Podcast
Looking for a new job or want to move up in your company? Lesa teaches you the tools and strategies you need to land your dream job, increase your promotability, and successfully navigate your career.
168: Three Clues From Your Past That Can Help You Uncover Your Dream Career (with Laura Berman Fortgang)
Today, my guest is Laura Berman Fortgang, and we are discussing three clues you can look at from your past to help you find the career you are meant to be in. We talk about what clues to look for, how to assess those clues, and what to do with your new-found self-awareness.
169: Questions to Ask Your Manager to Improve Your Relationship
Today’s podcast is based heavily on the getlighthouse.com blog, specifically the blog titled “18 Questions to Ask Your Manager to Improve Your Relationship and Better Manage Up.” Whether you are trying to improve your relationship with your manager from bad to okay, okay to good, or good to great, you can work with your manager to improve your relationship and make work much more enjoyable for both of you.
170: Networking Secrets for Job Seekers (with Mac Prichard)
Today, I have a return guest – Mac Prichard. Mac runs the highly successful Mac’s List for employment opportunities in the Portland area. We're talking about networking secrets for job seekers. Mac talks about the most misunderstood concept job seekers have around networking and how to network during a pandemic. He also gives us his top 5 networking secrets.
171: How to Have a Successful 1:1 With Your Boss
For this episode, I leaned heavily on the article “7 Essential Tips for Effective 1 on 1 Meetings with Your Manager” from the getlighthouse.com blog. In a perfect world, 1:1 meetings with your boss should be something you have regularly, and actually look forward to. Done well, effective 1:1 meetings are an opportunity for feedback, coaching, relationship-building, & goal-setting. Here are some tips on how to have a more successful 1:1 with your boss.
172: Four Times When You Need a Mentor
Today’s episode is pulled heavily from the Real Simple article “4 Moments When You Need a Mentor” in the November 2020 issue by Ronnie Koenig. We will cover why having a mentor is important, the 4 moments when they are most helpful, and even the benefits of becoming a mentor yourself.
173: Making Sure Your Resume Gets Through the Applicant Tracking System (ATS)
Today’s episode is about the ATS and how you can make sure your resume gets through the Applicant Tracking System (ATS). I’ll explain how the ATS works and the do’s and don’ts if you want your resume to pass through the system.
174: Developing Your Job Descriptions & Achievement Bullets for Your Resume
Today’s episode is about how to properly market your experience on your resume. We break down how to develop effective job descriptions and formulate the highest impact description of your achievements.
175: Articulating Your Brand on Your Resume
Today’s episode is about how to articulate your brand on your resume. We’ll begin with the importance of this, some questions to ask yourself to spur the process, and then move into some examples.
176: How to REALLY Prepare for a Job Interview
I have done plenty of episodes on how to answer various types of interview questions. What I want to touch on today is everything else surrounding the job interview. In today’s episode we will cover 11 tips to help you be optimally prepared for your next job interview.
177: Overcoming Your Fear of Networking
Today’s episode is about overcoming the fear of networking. We’ll focus on one-to-one networking opportunities and then networking events.
178: Sorry Not Sorry! How to stop apologizing at work and adopt a leadership communication style (with Jen Ngozi)
My guest today is Jen Ngozi, founder of NetWerk®, a global women in leadership organization and movement on a mission to help everyday women worldwide build the community, confidence, and skills needed to become leaders. In today’s episode, Jen provides the listeners with invaluable tips to STOP apologizing for everything and how to communicate like a leader.
179: Seven Strategies for Jumpstarting Your Networking
Today’s podcast will be strategies that you may not have thought of to either jumpstart your networking, or to take what you are already doing to the next level.
180: If You Want to Lead Others, Lead Yourself First (with Heather Younger)
Today, my guest is Heather Younger, author of The Art of Caring Leadership. In this episode, Heather and I talk about the six areas of self-leadership from her book and why it is so important to lead yourself before you can effectively lead others.
181: Conquering COVID-Related Fatigue (with Jane Springer)
We’d love to think that everything is back to “normal,” and all our pandemic-related stresses and frustrations are behind us. THIS ISN’T TRUE. Whether we are dealing with returning to work, navigating a return to normal with our significant others or children, or rethinking our career path, many of use are still dealing with COVID-related fatigue. My return guest, Jane Springer, is a life and wellness coach. She and I discuss what we’re seeing with our clients and how we are helping them navigate the world in 2021.
182: Are You Undermining Your Relationships with Co-workers? (with Carson Tate)
Today, my guest is Carson Tate of workingsimply.com, and we’re talking about our work relationships. Carson is an employee engagement expert, and we talk about why relationships at work are so important. She also gives us tips for re-engaging with our coworkers now that many of us are going back in the office.
183: Closing the Job Interview and Following Up
This week, I want to talk about how to wrap up a job interview and what you’ll want to do after the interview to increase your chances of getting the job. We’ll cover what to do at the end of an interview, in the 24 hours following, and how to maintain ongoing contact.
184: 7 Rules for Women Who Want to Make More Money (with Laura Browne)
Our topic today is 7 Raise Rules for Women Who Want to Make More Money, with Laura Browne. Men and women approach salary issues very differently, and Laura and I dive into these differences and how women can ask for what they want. Laura provides us with some of her best tips for asking for a raise and negotiating a salary and compensation package.
185: Borrowing from Brené Brown's FFTs to Reframe Your Job Situation
I’m a huge fan of Brené Brown’s work, and I love her concept of FFTs. If you’ve been listening to this podcast for a while, you know that I don’t say anything that wouldn’t be suitable for all audiences, so I’ll start by saying that FFTs stands for “F’ing First Time. Brené talks about FFTs in the framework of doing something new. Of challenging ourselves…of evolving to the next level in our development as a human. Which got me thinking…what do FFTs look like in the framework of our jobs? When we are given a new task…asked to work in a new way…learn a new skill?
186: 9 High-Impact Ways to Take Responsibility for Your Own Success (with Ed Evarts)
Today my guest is Ed Evarts, author of “Driving Your Career.” We talk about ways to take responsibility for your own career success.
187: How to Promote Yourself as a Subject Matter Expert on LinkedIn
Today, I want to drill down on ways to promote yourself as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on LinkedIn. We’ll start with why this is important and why LI is the platform to use, then dive into the how and some specific types of posts to consider.
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