Mums On Cloud Nine

During series three, we are teaching women how to be bold and proud in pursuing their career ambitions by sharing top tips and expertise from individuals who champion equality and diversity in the workplace.

Today, we're talking about how to benefit from the power of mentoring, whether a mentor or a mentee, we're going to be looking at all of those different aspects and how you might benefit from being a mentor and or being mentored.

Here are the highlights from this episode:

{3:31} The benefits of being a mentor

{4:09} How to have a great mentoring relationship

{5:48} Characteristics of a great mentor

{6:40} Informal mentoring arrangements

{10:40} Importance of coaching skills as a mentor

{15:00} Recognising when a mentee needs additional support e.g. counseling

{19:27} Understanding learning styles

Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit www.supermums.org

Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/

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I'm delighted to have Carla Bolton-Marsh join me on the show. Carla is a Global Account Director at Salesforce, but also a Business and Leadership Coach, and she's been busy working with some of our super mums one to one.

We talk about how to overcome your fears because that's one of the things that many of our trainees face when they're thinking about starting out in a new career. It can feel very scary to change direction or even to go for a promotion because quite often you don't know if the grass is greener or not and so in this episode, we're going to be talking about how to overcome those fears, how to think about them logically and how to help move forward so you're no longer stuck in the rut.

Here are the highlights from this episode:

{2:11} How Carla started as a coach

{3:22} How Carla faced her fears and moved forward

{7:47} Building confidence after maternity leave

{9:21} Dealing with the fear of not feeling good enough

{14:21} Using your spare time to learn

{15:52} The value of coaching to move you past limiting beliefs

Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit www.supermums.org

Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/

Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on Cloud Nine https://supermums.org/screensavers/

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In this episode, I'm introducing you to Roger Hamilton. A gentleman who influenced my life 10 years ago.

One of the tools that he shared with me at one of his conferences is a tool called wealth dynamics which I found incredibly useful to find my own superpower and it's why I want to share it with you today.

Here are the highlights from the episode:

{1:54} Introduction to Wealth Dynamics

{3:40} Are you a creator?

{5:14} Are you a star?

{6:10} Are you a supporter?

{7:03} Are you a deal maker?

{7:58} Are you a trader?

{8:51} Are you an accumulator?

{9:43} Are you a lord?

{10:28} Are you a mechanic?

{11:31} You may be a combination of profiles

{13:36} Creating a team with different profiles and roles

Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit www.supermums.org

Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/

Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on Cloud Nine https://supermums.org/screensavers/

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In this episode we're talking with Musidora who works at Salesforce as an area vice-president and is Head of UK Energy and Utilities.

Musidora has been named one of Yahoo Finance Heroes, Top 100 Female Future Leaders of 2020, and has also been recognised as one of the UK's 50 leading lights of kindness and leadership 2020. She's an equality and diversity champion at Salesforce.

Here are the highlights from the episode:

{1:22} Introduction to Musidora

{7:55) What a sales role is really like

{8:40} Finding mentors and inspiration in your career

{11:28} Ambition, Motivation and having to focus on family

{14:34} The importance of having support

{19:16} Recognising sabotage

{26:04} Setting boundaries and juggling responsibilities

Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit www.supermums.org

Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/

Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on Cloud Nine https://supermums.org/screensavers/

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Today, I wrap up the series with an episode on how to improve your confidence to change career, or indeed advance your career, choosing to pursue a promotion or change career. Up-skilling in a brand new discipline is a tough decision. As a mum, it can be really daunting and we can put up lots of barriers to even entertaining the idea.

So today I'm going to talk about the three C's. Connection, Competence, and Choice. We'll look at how these three C's can help you develop your confidence to move forward as well as give you a framework to think through.

By the end of this episode my wish for you is that you go ahead and make a plan of action and your career goals for 2021.

Here are the highlights from the episode:

{2:53} Introduction to the 3 C's

{4:45} Connection

{8:38} Competence

{13:27} Choice

Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit www.supermums.org

Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/

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Today I will interview Keir Bowden and Jodi Wagner and we will talk about public speaking skills and their value in helping you elevate your career and your profile in the sector. We will talk about their 6-weeks program, how it is structured, how they help people to get more confident speaking in front of others, and how this can help you build your career.

Here are the highlights from this episode:

{01:44} Introduction to Keir & Jodi

{03:40} Public speaking and Impostor Syndrome

{07:04} The structure of Jodi & Keir's program

{13:32} How they encourage people to talk

{17:21} The success of seeing people grow in 6 weeks

Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit www.supermums.org

Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/

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In this episode we will be talking about creating your own success with a focus on how to build your profile and credibility using PR. Now I'm really excited about this topic because having worked with a lot of women who are upskilling and developing and carving out their career in a new sector, it's been brilliant to see how much they are interested in speaking at events, talking on webinars, launching their own community groups, writing their own blogs and getting really active on social media.

It's absolutely amazing that they really want to shout out about what they're doing, what they're learning and really not only doing it for themselves, but sharing their expertise and experience with others.

Here are the highlights from this episode:

{02:49} Heather's story

{06:08} The PR industry

{11:14} Top tips for raising your profile

{18:08} Strategy for disseminating content

{26:24} The right to disconnect

Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit www.supermums.org

Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/

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In today's session, I'm delighted to interview Rachel Watson. We will talk about exploring your potential and we will explore how you can up-skill as a Salesforce developer, the different ways you can go about it and the different job opportunities.

Here are the highlights from this episode:

{0:42} Introduction to Rachel

{3:21} Debunking a myth

{9:41} A sales developer in the tech industry

{12:41} The decision to study Salesforce

{18:07} The different roles in Salesforce

{20:22} A Support network for women in tech

{27:02} The responsibility to create a more equitable world

Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit www.supermums.org

Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/

Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on Cloud Nine https://supermums.org/screensavers/

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In this episode I'm delighted to be talking to Nathan Simmons about leadership skills in Digital Transformation. Nathan is an independent senior leadership coach and consultant and has worked in leadership for 23 years.

Here are the highlights from this episode:

{1:11} Why leadership skills are important

{4:50} Introduction to Nathan

{8:19} Leading by building confidence and empowering people

{9:14} The difference between management and leadership

{10:42} Essential leadership skills

{14:22} Leadership frameworks

{20:19} Nathan's Top Tips for gaining commitment and trust

Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit www.supermums.org

Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/

Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on Cloud Nine https://supermums.org/screensavers/

This podcast is sponsored by Enfamil https://www.enfamil.com/

In today's we're going to be talking about the skills you need to become a Salesforce Consultant and in particular, the route that I decided to take.

When I trained up in Salesforce and started my career in tech, I'd never had a tech background before, but realised through using a CRM system and particularly Salesforce within the nonprofit I was running at the time, that I could actually manage and develop a CRM system to achieve and support my business goals. And that's really where my journey all began. So I'm going to be telling you a bit today about what a Salesforce consultant entails, what are the different roles.

Here are the highlights from the episode:

{1:29} How the journey started

{3:56} The importance of understand the products

{9:52} Some of the personal skills required as a consultant

{13:43} Agile Project Management

Find out more about how Supermums empowers women around the globe with training and recruitment services. Join us to train, volunteer, sponsor or hire our amazing women in tech. Visit www.supermums.org

Find out about our free short courses here to start or progress your career in tech https://supermums.org/accelerate-your-salesforce-career/

Download our positive affirmation screensavers here to remind yourself how to be a Mum on Cloud Nine https://supermums.org/screensavers/

This podcast is sponsored by Enfamil https://www.enfamil.com/