SisterSmart Leadership

Are you a woman in leadership who is tired of feeling stuck in your career? Like your work isn’t getting the recognition it deserves? Like your voice doesn’t have the influence it needs to contribute to better solutions? Like no matter what you do, you can’t get promoted?While these challenges don’t discriminate against gender, women need different solutions to overcome them. It’s not enough for women to simply get leadership training and career advice. They need to learn how to lead with their feminine energy and use it as their biggest advantage. On this show, career success coach Jill Avey and her guests explore how women can rise from director to vice president and beyond by fully leaning into their feminine energy as their biggest advantage. In each episode, you’ll understand how women need to lead differently and how by doing so, women leaders gain influence and respect among their colleagues, restore balance to their role, and receive the recognition and promotions they dese

SisterSmart Leadership is a business podcast hosted by Jill Avey, with 62 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Jill Avey hosts SisterSmart Leadership, a business show with 62 episodes published.

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  Episode #63

  63: Why You Keep Getting Passed Over For Promotion

  Oct 1, 202618 minS5

  You are good at your job. Nobody is arguing about that. So it stings when the promotion goes to someone else and nobody can really tell you why. You ask for feedback and get told you are doing great. Then you get handed another big project, and another year goes by. Your skill was never the question. What they are weighing is whether they can hand you something big and then stop thinking about it. And that gets decided in small moments you never see, by people talking about you when you are not in the meeting. Most executive presence advice is about how you come across while you are there. This one is about what is left of you after you leave. Tune in to learn: • The four things senior leaders judge when your name comes up • What to do when someone pushes back on your idea • The two minute move before a big meeting that most women skip MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE • Episode 61, the 5 qualities of executive presence https://youtu.be/wol4usjToSM • Episode 58, on the saboteurs https://youtu.be/WMIR0EtJYGQ • Gretchen’s own episode https://youtu.be/eLXy--PHGJA • Judith Glaser and the Creating WE Institute — Register for the Free Executive Presence for Women Masterclass: The 3 keys to Increase Authority and Influence, happening live on Thursday, August 8 at 12 PST. A replay will be available for those that register! https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkdOsrDItGdHchQv1BXFozsGRUjL74xlK#/registration — FREE MASTERCLASS: Achieve Your VP Promotion: 3 Steps to Success in the Next Year https://sistersmart.com/register-sil — ✈️ FREE PASSPORT TO PROMOTION PRIVATE PODCAST: 7 STEPS TO GET PROMOTED FROM DIRECTOR TO VP Get access to the Passport to Promotion Private Podcast — ‍ APPLY FOR THE SISTERS IN LEADERSHIP PROGRAM An 12-month coaching program for women leaders who want to rise up and fulfill their career potential and get promoted from director to VP Join Sisters in Leadership to Get Promoted to VP — EXPLORE OUR LEADERSHIP COURSES We offer a few leadership courses for you to begin sharpening your skills from meeting management to executive presence and productivity. Sign Up for a Leadership Course — CONNECT WITH JILL  Website: https://sistersmart.com/   YouTube: https://linktw.in/uWD3ko   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jillavey/

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  Episode #62

  62: How To Stay Calm In High Pressure Meetings

  Sep 24, 202620 minS5

  People are always deciding how you handle pressure, and most of the time they never tell you what they decide. They’re going off whatever they saw the last time things got tense. Somebody pushed back, or a project went sideways, and they read how you reacted to it. That read follows you around. It turns up later when somebody is weighing whether you’re ready for more. Most of us put our energy into the wrong half of this. We work on feeling calmer and more sure of ourselves. Then we wait until we feel that way before we speak up or make the hard call. But nobody you work with has any access to how you feel. They only ever see what you do with it. Jill sat down with SisterSmart coach Kan Yue to go through all three facets of this one. Tune in to learn: • The three facets of how you present, and why two of them are not the same skill • What it actually costs you when you lose your cool • The one question to ask yourself when the tension spikes MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE • Episode 61, the 5 qualities of executive presence https://youtu.be/wol4usjToSM • Episode 58, on the voices in your head https://youtu.be/WMIR0EtJYGQ ABOUT KAN YUE Kan Yue is a leadership coach, speaker and economics professor. She works with women leaders on self-leadership and emotional resilience, helping them turn uncertainty into clarity, doubt into confidence and ambition into meaningful impact. Kan is a Mastery Method Certified coach through the Institute of Coaching Mastery. She has her PhD in Economics from Purdue and teaches as Associate Professor of Economics at Xavier University in Ohio. Connect with Kan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kanyuecoaching/ — Register for the Free Executive Presence for Women Masterclass: The 3 keys to Increase Authority and Influence, happening live on Thursday, August 8 at 12 PST. A replay will be available for those that register! https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkdOsrDItGdHchQv1BXFozsGRUjL74xlK#/registration — FREE MASTERCLASS: Achieve Your VP Promotion: 3 Steps to Success in the Next Year https://sistersmart.com/register-sil — ✈️ FREE PASSPORT TO PROMOTION PRIVATE PODCAST: 7 STEPS TO GET PROMOTED FROM DIRECTOR TO VP Get access to the Passport to Promotion Private Podcast — ‍ APPLY FOR THE SISTERS IN LEADERSHIP PROGRAM An 12-month coaching program for women leaders who want to rise up and fulfill their career potential and get promoted from director to VP Join Sisters in Leadership to Get Promoted to VP — EXPLORE OUR LEADERSHIP COURSES We offer a few leadership courses for you to begin sharpening your skills from meeting management to executive presence and productivity. Sign Up for a Leadership Course — CONNECT WITH JILL  Website: https://sistersmart.com/   YouTube: https://linktw.in/uWD3ko   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jillavey/

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  Episode #61

  61: What Executive Presence Actually Means

  Sep 17, 202617 minS5

  Of all the feedback women get, ‘executive presence’ might be the most common and the least useful. It turns up in your review. It turns up in the conversation about why somebody else got the role. And it almost never arrives with an example you could actually do anything with. So it just sits there. You know it’s the thing between you and the next level, and you still have no idea which part of it you’re meant to fix. That’s not you being slow on the uptake. Those two words cover fifteen separate things, and whoever handed them to you was probably only thinking about one. Nobody tells you which one. So you work on all of it, or none of it, and the feedback shows up again next year. So which one is yours? Tune in to learn: • What each quality looks like when it’s missing, and what it looks like when it’s there • The one that most separates a director from a VP • Why warmth and directness were never opposites MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE • 10 Ways to Command a Room, the free guide http://www.sistersmart.com/10WaysToCommand GRAB THE FREE GUIDE: 10 WAYS TO COMMAND A ROOM Ten simple concrete moves that build the exact kind of executive presence we talk about in this episode. Pick one and try it this week. http://www.sistersmart.com/10WaysToCommand — Register for the Free Executive Presence for Women Masterclass: The 3 keys to Increase Authority and Influence, happening live on Thursday, August 8 at 12 PST. A replay will be available for those that register! https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkdOsrDItGdHchQv1BXFozsGRUjL74xlK#/registration — FREE MASTERCLASS: Achieve Your VP Promotion: 3 Steps to Success in the Next Year https://sistersmart.com/register-sil — ✈️ FREE PASSPORT TO PROMOTION PRIVATE PODCAST: 7 STEPS TO GET PROMOTED FROM DIRECTOR TO VP Get access to the Passport to Promotion Private Podcast — ‍ APPLY FOR THE SISTERS IN LEADERSHIP PROGRAM An 12-month coaching program for women leaders who want to rise up and fulfill their career potential and get promoted from director to VP Join Sisters in Leadership to Get Promoted to VP — EXPLORE OUR LEADERSHIP COURSES We offer a few leadership courses for you to begin sharpening your skills from meeting management to executive presence and productivity. Sign Up for a Leadership Course — CONNECT WITH JILL  Website: https://sistersmart.com/   YouTube: https://linktw.in/uWD3ko   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jillavey/

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  Episode #60

  60: How to Answer "What do you want in your career?"

  Sep 10, 202619 minS5

  One of the things women hardly ever do is own their strengths. We're taught to be humble. To not get a big head. To not be too full of ourselves. So when you do sit down and really look at what you're good at, it can feel like you're overstepping. So most of us just never do it. We stay busy and we do the work well and we never put words to any of it. Then someone senior asks what you want next, and there's nothing there to draw from. Because we try to answer "What do I want?" before we've ever really answered "Who am I?" And those are two really different questions. Most people have never thought that through. Jill is joined by SisterSmart mindset coach Kan Yue for this one. Tune in to learn: • Why ‘knowing your genius’ has to be written down and not just vaguely understood • The difference between your skills and your genius, and why women mix them up • Which of the five areas of your life is almost always the empty one MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE • Episode 59, on your zone of brilliance and your realized and unrealized strengths https://youtu.be/aZ1jOrKc6H4 • Kan Yue’s first appearance on the show EPISODE 48 https://youtu.be/5rZsBuWvpYs • Knowing Your Genius, the twelve part worksheet all of Module 1 converges on • The aspiration statement, the piece that comes after it ABOUT KAN YUE Kan Yue is a leadership coach, speaker and economics professor. She works with women leaders on self-leadership and emotional resilience, helping them turn uncertainty into clarity, doubt into confidence and ambition into meaningful impact. Kan is a Mastery Method Certified coach through the Institute of Coaching Mastery. She has her PhD in Economics from Purdue and teaches as Associate Professor of Economics at Xavier University in Ohio. — Register for the Free Executive Presence for Women Masterclass: The 3 keys to Increase Authority and Influence, happening live on Thursday, August 8 at 12 PST. A replay will be available for those that register! https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkdOsrDItGdHchQv1BXFozsGRUjL74xlK#/registration — FREE MASTERCLASS: Achieve Your VP Promotion: 3 Steps to Success in the Next Year https://sistersmart.com/register-sil — ✈️ FREE PASSPORT TO PROMOTION PRIVATE PODCAST: 7 STEPS TO GET PROMOTED FROM DIRECTOR TO VP Get access to the Passport to Promotion Private Podcast — ‍ APPLY FOR THE SISTERS IN LEADERSHIP PROGRAM An 12-month coaching program for women leaders who want to rise up and fulfill their career potential and get promoted from director to VP Join Sisters in Leadership to Get Promoted to VP — EXPLORE OUR LEADERSHIP COURSES We offer a few leadership courses for you to begin sharpening your skills from meeting management to executive presence and productivity. Sign Up for a Leadership Course — CONNECT WITH JILL  Website: https://sistersmart.com/   YouTube: https://linktw.in/uWD3ko   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jillavey/

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  Episode #59

  59: Work on Your Strengths not Your Weaknesses

  Sep 3, 202616 minS5

  Every leadership development plan starts in the same place. Here are your gaps. Now go work on them. It is the most standard advice in corporate life and almost nobody stops to question it. And you have done it. You took the feedback seriously. You worked the list quietly and mostly on your own time. You did get better at those things. And the promotion still went to somebody else. Here's the thing. Senior leaders were never reading down your gap list. They are trying to answer a completely different question about you, and getting better at your weaknesses does nothing to help them answer it. Nobody has ever told you what that question is. Or that there are two kinds of strengths, and that the one that could change everything for you is the one you have never once been asked to use. So what are they actually looking for? Tune in to learn: The one question senior leaders are actually trying to answer about you The two kinds of strengths almost nobody has ever explained to you Why your 'zone of brilliance' is the one thing you cannot see in yourself MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE • Episode 35, where Wendy tells this whole story herself: https://youtu.be/HE48xkQ-1xM • The Strengths Profile assessment, which returns your realized and unrealized strengths • Knowing Your Genius, the worksheet all of this converges on inside Module 1 — Register for the Free Executive Presence for Women Masterclass: The 3 keys to Increase Authority and Influence, happening live on Thursday, August 8 at 12 PST. A replay will be available for those that register! https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkdOsrDItGdHchQv1BXFozsGRUjL74xlK#/registration — FREE MASTERCLASS: Achieve Your VP Promotion: 3 Steps to Success in the Next Year https://sistersmart.com/register-sil — ✈️ FREE PASSPORT TO PROMOTION PRIVATE PODCAST: 7 STEPS TO GET PROMOTED FROM DIRECTOR TO VP Get access to the Passport to Promotion Private Podcast — ‍ APPLY FOR THE SISTERS IN LEADERSHIP PROGRAM An 12-month coaching program for women leaders who want to rise up and fulfill their career potential and get promoted from director to VP Join Sisters in Leadership to Get Promoted to VP — EXPLORE OUR LEADERSHIP COURSES We offer a few leadership courses for you to begin sharpening your skills from meeting management to executive presence and productivity. Sign Up for a Leadership Course — CONNECT WITH JILL  Website: https://sistersmart.com/   YouTube: https://linktw.in/uWD3ko   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jillavey/

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