Read Time: 2 minutes. It’s been a sad week for me and it’s going to be uncertain months for my ex-colleagues at Credit Suisse. Credit Suisse provided me with many opportunities whilst providing me with the necessary training and support I needed to succeed. One of the courses I was selected for was called strategic IT training and it was…
Read Time: 1.5 minutes. Do you know your promotion stakeholders? I thought I did, but I was wrong. Big time wrong. I was missing a hell of a lot of them. It was why I failed to get promoted the first time. I did not have enough people in the room fighting my corner. But someone told me who I…
Read Time: 2 minutes. Wow, what a week! I’ve taken on a new consultancy role for a client, and it’s been a rapid acceleration of demands, expectations, and learning. How’s your week been? Let me guess. A week if high expectations and demands on you too. I call this an exponential transition and it’s something I and my coaching clients…
Read Time: 2 minutes. Certain people and situations will trigger your emotions and emotions invoke action. If this action is unbecoming of an executive leader, this will impact your career ambition. In this week’s Leader of Choice newsletter, I will share with you tactical and strategic ways of managing your emotions to get the best out of you, others and…
Read Time: 2 minutes. I hope you had a successful week, and you’ve completed last week’s coaching challenge. This week, I want to share with you a vital step that resilient high performers use when managing their emotions and how to put it into action. Emotional Triggers I bet that during each working day, you experience negative emotions. I know…
Read time: 2 minutes Hey Leaders of Choice, As you are experiencing, navigating your path to the executive level is extremely challenging. So, this week, I want to share with you how to overcome your promotion challenges so you can land that executive promotion you want. But before that, I want to share with you some challenges of my own…
Intention is one with cause and effect. Intention determines outcome. And if you’re stuck and not moving forward, you have to check the thought and the action that created that circumstance. Oprah Winfrey Are you holding back your intention of promotion? Is there an internal opposing force getting in the way? An inner force so powerful that it paralyses you…
Your unique value proposition is what makes you stand out from all your peers who are just as talented, work just as hard and deliver results. It’s the value that only you can bring to deliver strategic impact to the business. It’s your promotion superpower. “Success is adding value to the world through your unique gifts” Lewis Howes This week,…
There are promotion saboteurs in your organisation. Some with the intent on damaging your career and others who strangely have your best interests at heart. Today, I am going to share with you who these may be, and how you can mitigate any risk they will cause to your promotion. Your Boss Is your boss raising your visibility with your…
This week I want to show you how to ace the promotion process and become an executive leader by sharing insights from my own experience as – Some people want it to happen, some wish it to happen, others make it happen. Michael Jordan Your Best Shot at The Title If you are thinking about getting promoted, then this is…
Don’t restrict your career growth to your boss or even the company you work for. If you do, you are limiting your career and future to their limitations, not yours. I was speaking with an ex-colleague this week who told me that his boss had moved to a different role and even though he felt like he was his boss’s…
Life Couldn’t Be Better Jai is a dedicated family man with a beautiful wife and two young children who are both the apple of his eye. He is highly driven and works hard to succeed but will always spend the evenings and weekends with his family. The only time he will compromise on this is if there is a work…
The power of visibility can never be underestimated. Margaret Cho Has your lack of visibility resulted in you being overlooked for a promotion? Me Too I’ve been there too and it sucks. But my boss was straight with me. He said, “You can suck it up and we can work together and succeed next year, you can bitch and whine…
What got you here, won’t get you there” Marshall Goldsmith You have just been promoted from the Championship to the Premiership, the new money and status are fantastic, but the top four and those in the relegation zone are not going to pay you any respect. Unless you raise your game, they will kick you straight back to the Championship.…
You know who’s gonna give you everything? Yourself. Diane Von Furstenberg Don’t restrict your career growth to your boss or even the company you work for. If you do, you are restricting your career to their limitations, not yours. It may not even be the same boss next year. Here are five core strategies I used to build a successful…
“It takes more than just fancy flying” Top Gun After coaching many of my own team for promotion and evaluating many others on promotion committees, it takes more than just hard work and time in your role to get you promoted. Here are seven strategies that will improve your chances. 1. Visibility Can your boss’s peers, their boss and other…
Are you overloaded, continually context switching from email, meetings, projects and conversations? Do you feel like you are never giving your best to anything and are exhausted at the end of the day? “What got you here won’t get you there.” Marshall Goldsmith Reactive Zone If you are, then I bet you are spending too much time in the reactive…
Have you been offered an exciting new opportunity at work?
More responsibility that will take you closer to that promotion you want?
Do you feel excited?
Good, you should be. But before you accept this exciting opportunity, you should read this post to see if you can avoid career suicide.
This week, I am going to tell you a story about how I nearly looked like an ego driven idiot.
Are you up for promotion this year? As the end of the year approaches and you still haven’t had any bad news, then there is a high chance it’s in the bag. Imagine what you can do with that extra money and how proud you will feel when you tell your friends and family about this great news? But this…
