I sometimes think that some of us mistake confidence for competence because I see so many women who have the skills and ability but aren’t fully utilising them. They convince themselves that they lack confidence because they are not competent. But really, they are competent, they just need deliberate practice to build their confidence. There […]
As we approach the end of the year, I have been reflecting on the issues and challenges that have been brought to the coaching sessions that I have done. Having spent more than 200 hours coaching leaders and executives this year, the themes for each coaching assignment have been very similar (as has been the
“I am really confident at work and am an expert in my field but outside of work I am the total opposite. What can I do about it?” I once got asked this question on one of my webinars from a woman who is a technical expert, and very confident in her job, but outside of
When people request to join my Facebook group for introverted women leaders, I ask them what their biggest challenges are as leaders. We analysed responses and identified the top 7 challenges that they said they faced. Whilst the number of responses in no way reflects the total number of introverted women leaders in the world,
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Many people mistakenly believe that people who procrastinate are lazy or lack motivation. Whilst this may apply to some people who procrastinate, it doesn’t apply to all. I regularly work with successful senior leaders who are ambitious high achievers but aren’t achieving their full potential because they self-sabotage by procrastinating. They are hard on themselves,
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At the launch for my book Quietly Visible: Leading With Influence and Impact as an Introverted Women, I facilitated a panel discussion with Sasi Panchal, Dienaba Forfana, Susan Heaton-Wright and Helena Thernstrom, 4 introverted women who are all achieving great things, and had all overcome barriers and challenges to do so. We discussed whether introvert
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I read an article on the Harvard Business Review website this week that stated women are 20% less likely to receive actionable feedback that can contribute to their performance and growth at work. The article states that managers are less likely to give women negative feedback because they are concerned of how they will respond. It linked to
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Not all stress is bad stress and moderate stress can actually make us perform better. It helps us to be more alert when public speaking and in interviews. It provides that exhilaration we get when competing in dangerous sports. Stress is a survival mechanism when we are faced with dangerous situations. It helps us to
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If too much social interaction during the working day, on top of your demanding role is overly stimulating you may start to feel ‘peopled out’, and experience what I call introvert drain. As introverts we tend to lose energy when we spend lengthy periods around lots of people (extroverts on the other hand tend to
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You might think of bullying as something that just happens in the school playground, however, it is just as active in the workplace as it is in the playground. The prevalence of workplace bullying in both the UK and US is far too high. According to data from the CIPD, 15% of people have experienced it,
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