SisterSmart Leadership

65: How To Get Buy-in From Your Team

Think about the last time something came back from your team technically fine but not what you wanted. You probably fixed it yourself. Most of us do. And you told yourse

64: How To Bring Up A Problem At Work Without Sounding Negative

Every company has a woman who says the thing out loud. She’s the one who names what isn’t working while the rest of the meeting studies the table. If that’s you, you’ve

63: Why You Keep Getting Passed Over For Promotion

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 an

62: How To Stay Calm In High Pressure Meetings

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 g

61: What Executive Presence Actually Means

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

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

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

59: Work on Your Strengths not Your Weaknesses

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 s

58: How To Stop Self Sabotaging Your Career

You’re up for the VP role. On paper you’re the obvious pick. You have the results, receipts, and a team that would follow you anywhere. And still there is a voice in yo

57: How To Identify Your Core Values

You have two real options in front of you. The promotion and the other thing. Or the stretch role and the job you already have. And you are good at making decisions. Yo

56: How To Find a Strategic Project at Work with Jen

Somebody finally tells you to go be ‘strategic’. So you sit down to pick a project, and you stare at a blank page. You are a doer. You solve problems. Nobody ever taugh

55: 5 Pillars of Strategic Leadership How to Be Seen as Strategic at Work

Have you ever walked out of a meeting knowing you saw the whole thing coming before anyone else did? And then watched someone else walk away with the word 'strategic' ne

54: How to Prioritize When Everything Is a Priority and Your Boss Wants It All

How do you decide what to work on first when your manager hands you a list of ten priorities with no order and no deadlines, and every single item on that list is somethi

53: How Women Leaders Get Promoted From Director to VP

Do you keep doing brilliant work and getting warm reviews while the VP title goes to someone you outwork every single day? If you want to know how to get promoted from di

52: How to Be More Strategic at Work and Get Seen as a Leader Not a Doer

How do you become more strategic at work and finally get seen as a leader instead of the best doer in the room? Strategic perspective is the single biggest skill that sep

50: Why High Performance Wont Get You Promoted To VP with Linda

Are you a high performer who has been waiting for your hard work to speak for itself? You are not alone. Most women rise to the director level by being exceptional indivi

49: The Busyness Trap That is Keeping You Stuck with Lydia

If you are a woman in leadership right now, ask yourself one honest question. When was the last time you felt like you had enough time, enough energy and enough space for

48: The Leadership Identity Upgrade

Have you ever hit a career level where everything you used to do to succeed suddenly stops working? The problem is not usually a skills gap. It is an identity gap -- and

47: How to Fast Track Your Promotion to VP

Are you trying to figure out how to get promoted to VP but feel like you are missing pieces of the puzzle? This episode is the career strategy for women in leadership tha

46: How to Overcome Being Labeled Too Bossy and Earn a High-Visibility Senior Leadership Promotion with Christel

Have you ever been told you are too direct, too strong, or too bossy -- only to find yourself shrinking down just to keep others comfortable? If so, you are not alone, an

45: 5 Types of Invisible Work That Are Keeping Women From Getting Promoted to VP

Have you ever trained the person who got promoted over you? Or held your entire department together behind the scenes while someone else got credit for the results? Here