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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.

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064: Employee Benefits

This week's guest is employee benefits specialist Michelle Snow. She walks us through a primer on employee benefits so you can understand what your various options may be, how to decide what's most important for you, and what questions to ask the employer.

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065: How to Get Identified as a High-Potential Employee

This week's guest is Denise Wilson, Vice President of Capital City Bank in Tallahassee, Florida. Capital City Bank has a formal program to identify and train high-potential employees. In my interview with Denise, I asked her to define a high-potential employee, talk about Capital City's high-potential program, and provide advice for anyone seeking to be identified as a high-potential employee within their organization.

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221: How to Get Noticed & Promoted While Working Remotely

Today, we’re talking about the unique challenges so many of you are facing as a direct result of the pandemic. Some of you continue to work from home, while others have returned 100% to the office. Still others have devised a hybrid model that combines the two. Specifically, I want to address the challenges of getting acknowledged for your contributions when you aren’t in the office every day – and how to set yourself up for promotions and new opportunities as a remote worker.

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067: Identifying Your Leadership Style

There are some aspects of leadership that are universal: no matter your personality, industry, background, or audience, true leaders show up in certain ways. In today’s podcast episode, I discuss some of the common traits and styles that make up successful leaders.

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071: Top 10 Leadership De-Railers

You’ve heard me say this before: Leadership is attitudinal, not positional. Many people mistakenly believe that to ACT like a leader, you must be IN a leadership position. Today, I want to touch on the Top 10 Leadership De-Railers.

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220: How to Work with a Difficult Co-Worker

We’ve all had to work with difficult co-workers. Of course, what makes a co-worker difficult to work with for one person may not be an issue at all for another person – maybe they even view that co-worker’s idiosyncrasies as a strength. The most important thing to understand here is that YOU CAN’T CONTROL ANYONE ELSE. Today, we’ll talk about what this looks like.

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219: Ten Symptoms of Job Burnout - and What to Do About Them

Today, we’re talking about the signs of job burnout and what to do. The first thing I want to say about this topic is that there is the job burnout you can recover from without leaving your current job, and there is the job burnout that will require you to move on. Some of you KNOW you are burned out. For others of you, it may be like lightbulbs burning out one by one – you don’t realize the room is dimming until the last bulb goes out and you are in complete darkness.

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073: Leadership for Millennials (with Peter Berry)

My guest today is Peter Berry, whose leadership experience is varied and fascinating; particularly interesting in light of his undergraduate degree in Fine Arts. Peter is a perfect example of how a liberal arts degree can be a great springboard for moving into leadership roles.

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074: What You MUST Know About Resumes in 2019

Resumes are not the easiest to put together. There’s no objectively right or wrong way to format your resume, but it’s important to know what to put on them. In today’s podcast episode, I share some useful points to consider when building your resume.

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