SisterSmart Leadership

Every leader with an eye on a senior role needs to understand how to find a mentor. 

When you seek out the right mentors, they become an advantage that will help you rise into senior leadership roles more quickly and easily. 

In this episode, Jill and SisterSmart Career Success Coach, Sarah, share how to determine what you want to get out of a mentorship, find the mentors that are right for you, and nurture those relationships to position yourself in the best way.

They also share a few of the traps you’ll want to avoid in a mentor relationship so you can ensure the relationship is beneficial for both you and them. 

01:08 — It’s your job as the mentee to find your mentor 

02:51 — How to identify what you need and want out of a mentor

07:51 — Why you want to start with an informal relationship rather than jumping into a mentorship 

10:43 — How to have the conversations to get what you'd like out of the mentorship

14:20 — Understand what isn’t appropriate or ideal to bring to your mentor 

16:22 — How to become the mentee that your mentor loves to support

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See what steps you need to take and the right questions to ask yourself to find your perfect mentor

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Everyone's heard the phrase, your network is your net worth. Then why do so few mid-career women have the robust network that will get them into senior management? 

According to McKinsey, even female CEOs have networks that are several times smaller than their male colleagues and the numbers get even worse the farther down the ladder you go. So if men have this all figured out, why is this still something that women shy away from? 

In this episode, Jill explores the misconceptions that women have about networking and why a personal board of directors can accelerate the path for every woman who wants to rise up into senior management.

She shares about the essential mindset shifts that you need to take to be able to go from nay to yay when it comes to this important work and she will help you design your own personal board of directors to save you from going to networking events and having to talk to a room full of strangers or tooting your horn around the company.  

02:39 — Your "good work" isn't enough to secure a promotion into senior management

05:12 — How to design your personal advisory board so you know what seats you'd like to fill

06:57 — The types of people you can consider having on your personal board of directors

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What happens when you have a failure? Like when you make a mistake at work — big or small — or you get rejected for something that you thought was a sure thing. 

It’s tempting to hide away or play small after a failure has happened. Sometimes people let it derail them or even end their career. 

But what happens when you use failure to propel you forward? 

That’s what Jessica Bacall, editor of two top 10 books, Mistakes I Made at Work and The Rejection That Changed My Life, explored in her books and her work as the director of Reflective Journaling at Smith College, in Northampton, Massachusetts

To be a successful leader doesn’t mean avoiding mistakes or failures, but rather to expect them, prepare for them, and use them to build your resiliency. Tune in to hear how you can apply Jessica’s research to your own life and career.  

01:25 — How recognizing that failure or rejection is inevitable helps you neutralize your thoughts around it

04:14 — How recognizing that failure or rejection is inevitable helps you neutralize your thoughts around it

07:12 — How to navigate a recent failure or rejection without getting caught up in it

10:59 — Understand the differences between how men and women handle mistakes and failures

16:05 — How you can increase your resilience ahead of having a failure so that you’re prepared when it inevitably happens 

👋 CONNECT WITH JESSICA BACAL 

Jessica Bacal is director of Reflective Journaling at Smith College, in Northampton, Massachusetts. She leads programs to help students explore identity and find resilience in community. She also teaches a course called Designing Your Path, which guides students to consider questions like: What is your story? What matters to you? What skills do you need to pursue what matters?

Jessica is the editor of two books published by Penguin Random House.:

 Mistakes I Made at Work: https://a.co/d/cqLvMo5

The Rejection That Changed My Life (2021): https://a.co/d/aVnO8Oz

⭐  Download a Free Copy of SisterSmart Presents: The Rejection Notebook, and Enter to Win a Signed Set of Jessica Bacal’s Books, “Mistakes I Made at Work” and “The Rejection That Changed My Life” : http://www.sistersmart.com/TheRejectionNotebook

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✈️ FREE PASSPORT TO PROMOTION PRIVATE PODCAST: 7 STEPS TO GET PROMOTED FROM DIRECTOR TO VP

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Are you afraid of taking risks because you don’t know how to bounce back from failure? 

You’re likely nervous that if you fail, you’ll be “marked” forever or side-tracked for a promotion because of it. 

This is a common fear that women can hold, and for good reason. Women are criticized for not taking enough risks and being held back from further success because of it. A lot of this has to do with the way that we are raised, because there can be little latitude for anything besides perfection.

This follows us into our careers, creating more caution than we need. But it's not true. Women can fail and recover from it. 

This episode, we are talking about how to prepare for the inevitable failure that you will face if you're going to be a senior leader and we'll talk about how to bounce back once you've had a failure. 

Maybe you've had a failure that you're still recovering from, or maybe you've kept yourself safely secure until now. Either way, you're going to want to listen to develop this skill set. 

02:34 — How to socialize the risk you're considering taking so you have allies in case a failure happens 

04:42 — Why it's important to not hide failures 

05:38 — Take a no excuses, 100% ownership approach to cover yourself politically

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Your mental skills are likely what’s holding you back from being a senior leader. 

Our inner emotional life is like a governor for our success, and we need to work through our mindset limitations to avoid getting stuck behind outdated ways of thinking. Our growth gets stunted and our potential gets cut off unless we work to expand our mindset into new territory.

The mental game is every bit as important as being good at your technical skills when it comes to moving up the ladder, and it gets more important the higher you go.

In this episode, Jill shares the 3 areas of mental skills you need to develop in order to earn a senior-level position and thrive in it without burnout or overwhelm. 

02:24 — Uncover your limiting self-beliefs and learn how to rework your neural pathways 

07:50 — How your imposter syndrome is self-sabotaging your career and how to feel worthy of your next step just as you are right now

12:00 — How to let go of rumination and worry so you can lead with a clear mind 

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•  Common Limiting Belief Exercise - http://www.sistersmart.com/NoMoreLimits

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Senior and executive leadership roles bring more responsibility, but that doesn’t have to mean taking on more work and sacrificing your personal time or well-being in the process.

In fact, prioritizing work-life balance and self-care becomes more critical as you rise through the ranks because you need the capacity to navigate more challenging situations, lead more people, and make more prominent decisions. 

When Nadia joined the Sisters In Leadership program, she wanted to gain clarity on where she wanted to be 3 roles from now and what opportunities she would need to take to bring that vision to life.

Throughout her time in the program, she learned that it was not only possible for her to continue rising in her career without sacrificing balance — but required. 

If you’ve been working hard to prove yourself, sacrificing family time or time off to get to the next level, tune into this episode to hear:  

03:34 — Why you need to be the one actively shaping the trajectory of your career to end up in senior or executive roles you want 

06:19 — Using a personal strategy retreat to prioritize self-care as a way to further her career

10:08 — How Nadia used her 360 feedback from her company to shift her way of working to align more with her family life 

14:27 — The differences between your corporate program vs. private coaching

19:18 — How to gain clarity on where you want to be 3 roles from now and how to get there

33:37 — Where to find mentors and sponsors and how to be a great mentee

👋 GET TO KNOW NADIA 

Nadia Sutton is a Marketing Director within a large pharmaceutical organization responsible for leading the US commercial launch and execution of a targeted, precision medicine treatment option for patients with prostate cancer.

She has 20 years of experience in the healthcare industry, spanning across pharma, medical device, and diagnostics sectors. Nadia has led marketing campaigns and tactical plans for several oncological and HIV products, driving awareness, adoption, and access in the US and global markets.

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You need to get comfortable with failure to be a successful leader and rise into more senior roles. 

We all make mistakes and we all have failures, even big ones.

Women often take failures hard and it can be debilitating and even derail your career if you don't recover effectively from it.

In this episode, you’ll understand why you need to be failing if you want to earn senior leadership roles and how you can overcome failures — big or small — when they inevitably so you can learn from them and be a better leader because of them. 

03:01 — Why you need to get comfortable with failure if you want to rise up as a leader 

04:24 — How our brains learn more from experience than success

07:36 — How to reflect on failure to learn from it rather than dwell on it

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🧠DECISION TREE: TACKLE ANY DECISION HEAD-ON AND WITH CONFIDENCE

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As women, we easily fall into the mentality of “we have to do it all.” 

But we can’t rise up without the right support. (Or if you somehow muster up the determination to do so, you’ll end up burned out and unsatisfied pretty quickly juggling all those responsibilities).

In this episode, Chumi Khurana, vice president of sales and marketing at J& J Oncology, joins Jill to share how she leaned on support systems from getting started in her career all the way up into senior leadership. 

She shares insights about how our workforce is changing to benefit different working styles, the importance of support and the different shapes it can take, and how you don’t have to fit the mold to earn a promotion. 

04:48 — How one woman's encouragement inspired Chumi to go into pharmaceutical sales 

10:05 — How you can find your own authentic leadership approach without feeling like you have to conform to a mold

13:44 — Why making the decision to go part-time to start a family children doesn’t have to be a career setback and how we as leaders can find solutions for ourselves or our team

16:44 — How you can build the support to raise your family and thrive in your career without having to “do it all” 

👋 ABOUT CHUMI KHURANA

Chumi Khurana is Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Genitourinary (GU) at Johnson & Johnson where she leads the U.S. sales and marketing teams for the company’s growing portfolio of prostate and bladder cancer products. She is responsible for steering product strategies, market engagement with customers, patients, and stakeholders, alliance management, and providing commercial input for business development opportunities.

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Whether you received your promotion recently or you want one in the next few months, have you ever felt like you didn't really deserve it? 

This is a common feeling that leaders have,

While men certainly feel this way at times, the problem tends to be bigger for women and underrepresented groups because this feeling of being an imposter can come from feeling like an outsider. 

Plus, women often have to raise their hand to be considered for leadership positions, feel like they shouldn't need to do that, especially when their male counterparts might be selected without having to speak up at all. 

In this episode, Jill and SisterSmart coach, Sarah, talk about psychological hacks that you can use to overcome this feeling of not being good enough. This is something that almost every leader faces at some point in their career and it’s important to learn how to feel secure in your role and like you deserve the step up. 

01:21 — What the "upper limit" phenomenon is and how it self-sabotage us in our careers 

03:19 — The 4 feelings or mental stories you might have when you're hitting your upper limit

08:03 — How to bring awareness to which saboteurs are at play in this situation and how to learn from them instead of feeling controlled by them

16:19 — 3 simple psychological hacks that you can use to overcome this feeling of not being good enough

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😖THE UPPER-LIMIT PROBLEM CHEAT SHEET

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Do you ever feel like all the eyes are on you and you have more and more fear of making mistakes as a leader and pressure to work harder? 

The higher you go, the higher this pressure becomes, especially for women due to gender bias and socialization.

Many leaders in this situation just work harder and harder, without it ever feeling like enough. 

This might get you to the director level because of your performance, but it won’t help you get into leadership levels. 

That’s because the best leaders know that one person can only do so much and there's a time when we have to let go. But how do you find that line where you can confidently feel like you've done enough without overextending to try to get everything right? 

Tune in to learn: 

01:52 — 5 influences that lead women to take on more work and put more pressure on themselves to “get it all right” 

05:00 — The 3 habits women leaders tend to fall into that sabotage their ability to rise into the leadership levels 

09:46 — How you can identify and practice letting go of your work so you can embrace less, more meaningful contributions

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