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.
100: Episode #100 - A Centennial Celebration!
This week's episode is a trip down memory lane, with a look at how this podcast started, how it got to episode #100, and where we're going from here.
101: Volunteering as a Career Development Strategy
Volunteering is generally considered an altruistic activity where an individual or group provides services for no financial or social gain. Today, I want to talk about volunteering as a strategy for developing your career.
102: 15 Minutes a Day on LinkedIn Can Make All the Difference
As an entrepreneur, my goal on LinkedIn is to get clients – to be seen as the career management expert I am. In this podcast episode, I discuss the benefits of spending a few minutes on LinkedIn every day.
103: What's Really Going on with the Glass Ceiling
This episode is specifically for women and those who hire, train, coach, mentor, manage, or supervise them. And those who know women. So basically everybody.
104: Bull's Eye Thinking for Your Career
One of the topics I’ve talked about before on this podcast is the concept of the bull’s eye as it relates to your dream career. If you think of your career as a dart board, then all of the “suitable” jobs for you are somewhere on that dart board.
105: Annual List of Five Unusual Things to Be Thankful For
Back in 2016, I started what has become an annual Thanksgiving tradition…my list of Five Unusual Things to Be Thankful for. In creating this year’s list, I decided to revisit the three previous years’ lists and share my experiences in this podcast episode.
216: Your Emotional Intelligence Profile
Emotional Intelligence has been a hot topic for some time now. To my mind, this focus on emotional intelligence is recognition that it isn’t just what you can do for your employer that is valuable, but rather how you do it. How you show up for your coworkers, your boss, your direct reports, your customers, your vendors. Today we’ll talk about the competencies and how they connect to your work environment with IQ, EI, and technical expertise.
106: Six Simple Resume Tips for Recent College Grads
There are enough books, articles, and blogs on resume writing out there to fill the Empire State Building a few times over. I thought I would boil all of this down to the least common denominator in this week’s podcast episode.
215: How to Work Around a Debilitating Boss
Today’s topic is How to Work Around a Debilitating Boss. Notice that I didn’t call it a Toxic Boss. There’s a fair amount of overlap between what we might call toxic and debilitating. Rather than focus on whether your boss’s behavior is toxic or debilitating, let’s instead focus on bad boss behavior and what to do about it.
107: “Why Should I Hire You?” How to Answer this Tough Question
One of the things I coach my clients on around the job interview is how to answer the question, “Why should I hire you?” In this podcast episode, I’ll be covering useful tips and strategies when answering questions in job interviews.
108: Are You Buffering Instead of Looking For Your Dream Job? (with Jane Springer)
This week’s podcast features guest life coach, Jane Springer. Here, we’ll be talking about buffering – that is, the things you do when you should be looking for a new job.
214: What Should I Include - and Leave Off - My Resume?
I get a lot of questions about what should, and shouldn’t, be included in a resume. I also see a lot of resumes that include information that shouldn’t be there. Keep in mind that your resume should be a marketing document. You are selling a product, and that product is YOU. Today, we will cover what should ALWAYS be on your resume, NEVER should be on your resume, and what MIGHT be on your resume.
109: Planning for a Successful 2020
I’ve heard about goals till I’m blue in the face. And the focus is often on SETTING goals, rather than how to actually ACHIEVE them. In this podcast episode, I want to approach this topic from a different angle.
213: Should I Give Personal Information In My Job Interview?
Let’s talk about this topic of providing personal information during a job interview. Different so-called “experts” will have differing opinions about this, but here’s my stance: In short, my answer is YES. But with conditions.
212: The +1 Approach to Job Boards
Today, I want to zero in on something I have mentioned in other podcasts. I call this my +1 approach to job boards. In my work with clients, I differentiate between active job search strategies and passive job search strategies. Of course I want my clients to focus on active job search strategies but there is a way to make your passive job search a bit more active, using my +1 approach. This is what we’ll be talking about today.
110: When to Tell Your Boss You're Looking for a New Job
In today’s episode, I want to talk about when to tell your boss you’re looking for a new job. This topic came from one of my clients, who reached out to ask me this question. There’s isn’t a simple answer, so I want to lay out the considerations for you.
111: How to Hack the Hidden Job Market (with Mac Prichard)
This week’s guest is Mac Prichard, speaking with me about How to Hack the Hidden Job Market. 80% of all jobs are never publicly advertised, but there are ways to access this treasure trove of work opportunities. Mac explains these for us today.
112: My Journey, and What it Teaches You
I’ve been thinking a lot about my journey lately. Also, with the new year and new decade, it seems like a good time to reflect. I’ve shared bits and pieces of my life with you over the previous 111 episodes, but I decided to dedicate an entire episode to my story — what I’ve learned and how I’ve grown,–in the hopes that it will inspire you. I’m hoping to pull back the curtain in this episode.
113: Active Listening at Work
Today, I’m focusing on Active Listening. I think we can all agree that it is important to really listen at work, but maybe you haven’t given much thought to why it’s important. That will be just one of the topics we discuss today.
114: Effective Communication at Work
Last week’s episode was on Active Listening, so today I’ll cover Effective Communication. There are four steps to the communication process; at any point in that process something can go wrong: the words you speak, what you meant by those words, the words the listener heard, and what the listener makes those words mean.
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