Women Taking the Lead

By Jodi Flynn | Executive Leadership Coach

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What's Women Taking the Lead about?

The Women Taking the Lead podcast is a resource for both women leaders and organizations looking to promote more women into senior leadership. Episode formats include specific leadership challenges, "on-air" coaching with women leaders, and interviews with talent and organizational development leaders. Women Taking the Lead inspires women to overcome self-doubt and lead with confidence, integrity and a sense of humor.

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How to Boost the Mindset Yo...

02.01.2023

Are negative thoughts sabotaging you? I frequently talk with talented, experienced and incredibly capable women. For the most part, they are doing great: setting goals, creating plans to accomplish them, and making progress in their careers. Occasionally, many of these ...

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02.01.2023 How to Boost the Mindset You Lead With Are negative thoughts sabotaging you? I frequently talk with talented, experienced and incredibly capable women. For the most part, they are doing great: setting goals, creating plans to accomplish them, and making progress in their careers. Occasionally, many of these ...
01.18.2023 The Kibera Project Through Women Innovated Empowered & United Are there young women in your life who are already making a big impact in the world? This week’s episode is a little different as I am chatting with two young women who have identified a problem that, if solved, ...
01.11.2023 Cheers to a Mentally and Emotionally Healthy New Year Perhaps never before has the focus of mental and emotional wellness been at the forefront of leadership. According to the Harvard Business Review, “mental health challenges are now the norm among employees across all organizational levels.” In 2021, during a ...
01.04.2023 Elevate Your Style, Simplify Your Routine and Save Money Have you been struggling with your wardrobe lately? During the pandemic many of us reverted to a uniform of professional top matched with yoga pants or sweatpants. We were video conference ready and that was fine when we were working ...
12.28.2022 What You Require to Reenergize Have you had a chance yet to hit the reset button or recharge your energy this season? For the northern hemisphere this is a time of slowing down and taking stock. It’s time for some rest and coziness in your ...
12.21.2022 Are You Taking Time Off? Much-need time off to reconnect with loved ones and reenergize body, mind and soul is about to commence but while I’m away I have some episodes lined up, starting with this one that will replay previous episode that are worth ...
12.14.2022 Is Your Organization Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Ready? Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) work within organizations has gotten a lot of press lately. But what does it take for a company to truly become more diverse, equitable and inclusive? To dive more deeply into the topic for this ...
12.07.2022 Set Boundaries While Boosting Your Reputation Do you have a hard time setting boundaries at work for fear that it will make you look bad? In this episode I’m going to answer a listener question on this very topic. Resources Episode Show Notes: Transcript and links ...
11.28.2022 You Being Busy is Counterproductive How comfortable are you being idle? As a high achieving woman, you might dream of utter relaxation. But the internal and external pressure to stay productive and highly efficient might sabotage your attempts at restoration. While action is required to ...
11.21.2022 How to Relate to Your Job Title What's in a title? To what extent does your title concern you? Titles may be a thing at networking events or cocktail parties. And your family and friends will celebrate a title upgrade with you. But are titles that important? ...
11.14.2022 To Lead is to Err: How to Own Your Mistakes Do you cringe thinking about the mistakes you’ve made? If you have high standards for yourself, and I’m guessing if you’re listening to this podcast you do. These high standards, combined with any tendency to be hard on yourself, may ...
11.07.2022 How to Graciously Admit You Don't Know and Keep Your Credibility As a woman leader you are constantly being sent the message to be more assertive and confident. Confidence and assertiveness do have their place and most times I would encourage women leaders to embrace confidence and feel free to be ...
10.31.2022 Avoid Being a Bargain Deal by Knowing When to Negotiate Did you know...? Women make just 83 percent of what men do, and that gap is wider for women of color. According to a new Equal Pay Day study released by Credit Karma, 31% of women say they still don’t ...
10.24.2022 How to Keep Motivated and Moving Forward Are there some days when you can't seem to muster the motivation to do what's right in front of you? First, let me state that this happens to all of us. It is common. But some people have figured out ...
10.17.2022 Do You Know Exactly What the Priority Is? Do you work in a fast-paced environment? Or, do you contribute to different departments or divisions? If that’s the case it can be very difficult to be confident that what you are giving your time to is exactly what needs ...
10.10.2022 A Model for You to Process Change and Emotions According to an article in the Harvard Business Review, every organization has an emotional culture, even if the culture is one of suppressing emotions. “By not only allowing emotions into the workplace, but also understanding and consciously shaping them, leaders ...
09.26.2022 How to Make Staying Organized Easy to Do There’s a French cooking term mise en place that means to set in place. It is a method of preparation taught all over the world that maximizes efficiency and reduces errors. There are 5 steps to mise en place: Know ...
09.19.2022 Carla Miller on Creating Influence Do you sometimes feel like you are not being listened to? Or, that you don’t have the influence you need to make an impact at work? This is common early in our career but truth be told, this impacts women ...
09.12.2022 How to Make Timely Decisions Effectively Do you get stuck in analysis paralysis when trying to make a decision? While rushing into decisions is something to avoid, putting off a decision can also be harmful to your time, energy, work performance, and those depending on you. ...
09.05.2022 Do You Recognize Any of These Time Wasters? Are you constantly feeling like a hamster on wheel? As though no matter how fast or how long you work, you are always behind on your to do list. We all have the same number of hours in each day. ...
08.29.2022 [Coaching] Do You Need to Name the Priority? Are you pulled in so many directions you’re busy all day, but when the day ends you don’t feel like you accomplished much of anything? Just like you, the women I coach are in demand. They have teams that want ...
08.22.2022 Feeling Unbalanced Through Summer, Transitioning to Fall Has the swirl of summer left you feeling a bit unbalanced? In this episode we’re going to acknowledge that this season requires a bit of letting go of control and going with the flow. Because summer is a swirl! Resources ...
08.08.2022 [Coaching] Are They Really Judging You? Could anyone possibly meet the expectations you have for yourself? Many of the women I coach have such high expectations for themselves, they sacrifice health and happiness to meet them. Sometimes the driver is the thought that others are expecting ...
08.01.2022 Facing Conflict Head On How would you describe your comfort level when it comes to confronting conflict? Do you look at it as an opportunity for growth and relationship building? Do you avoid it in the hopes that it will resolve on its own? ...
07.25.2022 What You Require to Reenergize Have you had a chance yet to hit the reset button or recharge your energy this summer? If you have and you are raring to go, amazing! But if you haven’t, this episode may be timely for you. It may ...
07.18.2022 [Coaching] Constructively Dealing with Unconscious Bias We all have unconscious biases. Men and women, young and old, people from every ethnic background and every socioeconomic class. While you may be able to catch one of your own implicit biases in a flash of awareness, it’s more ...
07.11.2022 How to Hold Others Accountable to Lead Effectively Do you dread one-to-one meetings because you’ll be asking the other person to account for an outcome or their performance? Many leaders want to have high performing teams but overlook the fact that accountability is at the heart these teams. ...
07.04.2022 You, Seeing from Multiple Perspectives Have you experienced the eye-opening magic of seeing from more than one perspective? When we are children, we believe we are the center of the universe. At that stage in life, we have a difficult time considering why someone would ...
06.27.2022 [Coaching] You Are the Leader to Develop Other Leaders The work I do with my clients often centers around adapting to a new role or promotion. It sounds easy, and many of my clients beat themselves up because they assumed it should be an easier transition than it actually ...
06.20.2022 How to Weave Development Opportunities into Your Team's Busy Day How are you at developing others? Would you say you’re a pro at this? Do you need work in this area? Maybe you’re somewhere in between? Making sure your team is getting ongoing learning and development opportunities, formal and informal, ...
06.13.2022 Leadership Development for Women Needs to Change Have you ever left a leadership development training feeling like it barely scratched the surface of what you needed? Or, that too much time was spent on competencies you’ve never had an issue with? You might have even had your ...
05.30.2022 Two "Soft" Skills That Exponentially Uplevel Your Leadership As a leader, are you looking to develop any of the following between yourself and others in your organization: more trust, stronger relationships, buy-in, and commitment? How about executive presence, that X-factor that has others stop and take notice? There ...
05.23.2022 [Coaching] How to Turn Being the Bearer of Bad News into a Coaching Opportunity How are you at delivering unwelcome news to one of your team members, and then coaching them through the feedback? Sometimes as leaders we have to tell a team member that they are off-track or that they’re not going to ...
05.16.2022 How to Show Your Team Your Appreciation ...Especially if it Doesn't Come Naturally to You Does your team know how much you care about them? Do they know how much you want them to experience growth, success and happiness as a part of your organization? Or, do you assume that they know because they should ...
05.09.2022 Are You Leading by Example? Are you leading by example? This is a trick question because the reality is you are always leading by example. The question is whether you want the people you lead to do what you are doing. Like it or not, ...
05.02.2022 Do You Feel Worthy to Invest in Yourself? As with the last episode of Women Taking the Lead I’m asking, for your career, who do you go to for help and support? Help comes in many forms and from a variety of sources. Some help you can get ...
04.18.2022 Who are your free helpers? For your career, who do you go to for help and support? Help comes in many forms and from various sources. Some help you can get for free and some will cost money. I recommend utilizing the free resources when ...
04.11.2022 Do You Want to be More Effective as a Leader? Move. How are you doing getting regular physical activity into your weekly routine? No judgement here. When there’s a lot going on it’s easy to free up time by skipping the workout, walk or bike you had already planned. In an ...
04.04.2022 Tending to Your Mental and Emotional Wellness is Not an Option Perhaps never before has the focus of mental and emotional wellness been at the forefront of leadership. According to the Harvard Business Review, “mental health challenges are now the norm among employees across all organizational levels.” In 2021, during a ...
03.28.2022 Do You Believe in Modeling Leadership? Take Time Off Too many of us are not taking time off, despite the added stress caused by the pandemic (and the blurred lines between work and home). What if we shifted our perception of what it means to take time off? Instead ...
03.21.2022 Your "No" Screams Senior Leadership Saying No…is this easy for you? Or does even hearing the word “no” feel like a gut-punch? We’ve all heard about leveraging the power of “Yes” – but what about saying “No”? In this episode, let’s explore when to say ...
03.14.2022 What Does “Asking for Help” Mean to You? What does “asking for help” mean to you? Do you avoid it at all cost because asking would mean exposing yourself to judgment? Maybe you see the importance and ask for help on occasion, but it’s uncomfortable. Or perhaps you ...
03.07.2022 How to ask Your Company to Sponsor You to be Coached Have you been thinking about working with a coach, but aren’t sure how to ask your company to sponsor your coaching? In this episode we’re going to discuss why it’s a benefit to your company to invest in your leadership ...
02.28.2022 Quick update Quick update on next episode... Resources Leadership Operating System Quiz: Wondering what kind of Leadership traits you have? Take this FREE, FAST quiz and find out more about yourself as a Leader. Accomplished: How to Go from Dreaming to Doing: ...
02.21.2022 Infuse Your Leadership with Bold Requests How are you at making bold requests? Which of these sounds most familiar? I know what I want – and I’m definitely not afraid to ask for it. Sometimes I feel confident enough to make a bold request…but not always. ...
02.14.2022 Two Reasons You Got Tripped Up After You Started Your New Role Have you ever found yourself, after you’ve been promoted, wondering how the heck you’re going to get through the day? In this episode we’re going to cover the common reasons why you might have gotten tripped up after you were ...
05.24.2021 100% Jodi: Taking Time to Process In this episode I’m sharing some things I’ve been up to in the past year and what I’m doing for myself and my business in the coming months. For those of you who are new to Women Taking the Lead…hello ...
05.10.2021 100% Jodi: Delegating as an Opportunity In the last 100% Jodi episode, we covered what to consider when you are reviewing your responsibilities to decide what you need to focus on and what needs to find a new home. In this episode we’ll cover your next ...
05.03.2021 Denis Gianoutsos on Women Leading into the Future Denis is the CEO and Founder of Leading Change Partners. An organization that transforms business and leaders to lead a bigger game in a disruptive world. A highly respected International Facilitator and Executive Coach. He is the host of the ...
04.26.2021 100% Jodi: What Responsibilities Should You Keep? You’ve gotten to the point that you realize you need to make some changes in regard to what you are involved in and what you are responsible for. From here, how do you decide what stays and what goes? In ...

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