Speak Your Mind Unapologetically

As a minority leader, it can be difficult to earn the respect from a non-minority team. However, with right positioning, mindset, and attitude, it is possible to be seen as a respected leader even when others are initially skeptical of your competency and reluctant to follow your lead. Ana Marie Sacro, a Female Asian Associate Director of Engineering at Repligen Corporation, is an example. She successfully overcame credibility perception challenges. In this episode, Ana Marie shares:

✔️How she went from not being taken seriously by her team to being respected through senior endorsement, building relationships, and embracing her leadership role.

✔️How to effectively respond to passionate verbal attacks in a calm centered way.

✔️How to help less experienced professionals productively start to express their thoughts.

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Many people feel ignored when they speak their mind at work. Many feel invisible. That makes us be less motivated to speak and share our perspective and needs. Making yourself heard can be especially difficult if you are not that senior, if you're a woman in a male dominated workplace, if you're a minority, or if you work in an aggressive culture. In this episode you'll discover 5 tips for making yourself heard at work.

✔️Know that your voice matters.

✔️Plan what you want to say ahead.

✔️Take up space when speaking.

✔️Act as if what you say matters to you.

✔️Seek allies to amplify your voice.

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How can you train yourself to speak up for yourself and for others? Speaking up habits help you build confidence to speak up. Habits are often a lot more powerful than goals, because they are the routine building blocks that can help you achieve your goals. They are easy to do, easy to keep track of, and repeatable. In this episode, you'll:

✔️Discover how a habit is different than a goal.

✔️Decide what speaking up habit you want to develop first.

✔️Design your next speaking up habit.

✔️Create an implementation plan for your speaking up habit.

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4 Things You Can Ask For To Fast-Track Your Career: https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/4-things-you-can-ask-for-to-fast-track-your-career

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Speaking your mind unapologetically starts with courage and leads to habit. The first step to make it happen for yourself is to commit. In this episode, I'll walk you through your commitment to owning your own voice.

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It's important to take the time to celebrate your successes and achievements because it helps you be even more successful. In this episode, you'll discover 6 ways to celebrate your successes unapologetically.

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Want to share joy with people that you care about? Bring joy and happiness to others by speaking your mind. In this episode you'll discover 17 easy and free ways to bring joy and happiness to others (that don't involve gifts).

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If you travel by plane or like cookies, you'll appreciate this speaking up tale that illustrates there are many good ways you can speak your mind politely in a situation (as long as you speak up!)

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There are 4 main communication types which are: passive, aggressive, passive-aggressive, and assertive. In this episode you'll discover the key differences between these 4 communication styles and how authority and closeness in your relationships can affect your communication style.

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Listening skills are very important. However, if you mostly listen in a conversation, you can feel disengaged, disconnected, and limit your contribution. If you mostly speak you can make other people feel disconnected. What's the optimal balance? In this episode, you'll discover: how to:

✔️Recognize the factors that influence how much to speak vs listen.

✔️Identify key communication differences by gender.

✔️Balance likability with power.

✔️Balance speaking with listening.

✔️Handle conversations that derail.

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How can you successfully share your ideas at work? More importantly, how can you make your ideas heard and gut buy in? In this episode, four VP / Director guests share their tips on:

✔️How to sell your ideas at work (with former Senior Executive VP at Johnson & Johnson Samuel Santos).

✔️How to get support for your ideas in meetings (with Director Diana Dreyer).

✔️How to share half-baked ideas in meetings (with VP Sabeen Syed).

✔️How to use data to share your ideas and get buy in (With Director Zahida Sherman).

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