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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.

047: Taking Advantage of Your Company's Professional Development Opportunities

Not providing growth and developmental opportunities to direct reports and teams can have a lot of consequences. Probably the most damaging is that they decide to find development elsewhere and leave for another opportunity externally. In today’s podcast episode, I present seven tools for you to take advantage of on-the-job professional development.

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048: External Education Opportunities

In episode 47, I talked about taking advantage of your company’s internal training opportunities. I also talked about 7 strategies for creating one-on-one professional development opportunities for yourself, regardless of whether or not your employer has formal programs like these. Today, let’s talk about continuing your education outside your current employer.

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Career Management Lesa Edwards Career Management Lesa Edwards

050: Work/Life Blend (Balance is a Myth)

Think about it: Work/Life balance is like Work on one side of a teeter-totter, and Life on the other side. Rather, think of the Work/Life blend, meaning a delicious mixture of both where the Work ingredients are indistinguishable from the Life ingredients. In today’s podcast episode, I talk about how Work and Life can overlap in many manageable ways.

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Leadership Lesa Edwards Leadership Lesa Edwards

224: How to Leverage Coaching Competencies if You Aren't a Certified Coach

The reason I’m doing this episode today is because of the horror stories I have heard about bosses who are supposed to be “coaching” their employees but are doing something else entirely. As a Certified Executive and Leadership Development Coach (CELDC), I wanted to talk about a few of the coaching competencies as laid out by the International Coaching Federation or ICF. ICF is considered the premier coaching credential organization in the world. Many people in leadership positions have gotten a coaching certification, but it may not be appropriate for everyone. So here’s a crash course on eight coaching competencies you can put to use today without a coaching certification.

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