Being "quietly competent" can be a trap (but there is a solution!)

"Louise, how can being good at your job be a trap?"

Here's why...

When you're good at your job, but you don't spend any time or energy on articulating your IMPACT and your ACHIEVEMENTS, then it's just too easy for senior leaders to:

• Overlook you and your contribution (and this is easier to do in Comms, where too many people don't understand what we do!)
• Look past you to other, more confident professionals for the leadership track (who may not be as good at their job as you!)
• Keep you in your role, where they know you can deliver and where it's easier for you to be forgotten...

Hmm, doesn't sound good does it?

I often tell my coaching clients that the magic equation for career success (and leadership development) is this:

COMPETENCE + CONFIDENCE = CREDIBILITY

You need both sides of this sum, in order to amount to more than the sum of your parts! This is particularly true when organisations are looking to promote from within or place people on the leadership track.

Is this sounding all too familiar?

If so, I'd love to help.

Join my workshop and develop your leadership brand

I'm running an online workshop at?12:00pm GMT TOMORROW, Thursday Oct 24th,?to help you define and develop who you are as a leader.?

Tickets are ￡10.00 (mainly so that you hold yourself accountable to attending!) and you can buy them here:

Save your space: developing your leadership brand workshop

Investing in your self-development - and FINALLY gaining the confidence you need to be a credible and effective Communications leader - shouldn't be put off for? another day. And knowing who you are and the value that brings to others, is a foundational part of that confidence.?

In this workshop, I'll share all the insights, coaching tools and advice that you need to make brand "YOU" a reality.

I promise it's not as scary as you think, and it might just transform your career.

Will I see you there?

Louise