1002: 4 Career Growth Strategies That Are Actually Working Right Now | Leadership Strategies

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Speaker B: Welcome to Shameless Leadership. I'm your host Sara Dean. This show is for women, transgender people, non binary folks, as well as allies who are committed to advancing their leadership while also advancing the leadership of those around them. In each episode, we will offer practical tips, leadership strategies, and inspiring stories to help you become a more confident, compassionate and inclusive leader. The truth is, you were born to lead what might happen for you if you were to wholeheartedly embrace that part of yourself. So let's start now, together. Hello Shameless Leaders. If you are listening to this in live time in the middle of summer, the end of July, I'm curious if any of you are like me, kind of ready for fall. I am definitely feeling like, okay, I've had enough of this. The heat. We I'm in Seattle. We've had two days of 90 degrees weather this summer or this week, and that's enough for me to be done as a native Seattleite. We don't have air conditioning. It just feels like stifling and hot and sticky. We had like the beginning of some wildfire smoke, which I can't complain about. It was not anything horrible and obviously nothing compared to those whose lives and property and livelihood is really seriously compromised by wildfires. But the combination of heat and wildfire season to me is always kind of when my nervous system is like, okay, in summer can be over. Let's have cozy fall. So that's where I'm at in houses in Seattle. Most of us, many of us have houses that are, you know, a hundred years old with no air conditioning and half of our windows are painted shut. And it's just like there's nowhere to breathe. There's literally nowhere to breathe. My office right now feels very muggy. I feel sticky, like I'm sticking to my desk. So that's where I'm at with Summer. I'm curious where you all are at with Summer. We're digging into this episode today to talk about things that are actually working. And I'm realizing I just like jumped right into here's what's not working for me, the heat, the stickiness, not working. But whenever things are not working, especially when we find ourselves in that place of kind of keeping score or having that ongoing log of, here's all the things that aren't working, and here's all my proof. It's really important to look at the counter arguments to. To that list and to look at, okay, so if these things are true, what else is true? And what are the flip side statements that can be made out of that? And so if we know and can identify what is actually not working right now, we also can take responsibility for acknowledging what is actually working. And so that's what I want to talk about today. Over the last six years, since 2020, it's just been so easy to find stuff that's not working. And we just have constant proof. Like, every day, we wake up to new things where we're like, hmm, okay, and that is not what I was expecting, or that also is gonna impact my life in a negative way. And so we can find these things repeatedly, day to day, this proof that a lot of things aren't working. A lot of things are not working for a lot of people. And there is definitely some truth to that. And that kind of thinking can definitely be more harmful than helpful. And I've been in situations over my 23 years as a business owner where I've got stuck in that kind of thinking for sure. And when my husband was laid off for two and a half years, both of us got stuck in that stink, that thinking at times. And when we're stuck in that kind of thinking, it's really hard to keep moving forward. And so, like, really seriously, as in my role as an executive coach, with my coaching clients, with my members of my various coaching communities, inside my aligned leadership incubator, is to help people see what is working and to help people understand where they have power, especially when it feels like power has been taken away. And so with my clients, I'm often helping them explore big questions like, how do you find your power when it's really easy to find evidence that your power is systematically being taken away from you at every turn? Like, every day when you wake up, more thing, you know, more power's being taken away. Or the other question is, how do you maintain hope when there's so much evidence that people are really struggling right now? The other thing that I've seen happen over the years is outside of professional situations, is this compounding effect of a lot of people, a lot of people in my personal life struggling at the same Time, time. And a lot of really intense tragic situations happening concurrently. You know, with like, as an example, you know, you have maybe a family member that has something really hard going on, and then you get a call that a friend is going through some sort of trauma or tragedy. And then like your next door neighbor tells you something and you're like, something horrible happened to them too. And you start seeing all this evidence that people are really, really suffering around you. And it can be hard to maintain hope that, like, we're all going to be okay. And I've had moments in the last six years where that has happened. It's like the overlap of the personal and professional and all the things at one time. It's like, okay, where do we find the hope and thing that I think is really important in the work that I do? And also these are tools that I have to use a lot with myself. I have to remind myself, okay, like, you're surrounded by your own difficult situation, or you're surrounded by people who are coming to you with their difficult situations. And how do you keep going and not let the weight of that all weigh you down? And when we're looking at leadership, we want to be really aware of if we're absorbing everyone else's pain and suffering to some extent, you know, that makes us thoughtful and empathetic leader. And it can also really hold us back from going and doing big, great things that the world can benefit from and that we can benefit from. And so we do have to find these ways to keep going. So what I want to talk about today is really, how am I seeing my clients take action and see results? How I helping my. My clients counter this kind of chorus of everything is horrible and broken and dig in to see what is actually working and where they can build momentum and power and hope and find this belief that no one can take everything from us in those days when it feels like a lot of things are being taken from us. So let's go through a handful of things. We're going to talk about four different things that are actually working really well for my clients right now. So I want to start with first, my clients. I have multiple clients who are really being able to create opportunities for themselves outside of their current roles and teams and situations. And so this has looked like a lot of different things. But what this looks like kind of at a high level. And then I can get into some specific examples. What it looks like at a high level is that my clients are getting into rooms with other teams, other leaders, leaders, other people Other industries and people from other companies and organizations. And they are making space for new connections. They're making space to just be there to like, listen and learn and just be curious. And it's wild what happens when you put yourself into new spaces and just let yourself be curious. And I've had this so many times where I've gone to different events and things, where I've gone in thinking, uh, sometimes with a lot of skepticism, thinking, this is not for me, this is gonna be a waste of my time. Like maybe with a chip on my shoulder, like, why am I even here? And then I'll tell myself, okay, I'm just gonna like sit in the back and observe. Inevitably, there's always something that comes up where I'm like, oh, that's the thing I needed to hear today. And I can see where this opens my eyes to a new perspective or a new, you know, opportunity for a new relationship or to make a new connection. And that that can have meaning moving forward. And that can open a door for me moving forward that maybe I didn't even know I wanted to have be open for me that I didn know that I wanted to walk through. And so this has happened to me repeatedly over the last, across the course of my career. But really it started in 2010, 16 years ago. I forced myself to go to an industry event. This was when I was in the fitness industry and I very much went to this event. It was a multiple day conference for fitness business owners. And I very much went to this event thinking, like, this is not going to be for me. This was probably a waste of time and money. I had to fly to California to do it. I'd never like traveled by myself, stayed in a hotel by myself. And so like when I decided to do it, it seemed like maybe a good idea. Ah. And then as I was actually doing it, I was like, this is for sure not a good idea. Then literally within like 15 minutes of being in the room of, uh, this multiple day conference, I was like, oh, this was maybe the best idea I ever had. And when I look back at how that one event opened my eyes to see what was possible for myself as a business owner in my fitness business and just what it means to be in the room with different people. It was absolutely transformative. And so since then I've really challenged myself to go into those spaces, situations and opportunities where I'm like, I don't know if this is for me. I don't know what I am going to learn. This might not, you know, there Might not be anything big here for me, but let's just go check it out. So my clients are now doing that as well. And it's been really, really exciting to see what has opened up for them. This isn't necessarily me telling my clients, you need to go, you know, put yourself in all these spaces and just see what happens. It's been more helping them get curious about what else might be out there. And what's been really exciting and fun is as they have let curiosity guide them, they have walked into spaces where the things that they've learned in the new spaces have been absolutely the antidote that they needed for the spaces where they feel really stuck. And so sometimes that's in personal relationships, sometimes it's in professional relationships or professional situations in their current role. And it just opens their eyes to, oh, there's so much more out there that I don't see in my day to day life, that I don't consider in my day to day life. Because we all get stuck in our little silos. We all get stuck in these little vacuums. And our view and our perspective of what is available to us and what we can make happen can become so severely limited that we can't see options for ourselves. And when we can't see options for ourselves, it's really hard to maintain hope and belief in hard times. And so I did a whole episode years ago called look up. And it was literally about me being in the situation of just being so consumed by rejection in my work and feeling like every time I put something out there, people were like, no, thanks, this isn't for us. No thanks, we don't need this. No thanks, we don't have budget. And I felt like I had to look up, like, literally look up, because every time I would get, like, another rejection, I would just, like, put my head down on my desk, like, oh, my gosh, it's, you know, I'm just sinking deeper and deeper into what I called the black hole of no with all these rejections. And I had to look up and look at, like, where else do I want to look? What else do I want to do? How do I want to get out of my office and off my computer screen and, like, where else can I be looking at opportunities for myself? Um, um, and, uh, start to see some other things that could, that could work for me and not trying to solve a specific problem. And so sometimes we get really fixated on one specific problem and we can't see beyond that. And so just letting curiosity guide us, I have definitely found doing this through hobbies can be really helpful. Letting yourself get curious through just like exploring a new hobby and just having some expansive space for you to process things differently, for you to maybe meet new people, to shop at different stores, to like, you know, go to the craft store and get some craft stu. Just letting new outside influences have impact on you. For many of my clients, this has been going to events or putting themselves out there for maybe new projects at work and starting to see, oh, I heard something or I had an interaction or there was some sort of opportunity that seemed exciting that I hadn't previously considered that maybe I didn't even know existed. And then being able to step into that and have a great experience and see something totally new as possible for themselves. For multiple clients of mine, this has resulted in them m changing jobs, even changing industries because they allowed themselves to think outside their current little silo a little bit and see, oh, I can do a million different things in this lifetime. I don't need to just do this thing I'm doing right now or whatever is maybe like the next logical linear step in from where I'm at right now. So lots of opportunities have come to my clients through creating that visibility and getting themselves outside of those places and being able to build new relationships, relationships be seen in different ways and then talk about the great things that they've done to be able to say, here's what I'm doing, here's what I've done, and for people to get curious back, like reciprocal curiosity, right? You go into a situation curious and let other people be curious about you. And then you have great conversations and new things start to unfold for you. The next thing my clients are doing where they're having a lot of success, is establishing their voice. 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And so what this can look like is choosing to talk about something in a new way, or choosing to take a stand on something, or choosing to talk more narrowly about something to kind of niche down and say, you know, I'm going to write about something related to a very specific layer of leadership on LinkedIn, or I'm going to, you know, have a conversation with, um, a friend who works in a different industry about something really specific related to E commerce. I don't know. Your product design or whatever it might be can help you. It can ignite passion and let you get excited about digging deep in something. But it can also help you establish relationships in new ways where people see you as the person who is invested in that thing. And when you get known for being the person invested in that thing, people will come to you because you're the person who's invested in that thing. It's been wild to me over time as I've talked about different things, how I will casually mention something on a podcast episode and months years later people will come to me and be like, hey, we want to interview you about this topic. And I'm like, I don't even remember talking about that. But it's something that like, you know, I did a deep dive on one time and people heard about it. And so this can happen where we can build a name for ourselves or people will come to us because we get to, because we went deep on something or we made a commitment, we took a stand and that was intriguing to other people. When people start to see us as people who have a unique perspective or want to speak on things or want to share information or have done the work of doing the deep dive on the thing that some people don't want to do the work on and they just want to have the information brought to them, we can open up opportunities for ourselves that create new conversations and new relationships. This happened to me. This happens a lot when I'm doing podcasts, when I'm interviewing people for my podcast where we make connections on things that we're really interested in. But it happened to me recently in a conversation on LinkedIn, someone posted something. I didn't know the person. I was intrigued by what they had to say. I sent them a follow up message on LinkedIn because we're. Turns out we're both in Seattle, we both work in the leadership space. We actually both had gone to Gonzaga and so I was like, oh, I'm kind of curious. Like I just want to say hi to this person and let them know I'm following their work. I'm interested in what they do. Well, what ended up happening was you had, we had this great back and forth conversation. We had all these things in common and all these kind of layers of overlap in our personal and professional lives. And it was so, uh, fun as it kind of all unfolded in this casual conversation. And then we were like, okay, we need to get together. And then when the conversation of like, when we should get, when should we get together? It turned into also, like, I'm looking for a referral for this thing related to my work. And so it's been really fun. This person's one LinkedIn post about something that resonated with me has now turned into like, like, I'm gonna go meet this person for dinner and we're gonna have a conversation about this. And we're now giving each other referrals for things. We also have like, parenting things in common and past hobbies together in common, like all sorts of things. So establishing your voice allows you to attract new people into your orbit. It allows you to talk about things that you're really excited about and really passionate about. And that becomes part of your personal brand and part of the thing that you're known for. And that can go a long ways in building new relationships or creating new opportunities for yourself. When we don't take the time to establish our voice. When we don't take the time to become known for something, it might never harm us, it might never hurt us, but we are definitely leaving opportunity on the table because we don't get to be known for the things we really want to be known for. We don't get to be strategic about what we're known for. We don't get to be strategic about how we're seen, how we're perceived, and then how people will engage with us and how people will reach out to us. And when there's an opportunity to dig deep on that thing, when there's an opportunity to connect on something, when there's an opportunity to, you know, do some relationship building around that thing. And so again, we're looking at what's working right now. Anything we can do to have human connection and create opportunities to build strong, healthy relationships is going to not only feel like we give us a little bit of a sense that we have a little more power, but it's also going to help us, us create momentum in terms of building something for ourselves. Where we feel like we're driving the car, that we're not just sitting waiting for people to pull things out from under us and take opportunities away from us, but we're driving the car and we're deciding, where do I want to dig deep, where do I want to take a stand, what do I want to be known for? And that all gives us a sense of power. The next thing, the third thing that my clients are having success with, things that are actually working for them is they are investing in their learning and growth for their long term career to trajectory. And so, you know, anytime someone comes to me for coaching, sometimes their organization will send them or will say like, hey, if you want to do coaching, we'll, we'll pay for it. But a lot of times my clients come to me for coaching and it's, they're paying for it themselves and they want to think bigger than what they're currently doing. And so if someone comes to me and they're talking about what they're currently doing in, you know, here's my current role and here's where I'm having some great success and here's where I'm having some challenges and some obstacles, my question always is, well, where do you want to be going in the near future and where do you want to be going in the long term? And I almost always have my clients do an activity called a dream dump, where I have them do kind of this Just brainstorm of where do you want to be in 5 years or 10 years? You can pick. It kind of depends on what are the context of our conversation beforehand, which direction I go. But I'll say, in five or ten years, where do you want to be? And I'll have them just write out what they see themselves, what they see their life looking like in five years or in 10 years. And it's like, you know, where do you live? Are. Do you. Are you with a partner? Do you have children? If you already have children, how old are they going to be at that time? Where will you be in your career? What will that look like? How often do you work? What are your, you know, when do you take vacation? What are your hobbies? Where do you go on vacation? How do you spend your free time? Like, you know, what are you eating for breakfast? Like, getting really nitty gritty about what exactly your days look like and your time looks like. And what does your life look like? What is the life you want to build for yourself in the next five years or in the next 10 years? And I always say, when you are creating this dream vision for yourself, you are creating it without putting any limitations on how am I going to make this happen? Because as soon as we start to think through, like, well, you know, I want to live on the island of Maui, but I could never make that happen. I could never afford it, or I wouldn't, you know, I'd be too far from family. As soon as we start putting limitations on it, we stifle the dreaming. So I always say, you're not thinking through how am I going to make it work? And is it reasonable and realistic? No, you're just letting it. Like, if I, uh, could be anything, if my life could be anything, what would it look like? And letting it be really open and expansive and exciting and very full of ease. Like, what would an ideal life look like in this time frame? After I have my clients do that, then I say, okay, and now what do you want your life to look like one year from now? So a much smaller version of this. What's really exciting to see is that when my clients start to look at what's happening currently, it's easy to start to get into that black hole of. No, it's easy to start to just immediately see limitations. And so we tend to hold ourselves back. But when we have a sense of, like, okay, well, if I want this one thing in five or 10 years, what should I just start thinking about in the next one year? What would that look like to start considering some of those things and we can start to unlock different things. And when we invest in ourselves in that way, when we invest in this level of futuristic thinking, we actually start to go after the thing that we have let ourselves dream about and we start to develop the skills that we can, can take with us to get there. And those skills can help us anywhere. So when people come to me and they're like, you know, here's where I'm struggling at work and this is the thing, the problem I need to solve and what, like what should I do? We can absolutely address that. And let's address it in a way that allows you to go in the direction you want to go long term. That doesn't just solve the problem right here, right now, in this instance, in this moment in time with this particular team or organization or boss or what have you. But let's look at if you can solve this, what does that open up for your long term career trajectory? So it's been exciting to see my clients digging into that and investing in that learning and growth where strategizing and problem solving is not just to solve the problems of today. It's really like, how am I going to solve the problems of today in a way that allowed me to move to the things that I want tomorrow and in the coming years. And with that comes oftentimes looking at improving and advancing leadership skills, speaking skills, communication skills, strategic thinking skills, which is really, really fun to see. And that starts to open new doors and that starts to help people see. Oh, it's not just about this season right now. It's not just about where am I gonna, you know, where do I need to go this month, this quarter, this year. But it's really like, where am I moving in this bigger landscape and how do I want to take charge of that and what do I want that to look like. And so when you invest in that learning and growth in the right now, thinking about that long term career trajectory, it pays off in spades because it helps you see what is possible in a new way and it helps you see potential in a new way. And it helps you dream and hold vision for like what you actually want to make happen instead of sitting and letting things happen where you don't have as much control. So a few of my clients have had opportunities just, you know, to leap into new spaces and do new things based on some of this expanded thinking. And it's been really, really exciting, exciting to see where they are going. And it's also been Great for them to see that they want to invest in their development no matter what role they have or no matter what title they have. That when they come to me for coaching now, they're like, I'm just working with you indefinitely. Not just because need to solve a certain problem in a certain role, but because I want to be always moving forward. And that's really fun, really exciting. And then lastly, the last thing that is working for my clients, which is I think one of the more m, more exciting ones, this one has been really fun and eye opening for my clients is they are thinking at a level above their current title. And so when my clients are looking at problem solving right now, and this dovetails a little with our last, the number three, but when they're looking at solving problems, they are not looking to solve a problem in a way that only solves the problem within the silo that the problem exists, but they're looking at the bigger systems and thinking about how does solving this problem not just impact maybe my team, but the bigger organization? How does advancing the skill not just impact how I show up in this moment, but also, you know, uh, how opportunities in my career moving forward. One of the things that has happened with my clients as they've been able to do this is they've been able to start to think and strategize at a level higher than their current title, which is very much position them for the next role at that, you know, at the next level. And so what that's looked like is having my supervisor start to intentionally think and make decisions like managers. Now they might not have the same decision making power, but, but they're starting to think like, okay, if I was a manager, like what would the thinking here be? So for supervisors to managers, they're thinking that way. My manager's thinking like directors, my directors thinking like VPs, my VPs thinking like C suite leaders. And it's been really, really exciting to see them give themselves permission to think at a higher level, strategize at a higher level and then see what happens when you're sitting in a meeting and you are able to ask a question or share an opinion or an idea and, and share with the context that you're not just thinking about this situation in the ways that it affects and impacts your role as a supervisor, your current role, but you're really thinking about it in a bigger way. And other leaders see you thinking in that bigger way. And when they go to hire, when they go to promote, they are noticing that you're thinking in that way. And so I was actually just on a call two days ago with someone, and I pointed out to her that every time she solves a problem, she solves a problem at a higher systemic level than her current title. And she comes from her background, so her current position is in a smaller ecosystem than her past position. And so she moved organizations a while ago, and in her past organization she was in this bigger ecosystem and now she's in the smaller ecosystem. And so when she's thinking through how to solve problems, she's really good at thinking how this problem would be solved in a bigger ecosystem and how she can solve it in a way that there's layered positive impact. That the positive impact isn't just among her for her team, but it's like for the whole department. And then how that impacts the uh, broader organization. And she's really, really skilled in thinking in that way. And so I was pointing out to her, like, do you know you do this? Do you know that when you are problem solving, you are thinking at a level higher than your role and strategizing at a level higher than your role? And keep doing that. Because my suspicion, my hunch is, is that people in the organization are going to notice that she's the person that's always problem solving at uh, just a bit of a higher level than the other people at, uh, with her similar level of leadership. And I think she's very well positioning herself for the next level of leadership and in her organization these, these new roles and jump, you know, moving up in leadership, those opportunities come up pretty frequently. So I'm, I was like, keep doing that. And like you were doing it already. Let's do that on purpose. So what can that look like if you're doing that on purpose? And how are you adding value to the organization in a way that your contributions can't be overlooked, that you become invaluable because of the way that you are able to strategically think, um, and support decision making and share ideas in ways where you will. You can't help but be noticed and that you can't help but be sought out for your, for the goodness that you can bring to everyone. So as you are thinking through what's working, what's not working, and when you are finding yourself getting stuck on what's not working, start to think about how you can implement some of these other opportunities. How can you take some of these steps and recognize where do you have power? How can you be positioning yourself? How can you be building, building momentum so that you always feel like you have control and that you are always being exposed to new options, new opportunities, new connections. Because as long as you are consistently upgrading and giving yourself exposure to bigger circles and more circles, not even necessarily bigger, but just more circles, as long as you are continuing to have exposure to new things, there continues to be new possibility. You want to maintain that momentum of building possibility and potential for yourself. Especially in seasons where it feels like everything keeps being hard and we have so much proof that things aren't working or that things, you know, that everything is falling apart and nothing's working. So why, why bother trying, so really trying to step out of that sea or that chorus or sea of voices that are resoundingly saying everything is horrible and broken. That you're proving to yourself that yeah, there are definitely some things that are horrible, horrible and broken. Not everything though. And here's the proof. Here's the things that are working for me that prove that everything is not horrible and broken. If you are wanting support with this, obviously reach out to me for coaching. Our Aligned Leadership incubator is open right now for enrollment. You can get $500 off your enrollment if you apply for Aligned by July 31st. Inside Aligned. You get to do group coaching with me every month with our group on group calls, group trainings, and then you also get to do one on one coaching with me. It's a really, really fantastic environment for elevating your thinking to do all the things we talked about in this episode. Elevating your strategic thinking, elevating your leadership skills, elevating your communication skills. It really allows you to build your leadership and build your strategic skills for your professional growth no matter what career you're in right now and no matter where you want to go. So if you are a leader, if you're leading a team of one or 100, I would love to have you come check out the program. Go to sarahdean.com aligned and you can check out the program. Check out everything that you get. It's a nine month program. We start in September. Early bird Registration ends on July 31st. Go check it out, get your application in and I will see you Inside Aligned. Thank you for being here. I promise you, even though a lot of things are difficult and a lot of things are hard, you still have power. You still have agency. There's always room for hope and possibility and potential. And remember that I'm in this with you always. Thank you so much for being here and allowing me to spend time in your ear today. I take that responsibility very seriously. If you're interested in learning more about my speaking training and executive coaching services, you can go to saradeen.com that's S A R-A-E-A-N.com if you have follow up questions or comments about this episode, please come join me on LinkedIn@ah Sarahdeen.com there's nothing I love more than a listener dropping into my DMs. Thank you for taking the time to show up for yourself today. I see you, I hear you and I m am holding space for you today and every single day.

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