Are you being looked over for promotions or new roles? Read this!
So you’ve missed out on a promotion, or other great career advancing opportunity …
You’re working hard, getting results and building a strong team, so why?
What is stopping you from being seen, progressing your career and breaking through into your next level of leadership, impact and recognition?
It may be that you’re spending too much time being a Busy Bee, and not a Queen Bee!
Let me explain …
The Busy Bee is a ‘do-er’. She is often run off her feet with a jam-packed calendar that barely allows her room to breathe, let alone room to think strategically, take a ‘big picture’ focus and lead her team. She is teetering on the brink of burnout, juggling a million tasks and being busy, but not necessarily being productive.
The Queen Bee is a leader. She is working at a strategic level and bringing about high level improvement, change and growth to her organisation. She is focussed, intentional and highly effective. She is moving the business forward, doing work that matters and being recognised for doing so.
I want you to pause for a moment and consider what kind of work you are doing …
Busy Bee work? Or Queen Bee work?
Many of the women I work with quickly recognise themselves as a Busy Bee. They recognise too that being a Busy Bee is holding them back and from being offered a promotion or other career advancing opportunity.
Why?
Because Busy Bee work doesn’t contribute to great change, doesn’t establish you as a leader in your workplace, and doesn’t get you the recognition you deserve (trust me – you are talented and competent and you deserve all the recognition in the world!) It’s the Queen Bee work that does!
The great news is – it’s very easy to move from Busy Bee work to Queen Bee work, if you know how!
In my free training, The Next Level: A 14 Minute Crash Course In How To Breakthrough To The Next Level Of Leadership, Impact and Recognition, I teach mid career professional women, like you, how to breakthrough to their next level of leadership, impact and recognition quickly and easily. You’ll walk away with practical and tangible steps that you can implement straight away that will support you to move from Busy Bee to Queen Bee work.
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