Show Up; Sparkle & Be Heard At Work with Kay White: Recent Episodes
Kay White
No one is more interested in your career progress or potential than you should be! Kay White, known as the Smart Career Moves Mentor for Corporate Career Women, shows you tactical and practical ways to get ahead at work, earn more money and recognition - ALL without selling your soul (or acting like a man). Each weekly episode gives you inspiration to "Drive Your Own Career Bus" as Kay says in the direction YOU want to go (and combines Kay's love of influential language, life purpose, career strategy AND all things sparkly!) Kay combines her own 20+ year corporate career in insurance broking with her tactical approach to career success...whatever that really means to YOU. Receive a FREE Chapter: Shine In Interviews & Appraisals from her bestselling book "It's ALWAYS Your Move" - www.kaywhite.com/always-your-move
Things I wish I’d done or known when I started out speaking. Accelerate by taking these tips
How to think about the agility and flexibility we need to manage the pace and incessant change
How to plan and consider the best way to get out of being stuck, it’s a choice to stay there, stuck
It’s not all about what you say - most of successfully communicating a message is about HOW you say it
Pacing yourself, learning to recover and self-care are not a selfish act. They’re critical to your ability to support others.
Expand your thinking by stretching outside of your comfort zone and blazing your trail as you do
Strategies and mindsets to adopt which keep you focussing on bravery rather than fear when you’re outside your comfort zone
Sometimes we can’t see how our instinct has been guiding us to what we’re doing now. How to look more closely can be transformational for your ‘right now’
Life is full of ups and downs and it’s how you cope with your challenges, not if you have them. We all do. Our versions of challenges
Stop thinking you can do everything by yourself, we all need love and support of others and we need time to ourselves
Stop scrambling about to update your colleagues about developments and do this instead!
How to keep yourself involved and included without being pushy or uncomfortable. It’s up to YOU!
People don’t change when you want them to. Only when they want to. Sometimes they just don’t want to. Then what?
Getting ready to be ready can be a disguised procrastination habit. Putting yourself out there before your 100% ready attracts opportunity and makes things happen
Stop getting stuck with what should have happened, learn the lesson then move on. It’s SO worth it
How to stop that sense of being reduced by what happens to you or how others treat you and trust your own experience and wisdom instead
Be canny with your diary and treat yourself and your own time fiercely for your own wellbeing
How to make the most of the opportunities and also recognise how quickly things change, if they have to
Why a helpful phrase will affect the outcome of your experience as you navigate these tricky, choppy waters in your career AND in your life
These simple, habit-forming ways of expressing ourselves take away our power and we often end up asking for permission to speak, act, respond. Stop it!
The confidence boost of realising there are no real ‘absolutes’ and how it’s about how you define things
Why having an updated and strategic CV or Resume ready to go is such a smart career move
Follow a simple structure which enables you to give enough detail AND not too much as you update people
How to make structure during your working-from-home days to get more done AND have time for fun…
Having worked at home for 18 years here are tips, ideas and things which make homeworking easier and more productive (and fun)
Don’t wait to hear what the plans are for you, start pulling together your own plan and notice how it makes people sit up!
There’s a mindset shift and a tactic which will help you to go for things when you have that doubt about “am I worthy of this?”
Why it’s so key to put your hat in the ring at work rather than falter or hesitate when opportunity knocks
Why it’s key to have a few phrases to enable you to respond or contribute without committing yourself too soon…
Tips and exercises, stories and examples about how and why to use your voice to make people sit up and listen
It’s essential to go with the flow of your interest, energy and reinvent yourself as you go
Stop allowing others to shine instead of you and do it with confidence without breaking the relationship
How to make 2020 the year you make things happen because you make a contract with yourself
Ways to put yourself in the driving seat again when being a passenger doesn’t get you to where you want to go
It may be you’re assuming you’re behind, lacking skills, unable to do things when, in fact, that’s not true. You’re just in a cycle and hear how you can get out of your own way by understanding this
By making room for who really matters to you, by assessing if or how your relationships give you pleasure and you give pleasure to others, you make choices. There are lessons and reasons to do this with grace and ease
How to think about and respond to the ‘stuff’ that inevitably happens which shocks you and which can take your legs away from under you. It doesn’t have to define you.
When something’s stopping you, the first thing to do is give it a name by using a simple model
How and why it’s easier to do this by thinking differently and then taking inspired action
Allow yourself to find things out rather than feel lacking – be a learner rather than a know all
Share the responsibility and maintain your dignity and composure when you receive an unexpected (and unwanted) love declaration
It’s important to give compliments and use my 3 step structure to make this natural for you
It’s more effective for people to make their own decisions than be told by you what to do
Be more mindful of those around you who offer their opinions. It’s just that - theirs. What do you think?
Give an engaging, interesting and different slant on titling your talks, invitations, opportunities - it makes people listen to you
Stay open to sharing both your credibility with you vulnerability to accelerate and deepen connection
Keeping in touch is much more a part of your success than you might think. It’s visibility mixed with your ability to keep on top of things and be the person in the know
Help people to help you by giving them another way of thinking about what you’re saying. Their meaning is more important than yours!
Understand how you can disconnect or upset someone by mis-using the word but and what to say instead
The message and teachings stayed with me long after I’d finished the book which is one of my definitions of a ‘good book’
Take a moment and decide if or how you want to respond. Or maybe you want to employ the art of masterful inactivity?
Follow the 8 strategies used by Olympians to run your own 'personal best' at work, rather than let them throw you off your game!
Use other words instead of ‘No’ which keep the connection and your boundaries at the same time
Simple ways to boost your listening skills so you get more of what you want AND save precious time and energy
Understand the difference strong posture makes to how people treat you and respond to you
Give yourself time to do more floor-walking rather than just focussing on your To Do list
Understand and use the power in the word ‘attitude’ and how it affects your results at work
Take a breath and understand the myriad of benefits to you and your listener as you communicate
Avoid putting people on the defensive unnecessarily, understand why and what to say instead
Understand the difference questions make. How people respond to you is directly related to the quality of the questions you ask
The 5Ps to position your value at work. Stop focusing on your ‘To Do’ list and focus on the wider implications of what ‘what you do’ does.
Be more confident and assertive joining conversations comfortably so you connect more powerfully.
Confidently and comfortably weave people's names into your conversations and messages to assertively connect with them.
Introduction to the podcast and why communicating effectively at work is so important for women and how to get the best from this podcast.