The Leadership Pod Kara Ronin

The About Section on your LinkedIn profile is confusing for many people. What do you write about? Should you write anything at all? This causes many to leave their About Section blank or to write something vague about who they are professionally. My goal with this episode is to help you create an amazing About Section on your LinkedIn profile that gives a great online first impression to anyone who reads it and helps you get found in LinkedIn search results.

Many new managers aren’t equipped with the soft skills they need to lead a team. They’re thrown into the role of a leader, but they don’t know anything about how to lead a team. They have good technical skills, but they don’t have good people management skill. In this episode, I talk you through the top 5 soft skills that you need to know about if you want to succeed as a new leader.

As you rise higher in your career, you will need to reinvent your leadership brand. Having a leadership brand that’s not up-to-date can hold you back and keep you away from your career goals. In this episode I talk about five things you need to think about when reinventing your leadership brand when you get promoted. Listen on Apple Podcasts here: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-leadership-pod/id1500219829

One of the biggest barriers to building visibility that I see with my clients is not speaking up in meetings, especially when they have an idea, opinion or suggestion to share with the room. This is such a shame because meetings are the easiest way for any professional to build visibility. In this episode, I encourage you to speak up more in meetings by sharing with you five great reasons why you should!

Being overlooked, feeling under-appreciated, working harder and longer than everybody else but getting no reward for it, is a common issue for many emerging leaders. In this episode, I discuss 1) an important mindset shift you need to make when you transition from junior to senior level in a company, 2) how to talk about what you’ve achieved in your team meetings to help others see your contribution, 3) how to have a one-on-one with your boss so they know, and cannot deny, the hard work you’ve been putting in, and 4) how to approach this issue in your performance evaluations.

You’ve no doubt heard of personal branding. Emerging leaders need something stronger than that. They need to build a leadership brand so they can be recognised as somebody with leadership potential.When you’re aiming for a leadership position, you need...