Spotlight your TRUE self

How do you make decisions for your professional life and your next career step? Do you always feel quite insecure and rely on the opinion of others?

Or do you have this strong inner guidance – because you know clearly what your personal values are that drive your decisions?

Are you aware about your own values?

Your personal values can be 3-6 out of the following examples: freedom, independence, respect, responsibility, integrity, honesty, loyalty, empathy, wealth, stability, safety, curiosity, knowledge, well-being, family, creativity, joy, success, trust, truth, compassion, modesty, openness, discipline, …

My own top personal values are:

Knowing your values gives you self-confidence and let’s you spread your attitude, such that it is recognizable for others! Knowing your values also gives you the courage to speak up and set boundaries once someone is not acting in alignment with your own values! This is what makes you authentic, what communicates who you really are and finally let’s you shine!

I am happy to support you in your skillful self-presentation, so that you can have a successful and fulfilling career by being able to show your true, authentic self! Therefore, this podcast is based on three pillars:

• Self-confidence & self-esteem

• Managing your emotions

• Concrete communication techniques based on NLP

And in each episode, you will hear about one of them. – Subscribe to not miss any important points!

If you don’t want to miss the coming episodes – then following me on LinkedIn (Michaela Kettner) or Instagram (@michaela.kettner.fi).

Keywords: Skillful self-presentation, Successful career, fulfilling career, important for career, successful in my job, self-confidence, own values, finding personal values, human values, attitude, decision, intrinsic motivation, clarity, authenticity, setting boundaries

Yes, sometimes we are envious of someone, because he/she has something that we do not have. We have grown up hearing that it is bad to be envious and jealous. So, whenever we feel envy and jealousy, we push this feeling aside, or even judge ourselves for it.

What makes you envious? Seeing other people who have

What I want you to understand: Being envious of anything of the above (or something else) is nothing bad! Instead, it is a very important indicator, what your real desires in life are!

I am sharing with you also my personal insights what my own envy told me about becoming a mother, focusing on my career and doing public speaking.

What is it that makes you envy? Use it to define the right targets for you! Whatever you are lacking now – remember that you just done have it YET!

If you need guidance to define your targets in the right way, check out the episode that I made about reaching the own goals: #36 – Define, feel and reach your goals

I am happy to support you that you can have a successful and fulfilling career by being able to show your true, authentic self! Therefore, this podcast is based on three pillars:

And in each episode, you will hear about one of them. – Subscribe to not miss any important points!

If you don’t want to miss the coming episodes – then following me on LinkedIn (Michaela Kettner) or Instagram (@michaela.kettner.fi).

Keywords: Successful career, fulfilling career, successful in my job, self-confidence, envy, jealousy, envious, jealous, why am I envious, stop being envious, other people have more, other people are better, trigger, negative feelings, negative emotions

What is a trigger? What is triggering you emotionally – something that somebody says or does that makes you angry, aggressive, sad or even panicking? At your workplace, in your family, in your network of friends or even just by walking around in the city?

What can you do when you recognize that you got triggered and you are close to overreact or have done already?

First: be proud of yourself that you are already reflecting your own behaviour in such a way! How many people get triggered and just let out their aggressiveness without questioning it?!

Here are the 5 steps that I explain in detail in this episode how you can handle it when you get triggered:

I am happy to support you that you can have a successful and fulfilling career by being able to show your true, authentic self! Therefore, this podcast is based on three pillars:

• Self-confidence & self-esteem

• Managing your emotions

• Concrete communication techniques based on NLP

And in each episode, you will hear about one of them. – Subscribe to not miss any important points!

If you don’t want to miss the coming episodes – then following me on LinkedIn (Michaela Kettner) or Instagram (@michaela.kettner.fi).

Keywords: Successful career, fulfilling career, successful in my job, self-confidence, emotional trigger, emotional wound, emotional injuries, healing from the past, awareness, reflecting the own behaviour, self-reflection, resolve trigger, give feedback, toxic workplace, toxic working environment

Are you desperately looking for a job? You write applications, you reach out to companies, you network and try to get in contact with recruiters and hiring managers – without success?

I am now a hiring manager myself, and I have observed that many people make at least one out of these three mistakes:

From the perspective of a hiring manager, these three mistakes would DISTRACT me from a candidate applying to the position that I have open, no matter how good the CV or cover letter looks like!

I am therefore sharing with you in this episode, what you should do to avoid making these mistakes.

I would be happy to support you that you can have a successful and fulfilling career by being able to show your true, authentic self! Therefore, this podcast is based on three pillars:

• Self-confidence & self-esteem

• Managing your emotions

• Concrete communication techniques based on NLP

And in each episode, you will hear about one of them. – Subscribe to not miss any important points!

If you don’t want to miss the coming episodes – then following me on LinkedIn (Michaela Kettner) or Instagram (@michaela.kettner.fi).

Keywords: Successful career, fulfilling career, successful in my job, self-confidence, job search, job application, CV, cover letter, network, job interview, show my skills and capabilities, convince recruiter, give 100%, do your best

What if you do something stupid in front of others? What if that happens while you are on a stage – in the full spotlight?

Do you have this limiting belief as well “Don’t do anything stupid – what should the others think?!” In this episode you will realize: We all have that.

This episode is the second part of the interview with Lauri Lehmusvirta, my fellow member in the Toastmasters club ‘Stadi Talkers’, where we regularly practice speaking and leadership skills.

Lauri is active in public speaking since 2016 and has been a member of Toastmasters clubs in Japan, Hong Kong and Helsinki.

You learn from him:

Lauri is a coach for public speaking and is currently offering a course to become a professional key note speakers that comes together with a 6-weeks 1:1 coaching with a lot of analysis and feedback for the speeches that his coachees are developing. Do you have a concrete goal for your next speech or presentation? – Contact Lauri on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurilehmusvirta/

The podcast ‘Spotlight your TRUE self’ is based on three pillars:

• Self-confidence & self-esteem

• Managing your emotions

• Concrete communication techniques based on NLP

And in each episode, you will hear about one of them.

If you don’t want to miss the coming episodes – then following me on LinkedIn (Michaela Kettner) or Instagram (@michaela.kettner.fi).

Keywords: Self-confidence, public speaking, anxiety, fear to speak in public, limiting beliefs, confidence, courage to go on stage, deal with a black-out, stage freeze, stand-up comedy, pauses in a speech, key-note speech, speech preparation, speech structure, audience, intention, key message

You don’t follow your New Year’s resolutions anymore?

Is it now too late for changing something in 2024? – NO!!!

It is never too late to define targets for you, no matter if you define them later in February, in spring or in summer!

It is the most important that you realize that you have to change something - in your behaviour or in your mindset – so that something in your life can change! Because as Albert Einstein said: “It is the definition of being insane, to do the same things again and again and expect different results!”

To really make a change in your life, you learn in this episode, how you define the right targets for you. Start by brainstorming with these questions:

1. Where would you like to be during the next month?

2. Who would you like to spend your time with?

3. What would you like to try?

4. What would you like to do more often?

5. What would you like to learn?

6. What do you want to achieve?

7. What is really important for you?

8. What experience of the last year would you like to make again?

9. What do you not want to tolerate anymore? And what do you want instead of it?

Identify your most important answers, and formulate your targets according to the SMART formula, also explained in this episode: #36 – Define, feel and reach your goals

The podcast ‘Spotlight your TRUE self’ is based on three pillars:

• Self-confidence & self-esteem

• Managing your emotions

• Concrete communication techniques based on NLP

And in each episode, you will hear about one of them.

If you don’t want to miss the coming episodes – then following me on LinkedIn (Michaela Kettner) or Instagram (@michaela.kettner.fi).

What is empathy? How do you know that you are acting in an empathetic way and what can you do to become more empathetic?

In the second part of the interview with Joppe Quaedvlieg, we are linking his concept of Descriptive Communication to the important topic empathy – and both agree that this is what divides bad leaders and good leaders. We are discussing concrete situations at work and what are the worst mistakes that managers can make in their communication and behaviour.

Hear in this episode, that there are no tricks to become more empathetic out of a sudden, but that you can learn it, by continuously practicing

- Talking slowly

- Self-reflection

- Consciously care about the person in front of you

If you have not heard the first part of the interview, in which we introduce the concept of Descriptive Communication, you can find it here:

#60 What do you want? And how to find that out via ‘Descriptive Communication’ – Interview with Joppe Quaedvlieg (part I)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6UlmeQgXbJ47k6rhNH5oZj?si=483b3d825c054577

You can find out more about Joppe Quaedvlieg and his offers for leadership coachings and company workshops on his website https://www.artiqula.com/ or by following him on LinkedIn!

The podcast ‘Spotlight your TRUE self’ is based on three pillars:

• Self-confidence & self-esteem

• Managing your emotions

• Concrete communication techniques based on NLP

And in each episode, you will hear about one of them.

If you don’t want to miss the coming episodes – then following me on LinkedIn (Michaela Kettner) or Instagram (@michaela.kettner.fi).

Keywords: authentic, true self, communication, leadership, empathy, be more empathetic as a manager or leader, listening, mistakes you can make as leader, conversation with your team members and employees, leadership coaching, career coaching