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Career Development Strategies for Women – How to Advance Your Confidence, Career & Income with Sabrina Braham MA PCC | Women’s Leadership Success Podcast # 78 Jul 24, 2016

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Tim Warren & Sabrina Braham This episode of Women’s Leadership Success Radio is a little experiment. Most the time, I interview world-class women (and men), and I ask them many, many questions to try and figure out what makes them succeed at what they do. Over the years, many of you have asked me great questions. So I flipped the script and am answering some of your questions. In this episode, I am being interviewed by my husband Tim Warren on one of your most common questions: what are some top career development strategies for women? Do you have career development concerns or questions that block your opportunities and impact your income? For instance: What if you are bored in your existing job? Or not sure if you need more education? Maybe lack a mentor? Or feel stuck in a large corporate environment. Do you wonder how do you manage your career and have a great relationship at the same time? And you are not alone. You know you are capable of doing better right? Join me as I share some of my career development strategies for women success tips while being interviewed by my husband “Tourism Tim” Warren. This is a new periodic segment, I call “Sabrina’s Secrets”® where I answers your top career development, leadership, communications and more top questions. See below on how to potentially get your questions answered on Women’s Leadership Success Radio Podcast too. Sabrina Braham: Career Development Strategies for Women I have over 25 year management, leadership and career development expertise as a consultant, coach and trainer to many fortune 1000 firms and in the private, public and academic fields. Just in the past year I have coached 4 CEO’s and 5 people have been promoted to VP’s.One of the most rewarding things I love is helping women just like you get promoted, especially to C-level positions. Career Development Strategies for Women Leadership Success #78 Show Summary How you can stay motivated and excited about your career. When should you move on to advance your career or when you should be patient and grow where you are? What to do if you are pigeonholed in your present job Are you too old to get a degree? And it is worth the time and expense to get advanced education or skills What are some effective ways to career advancement without mentorship? What are the some of the secrets to managing dual-career situation where both partners/spouses work full-time and want interesting, rewarding careers? Are you looking for career development strategies for women from an executive coach with many many success helping women just like you? Would you like to move to a more powerful level of confidence and earnings? Then here are 3 things you can start with right now: Here are 3 things you can start with now: 1. Call or email me for executive coaching, consulting or training for yourself or your team. (Use Contact Form Here) 2. For a free career and leadership assessment from me, Go to Career Development Quiz .Com 3. Help me spread the word to women just like you, tap into the insights you are getting from this show by giving me a review in Apple Podcasts (iTunes), Spotify, Castbox, Podchaser, Podcast Addict & sharing this show in your favorite social media.

How Women Can Excel at Strategic Change Management | Ellen R. Auster & Sabrina Braham MA PCC | Women’s leadership Success Podcast #77 Jun 02, 2016

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How to Get Peoples Hearts and Minds Into Strategic Change Management For Improved Culture and Increased Productivity & Profits Do you want to know one of the biggest challenges to good leadership? It is managing change effectively. And YET, the research shows that 70% of all change initiatives - FAIL. Why is that? One of the top reasons is because, it is not addressed head on, with the very people who need to implement the change. Have you experienced this? If not, at some point this will happen in your department - or your company at large. Join us today learn how to implement successful strategic change management with author Ellen R. Auster, who has more than 25 years experience specializing in strategic transitions, transformations and turnarounds. She’s also professor of strategic change management and the founding director of the Schulich Center for Teaching Excellence at the Schulich School of Business, York University. She has recently written the book, Stragility: Excelling at Strategic Changes. Women's leadership Success Podcast #77: Strategic Change Management: How engage and enroll your people Resisting the temptation to use the first viable strategy that emerges Dealing with disruptive external forces, constant global competition and demanding customers Solutions for failed strategic change management and change fatigue Developing the people-powered dimension of change How to systematically inspire and engage people Learn the difference between the rational and relational sides of change Bringing the magic of mantras to the change initiative Attention Leaders and Managers – Listen & Share This Today Wow! This interview is so great. I hope that you hear it more than once. Ellen has shared so many profound things on strategic change management. So listen to it more than once to really get the incredible suggestions she is making. --------------------------------------------------------------- Are you ready to break through your limitations and profitably implement strategic change management in your career, leadership and business? Would you like to move to more powerful profitable levels? Then here are 3 things you can start with right now: Here are 3 things you can start with now: 1. Call or email me for executive coaching, consulting or training for yourseldf and team. (Use Contact Form Here) 2. For a free career and leadership assessment from me, Go to Career Development Quiz .Com 3. Help me spread the word to women just like you, tap into the insights you are getting from this show by giving me a review in Apple Podcasts (iTunes), Spotify, Castbox, Podchaser, Podcast Addict & sharing this show in your favorite social media. adership assessment from me, Go to Career Development Quiz .Com 3. Help me spread the word to women just like you, tap into the insights you are getting from this show by giving me a review in Apple Podcasts (iTunes), Spotify, Castbox, Podchaser, Podcast Addict & sharing this show in your favorite social media.

How to Navigate Career Development: Work Life Balance for Women Apr 29, 2016

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Have you ever been stuck? Have you ever felt like your career development is at a dead end, or that maybe you got the wrong degree in college? Let me tell you a secret. You CAN overcome your roadblocks. You are capable of being and achieving more than you are doing now. Join Carrie Kish CPCC and me to learn how a serial entrepreneur, mother of 4 and CEO of Culturesync (The Champions of Tribal Leadership) navigates work life balance. This great interview will encourage and inspire you that you can remove career development blocks and amplify your success too. Work Life Balance with Carrie Kish Carrie started out as a chemist and worked in research as a chemist for a few years and then went into teaching, and then I found that she is very entrepreneurial and started multiple businesses. She and her husband just recently started their eighth business, which have been in many different and diverse fields from software consulting to a health spa to leadership development, and although they don’t seem like they go together, and it’s an interesting path that we follow. She became CEO of CultureSync in a kind of an unusual way. Essentially she sold her lab coaching and leadership development business into CultureSync in exchange for partnership, so she is a partner and the CEO of CultureSync. CultureSync helps people navigate culture and leadership in organizations, from anything from a startup up to Fortune 100. Answers to Career Development Roadblocks: Work Life Balance for Women How to make a change from one profession to another When to trust your instincts and follow the opportunity What it means to follow the resonance How to handle negative feedback Tips for meeting and feeling confident with well-known people Learn to inherently lead at different levels Tribal Leadership explained How the language you and your team use creates meaning Dealing with the work life balance when you are sick or injured Using your disability or failure for great growth and career development Asking for help: how vulnerability impacts your success Quotes from Carrie Kish for Women’s Leadership Success Interview “For a quick tip … allowing people to help you is probably a leadership secret that people aren’t good at. Especially of the women, I think we are so good at giving help and offering help and we’re pretty terrible at receiving, and if you can let people help you, that is sometimes more inspiring of followership and support than helping others, allowing people and empowering them and surrendering to allow them to help you.” “I think I just followed the steps that were in front of me, like follow the resonance, follow the fulfillment and follow the opportunity.” “It’s kind of like following the path that lights up, following what makes your heart sing, following what feels right, and I think I’m very intuitive so I feel more than I think… “So you can just palpably feel the difference when you walk into an organization that is led by values. You have a different customer experience or a different experience interacting with them, and they’re doing better in the marketplace. They have a much higher customer loyalty and much more success.” “Something that I did was I was radically committed to my healing and I’m also better than my physical therapist’s idea at this point because of how committed I was to my health and healing.” Are you ready to break through your limitations in your career, leadership and life? Would you like to move to a more powerful level? Then here are 3 things you can start with right now: Here are 3 things you can start with now: 1. Call or email me for executive coaching, consulting or training. (Use Contact Form Here) 2. For a free career and leadership assessment from me, Go to Career Development Quiz .Com 3. Help me spread the word to women just like you, tap into the insights you are getting from this show by giving me a review in Apple Podcasts (iTunes), Spotify, Castbox, Podchaser, Podcast Addict & sharing this show in your favorite social media. PS Thanks for reviewing, sharing and subscribing to Women's Leadership Success Radio Podcast in Apple Podcasts.

2 Second Lean | Paul Akers & Sabrina Braham MA MFT PCC | Womens Leadership Success Podcast #75 Mar 23, 2016

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If you have ever worked, or considered the “Lean Process”, 2 Second Lean will help you make it simple and accessible. Join me and my guest Paul Akers, author of the best Selling book, “2 Second Lean”. Listen and learn a simple way to eliminate waste with the "2 Second Lean Process" to increase productivity and enjoy your life more. It is has been adopted by corporations like Coca-Cola, Boeing, Amazon, Mercedes Benz, Boeing and many others worldwide. Paul Akers is the author of 2 Second Lean and the founder and president of FastCap based in Bellingham, Washington, an international product development company that he founded in 1997. He has over 2,000 distributors worldwide and he is a prolific inventor. He has launched approximately twenty new innovative products a year since 1999. Attention Leaders & Managers: Listen & Share This is one of the best most practical interviews I have ever done. It will help you be a better leader, manager, more profitable, happier team and most important, more freedom and fun. Listen and share this 2 Second lean interview with Paul Akers and Sabrina Braham today. You will be glad you did. 2 Second Lean Interview for Women’s Leadership Success Ideas that you could put into use immediately How 2 Second Lean gets implemented so that it’s actually an enjoyable process Discover the “eight wastes” and practical ways to eliminate them daily Four simple points for continuous improvement How 2 Second Lean improves customer service Learn to build culture and engage employees Take what bugs you and learn how to make it better Easy changes to put into action Shocking solution to those who refuse to improve Makes 2 Second Lean simple and accessible How to operationally and practically implement this approach Easy tips to unravel the complication of lean and makes it simple How to make something better than it was. 2 Second Lean Quotes “Lean is the ability to see waste in everything you do, so this is how it works. Everything you do in life is a process. So most of what we do all day long is non-value added activity.” “So all we’re trying to do is eliminate the waste from the starting point of every process to the ending point and eliminate that and make it smaller, more efficient and recapture all the waste of resources that are involved in any process. That’s all Lean is.” “We’re wasting our potential as human beings because we were made to do fantastic things, to develop, invent and create all kinds of wonderful things, but the preponderance of our life is caught up in doing incredibly, stupid work because we overproduced everything we do in life, and so we’re caught up into this waste vortex and we’re not using our potential.” “Fix what bugs you and do it in a disciplined way every day for the rest of your life. Guess what happens? Every day you get up, your life is better than the day before. That is the critical component. Every day you get up, it’s better than the day before if you do this. “Continuous improvement never stops or pauses...” Read 2 Second Lean Interview with Paul Akers Transcripts Here

Power in Leadership: How to Change your Story & Create New Possibilities Part II with Chené Swart and Sabrina Braham MA PCC | Women’s Leadership Success Podcast #74 Feb 13, 2016

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Power in Leadership. Part II. Join us with part 2 of the new way of thinking about the world that has impacted Nelson Mandela and Peter Block. This transformative thinking is called “narrative work”. It opens a new window to see that there are lots of other possibilities than that “story” that you’ve already been told and sold. Click on Audio Player Below to Listen to or Download Women’s Leadership Success Radio Interview #74 Sabrina Braham & Chené Swart at Conversations Among Masters Conference Listen and find out how top men and women leaders have transformed their lives, and businesses, simply by changing their story. Sabrina Braham and her guest Chené Swart show you how every conversation you enter creates with it the possibility of transformation and better outcomes. Chené Swart, is the author of the book, Re-authoring the World: The Narrative Lens and Practices for organisations, communities and individuals. She is a contributing author on Coaching from a Dialogic OD paradigm in the ground breaking organizational handbook published by Berrett-Koehler in San Francisco in 2015 called Dialogic Organization Development and Change: Theory and Practice. She lives in South Africa where she writes and works as an executive coach, consultant and trainer specializing in re-authoring practices. “ Each of us has a free will at our core, so like it or not, others will choose to change more readily from the example set by our own transformation than by any demand we make of them.” — Peter Block Power in Leadership Highlights: The Narrative Story Part II What the Taken for granted story is and how to change it How important human connection is and how important it is to pause and so that we can surface all of the multiplicity of the narratives Valuing the whole work community stories The shocking truth: Even if you don’t like the story you are in you are part of the story and contributing to how it unfolds Discover how to Separate out the people from the problems Questioning out of curiosity instead of catch out mode How to create more space for human connection What generous listening is and how it can change your communication Why Curiosity with no judgment changes the outcome Noticing when your assumptions are not true If you Missed Part I of this Interview on Power in Leadership with Chene & Sabrina, Access it Here What are your questions and comments on the Narrative Story and Power in Leadership for women’s Leadership Radio? I want to know. Ask your questions on this important topic below in the comments window and I will get back to you. Thanks for listening and sharing. Are you ready for more power in leadership and to break through your limitations in your career, leadership and life? Would you like to move to a more powerful level? Then here are 3 things you can start with right now: Here are 3 things you can start with now: 1. Call or email me for executive coaching, consulting or training. (Use Contact Form Here) 2. For a free career and leadership assessment from me, Go to Career Development Quiz .Com 3. Help me spread the word to women just like you, tap into the insights you are getting from this show by giving me a review in Apple Podcasts (iTunes), Spotify, Castbox, Podchaser, Podcast Addict & sharing this show in your favorite social media.

Power Leadership | How to Change Your Story for New Possibilities| Reauthoring the World | Sabrina Braham MA PCCand Chené Swart | Women’s Leadership Success Podcast # 73 Jan 12, 2016

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Power leadership secrets.... How many of the limitations in your life and work do you assume you can’t change? This may be a “story” that you tell yourself, or you have been told, that is just not true… Many people don’t know that they can change their story, whether it’s individually, in their community or company. There is an exciting new way of thinking about the world and leadership that has impacted greats like Nelson Mandela and Peter Block called “narrative work”. This power leadership way of thinking opens a window to see that there are lots of other possibilities than that story that you’ve already been told and sold. This is narrative work and power leadership. Join us today in part I of this exciting interview to learn how you can apply power leadership and narrative work and transform your career, business and life too, simply by changing your story. Our guest today is Chené Swart, is the author of the book, Re-authoring the World: The Narrative Lens and Practices for organisations, communities and individuals. She is a contributing author on Coaching from a Dialogic OD paradigm in the ground breaking organizational handbook published by Berrett-Koehler in San Francisco in 2015 called Dialogic Organization Development and Change: Theory and Practice She lives in South Africa where she writes and works as an executive coach, consultant and trainer specializing in re-authoring practices. Each of us has a free will at our core, so like it or not, others will choose to change more readily from the example set by our own transformation than by any demand we make of them. — Peter Block, The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters Highlights of Power Leadership: The Narrative Story How the narrative lens can change your perspective on power and leadership Why Change your story? How to use the narrative story to change work and communities Are you open to seeing the world differently? What is the “taken-for-granted story” and how does it influence and affects our lives. Have you accepted a "problem story" about yourself and others? Power leadership: Change the story to change the world Discover the lie in: “This happens all the time or this is always the truth.” Inspiring examples of how we can live into an alternative stories What are your questions and comments on Power Leadership and the Narrative Story for women’s Leadership Radio? I want to know. Ask your questions on this important topic below in the comments window and I will get back to you. Thanks for listening and sharing. Are you ready for more power leadership and to break through your limitations in your career, leadership and life? Would you like to move to a more powerful level? Then here are 3 things you can start with right now: Here are 3 things you can start with now: 1. Call or email me for executive coaching, consulting or training. (Use Contact Form Here) 2. For a free career and leadership assessment from me, Go to Career Development Quiz .Com 3. Help me spread the word to women just like you, tap into the insights you are getting from this show by giving me a review in Apple Podcasts (iTunes), Spotify, Castbox, Podchaser, Podcast Addict & sharing this show in your favorite social media.

Customer Service The Sandler Way for Women’s Leadership Radio Dec 02, 2015

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This is customer service the Sandler way. Read, listen, prosper. What has been the secret of LL Bean, Starbucks, Samsung, Lowes, and many others that have earned them top market share and profits? It’s customer service that empowers top companies to outshine competitors. To find out how you can join these top businesses, join my guest, Anne Mackeigan & me and learn about Customer Service the Sandler Way Anne is the customer care program specialist for the Sandler Way and the author of “Customer Service The Sandler Way: 48 Rules For Strategic Customer Care.” Listen to this interview and learn how you can help your business elevate customer care to lead and succeed. Customer Service The Sandler Way Interview Summary Tips to learning good customer service Discovering the connection between helping and selling Hiring the right people and asking the right questions when you hire. Knowing the secret to resolving issues. How to help solve customer problems What to do to handle a difficult situation or a difficult person The proven process for taking a person to a successful solution What you do after you make the mistake in customer service Not everybody is suited to customer service. Learning what behaviors and outcomes are coaching opportunities for women leaders. No matter what you position in your company from CEO to line worker. This interview will be a valuable tool to help you and your company learn the magic of the upserve, and how to implement it. What are your questions and comments on Customer Service for women’s Leadership Radio? I want to know. Ask your questions on this important topic below in the comments window and I will get back to you. Thanks for listening and sharing. Are you ready to break through your limitations in your career, leadership and life? Would you like to move to a more powerful level? Then here are 3 things you can start with right now: Here are 3 things you can start with now: 1. Call or email me for executive coaching, consulting or training. (Use Contact Form Here) 2. For a free career and leadership assessment from me, Go to Career Development Quiz .Com 3. Help me spread the word to women just like you, tap into the insights you are getting from this show by giving me a review in Apple Podcasts (iTunes), Spotify, Castbox, Podchaser, Podcast Addict & sharing this show in your favorite social media.

Board Governance for Women Leaders | Nancy Falls & Sabrina Braham MA PCC | Women’s Leadership Success Podcast # 71 Oct 30, 2015

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Tips on board governance for women leaders. What are the two things that consistently help global businesses operate more efficiently improve profits and mitigate risks and is the best bridge between management and boards? Join me today with a leading authority and find out why women leaders and good corporate board governance is the proven answer to profitable businesses. Board Governance for Women Leaders Awareness of board governance is important for women leadership, and here?s why. It will help your career advancement and help you get appointed to a board of directors. It?s easy for someone to get the great players on a board and in a company, but the real magic is how you teach them to work together. In this tip filled interview you will learn how the people in the company, the C-level and the board of directors can all come together to produce to amazing results. Nancy has an incredible vision for progressive leadership among companies, board and people. So join me and my guest expert Nancy Falls to see why leadership and good board governance are really the defining traits of high-performing companies Expert on Board Governance & Leadership Author Nancy Falls who is the founder and CEO of The Concinnity Company, a firm that helps companies transform the way their boards and leadership teams work together. With more than 30 years of experience in and around C-Suite and the boardroom, Falls is a leadership and board governance expert who understands what it takes to drive authentic success. Board Governance for Women Leaders #71 Highlights Find out why good governance and good business goes hand and hand. How do leaders handicap their board of directors? What is information asymmetry and why is it the lifeblood between the boardroom and the management team? What to you need to do and what needs to happen to improve communication between the boards, the president, the C-level? Find out the advantage of recognizing the differences in people and working well together and what?s going to change in the company. How would a woman leader help prepare herself to be on a board? Why is “wisdom” the final frontier in people working well together? What are your questions and comments on Board Governance for women's Leadership? I want to know. Ask your questions on this important topic below in the comments window and I will get back to you. Thanks for listening and sharing. Are you ready to break through your limitations in your career, leadership and life ? Would you like to move to a more powerful level? Then here are 3 things you can start with right now: Here are 3 things you can start with now: 1. Call or email me for executive coaching, consulting or training. (Use Contact Form Here) 2. For a free career and leadership assessment from me, Go to Career Development Quiz .Com 3. Help me spread the word to women just like you, tap into the insights you are getting from this show by giving me a review in Apple Podcasts (iTunes), Spotify, Castbox, Podchaser, Podcast Addict & sharing this show in your favorite social media.

Politics of Promotion – How Women Leaders Advance Their Careers | Bonnie Marcus & Sabrina Braham MA MFT PCC | Women’s Leadership Success Podcast #70 Aug 13, 2015

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Is there politics in promotion? Do you think office politics is a four-letter word? Are you a star at your job but still getting by-passed for promotions? Do you know why competently fulfilling your job description, may not get you a promotion? Do you ever wonder what high-achieving women know that most women don’t know? Did you know you could learn to excel at office politics ethically, and develop a strategy that is fun and invigorating? In this insightful interview, the complex rules of the politics of promotion are revealed to help you build connections that will increase your influence, impact and advance your career. Join us today to get great advice from Bonnie Marcus who is an author and former CEO, on how to navigate the politics of promotion. Bonnie Marcus has 20+ years of sales and management experience including CEO of ServiceMaster and executive positions in Fortune 500 and start up companies. Bonnie Marcus Bio In this interview, Bonnie shares some insights from her new book, “The Politics of Promotion: How High-Achieving Women get Ahead and Stay Ahead. Politics of Promotion show highlights: Women's Leadership Success Podcast #70 How to avoid being blind-sided by a lack of “political savvy.” Discover how to develop a strategy that will advance your career. Find out what “political will” is, and why this is important. Learn the secrets of branding your accomplishments. Become an expert on the unwritten rules of politics in your company. How to overcome your reluctance to develop “political skills”. Being your authentic self & navigate the realities of the workplace. The political tool kit for savvy self-promotion. In this interview you will be given the tips that will move you from being reactive to being proactive to advance your career. Subscribe to Women’s Leadership Success in iTunes Can you do me favor? I would really appreciate it if you would please visit iTunes and subscribe to Women’s Leadership Success podcast and give the show a 5-star review. Every great review we get allows more women to discover the show and helps them succeed too. Also thank you for sharing my show with your friends and associates.

How Women Leaders Impact Employee Morale Through Giving | Carrie Morgridge & Sabrina Braham | Women’s Leadership Success Podcast # 69 Jul 04, 2015

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Does employee morale impact retention, productivity, profits and fun? Heck yes... So picture this… A humble cocktail waitress - with only a high school diploma - pulls herself out of poverty - then develops a foundation worth millions, to help people move to a better life. So how does this relate to you? People want to be part of something bigger than themselves. Women leaders who paint a vision of a future where there is a way to help each other and their communities, excel at increasing employee morale in the workplace. That’s why you are going to love our guest today. You will broaden your perspective of how you can use giving to enhance your life, your job and employee morale. Carrie Morgridge is Vice President of the Morgridge Family Foundation. She is recognized nationally for her work as a philanthropist, student advocate and the creator of innovative professional development for teachers. Carrie is practically “Superwoman”. Listen to her sage advice below and read Carrie’s detailed bio here. “…Morgridge reminds us that we are a nation of “difference makers” and encourages us to continue that legacy of meaningful giving through her empowering stories of those who have made a difference.” Douglas Conant, Chairman, Avon Products; Chairman, Kellogg Executive Leadership Institute; Founder & CEO, ConantLeadership; Former CEO & President, Campbell Soup How women leaders impact employee morale through giving WLS #69 highlights: Why giving taps into your core values and amplifies them Hear how a team’s gift to itself changed employee morale Ways to teach children to effectively give back How leading the giving program in your company will increase your brand and influence. New strategies to get on a corporate board The magnified power of women working together collectively, to change their organizations and community. If you want to make a difference, listen today to see how you can use giving to increase your passion, brand and influence. Subscribe to Women’s Leadership Success in iTunes Can you do me favor? I would really appreciate you giving m a great review too. Every great review we get allows more women to discover the show and helps them succeed. Please visit iTunes and subscribe to Women’s Leadership Success podcast. Also I really appreciate you sharing my show with your friends and associates.

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