The Still Space Podcast

When you are in that high-stakes meeting, sales presentation, interaction, or conflict your executive presence is both emotional and physiological. Your thoughts race and your heart rate escalates. People watch you. How do you execute when the pressure is on? In this episode we learn what works and what doesn’t when it comes to your executive presence. For more career and self-regulation resources go to www.MaryLeeGannon.com

Before you spend time preparing to answer difficult interview questions or approach leading a new team, here are some questions to ask yourself. If you can answer these questions you will better be able to position your signature strengths in alignment with the company’s goals. For more career and self-regulation resources go to www.MaryLeeGannon.com

Great candidates for new career roles often aren’t sure how to position their unique value proposition and hinder their own progress with well-intentioned mistakes that cost their advancement from the slush pile of resumes or from the pool of interviewed candidates. In this episode we discuss what to avoid, what to include and how to shift your thinking to action that better serves you. For more career and self-regulation resources go to www.MaryLeeGannon.com

I receive a lot of inquiries from leaders who don’t understand why they haven’t advanced in their careers. Often, they don’t realize the magnitude of being in a stagnant position nor have they interpreted the important signals that have come their way. Once they agree that the these scenarios have occurred it becomes apparent that they may have been identified as “not executive material” and that a strategy is needed to ascend the plateau. In this episode we talk about the signs to look for that indicate that you have stalled out in your career and what to do about it. For more career and self-regulation resources go to www.MaryLeeGannon.com

The seven deadly sins is a group of vices within religious teachings that are known as excessive versions of one’s natural aptitudes. Though identified desert fathers in the third century as passions one needed to overcome, these indulgences and shortcomings have relevance in today’s work environment. In this episode, we visit each of the seven deadly sins and discuss how they show up in colleagues and leaders as well as how to manage yourself against them and how to manage others who have them. For more career and self-regulation resources go to www.MaryLeeGannon.com

Interview candidates often worry about how to answer the difficult questions. As a prospective hire, use the interview as an opportunity for you to ask questions that will not only show how your character aligns with the company mission, but shows the interview team that you care about their long-term strategy and are already thinking of how you will align with it to ease the pain that keeps them up at night. For more career and self-regulation resources go to www.MaryLeeGannon.com

In many ways our culture does not value the wisdom of decades of experience and replaces it with less experienced but considered “more progressive” candidates for promotion, hire and executive leadership roles. This not only fraught with bias but is unwise. These tips show you how to maximize your experience for top roles and to position yourself for what you want and deserve - to help others see you as a ‘must have.’ For more career and self-regulation resources go to www.MaryLeeGannon.com

It is so easy to get caught up in the routines of life so much so that we forget why we work, why we have families or like spending time with people we care about and what we used to love to do. In this episode we explore how to get back to those things that bring us joy so that we reconnect with what matters. For more career and self-regulation resources go to www.MaryLeeGannon.com

In this episode we talk about witnessing a situation, admiring how someone handled it, wondering why you didn’t have the same presence, and the six steps to get there. For more career and self-regulation resources go to www.MaryLeeGannon.com

There is a difference between an experience and a story. An experience is the unedited account of what happens as you witness it and the feelings associated with how that experience made you feel. The stories are the interpretation of those memories and feelings and become the lens through which we recall the experience. The thoughts we think about our experiences and the stories we tell ourselves can be fiction. In this episode we explore how to be aware of not limiting the story because of a difficult emotion we didn’t deal well with and how to see the full experience that includes our strength, shortcomings, and resilience as we give the same grace to others. For more career and self-regulation resources go to www.MaryLeeGannon.com