Professional Success Podcast

In today´s episode of Professional Success Podcast, Sheila talks about the transition from team member to manager. Sheila gives a few tips and ideas to get you started, go ahead, and make this transition a big success.

Episode Highlights:

• The transition situation at work is not uncommon, but that doesn't mean that it isn't or can't be awkward. The worst thing that you can try to do is ignore that reality.
• Give your team the space and some ideas to help get them started and then just listen. Also, let the teams' enthusiasm open the door to further conversation.
• We all know that trust is what's going to be the foundation for high-performing teams.
• There is no one right way for a team to be a team but you can work towards finding that level of norms and how you're going to work together.
• As you step into this new leadership role, hit that pause button. Take a look at what's going on and what could shift in a way that's going to serve everyone.

3 Key Points:

1. Think about what you are most uncertain about. Maybe you're worried you don't think you're ready for the job or that maybe friendships will be challenged or fade. Let them know what's on your mind and invite them to take that opportunity to do the same.
2. Next, consider inviting feedback, the great thing about moving into a leadership role is that you can ask for feedback. Ask your team and then listen to them, process that information and respond in some way where you're considering that and making adjustments.
3. The key is to understand which norms serve your team and which might have the wrong impact. So you want to have an open and honest conversation with the team early on, about how they want to work together as a team.

Tweetable Quotes:

• "So start by just simply putting it out there." - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli
• "Think about moving on towards trying to tap into and harness a collective level of incitement." - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli
• "These small but early wins can help you to earn trust with your team." - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli
• "You want to try to establish shared norms." - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli

Resources Mentioned:

• Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website
• Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Podcast

In today´s episode of Professional Success Podcast, your host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach, Recruiter, and Talent Development Leader, gives some tips on how to conduct effective hybrid meetings. What are some things we can do when we're facilitating these hybrid meetings as an attendee to make them as effective and painless as possible?

Episode Highlights:

• Sheila states that amongst so many things, first, an effective hybrid meeting begins with proper preparation, planning, and consideration.
• Engaging a blend of participants can require a little bit of creativity. So think ahead about where you want to engage your participants, says Sheila.
• We may consider a couple of things during the actual meeting which includes taking a remote-first approach. This means that everyone whether in person or remote, logs into the meeting on their screen to participate and stay in the meeting.
• Finally, Sheila talks a little bit about after the meeting. Ask for feedback from your participants. What would they like to see different next time?

3 Key Points:

1. Hybrid meetings require us to be even more present. So we want to make sure we're paying attention to the experience, perspective, and expertise that's needed to be at this meeting.
2. Thinking through what type of tech is going to help you to get to the outcomes of the meeting or the level of participation that you need ahead of time is going to set you up for so much more success.
3. Sheila suggests making your meeting as interactive as possible, asking questions, allowing people to share using the chat, using polls. More engagement opportunities would make the participants even more engaged.

Resources Mentioned:

• Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website Podcast

In today´s episode of Professional Success Podcast, your host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach, Professor, and Talent Development Leader, talks about how to be your own self-advocate at work. Sheila shares some tips for self-advocacy at work.

Episode Highlights:

• Being your own biggest advocate at work is as simple as taking these actions:
  • Know your what and why
  • Get your mindset ready
  • Recruit your champions
  • Build stamina before you hit go
• It is important to know that great self-advocacy does not include being overly emotional. We want to lead with rational facts and not with emotion.
• You're offering the company your expertise and your drive to succeed. They can say yes, or they can say no. But make sure you ready yourself to make a case for why you aren't just the person, just the asset that they need.
• Consider all of your stakeholders and choose a starting place, all you need to do is open a door.

3 Key Points:

1. You can self-advocate by being clear and specific about what you need. Lead self-advocacy with rational facts and not with emotions and to do this you need to get your mindset ready.
2. Next, think about recruiting your champions in this process. Build yourself a village of mentors, coaches, experts, and others you need to support your cause.
3. Self-advocacy is rarely a one-and-done act, it's a process!

Resources Mentioned:

• Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website
• Professional Success Podcast

On today´s episode of Professional Success Podcast, your host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach, Recruiter, and Talent Development Leader, shares some tips to get more recognized at work as feeling underappreciated at work can be painful.

Episode Highlights:

• There might be recognition that's hiding right in plain sight.
• One of the best ways to receive recognition is by role modeling and practicing it yourself.
• Sheila suggests being patient as the pandemic has changed the world of work in ways we never could have imagined.

3 Key Points:

1. When we know how we like to receive appreciation, we can ask for it. Also, when we take the time to understand how other people prefer to be appreciated, we can offer them appreciation in that format.
2. To feel more appreciated, we must understand what our version of feeling appreciated is and what it feels like.
3. Take some ownership by talking to your boss. It's a great opportunity to do a little bit of self-promotion as well while letting them know that you'd like to be recognized.

Resources Mentioned:

• Professional Success Coaching: Website
• Professional Success Podcast

On today´s episode of Professional Success Podcast, your host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, shares tips on some of the most common habits that we have to stop and the tactics that we can use to break away from them.

Episode Highlights:

• When a meeting request comes in, what if we asked better questions instead of checking our availability. We discuss what to do instead
• Another work habit discussed is to rethink is responding immediately to an email in your inbox.
• We want to communicate in a way that is authentic to ourselves, in a way that represents how we want to be communicated to others.
• Bosses tend to be busy; they don't always have the time or the presence of mind to track everything that they've asked someone to do. So we discuss what to do about that.
• Maybe you're always chasing that next promotion, without asking yourself, do I want that next promotion? We chat about how to tackle that question.

3 Key Points:

1. Sheila discusses three work habits that we should all reconsider.
2. The next time you receive a calendar invite, pause and reflect before you hit yes. Your time is precious, important, and it's a resource, and part of your job is to manage that resource wisely.
3. Some emails do indeed need more immediate attention but, for many emails, it might even be better to sit on something for 24 hours because in that time, it's likely that there will be more data or information that can solve the problem.

Resources Mentioned:

• Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website
• Podcast

On today´s episode of Professional Success Podcast, your host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach, Recruiter, and Talent Development Leader, shares a few tips on using LinkedIn to stand out in your current role. She talks about some strategies you can use to stand out on LinkedIn all from the comfort of your virtual office.

Episode Highlights:

• If you want to understand the power of LinkedIn, you want to use 5 to 10 minutes to spot industry, shifting trends, and insights from leading thinkers and institutions. • Sheila recalls when she made a career change, she was motivated to impress, but there was a lack of confidence in her instincts and ideas. • The last tip Sheila gives is to be a Brand Ambassador and how to help your company stand out.

3 Key Points: 1. The next time you're on LinkedIn, pull yourself away from the non-interesting feed, and focus instead on curating the content you see. Choose people thinkers, business leaders, institutions, and hashtags that you like to follow. 2. LinkedIn groups are a forum for participating in hot topical conversations. You can join groups based on almost any affinity, can think of the school you attended, past employers, industry, geography, interests, and many more. 3. Putting your company on the map by highlighting its achievements is another way to be noticed or recognized at work. Consider where you can highlight work that you or your company is doing that contributes to the conversations shared by big thinkers in your industry.

Tweetable Quotes: • "You can use LinkedIn to spot insights and trends." - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli • "What you're doing is what your organization's doing." - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli • "Once you're in a group, it's a great place to start, or participate in conversations." - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli • "The second tip is to learn and share best practices yourself." - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli

Resources Mentioned: • Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website Podcast

In today´s episode of 'Professional Success Podcast' your host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, shares tips on how to navigate meeting overwhelm. She talks about various ways to manage meeting overload.

Episode Highlights: Meetings can be excellent drivers of collaboration, connection, innovation, and alignment when scheduled for the right reasons, with the right people, and with the right objectives, says Sheila.

• Think about your time like you think about finances. Think about where will you invest and how you will save.
• You'll improve your filtering capability over time in terms of deciding whether to attend a meeting.
• Declining a meeting is about protecting your time; it's not a rejection of the work or the host.
• When you're the one hosting meeting, model the consideration that you'd like to be offered to you, and offer grace to those who decline.

3 Key Points:

1. We need to adjust our meeting mindset, and make better decisions about when to hold meetings, or attend meetings. Our time and energy are finite resources, and it's our job to be mindful of how and where they've spent.
2. Before deciding on attending a meeting, think if that meeting is worth your time. Will it allow you to participate in an important conversation, or will it build important relationships?
3. In case you decide on declining a meeting, you need to do so strategically. Ensure that your response to the organizer is courteous and subtle, and it captures that exact sentiment.

Tweetable Quotes:

• "When we walk around with a single solution in hand, we assume every problem requires that exact solution." - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli
• "There are outcomes and impacts that are yours that you need to deliver." - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli
• "But that's yours to invest or to save, don't allow someone else's agenda to shape your day." - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli
• "There's no formula that tells you whether a meeting is worth your time" - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli
• "We need to be creative, and how we want to achieve outcomes." - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli
• "I think it's worth celebrating every 15-minute increment that you win back." - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli

Resources Mentioned:

• Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website Podcast

In today´s episode of 'Professional Success Podcast' your host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach, Recruiter, and Talent Development Leader shares a few tips on how to do an effective job search during the holidays. Sheila gives a few reasons why she advocates for continuing your search during the holiday season.

Episode Highlights:

• Many companies are extremely active in the job market during the holidays because they're looking to fill open positions, says Sheila.
• Sheila suggests setting aside lots of time that you can dedicate to looking for jobs and networking.
• You might make a connection with someone who can help you land your dream job in the New Year, mentions Sheila.
• If you want to take a break from looking for jobs, you can still spend time on other areas of your job search like organizing your information and updating your documents.
• If your expertise is in non-profit marketing then your social media profile, resume, or cover letter should be sorted out during holidays to expedite your job search.

3 Key Points:

1. One of the reasons why companies hire during the holidays is because before new budgets are set, many companies know exactly how much they can afford to pay new hires and bring people into the organization before the calendar year ends.
2. Connect with your network through virtual holiday parties, in person, holiday parties, social media, or regular old phone calls, advises Sheila.
3. You can focus on getting organized job search during the holidays as it can help you keep track of everything and avoid any mistakes like accidentally following up with the same recruiter twice in the same week, etc.

Tweetable Quotes:

• "With fewer competing resumes, yours is going to more easily rise to the top." - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli
• "How should you be thinking about Job Search during the holidays?" - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli
• "You want to prioritize quality time with your family." - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli
• "Maybe there are new tasks or skills that you can add to your resume." - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli
• "What better gift could you give yourself and your family than a new job for the new year?" - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli

Resources Mentioned:

• Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website Podcast

In today´s greatest hits episode of 'Professional Success Podcast', host Sheila Boysen - Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach, Recruiter and Talent Development Leader talks about learning and building "Power Skills" and the ways to move further in this direction.

Episode Highlights:

• When we talk about how we define skills (hard & soft skills), she thinks it helps when we consider it in a way that's opposite.
• Power skills are essential in the world that lays ahead of us in central in the future of the world of work.
• Creative thinking would be another example for being able to come up with unique solutions, or alternatives because that's what drives innovation.
• One of the most interesting new corporate competencies that she wants to touch is actually curiosity.
• Put some intention into continuously developing each of your own power skills.

3 Key Points:

1. Hard skills change all the time, they're constantly becoming obsolete and they're actually relatively easy to learn.
2. The bottom line is that we need to take these power skills seriously and we need to build ways for people to really learn them.
3. Focus on listening to learn, and not just listening to respond.

Tweetable Quotes:

• ""You've probably heard the terminology quite often of hard skills versus soft skills." - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli
• "Specifically, we're starting to see the language change from soft skills, to power skills." - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli
• "And how does shifting the language to something like power skills, make a difference?" - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli
• "So this means not only being cooperative, but also displaying strong leadership skills when necessary." - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli
• "So let's all change this language, let's all focus on how we can actually go about calling these not soft skills, but power skills." - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli

Resources Mentioned:

• Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: WebsitePodcast

Host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli is here to talk about how to create and implement a career plan that will bring you true happiness in life. It may seem like a giant monster but with Sheila's help, you can tackle it one step at a time!

Episode Highlights:

• Whether you're very close to your dream job or have a few steps to go, you need to have a career plan
• A career plan is going to be a constantly evolving process throughout your life
• Having a career plan helps you to answer the question, "what do you do?"
• You'll be able to make smarter decisions about your career
• Creating your plan can be done in 3 steps:
• Reflection into yourself is made more effective when taking notes and making lists to assess where you are right now
• Lists can include what you're good at and how you want to feel in your next job; prioritize those things
• Research the jobs that you think you would enjoy and make a list of as many jobs as you can think of
• Use your network and any resources possible to learn about jobs; you might find some you didn't even know existed
• Review these lists that you have made and narrow them down to one or two jobs that would best fit you
• Think about your skills and strengths and how they would apply to each of these positions
• Do the job tasks align with how you want to feel at work?
• Sheila still reassess her plan every 6 months because she knows that as life goes on, people change
• After you have established your career plan, it's time to put that plan together
• Utilize job boards and postings to highlight the different aspects of the job so you know what areas you are good at and what areas you need to work on
• Green: what you're really good at and have a lot of experience in
• Yellow: what you are kind of good at and have a little experience in
• Red: what you have no experience in
• Find any way that you can to learn and grow in whatever way that works best for you
• Write your goal down and make it SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Time-Bound)
• Seek out a mentor that has the skills that you're looking for, can hold you accountable, and sees your blindspot
• Make a list of the qualities and characteristics that you need your mentor to have

3 Key Points:

1. The process of creating your career plan involves 3 steps: reflection, research, and review.
2. It's important to reassess your career plan one or two times every year. As you go through life, your wants and needs will shift.
3. There are other ways to learn other than formal training, such as having a mentor or on-the-job learning.

Tweetable Quotes:

• "A career plan is a continual process that you're going to visit all the way through your career." - Sheila Boysen-Rotelli
• "One thought might lead to another, so it's a good idea to just put it all down." - Sheila Boysen-Rotelli
• "There are lots of different ways that you can gain experience and knowledge and upscale yourself." - Sheila Boysen-Rotelli
• "Self-awareness takes reflection." - Sheila Boysen-Rotelli

Resources Mentioned:

• Contact Sheila at [email protected]
• Fast Track Your Job Search: fasttrackyourjobsearch.com
• Glassdoor: https://www.glassdoor.com/index.htm