As a new manager or leader, you may be feeling more self-doubt and stress than you’re used to feeling. New leaders shouldn’t have to struggle alone to become great leaders! 

 In today's episode, we're diving into the art of setting boundaries with your boss—starting with how to confidently say no without burning bridges. If you've ever found yourself overwhelmed by unrealistic demands, this is the guide you didn't know you needed. 

 In this video, you'll learn: 

 1. How to become more comfortable initiating communication even when it feels hard. 

 2. The 3 steps you can take today to set boundaries with your boss so you can get better results, feel more confident, and less stressed. 

 3. How to use specific language to skillfully set boundaries when your boss piles on without understanding how much you already have on your plate. 

 When you set boundaries, you feel less stressed, and more confident. You have more balance in your life and people respect you more.  

Get access to The FREE New Leader Starter Kit: 

The FREE New Leader Starter Kit will help you focus on what's most important so you can reach your 3–6-month goals with ease. 

You'll learn how your dominant behavioral patterns influence your approach to the three most common challenges for new leaders: 

1. Prioritizing & Setting Boundaries 

2. Setting Clear Expectations & Delegating 

3. Holding People Accountable & Achieving Goals 

New managers shouldn't have to struggle alone to become great leaders! Go to www.amalgrammas.com for more resources that will help you become the leader everyone loves!

Setting boundaries isn’t about saying no to everything; it’s about saying yes to what’s most important. When you set clear boundaries, you’ll feel less stressed, more confident, and you'll create a more engaged and motivated team environment.

In this video, you'll learn:

1. The underlying reasons why you haven't been setting boundaries - whether that's wanting to be liked, discomfort with conflict, or a need to prove yourself. 

2. The benefits of setting clear boundaries and how to gain trust and respect from anyone. 

3. A simple, yet powerful 5-step process my leadership coaching clients use to set boundaries confidently. 


Get access to The FREE New Leader Starter Kit:

The FREE New Leader Starter Kit will help you focus on what's most important so you can reach your 3–6-month goals with ease.  

You'll learn how your dominant behavioral patterns influence your approach to the three most common challenges for new leaders: 1. Prioritizing & Setting Boundaries, 2. Setting Clear Expectations & Delegating, 3. Holding People Accountable & Achieving Goals

New managers shouldn't have to struggle alone to become great leaders!  Go to www.amalgrammas.com for more resources that will help you become the leader everyone loves!

You're always busy, and you feel stressed out and overwhelmed as a new leader.  The first step to feeling less stressed and more confident as a new or emerging leader is to prioritize what matters most.

In this episode, you'll learn:

1. The underlying reasons why you haven't been prioritizing as much as you should - whether that's people pleasing, perfectionism or confusion. 

2. The benefits of prioritizing.

3. A simple 3-step process my leadership coaching clients use to focus on the things that get results quickly so you can reach your goals faster and easier in the next 3-6 months. 

Prioritizing isn't about doing less; it's about doing what's most important.  When you focus on what matters most, you and your team will reach your 3-month goals with ease. 

Plus, prioritizing will make you feel less stressed, and more confident and it will lead to a more engaged and motivated team. 

Get access to The FREE New Leader Starter Kit:

The FREE New Leader Starter Kit will help you focus on what's most important so you can reach your 3–6-month goals with ease.  

The FREE New Leader Starter Kit will also aid you in recognizing your work style.  Your work style has gotten you where you are today.  It has helped you succeed, but it can also limit your growth and inhibit your confidence.  You'll learn how your dominant behavioral patterns influence your approach to the three most common challenges for new leaders: 1, Prioritizing & Setting Boundaries, 2. Setting Clear Expectations & Delegating, 3. Holding People Accountable & Achieving Goals

New managers shouldn't have to struggle alone to become great leaders!  Go to www.amalgrammas.com for more resources that will help you become the leader everyone loves!

You've just been promoted to your first management role.  You're super excited and you know you can do well.

But then, this little voice comes into your head and says, "You don't know what the hell you're doing!  You're going to be found out.  Your team won't like you; you'll get a bad review and then you'll get demoted."

It's normal for new managers and leaders to feel unsure of themselves, but I'm here to tell you that you have what it takes to become a leader everyone loves!

In this video, you'll learn about how your biggest strength can become your biggest weakness, and how to expand on that strength and build your confidence by understanding your workstyle.  

Get access to The FREE New Leader Self-Assessment in the FREE New Leader Starter Kit:


The FREE New Leader Starter Kit will aid you in recognizing your work style.  Your work style has gotten you where you are today.  It has helped you succeed, but it can also limit your growth and inhibit your confidence.  You'll learn how your dominant behavioral patterns influence your approach to the three most common challenges for new leaders: 1, Prioritizing & Setting Boundaries, 2. Setting Clear Expectations & Delegating, 3. Holding People Accountable & Achieving Goals

Hello!  I'm Amal Grammas.  Welcome to The Happy Leader Podcast - A Blueprint for New Leaders!

You're in the right place if:

- You're an emerging leader, manager or director.
- You've been managing people for 5 years or less.
- You want to improve your leadership skills.
- You feel more self-doubt, stressed and frustrated than you're used to feeling.

New managers shouldn't have to struggle alone to become great leaders!

In this podcast, I'm going to share the tools and techniques I've used for the past 8 years as a leadership coach to help you TRANSFORM from a person who feels like a stressed-out imposter that's achieving average results, to a confident, energized leader with a happy, engaged team.

Your transformation will put you in the position to continually advance in your career, make more money, and to become the leader everyone loves to work with!

Subscribe for actionable tools and methods to help you feel less stressed, more confident, and to become the leader everyone loves!  

In this episode of The Happy Leader Podcast, Amal speaks with Alex Hirst & Lizzie Penny, Co-Founders of Hoxby and Authors of the No. 1 Sunday Times Best Selling Book, ‘Workstyle: a revolution for wellbeing, productivity and society’, about the "The Workstyle Revolution" – How to achieve a high level of success, while feeling fulfilled and energized - all while fitting your work around your life rather than the other way round. 

Lizzie shares her personal journey from the corporate world to a becoming a deeply fulfilled co-founder, wife and mother.  She takes us though the ups and downs of life including: surviving breast cancer, nine weeks of bed rest during a high-risk pregnancy, helping her husband through cancer treatment, while raising three active, young children. Being able to fit her work around her life has been truly transformative for her during these times - a source of stability, purpose and joy.

Alex’s journey is different but just as inspiring. He had been working 12-hour days for years, believing that the more hours he put in at work, the more success would surely follow until he experienced burnout.  He was feeling numb to the lows and ambivalent to the highs and as his wife said at the time, he had become a shell of the person he used to be. Alex didn’t want to live that way anymore, so he set out to redefine his psychological contract with work. He was determined to be judged on his output rather than when and where he worked, which led to a conversation in the pub with Lizzie and the creation of the word workstyle… The rest, as they tell us on this podcast, is history!
 
 In this episode you'll learn how to:

• Be more productive by tapping into your natural energy cycles. 
• Create a more balanced life where you get to go to the gym, read for pleasure, and spend time with your family, all while improving your productivity at work. 
• Fit your work around life instead your life around work. 
• Work toward being judged by your output instead of the number of hours you work. 

To learn more about The Workstyle Revolution and to join their free community go to workstylerevolution.com/join.  The Workstyle book is available from all good bookshops or via Amazon here.

To learn more about how Amal helps leaders, please go to: Unlock Your True Potential (amalgrammas.com)

In this episode of The Happy Leader Podcast, Amal speaks with Jason Lavender, Co-Founder & CEO of Electives, and MIT grad about the "Sweet Spot of Purpose" - Feeling good inside yourself while making others feel good. 

In this episode you'll learn:

• The lessons Jason learned in how to create a high level of delight with your customers no matter what you do for a living.
• The secret to living an inspired life. 
• How the culture of excellence is tied to a strong purpose. 
• How to go after a goal and persevere through the tough times when people say no over and over again. 
• How improv classes could change your life.

To read Jason's article, Sushi on an Airplane, an Italian Beltmaker, and The Perfect Sandwich go to https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jasontlavender_every-customer-is-your-most-important-customer-activity-7117486081846992896-QaN6?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop.

To learn more about how Amal helps leaders, please go to: Unlock Your True Potential (amalgrammas.com)

In this episode of The Happy Leader Podcast, Amal coaches you through an exercise that will help you gain clarity about what you're amazing at and what may be holding you back from reaching your true potential. 

In this episode you'll learn:

• How to tap into your subconscious mind to identify how your biggest strength helps you and hurts you.
• How your biggest weakness is actually your biggest strength in overdrive.
• A simple way to reduce stress and expand your positive influence on others.
• How to work through the discomfort of growth to reach your true potential.

To learn more about how Amal helps leaders, please go to: Unlock Your True Potential (amalgrammas.com)

In this episode of The Happy Leader Podcast, Amal speaks with two successful female entrepreneurs, Venecia (Vinny) Santana and Denise Molena about what it took for them to achieve their dreams.  Vinny is a passionate, creative, dreamer & Denise is a compassionate leader, fighter, & master of innovative solutions.

In this episode you'll learn:

• How to use the power of visualization to make your goals a reality.
• How to overcome the little voice of doubt and fear that creeps in when you're working toward big goals.
• How to create a support network to inspire and support you when things get tough. 
• How to clear the clutter in your head using the power of meditation.  
• How to take specific actions right now to get you closer to your goals. 

To learn more about how Amal helps leaders, please go to: Unlock Your True Potential (amalgrammas.com)

In this episode of The Happy Leader Podcast, Amal speaks with Coach Lou Conte, Athletic Director, Board Director and her first-grade gym teacher about being a leader AND a people pleaser; and about what it takes to overcome the tendency to be hard on yourself. 

In this episode you'll learn:

• How to lead others using a balance of expectation and care.
• How we meet our need to feel accepted by putting others' needs first.
• How to give yourself grace by being present in the moment and focusing on what you're grateful for. 
• How to believe in yourself more and make change at any age. 
• How 90-year-olds would have done three things differently in their lives based on a recent survey.  

To learn more about how Amal helps leaders, please go to: Unlock Your True Potential (amalgrammas.com)