Quietly Visible

Leaders who are passive or aggressive tend not to be seen as effective, influential, and impactful leaders. Being aggressive can instil fear in the people you lead and doesn’t create a good environment for your teams. If you are passive as a leader, you may find people walk all over you, and do not have trust in your leadership abilities. Assertive leaders have greater influence and impact. 

In this episode I talk about how you can be more assertive.

Fear prevents many of us pursuing the things we want (or even need) to do. It can hold us back from achieving our full potential and the careers and lives that we want. In a survey that I did, 78% of employed women said that fear prevented them from pursuing a career that they loved.

In this episode I talk about overcoming the fears that hold us back.

It is well known that Jeff Beszos, founder of Amazon is quoted as saying 'Your brand is what people say about you when you are not in the room'. What do other people say about you when you are not in the room? Your personal brand is the representation of who you are and what you stand for. So what is your personal brand? In this episode I talk about how you can develop yours.

The next episode after this one will be in 3 weeks.

Executive coach and expert in mentoring and leadership development, Dr Ruth Gotian has had a fascination with success from an early age.  She used to think that people were born successful or into a family with connections or because of the school they went to.  Through her studies and research she discovered that even if you come from the most difficult of personal circumstances, success is a skill that can be learnt. She claims that high achievers share the same four attributes: intrinsic motivation, perseverance, strong foundation, and constantly learning through informal means.  Using these four shared attributes as a guide you too can learn how to overcome your fear of failure or imposter syndrome and optimise your success in your own life.

About Dr Ruth Gotian

Dr. Ruth Gotian is the Chief Learning Officer and Assistant Professor of Education in Anesthesiology and former Assistant Dean of Mentoring and Executive Director of the Mentoring Academy at Weill Cornell Medicine. She has been hailed by the journal Nature and Columbia University as an expert in mentoring and leadership development and is currently a contributor to Forbes and Psychology Today where she writes about ‘optimising success’. She also has a weekly show and podcast by the same name where she gathers high achievers to talk about their journey to success.

In 2021, she was one of 30 people worldwide to be named to the Thinkers50 Radar List, dubbed the Oscars of management thinking and is a semi-finalist for the Forbes 50 Over 50 list.

Ruth is also the author of 'The Success Factor - Developing the Mindset and Skillset for Peak Performance'.

https://www.ruthgotian.com/

It is two years since the murder of George Floyd, which highlighted systemic, racist structures across the globe. Since then, what (if anything) has changed?

There was also an opportunity for the audience to have their say and ask questions.

This is the sixth and the final episode in the If You Want that Promotion Series to help you to be in the best possible position for pursuing your next leadership promotion, and this episode is all about establishing trust. Being trustworthy and establishing trust needs to happen way before you walk into that interview room. In this episode I share what you can do to establish trust so that your reputation of being trustworthy precedes you.

As you step into your executive role, you will continuously be confronted with situations in which you will feel fearful. But you will need to find a way to navigate and gain mastery of those feelings in order to deal with what lies ahead of you.

The further you step outside of your comfort zone, the more fearful it will feel. But the good thing is, you CAN master this. You can develop the courage to take on what lies ahead of you. Displaying courage will instil confidence in you as a leader to other people. In this episode, I share some things that you can do to develop courage and display it.

Continuing with the 'If You Want that Promotion...' series, this episode is all about aligning yourself for what it is that you want.

Research shows that extroverted employees receive more opportunities at work because their performance is more visible. Many introverted women don’t want to be in the spotlight, but a lot of what is required for your performance to be more visible, requires this.

Networking and self-promotion don’t come naturally to some introverted people. Activities for these can be overly stimulating. Not ones for enjoying the small talk involved in networking, and feeling like you have to always be lit up and in the limelight when self-promoting, can feel draining. In this episode I share what you can do to align yourself for your next promotion.

Did you know that a fear of public speaking is reported to be the most common phobia ahead of death, spiders, or heights?

There was a Q&A session at the end where some of the attendees had their questions answered.

Details of the public speaking experts who joined me are:

Do check out their websites to find out more about them.

Many introverted women who are leaders think that to get to the c-suite, they need to be more gregarious, more vocal, and more extroverted. Having a presence that screams 'I am a Leader' IS possible if you are an introverted woman. And you don't have to put on a persona to achieve it. This is third in a series of episodes to help you get your next leadership promotion.