coach Your Team
Reducing Drama in your Team
Giving Feedback Without Feeling Awkward
Find up more and sign up at https://www.carlamillertraining.com/womenleading
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