Influence & Impact for female leaders Carla Miller

In this week’s episode leadership coach Jennifer McCanna and I are answering your questions about dealing with difficult relationships in the workplace.
We discuss…
How to stop harsh feedback from impacting your confidence How to talk to your line manager when you’re struggling to work with a colleague Your expectations of your line manager and what to do when they aren’t being met Jen’s ‘What Next Wheel’ – a tool that helps you respond rather than react in tricky influencing situations  
This is the Influence & Impact podcast for women leaders, helping you confidently navigate the ups and downs of leadership and feel less alone on your journey as a leader.
 
My name’s Carla Miller, I’ve been coaching leaders for the past 15 years and I’m your leadership bestie.  I’m here to remind you of the value to bring to your organisation, to help believe in yourself and to share practical tools and insights from myself and my brilliant guests that will help you succeed in your career.
 
I’ve just launched Women Leading – a community to help you lead without overwhelm.  It offers peer support calls, group coaching calls, regular menopause events and a live leadership and wellbeing workshop each month on topics including…
How to Say No Managing an Overwhelmed Team How and When to Coach Your Team Reducing Drama in your Team Giving Feedback Without Feeling Awkward  
Find up more and sign up at https://www.carlamillertraining.com/womenleading
 
About Jennifer
Jen is sought after as a leadership coach who helps clients overcome even the most horrible work challenges, helping them rebuild their confidence and self-belief and realise their ambition. She supports clients to manage their energy and navigate their emotions so they can feel calm and resourceful at work.
 
Not only an experienced coach with the international coaching federation, Jen is a emotional freedom technique (EFT) practitioner, leadership development expert and valued member of the Women Leading faculty!
 
She works with clients across the charity, corporate and public sectors including the UK’s Department for Education, Oxfam, HSBC, Sheffield City Council, Pancreatic Cancer UK and hundreds of small charities delivering services across the country.
 
Ever experienced a toxic work relationship, badly handled restructure or the challenge of an HR process which rumbles on and on? Feel it knocked you for six a bit? Then Jen is your coach! In life before coaching Jen managed high profile fundraising events and diverse teams of fundraisers so she knows first hand the influencing skills, self awareness and sense of humour needed to lead a team within an organisation.
 
Jen has so many valuable resources on her website including Coffee Break
Coaching which includes 5 great exercises – everything to increase your insight
about someone you’re struggling to build a relationship with, to a reflection for the rubbish days when you just need to feel a notch better to find the motivation to get on with things.
 
Website:  mccannacoaching.co.uk
You can follow her on LinkedIn Jennifer McCanna 
And on Instagram (@jen_the_leadership_coach) 
 
 
 

As leaders we’d all like to have happy teams but how do we create the right environment to achieve that?  I interview Richard Clarke, creator of the popular Happy Teams substack newsletter, about his experience building a company centred on team happiness and the work he does helping companies create happier teams.
We discuss…
What makes people happy at work The 5 factors that influence team happiness Who is responsible for your team’s happiness Richard Clarke is the founder and ex-CEO of Secret Source, an IT company based in Spain. In 2014 he had a theory, if he set up a company whose main KPIs were team and client happiness then the team would collaborate better, be more aligned with their clients and perform better and all the traditional measures of success, profit, revenue, growth would naturally follow. For 10 years Richard studied the science of happiness in the workplace and applied it in his company. In 2022, with almost 50 employees Richard handed over the role of CEO and he now dedicates his life to sharing his knowledge. He writes, speaks and teaches leaders and organisations how to use the science of happiness and wellbeing to build better teams.
 
Richard’s white paper on team happiness: richardclarke.eu/podcastgift 
Happy Teams substack: happyteams.substack.com 
 
This is the Influence & Impact podcast for women leaders, helping you confidently navigate the ups and downs of leadership and feel less alone on your journey as a leader.
 
My name’s Carla Miller, I’ve been coaching leaders for the past 15 years and I’m your leadership bestie.  I’m here to remind you of the value to bring to your organisation, to help believe in yourself and to share practical tools and insights from myself and my brilliant guests that will help you succeed in your career.
 
I’ve just launched Women Leading – a community to help you lead without overwhelm.  It offers peer support, live Q&A with me, access to the Leadership Skills Lab, menopause events and a live workshop each month on topics including…
How to Say No Managing an Overwhelmed Team How and When to Coach Your Team Reducing Drama in your Team Giving Feedback Without Feeling Awkward Until 1 May 2024 you can access a discounted price at https://www.carlamillertraining.com/womenleading  
 

 
It feels good to be able to solve the problems people bring to you. It makes you feel needed and helpful and you can tangibly see the value you’re adding. But it comes at a cost which could be holding back your career and hindering the growth of your team members 

In this episode I’m going to share… 

Why being the problem solver could be holding you back in your career  
How to elevate your level of working and empower your team 
How to analyse why your team are relying on you to solve their problems  
What you can do to empower your team to become problem solvers 
How to retrain your team to think for themselves using one of my favourite questions 

 

This is the Influence & Impact podcast for women leaders, helping you confidently navigate the ups and downs of leadership and feel less alone on your journey as a leader. 

  

My name’s Carla Miller, I’ve been coaching leaders for the past 15 years and I’m your leadership bestie.  I’m here to remind you of the value to bring to your organisation, to help believe in yourself and to share practical tools and insights from myself and my brilliant guests that will help you succeed in your career. 

 

I’ve just launched Women Leading – a community to help you lead without overwhelm.  It offers peer support, live Q&A with me, access to the Leadership Skills Lab, menopause events and a live workshop each month on topics including… 

How to Say No 
Managing an Overwhelmed Team 
How and When to Coach Your Team 
Reducing Drama in your Team 
Giving Feedback Without Feeling Awkward 

Until 1 May 2024 you can access a discounted price at https://www.carlamillertraining.com/womenleading  


 

 

In this episode, I’m talking to Happiness at Work expert Aoife O’Brien about the red flags in toxic workplaces that you need to be aware of. 

We look at: 

How we identify a toxic work environment 
How to establish if it is generally toxic for everyone or just toxic for you  
What to do if you feel stuck in a toxic environment  
How to make sure the next workplace you move to is much healthier 

 

Aoife O’Brien founded Happier at Work to solve the problem that 85% of employees are disengaged at work. Using her research-based Happier at Work framework, she partners with leaders to focus on: workplace culture; cultivating balance; and empowering leaders. Her award-winning podcast, Happier at Work® which I’ve guested on, features a combination of interview-based episodes as well as solo podcasting. 

This is the Influence & Impact podcast for women leaders, helping you confidently navigate the ups and downs of leadership and feel less alone on your journey as a leader. 

My name’s Carla Miller, I’ve been coaching leaders for the past 15 years and I’m your leadership coach.  I’m here to remind you of the value to bring to your organisation, to help believe in yourself and to share practical tools and insights from myself and my brilliant guests that will help you succeed in your career.  This is now a top 2% global podcast so thanks for being part of that and do keep on spreading the word buy sharing a favourite episode with someone today. 

 

You might also enjoy these episodes… 

 

Episode 152 – Is it time to leave your job? 

Episode 102 – Happier at work with Aoife o’Brien 

 

Sign up to the Women Leading waitlist at https://www.carlamillertraining.com/earlybird  

 

Contact Aoife… 


https://www.linkedin.com/in/aoifemobrien 

https://www.instagram.com/happieratwork.ie  

https://www.twitter.com/happieratworkHQ  

https://www.youtube.com/@happieratworkhq  

https://happieratwork.ie  

https://www.impostersyndrome.ie 

 

 

 

 

Have you thought about getting a coach or joining a course but immediately dismissed it because your organization has no budget?   

Have you considered asking your employer to invest in you but felt too awkward about it to actually make the ask?   

Do you feel bad booking yourself onto training because it would be taking training budget away from your team? 

If so, in this episode I am going to… 

Help you shift your mindset so you feel more comfortable asking your employer to invest in you 
Share how the leadership multiplier effect means your development benefits others 
Provide strategies for making the ask 

This is the Influence & Impact podcast for women leaders, helping you confidently navigate the ups and downs of leadership and feel less alone on your journey as a leader. 

 

My name’s Carla Miller, I’ve been coaching leaders for the past 15 years and I’m your leadership coach.  I’m here to remind you of the value to bring to your organisation, to help believe in yourself and to share practical tools and insights from myself and my brilliant guests that will help you succeed in your career. 

 

Sign up to the Women Leading waitlist at https://www.carlamillertraining.com/earlybird  

 

 

 

 
Would you like to create a team culture that allows everyone to thrive?  And would you like to add coaching to your toolkit as a manager?   

 

This week on the Influence & Impact podcast I’m joined by Jo Wright, author of ‘No More Sh*t Managers: Seven Steps to a Coaching Culture’ who’ll be talking about how to create a coaching culture within your team or organisation and why coaching conversations between managers and direct reports make so much difference. 

 

We cover: 

How to create space for quality conversations when you’re overwhelmed 
Why organizations need to embrace slowing down to speed up 
How feedback is key to a coaching culture 
The seven-step framework for creating a coaching culture 

 

This is the Influence & Impact podcast for women leaders, helping you confidently navigate the ups and downs of leadership and feel less alone on your journey as a leader. 

 

My name’s Carla Miller, I’ve been coaching leaders for the past 15 years and I’m your leadership coach.  I’m here to remind you of the value to bring to your organisation, to help believe in yourself and to share practical tools and insights from myself and my brilliant guests that will help you succeed in your career. 

 

About Jo: 

As Co-founder of Coaching Culture, and bestselling author of ‘No More Sh*t Managers: Seven Steps to a Coaching Culture’, Jo’s a passionate advocate for the many benefits a coaching ulture creates.  With nearly 30 years’ experience in leading and coaching teams, and as a professionally accredited Coach, Jo is a true coaching champion, on a mission to inspire people to think differently about the power of coaching. She is often to be found sharing insights on howthe power of coaching can be used to create high performing teams, build trust, shape leadership styles and raise performance in the workplace. 

 

Jo spends much of her time speaking about the benefits of coaching, the power of transformational conversations and culture, as well as interviewing industry leaders for Coaching Culture’s Learncast series. Jo’s first book, ‘No More Sh*t Managers: Seven Steps to a Coaching Culture’ became an Amazon Bestseller on its first day of release in November 2023. 

Find out more about Jo Wright at: 

https://www.jowright.com  

https://www.coachingculture.com  

 

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