The number 1 thing you need to do to be a great leader and advance your career in 2021
Like most mid-career professional women, I think it’s pretty safe to assume that 2020 created huge disruptions and upheavals in your life.
Perhaps you went from working in the office, to working at home sharing a space with kids and other family members.
Maybe you had to increase your capacity to hold space for the complex emotions of your staff and colleagues? No doubt you had to support them to sit with uncertainty and fear too!
And it’s likely you had to step up, and be even more adaptable, strategic and forward thinking.
What made a great leader led prior to 2021, is likely to be vastly different to how your workplace needs you to lead now. What worked in the past simply won’t be the way going forward.
Given this shift, here’s the NUMBER 1 thing you need to do to be a great leader, support your organisation to grow and progress your career in 2021.
Show more of your true self.
Do you feel like 2020 asked to take your mask off and be more yourself?
Times are changing and the women we thought we had to be in order to be seen, progress our careers and break through into our next level of leadership, impact and recognition, was thrown out the window.
As a leader in 2021, your workplace needs you to be more YOU, not who you think you need to be in order to get seen and succeed. In fact in 2021, being YOU is the key to fast tracking your professional progress!
Why? Because people are craving depth and more ‘realness’ in the workplace. 2020 brought everyone’s humanness to the forefront and now, people are needing and expecting this more than ever.
As well as this, being your true self by expressing emotions like vulnerability and authenticity are a must going forward.
As I shared in this article, many corporate environments in the past, made us believe that emotions didn’t belong at work, and should be suppressed and pushed below the surface.
But this simply isn’t true – especially in 2021.
Emotions like vulnerability and authenticity are anything but weak, and they’re not inappropriate or something to be ashamed of.
2020 was a watershed moment that woke everyone up and in this waking, the human side of leadership came to be encouraged, embraced and celebrated.
Now is your time to infuse more of YOU into your workplace, and step up as an empowered feminine leader who is comfortable expressing yourself openly, vulnerably and authentically.
As I share in Ignite – our 8 week group online program for mid career women, 2021 truly is your time to lead your way.
No more feeling like a ‘square peg in a round hole’ in your workplace, and no more trying to emulate an out-of-date version of what a good leader was.
What your career needs, in order for it to progress, and your organisation needs in order for it to grow, is for you to own your uniqueness and lead in a way that feels true to you.
Never has there been a better time to fully step into your feminine power and lead in a way that feels right for you! You’ve got this!
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