Professional Success Podcast

On today's episode of the 'Professional Success Podcast,' host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach, Recruiter, and Talent Development Leader talks about the quiet quitting and quiet firing trend that we started to hear so much about in 2022. This week we look at the status of these trends and how they are evolving in 2023.    

On today's episode of the 'Professional Success Podcast', host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach, Recruiter, and Talent Development Leader talks about 'Career and Workplace trends on 2023'. So much happened in 2022 in the space of career and work! This puts us in an interesting position to take a look at the biggest and most important trends as we head into the new year.   Resources Mentioned: Professional Success Coaching: Website     Professional Success Podcast  

  In today´s episode of the ‘Professional Success Podcast', host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach, Recruiter, and Talent Development Leader is talking about the power of saying no, and how we can set better professional boundaries. Sheila is going to share some examples of how we can set clear boundaries at work and how saying no can be key to wellness and self-preservation.     Episode Highlights:  Sheila suggests defining your boundaries at work with clarity of purpose. Saying yes to everything is the lazy person's path and a strategic ‘No' is the best way to maximize the value you deliver. There are a lot of subtle and graceful ways where we can say ‘No' without being a jerk. There's a whole spectrum of responses that lie between yes and no. One of the ways to say ‘No' would be that instead of you having feelings of insecurity with a ‘No', be honest and acknowledge that you are not the most competent in that particular work and suggest another name who can do it more efficiently and ask if he/she can help out?  If your boss asks you to take extra responsibility, then try to pose some questions to her to understand exactly what she needs. By better understanding what your manager needs to achieve, you might be able to recommend a much simpler solution to the problem. Sometimes you're asked to do something you can't manage and there may be a way to add value without taking on the weight of the entire project onto your shoulders.      3 Key Points: Instead of saying no directly, you can work with graceful responses like we want to resist taking on a cumbersome project by getting a better understanding of why it's necessary and possibly suggesting alternative action plans. Additionally, we may want to contribute a smaller percentage of our time to a project instead of tackling 100% of it. Stick with your purpose to focus on what you're uniquely hired to do.  Sometimes there's an emergency, or something's on fire, or sometimes we need to earn a few points with someone who's asked a favor. In such situations where the request is a challenge and we've been trying to get our hands on it, in such scenarios use your judgment. Sometimes letting take us off purpose is the right thing to do, but this should be the exception and not the rule. If you're being asked to take on something cumbersome and it would take you days to complete what they're asking for. Your response starts with recognizing that your time is a company asset. Let her know exactly how much of your time and attention this task would require and what might not get done as a consequence. Then ask her if she'd be open to exploring more efficient ways of getting similar results. So by asking those probing questions, you might be able to protect the investment of your time and energy while also delivering real value. Resources Mentioned: Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website   Podcast

Tell me about a time you failed" is no one's favorite interview question. Understanding what the interviewer is really asking, choosing the perfect example, and having a template will set you up for success. In this week's episode of the Professional Success Podcast we dive into how to handle this question.

In today´s episode of the ‘Professional Success Podcast', host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach, Recruiter, and Talent Development Leader talks about how to become a purpose and belonging informed leader. Purpose and belonging informed leaders prioritize genuine care of their employees above all else. Even when employees leave to continue their careers elsewhere, these leaders continue to act in these people's best interests.  Episode Highlights:  The mass resignation triggered by the global pandemic has made recruiting and retaining talent, one of the biggest challenges for leaders and organizations. Young professionals have become pickier about who and what they work for rather than quit working altogether. As tires need to be aligned to keep the car going, so do purposes. Purpose and belonging informed leaders act on purpose by making decisions that have put people in purpose before the performance, and profits, even if that requires sacrifice. These leaders cultivate transformational and not transactional relationships. Transactional leaders rely on rewards pay titles, perks, or punishments to keep employees in line. Resources Mentioned: Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website   Podcast

In today´s episode of the ‘Professional Success Podcast', host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach, Recruiter, and Talent Development Leader talks about how to communicate with a critical Manager. She discusses the ways that we can handle a very critical boss.   Episode Highlights:  We may have had bosses who inspired her, challenged and pushed her. She has had some that have bored her, and some that have even made her cry. Begin by understanding what might be triggering the bad behavior in your boss, so we can do this by starting with empathy. Without excusing the critical delivery mechanism, it might help to see if you can look past the criticism to the content in terms of figuring out why your boss is trying to communicate. You can say that you have some specific changes to suggest that might enhance your relationship with your boss and make both of you even more positive and productive as you work together. Make that request for better, and more balanced feedback and communication from your boss. You have the right to feel safe and respected at work, if a boundary has been pierced, don't ignore it. These are complicated times and the job market might feel a little intimidating but if your relationship with your boss isn't improving, it's time to start planning your next move.     3 Key Points: Recently, Sheila worked with two separate clients who have brought this as the main topic of struggling with an overly critical boss. The idea is that bosses can really vary in their style and how they like to work with others. How they communicate might just come down to the fact that some bosses really are better than others. Sheila suggests that first, we need to assess the situation. Your boss does not have the right to behave badly but you do need to have some degree of control over your response to their behavior. So we can empathize with this critical boss. Sometimes understanding or imagining what the other person might be experiencing allows us to replace some of our emotions, anger, and defensiveness, with instead empathy and recognition. So begin by understanding what might be triggering the behavior and see if you're able to take some of your own reactivity off the table. At this point, use language that's typical for your company's culture. So you might say that you would like to discuss your career development, or just sit down for a one-on-one. These are all legitimate reasons for meetings. So choose what feels most authentic to you and in line with the language that your organization uses. So feeling judged and criticized all the time can really weigh on us. Your goal in the conversation is to focus on the professional impact of what you've been experiencing, and lean into the opportunity and not the complaint.

         In today´s episode of the ‘Professional Success Podcast', host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach, Recruiter, and Talent Development Leader is talking about what we can do when we start to feel completely overwhelmed by that to-do list that probably most of us have experienced several times. Episode Highlights:  It is important to focus on what we have control over when we reach the state of overwhelm with our to-do list. It's important to be confident when you raise the red flag stating that you can't handle everything because you are taking accountability for ensuring nothing falls through. Feeling overwhelmed on occasion is normal, but we want to try to keep the overwhelm from touching others. The next time you are feeling overwhelmed, but the strategies we discuss into play to help you move to a better place.  Resources Mentioned: Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website   Professional Success Podcast

In today´s episode of the ‘Professional Success Podcast', host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach, Recruiter, and Talent Development Leader is talking about how to change careers. Episode Highlights:  Whether it be big or small, making a career change can feel intimidated because it feels like such a leap of faith. Specific credentials might not be fully transferable. However, they can show that you're capable of mastering and applying new skills. Most hiring is now done by keyword matching which is a challenge today and HR departments love it because it gives them the illusion that they are getting the right candidates. Be prepared to network your way into that new career. Let everyone know what kind of opportunities you're looking for. Ask them to share their knowledge and ask for their advice.

In today´s episode of the ‘Professional Success Podcast', host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach, Recruiter, and Talent Development Leader is talking about how to dial up your confidence. She focuses on what actions we can take to dial-up our sense of confidence.   Resources Mentioned: Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website   Professional Success Podcast

In today´s episode of the ‘Professional Success Podcast', host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach, Recruiter, and Talent Development Leader is talking about five simple steps that we can take to master a new skill in just 30 days. This involves developing a 30-day program using incremental bite-sized progress steps.   3 Key Points: The first step is to identify the key elements to master.Start by finding the most important components of a skill, the basics that underlie everything else. The second step would be to grab a blank calendar and design a 30-day challenge for yourself to practice the foundational skills. Decide how much time you'll do each day learning, and then write down 30 incremental things you'll do each day to move along the learning curve. Each day you should focus on just one new skill but those skills combined should add up to real progress. Brains learn best when they can focus on a problem. During your practice, deliberately choose one thing to master and put your attention there. Each day of the challenge should push you a little past your current skill level. You don't need to practice the same elements of a skill every day.   Resources Mentioned: Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website   Podcast

In today´s episode of the ‘Professional Success Podcast', host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach, Recruiter, and Talent Development Leader is talking about something that is particularly important because almost everyone seems to be experiencing this at least at some level of their career where we feel that everything is a priority. She discusses a few points on what we can do when it feels like everything is a priority.   Episode Highlights:  These days we are all feeling like everything is on fire, and as more of us are working remotely or in a hybrid fashion, we're missing those in-person cues that help us to interpret where our leaders are feeling their greatest anxiety. You're the only one who knows how much is on your plate; no one else can track that. Therefore, it's on you to step up and manage your boundaries and energy. The reality is that what's important today might be less important or even irrelevant tomorrow, the backend by or the following day, everything is relative. It's all about the context in the bigger picture and having those important conversations. Whatever tips you follow, before you start, do a little research, and dig around. Sheila's final tip is to consider the options beyond just yes and no. The key is to recognize that there're lots of ways to add value without taking on the entire burden.   3 Key Points: The first step is to start with being bold. Sometimes overfilling our plates can leave us feeling like superheroes. Pushing for clarity takes courage and energy and it takes a willingness to be vulnerable to admit that you can't handle everything because you're a human being. So start by recognizing, and raising the flag. If you were to look at each task on a project or everything that is on your plate, each of them would come out as a high priority. But the key is relativity, so look around you what's going on today, if anything important popped up. So, given everything that's going on our plates, we could pop into looking at what is taking place or what's the context. High achievers are many things, but leveraging things built by others often is not one of them. We don't need to always reinvent the wheel. Borrowing from others doesn't make you lazy, it makes you strategic and it frees you up to invest your energy where it matters most. consider borrowing some of the great work that someone's already done, of course, give credit where it's due. As you look at your plate, identify if your workload is manageable, or if you're feeling overwhelmed, consider borrowing one of these strategies and test out how it works.

In today´s episode, host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, Master Certified Career Coach, Recruiter, and Talent Development Leader, talks about her process for creating and delivering her TED talk.  Episode Highlights:  In 2019 Sheila Boysen was invited to give a TED talk.  When she wrapped her head around the idea, and she was about to get into the entire process of directing and memorizing her talk, it is then that the pandemic hit.  Sadly, due to the pandemic, the event that she was going to speak at got canceled.  This has been a goal for her, and when the TED talk got canceled, it really took a hit on her. She somehow managed to push through the ocean of her emotions. Sheila heard some good news in the summer of 2020 when she got another opportunity to get featured as a TEDx speaker.  She knew the recording of the event was not going to take place until March. As the first step of preparation, she wrote down her ideas. The next thing she thought about was, “What she wants her audience to leave with?” When Sheila had the idea, it is, then she started writing about the script.  She wrote the first draft of the script towards the end of October. Sheila Boysen got her confidence boost when her sister read the script. Finally, when she had just 2 months left for the recording, she buckled up and revisited her script.  She recorder herself while practicing the script. It was a robust process, which helped her. It is then she made the first modification to her script. During her next practice, she recorded it in-camera. This gave her a new perspective about the places that she should emphasize more.  At this point, she made more edits in the paragraphs. It felt like, finally, the script was falling into space.  In February, Sheila got the opportunity to rehearse with the planning community of the event. Aside from her sister, this was the first time anybody else heard her script. Post that, Sheila receives some excellent constructive feedback from the planning community of the event, which helped her.  She was finally able to memorize the script, and then she got to the point where it felt like now, she must sound natural.  Sheila recorded the video on Wednesday in an empty hall, speaking to an audience that does not exist.  It is impressive how she started to feel comfortable, and she ended up delivering the entire talk in one take.  The most important thing about “Talks” is that one should always speak on a topic they are sincerely wholeheartedly passionate about.  The topic for Sheila Boysen's Ted Talk was “Change the question: What do you want to be when you grow up?” The question implies that we integrate a part of ourselves into our work.  Sheila talks about the change she made in her career script instead of thinking, “What I want to be when I grow up?” She started focusing on her values and what was most important for her, and the impact she wanted to make.  While doing research, she came across numerous quotes that impacted her.  “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” - A quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson really caught her eyes.  Sheila talks about the three questions that one can ask to determine their values truly. 3 Key Points: Sheila Boysen shares detailed insights about what steps she took to prepare for the TED talk. Write down the free flow of thoughts and start to pay attention to those common threads. From the thread, think about “What do you want to talk or share about the most?” For Sheila, it was about the idea of enjoying work.  Sheila is not a nervous speaker, but the process of memorizing the script under 12 minutes did not come naturally to her. Tweetable Quotes: “Start writing, don't think about organizing or sentence structure, just write down your thoughts.” - Sheila Boysen-Rotelli “Write down the free flow or thoughts and start to pay attention to the common threads.” - Sheila Boysen-Rotelli “Speaking from memory but sounding natural; this is one of the things that she learned from the process. - Sheila Boysen-Rotelli “Many people feel unsatisfied and unfulfilled with the work that they are doing.” - Sheila Boysen-Rotelli “Fulfilment in work comes when work and life values meet together” - Sheila Boysen-Rotelli “Learning is a life-long process; speed of change is only accelerating.” - Sheila Boysen-Rotelli Resources Mentioned: Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website Podcast Editing  

In today´s episode of the ‘Professional Success Podcast', your host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach, Recruiter, and Talent Development Leader talks about how to ask great questions at work. Sheila gives her insights on what a great question can do, and how you might benefit from asking one. She also discusses the underlying reasons keeping you away from asking the questions that would help you to make progress. Episode Highlights:  A great question is the ultimate and fastest path to an answer or cool discovery, mentions Sheila. Maintaining connections to a community or a purpose is a hot topic. Asking questions can be a simple way to keep connection right there at the forefront. Sometimes it's not that you don't know something or can't figure it out. It's just that you've been spinning on it for a while and you need to break that cycle. Asking questions to allow someone else to showcase their thinking or their willingness to think out loud can be an incredible gift as it can help them to grow and demonstrate their capability as a leader and someone or following. 3 Key Points: Sheila mentions that when you ask questions strategically, it has the power to connect, expand ideas, and develop your capabilities. Asking a question can showcase your idea, but also invite people to weigh in. You are not just asking for approval instead, you're genuinely seeking input and their ideas.  Asking questions can challenge or develop someone else, so there's this thing that Sheila does, sometimes when she is facilitating a meeting she will pose a question to someone specific. Not because she doesn't know the answer, but because she sees an opportunity to shine a spotlight on them.  Resources Mentioned: Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website   Podcast

In today´s episode of the ‘Professional Success Podcast', your host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach, Recruiter, and Talent Development Leader talks about ‘Executive Presence in 2022'. Sheila thinks that 2022 is a great year for us to be thinking about our executive presence.  Episode Highlights:  We all have an opportunity to groom our ability to connect, work well with other people, and face challenging situations. Authenticity doesn't mean expressing every emotion you feel to the fullest extent, it means being willing to state your honest opinions. The second element in the Trust Triangle is Empathy. Empathy is essentially the degree to which you can appreciate and tend to the experiences of others. Demonstrating empathy is grounded in listening fully and actively. Stay away from the “Bumper Sticker” Ideas when you're striving to dial up your logic. One such Bumper Sticker Idea is living each day as if it was your last; it's inspiring until you think through the consequences.  You can present a solid plan that still carries uncertainty, just be sure you acknowledge that uncertainty with a promise to resolve it, rather than pulling your way through an evasive answer. 3 Key Points: The world was a little bit upside down until the rules have changed. She also thinks the drivers of executive presence have shifted, and this is something that she often coaches people on. She talks about how leaning on three things that are key to executive presence can help you. Those three components are known as the Trust Triangle - Authenticity, Empathy, and Logic. Research shows us that it's not fair that women are disproportionately penalized for displaying negative emotions in the workplace, and black men are burdened by the false stereotype that they're predisposed to anger. So when people see you expressing yourself verbally and physically it opens the door to a true diversity of opinions, ideas, and approaches. It unlocks imagination and makes the debate industry feel safer. Listening matters now more than ever, because we're continuing to head into uncharted territory. Even the most experienced leader doesn't know what's coming next. There are a few ideas to work on or to think about to dial up your empathy. It's hard to demonstrate empathy when you're distracted and focus on what others need to get out of the meeting.]  Resources Mentioned: Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website   Podcast

In today´s episode of the ‘Professional Success Podcast', your host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach, Recruiter, and Talent Development Leader talks about whether a 40-hour workweek is still required if you want to earn a full-time salary. She gives her views on the other options than a 40-hour workweek. 3 Key Points: There are three questions to answer. First, which 40 hours? Secondly, how do you spend those 40 hours, and then what is the impact you're feeling or the lack of impact you're feeling from your 40 hours? It is not so much a matter of how hard we're working, but rather how much we have exerted all of our energy. One thing that we can do here is to examine specific tasks or activities or things that are just soul-sucking for you. If you're feeling a little bit exhausted by your work there are several ways you can infuse little bits of meaning or purpose into your days that just might recharge you and this includes monetizing your hobbies like starting a blog, offering guitar lessons, photography, or teaching finance, etc. Resources Mentioned: Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website   Podcast

In today´s episode of the ‘Professional Success Podcast', your host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach, Recruiter, and Talent Development Leader talks on the topic ‘How to Explore Other Career Options without Losing Your Job'. She discusses the ways to start exploring alternative careers without putting your current career at risk. If you've been feeling stuck, looking for a change, but you've been a little bit scared about making a dramatic change, these tips would inspire you to take some low-risk action. Episode Highlights:  In the last few weeks, for various reasons, Sheila has talked to people about unemployment, overwhelm, disengagement, and reprioritization of what matters most professionally. Before you jump into that level of commitment of making that career change, the first step could be talking to some teachers about their experience of what they do, being thoughtful about it. Sheila and her consultant friend had a conversation and Sheila encouraged him to register for an online introduction to analytics class.  The final option is to define your passion and find your transition in the house where you are right now. See if you can start networking and learning about the different roles you're interested in and maybe make a smaller step within the organization. 3 Key Points: Sheila mentions that before you take a leap of making a big career move, choosing someone whose perspective feels relevant to where you are in your journey could be a little bit better. So, think about asking questions that will bring legitimate insights, try asking deeper questions. The answers to these types of questions might reveal a deeper layer of insight to help you make informed decisions. Remember your contacts' answers don't have to define your choice. They're simply a part of helping you make an informed decision. If your passion or what you want to be doing might differ from what you're doing right now. It might be an option to see if you too can jump into the gig economy, without needing to make a huge transition all at once. Resources Mentioned: Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website   Podcast

In today´s episode of the ‘Professional Success Podcast', your host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach, Recruiter, and Talent Development Leader talks about how listening can help your career. She says whether your goal is landing a new job, getting promoted, building better relationships, or greater productivity, listening is something that you want to focus on improving. Episode Highlights:  Famous author - Kate Murphy while conducting many interviews in her book-learned that nearly everyone can describe a bad listening experience. Key tip: Let the other speaker finish. When someone is speaking, our brain works to actively try to finish their sentence or idea. The next thing to focus on is we need to let go of pre bubbles, it is a very common practice to begin formulating a response before the other person has even completed their idea. The final tip is to summarize, it's a great way to make sure you've understood the other person. Use the language of the other person, even if it's not necessarily the language you would commonly use. Sheila talks about some scenarios about getting a new job, or getting a promotion at work. She discusses what you need to do in these cases. Half listening or making assumptions can get you to the finish line sooner but you might be heading towards the wrong finish line. Sheila refers to a story that Kate shares in her book wherein the 1950s Betty Crocker launched a new product designed to appeal to busy homemakers and how the product sales soared. 3 Key Points: Focus and try not to multitask like checking your phone. Recognize listening as an active process that requires your full attention. The truth is human beings are not good multitaskers. Our brains simply cannot listen, and formulate at the same time which means as soon as we start thinking about what we want to say, instead, what we're going to say, it cuts off our ability to actively listen. So the idea is don't think about how you're going to respond until the other person has finished speaking. It's okay to give yourself a moment to think about what you want to say before responding.  Asking some questions about what's working and what's not, and then listening to the answers can provide all the inspiration required. There are many opportunities we leave on the table every time we don't ask questions and then just listen.  Resources Mentioned: Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website   Podcast

In today´s episode of ‘Professional Success Podcast',your host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach, Recruiter and Talent Development Leader gives some vital tips on updating and reconditioning your resume. She stresses that it is a great time for people who are considering switching careers, to make a transition.  Episode Highlights:  Avoid potential things that could cause ageism. Unfortunately, assumptions that people make about age referred to as ageism becomes a problem. Drop email addresses including AOL, Hotmail or Yahoo as they are considered outdated and shift to something that's of much more importance like Gmail. Due to the recent pandemic situation, it could be a really good time to play-up your remote skills in the resume. Even if a person doesn't necessarily have experience working remotely, there are other transferable experiences to highlight in this section. “This really is a particularly good time to refresh your resume and to start looking for that new position.” It is a great time for people who are considering switching careers, to make a transition. 3 Key Points: You don't need to include every single thing you did on your resume. She says you can always include other important things in a cover letter or discuss those during an interview conversation. Other than limiting occupational history that contains dates to 10 or 15 years you also want to omit any graduation dates omitting any graduation dates. She also says that showcasing objectives on top of the resume is a very outdated practice and should not be used anymore. Beyond people switching positions within their industry, the current job market could really also provide prospective job seekers with the ability to test a new career path. This current pandemic situation is highlighting more companies to consider transferable skills and skills-based hiring, as a way to hire new talent.  Resources Mentioned: Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website   Podcast

In today´s episode of the ‘Professional Success Podcast', your host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, a Professor Master Certified Career Coach, Recruiter, and Talent Development Leader talks about ‘Grit at Work'. One common thing most successful and famous people have is that they keep going even after multiple failures. It's like they have the feeling of grit and determination that they would succeed. Episode Highlights:  JK Rowling was rejected by more than 10 Publishers who just didn't see that magic of Harry Potter and Oprah was fired from her first-ever Anchor job on TV. Angela Duckworth, a Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania introduced the concept of grit in her 2016 book ‘Grit - The power of passion and perseverance. If you're striving to grow in your career, Grit, definitely matters, and there are a few key ways that we can cultivate it. When most people practice, they focus on the things they already know how to do but deliberate practice looks a little bit different. This is because it entails considerable specific and sustained effort to do something that you can't already do well. One tactic that works well is to keep a journal of your progress somewhere where you're writing this down in a consistent way. 3 Key Points: Sheila talks about a few successful people who even in their moments of setback or even feeling a little bit devastated kept going because there's one thing that they all have in common which is Grit. She refers to this concept of grit as a leading force behind what it takes to stick to it. Grit is the quality that allows an individual to work hard and maintain focus and this is not just for weeks, or months, but for years. It's that will, it's that commitment, and it's that perseverance to keep pursuing excellence at something even in the face of multiple setbacks. By developing an ability to commit and persevere, starts with our motivation to do this. We have to begin with something that we care about improving. When we talk about developing Grit, it means practicing something that you're striving for. We have a chance to improve Grit, so what you want to do is look for the people around you who can cheer you on, because the power of that collective can help us to all standpoints. Resources Mentioned: Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website   Podcast

In today´s episode of the ‘Professional Success Podcast', your host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach, Recruiter, and Talent Development Leader talks about ‘Intrapreneurship'. She discusses what is intrapreneurship and why should we consider it. Episode Highlights:  MIT Sloan School of Management defines ‘Intrapreneurship' as acting like an Entrepreneur within an established company. You might consider ‘Intrapreneurship' if you feel like you have an untapped level of talent or passion that you could use to make an impact at work. Begin with the problem and then set out to solve it, seeing the pain point within your organization. Intrapreneurs don't wait for invitations, they make things happen. 3 Key Points: Intrapreneurs develop new programs, products, services, or innovations within an existing organization. However, both use many of the same skills, things as creativity, agility, leadership, and persistence. So it's like behaving like an entrepreneur but within the safety of an established company. Before you start duct-taping widgets or switches together, begin by defining an outcome you want to deliver, or a problem that you specifically plan to solve. So to do that, look around, see what challenges exist right now, and what needs to be solved where you can make a big impact something you'd be excited about working on. As an Intrapreneur, you want to socialize your ideas. So once you've got this idea, you've maybe thought there are some solutions or possibilities. It's almost time to kind of move into that sales mode that's selling. Unlike entrepreneurs who have no choice but to pound the pavement and find clients or customers for their business. Tweetable Quotes: “When you show members of leadership that you have an entrepreneurial drive, that's appealing to companies.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “But the thing is we want to solve an actual problem.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “Now you can apply existing solutions to new problems.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “This idea of intrapreneurship could be a really good fit to take a look around.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli  Resources Mentioned: Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website   Podcast

In today´s episode of Professional Success Podcast, Sheila talks about the transition from team member to manager. Sheila gives a few tips and ideas to get you started, go ahead, and make this transition a big success. Episode Highlights:  The transition situation at work is not uncommon, but that doesn't mean that it isn't or can't be awkward. The worst thing that you can try to do is ignore that reality. Give your team the space and some ideas to help get them started and then just listen. Also, let the teams' enthusiasm open the door to further conversation. We all know that trust is what's going to be the foundation for high-performing teams. There is no one right way for a team to be a team but you can work towards finding that level of norms and how you're going to work together. As you step into this new leadership role, hit that pause button. Take a look at what's going on and what could shift in a way that's going to serve everyone. 3 Key Points: Think about what you are most uncertain about. Maybe you're worried you don't think you're ready for the job or that maybe friendships will be challenged or fade. Let them know what's on your mind and invite them to take that opportunity to do the same. Next, consider inviting feedback, the great thing about moving into a leadership role is that you can ask for feedback. Ask your team and then listen to them, process that information and respond in some way where you're considering that and making adjustments. The key is to understand which norms serve your team and which might have the wrong impact. So you want to have an open and honest conversation with the team early on, about how they want to work together as a team. Tweetable Quotes: “So start by just simply putting it out there.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “Think about moving on towards trying to tap into and harness a collective level of incitement.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “These small but early wins can help you to earn trust with your team.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “You want to try to establish shared norms.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli Resources Mentioned: Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website   Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Podcast

In today´s episode of Professional Success Podcast, your host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach, Recruiter, and Talent Development Leader, gives some tips on how to conduct effective hybrid meetings. What are some things we can do when we're facilitating these hybrid meetings as an attendee to make them as effective and painless as possible?   Episode Highlights:  Sheila states that amongst so many things, first, an effective hybrid meeting begins with proper preparation, planning, and consideration. Engaging a blend of participants can require a little bit of creativity. So think ahead about where you want to engage your participants, says Sheila. We may consider a couple of things during the actual meeting which includes taking a remote-first approach. This means that everyone whether in person or remote, logs into the meeting on their screen to participate and stay in the meeting. Finally, Sheila talks a little bit about after the meeting. Ask for feedback from your participants. What would they like to see different next time?     3 Key Points: Hybrid meetings require us to be even more present. So we want to make sure we're paying attention to the experience, perspective, and expertise that's needed to be at this meeting. Thinking through what type of tech is going to help you to get to the outcomes of the meeting or the level of participation that you need ahead of time is going to set you up for so much more success. Sheila suggests making your meeting as interactive as possible, asking questions, allowing people to share using the chat, using polls. More engagement opportunities would make the participants even more engaged.   Resources Mentioned: Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website   Podcast

In today´s episode of Professional Success Podcast, your host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach, Professor, and Talent Development Leader, talks about how to be your own self-advocate at work. Sheila shares some tips for self-advocacy at work. Episode Highlights:  Being your own biggest advocate at work is as simple as taking these actions: Know your what and why Get your mindset ready Recruit your champions Build stamina before you hit go It is important to know that great self-advocacy does not include being overly emotional. We want to lead with rational facts and not with emotion. You're offering the company your expertise and your drive to succeed. They can say yes, or they can say no. But make sure you ready yourself to make a case for why you aren't just the person, just the asset that they need. Consider all of your stakeholders and choose a starting place, all you need to do is open a door. 3 Key Points: You can self-advocate by being clear and specific about what you need. Lead self-advocacy with rational facts and not with emotions and to do this you need to get your mindset ready. Next, think about recruiting your champions in this process. Build yourself a village of mentors, coaches, experts, and others you need to support your cause. Self-advocacy is rarely a one-and-done act, it's a process! Resources Mentioned: Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website         Professional Success Podcast

On today´s episode of Professional Success Podcast, your host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach, Recruiter, and Talent Development Leader, shares some tips to get more recognized at work as feeling underappreciated at work can be painful.  Episode Highlights:  There might be recognition that's hiding right in plain sight. One of the best ways to receive recognition is by role modeling and practicing it yourself. Sheila suggests being patient as the pandemic has changed the world of work in ways we never could have imagined. 3 Key Points: When we know how we like to receive appreciation, we can ask for it. Also, when we take the time to understand how other people prefer to be appreciated, we can offer them appreciation in that format. To feel more appreciated, we must understand what our version of feeling appreciated is and what it feels like. Take some ownership by talking to your boss. It's a great opportunity to do a little bit of self-promotion as well while letting them know that you'd like to be recognized. Resources Mentioned: Professional Success Coaching: Website Professional Success Podcast

On today´s episode of Professional Success Podcast, your host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, shares  tips on some of the most common habits that we have to stop and the tactics that we can use to break away from them. Episode Highlights:  When a meeting request comes in, what if we asked better questions instead of checking our availability. We discuss what to do instead Another work habit discussed is to rethink is responding immediately to an email in your inbox. We want to communicate in a way that is authentic to ourselves, in a way that represents how we want to be communicated to others. Bosses tend to be busy; they don't always have the time or the presence of mind to track everything that they've asked someone to do. So we discuss what to do about that. Maybe you're always chasing that next promotion, without asking yourself, do I want that next promotion? We chat about how to tackle that question. 3 Key Points: Sheila discusses three work habits that we should all reconsider. The next time you receive a calendar invite, pause and reflect before you hit yes. Your time is precious, important, and it's a resource, and part of your job is to manage that resource wisely. Some emails do indeed need more immediate attention but, for many emails, it might even be better to sit on something for 24 hours because in that time, it's likely that there will be more data or information that can solve the problem.  Resources Mentioned: Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website Podcast

On today´s episode of Professional Success Podcast, your host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach, Recruiter, and Talent Development Leader, shares a few tips on using LinkedIn to stand out in your current role. She talks about some strategies you can use to stand out on LinkedIn all from the comfort of your virtual office. Episode Highlights: • If you want to understand the power of LinkedIn, you want to use 5 to 10 minutes to spot industry, shifting trends, and insights from leading thinkers and institutions. • Sheila recalls when she made a career change, she was motivated to impress, but there was a lack of confidence in her instincts and ideas. • The last tip Sheila gives is to be a Brand Ambassador and how to help your company stand out. 3 Key Points: 1. The next time you're on LinkedIn, pull yourself away from the non-interesting feed, and focus instead on curating the content you see. Choose people thinkers, business leaders, institutions, and hashtags that you like to follow. 2. LinkedIn groups are a forum for participating in hot topical conversations. You can join groups based on almost any affinity, can think of the school you attended, past employers, industry, geography, interests, and many more. 3. Putting your company on the map by highlighting its achievements is another way to be noticed or recognized at work. Consider where you can highlight work that you or your company is doing that contributes to the conversations shared by big thinkers in your industry. Tweetable Quotes: • “You can use LinkedIn to spot insights and trends.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli • “What you're doing is what your organization's doing.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli • “Once you're in a group, it's a great place to start, or participate in conversations.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli • “The second tip is to learn and share best practices yourself.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli Resources Mentioned: • Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website Podcast

In today´s episode of ‘Professional Success Podcast' your host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli,  shares tips on how to navigate meeting overwhelm. She talks about various ways to manage meeting overload. Episode Highlights:  Meetings can be excellent drivers of collaboration, connection, innovation, and alignment when scheduled for the right reasons, with the right people, and with the right objectives, says Sheila. Think about your time like you think about finances. Think about where will you invest and how you will save. You'll improve your filtering capability over time in terms of deciding whether to attend a meeting. Declining a meeting is about protecting your time; it's not a rejection of the work or the host. When you're the one hosting meeting, model the consideration that you'd like to be offered to you, and offer grace to those who decline. 3 Key Points: We need to adjust our meeting mindset, and make better decisions about when to hold meetings, or attend meetings. Our time and energy are finite resources, and it's our job to be mindful of how and where they've spent. Before deciding on attending a meeting, think if that meeting is worth your time. Will it allow you to participate in an important conversation, or will it build important relationships? In case you decide on declining a meeting, you need to do so strategically. Ensure that your response to the organizer is courteous and subtle, and it captures that exact sentiment.  Tweetable Quotes: “When we walk around with a single solution in hand, we assume every problem requires that exact solution.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “There are outcomes and impacts that are yours that you need to deliver.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “But that's yours to invest or to save, don't allow someone else's agenda to shape your day.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “There's no formula that tells you whether a meeting is worth your time” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “We need to be creative, and how we want to achieve outcomes.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “I think it's worth celebrating every 15-minute increment that you win back.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli  Resources Mentioned: Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website   Podcast

In today´s episode of ‘Professional Success Podcast' your host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach, Recruiter, and Talent Development Leader shares a few tips on how to do an effective job search during the holidays. Sheila gives a few reasons why she advocates for continuing your search during the holiday season. Episode Highlights:  Many companies are extremely active in the job market during the holidays because they're looking to fill open positions, says Sheila. Sheila suggests setting aside lots of time that you can dedicate to looking for jobs and networking. You might make a connection with someone who can help you land your dream job in the New Year, mentions Sheila. If you want to take a break from looking for jobs, you can still spend time on other areas of your job search like organizing your information and updating your documents. If your expertise is in non-profit marketing then your social media profile, resume, or cover letter should be sorted out during holidays to expedite your job search. 3 Key Points: One of the reasons why companies hire during the holidays is because before new budgets are set, many companies know exactly how much they can afford to pay new hires and bring people into the organization before the calendar year ends. Connect with your network through virtual holiday parties, in person, holiday parties, social media, or regular old phone calls, advises Sheila. You can focus on getting organized job search during the holidays as it can help you keep track of everything and avoid any mistakes like accidentally following up with the same recruiter twice in the same week, etc. Tweetable Quotes: “With fewer competing resumes, yours is going to more easily rise to the top.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “How should you be thinking about Job Search during the holidays?” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “You want to prioritize quality time with your family.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “Maybe there are new tasks or skills that you can add to your resume.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “What better gift could you give yourself and your family than a new job for the new year?” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli Resources Mentioned: Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website   Podcast

In today´s greatest hits episode of ‘Professional Success Podcast', host Sheila Boysen - Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach, Recruiter and Talent Development Leader talks about learning and building “Power Skills” and the ways to move further in this direction. Episode Highlights:  When we talk about how we define skills (hard & soft skills), she thinks it helps when we consider it in a way that's opposite. Power skills are essential in the world that lays ahead of us in central in the future of the world of work. Creative thinking would be another example for being able to come up with unique solutions, or alternatives because that's what drives innovation. One of the most interesting new corporate competencies that she wants to touch is actually curiosity. Put some intention into continuously developing each of your own power skills.  3 Key Points: Hard skills change all the time, they're constantly becoming obsolete and they're actually relatively easy to learn. The bottom line is that we need to take these power skills seriously and we need to build ways for people to really learn them. Focus on listening to learn, and not just listening to respond.  Tweetable Quotes: “”You've probably heard the terminology quite often of hard skills versus soft skills.” - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli “Specifically, we're starting to see the language change from soft skills, to power skills.” - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli “And how does shifting the language to something like power skills, make a difference?” - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli “So this means not only being cooperative, but also displaying strong leadership skills when necessary.” - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli “So let's all change this language, let's all focus on how we can actually go about calling these not soft skills, but power skills.” - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli Resources Mentioned: Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: WebsitePodcast

Host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli is here to talk about how to create and implement a career plan that will bring you true happiness in life. It may seem like a giant monster but with Sheila's help, you can tackle it one step at a time!   Episode Highlights:  Whether you're very close to your dream job or have a few steps to go, you need to have a career plan A career plan is going to be a constantly evolving process throughout your life Having a career plan helps you to answer the question, “what do you do?” You'll be able to make smarter decisions about your career Creating your plan can be done in 3 steps: Reflection into yourself is made more effective when taking notes and making lists to assess where you are right now Lists can include what you're good at and how you want to feel in your next job; prioritize those things Research the jobs that you think you would enjoy and make a list of as many jobs as you can think of Use your network and any resources possible to learn about jobs; you might find some you didn't even know existed Review these lists that you have made and narrow them down to one or two jobs that would best fit you Think about your skills and strengths and how they would apply to each of these positions Do the job tasks align with how you want to feel at work? Sheila still reassess her plan every 6 months because she knows that as life goes on, people change After you have established your career plan, it's time to put that plan together Utilize job boards and postings to highlight the different aspects of the job so you know what areas you are good at and what areas you need to work on Green: what you're really good at and have a lot of experience in Yellow: what you are kind of good at and have a little experience in Red: what you have no experience in Find any way that you can to learn and grow in whatever way that works best for you Write your goal down and make it SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Time-Bound) Seek out a mentor that has the skills that you're looking for, can hold you accountable, and sees your blindspot Make a list of the qualities and characteristics that you need your mentor to have   3 Key Points: The process of creating your career plan involves 3 steps: reflection, research, and review. It's important to reassess your career plan one or two times every year. As you go through life, your wants and needs will shift. There are other ways to learn other than formal training, such as having a mentor or on-the-job learning.   Tweetable Quotes: “A career plan is a continual process that you're going to visit all the way through your career.” - Sheila Boysen-Rotelli “One thought might lead to another, so it's a good idea to just put it all down.” - Sheila Boysen-Rotelli “There are lots of different ways that you can gain experience and knowledge and upscale yourself.” - Sheila Boysen-Rotelli “Self-awareness takes reflection.” - Sheila Boysen-Rotelli   Resources Mentioned: Contact Sheila at sheila@professionalsuccesscoaching.com  Fast Track Your Job Search: fasttrackyourjobsearch.com Glassdoor: https://www.glassdoor.com/index.htm

Host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli is here to talk about how sometimes the best way to increase productivity is actually to slow yourself down. In all of her experience, Sheila has found little relationship between speed and productivity!   Episode Highlights:  Being more productive does not necessarily mean being busier or doing more work After working for a plethora of organizations across various industries, Sheila has found that productivity has little to do with speed People have become conditioned to remain in a constant state of impatience Stress and overwhelm from the outside are signs that life is moving too fast and can slow productivity The missing minute is so important because it contributes to stress and the feeling of inefficiency Operating on the razor's edge, that being the constant movement throughout the day, can cut us It's important to find breathing room in your schedule and can contribute to that missing minute As with anything, having a schedule and being prepared can help with the stresses of life Sheila believes that we should only schedule 80% of our day and leave the other 20% blank Schedule time in your calendar for your breathing room in which nothing is planned Give yourself room to breathe by adding buffer time between each task and appointment Think about a time when you were rushing to get something done and how that rush affected the quality of your work Force yourself to take extra time on your tasks that you usually find yourself rushing on A cool-down period is just the time you take to review your work after finishing a task Use the importance of a task to determine how long you should take for your cool-down period Avoid mistakes by taking some time to go over your work Ask your superiors and coworkers for the time that you need; they will probably give it to you Describe the results that you are trying to get out loud Centers your thinking Gives the other person the mindset and patience to wait through any extra time that you need to take Most people respond to others too quickly, whether it be an email, text message, or in-person Look at the spectrum of daily disruptions and determine where you schedule falls on this spectrum People with no interruptions throughout their day usually take all day to answer a message Those who have a lot of disruptions in their day are rushed to respond quickly Collaboration and negotiation about reasonable deadlines will help everyone involved to stress less “When is the latest this needs to be done?” “Do you need the whole project or part of it by that date?” “How perfect do you want this to be when I submit it to you on that date?” “Do you want to move the delivery date of this project?” - potential scheduling conflicts   3 Key Points: As humans, we have become conditioned to always be in the mindset that we need to be doing something and it can be overwhelming. The missing minute is that minute that should exist between every task and appointment that we have throughout the day. The length of a cool-down period, or spending time for review, should be determined by the importance of the task. This allows you to be more confident in the work that you turn in and also helps to avoid mistakes.   Tweetable Quotes: “Often, slow is faster than fast.” - Sheila Boysen-Rotelli “When we take control of our day by just slowing down a little bit...We can improve the quality of our work. We can feel more calm.” - Sheila Boysen-Rotelli “Now, dress me slowly because I'm in a hurry.” - Napoleon Bonaparte “Every time you catch yourself in a rushed mistake, just stop yourself and replay the moment in your mind.” - Sheila Boysen-Rotelli “True productivity is about one meaningful change at a time.” - Sheila Boysen-Rotelli   Resources Mentioned: Contact Sheila at sheila@professionalsuccesscoaching.com  Fast Track Your Job Search: fasttrackyourjobsearch.com

In today´s episode of ‘Professional Success Podcast' your host Sheila shares few tips on how to overcome toxic productivity. She talks about the challenge and the balancing act called productivity which is specifically also known as toxic productivity these days. Episode Highlights:  Today Sheila is talking about something that she is struggling with right alongside so many other people. Toxic productivity is the inability to stop doing or producing, even when the need for an outcome has somewhat gone away. Your signals before slipping into toxic productivity might be different, but that way you'll know that there's some opportunity to shift perspective or think about things a little bit differently. As Sheila she sets her top three priorities for the day, these priorities might be work related but they could also include personal things or things related to her family. Consider using a timer on your phone & watch that is set to take three one minute breathing breaks. Sheila is getting better every single day and that is exactly what she wishes for the listeners! 3 Key Points: Sheila definitely speaks from her own experience here because she has encountered this idea of toxic productivity. This is something that personally resonates with her, so her goal today is to share some actual insights that she's researched over the last few months. She has implemented some and found that they work tremendously well for her as well as for some of her clients. There are some signs that indicate we're infringing on this territory of toxic productivity. From that slope of productive and toxically productive, it can be really slippery and it can look a little bit different for each of us. Overcoming toxic productivity can be pretty simple. The first one is Sheila sets her top three priorities, daily. Second thing that she does is that very conscientiously she links to her what's and why's. Number three, she takes little breather breaks during the day. The last one is taking time to just turn-off from work. Tweetable Quotes: “I have always been a go getter, and over achiever.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “The next sign is and this might sound weird, but counting down to Monday.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “Then the last one is always feeling behind.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “Personally I am still on this journey myself, I am not an expert.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “It sounds simple, but it's so powerful.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli Resources Mentioned: Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website   Podcast

In today´s episode of ‘Professional Success Podcast' your host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach, Recruiter and Talent Development Leader shares some of the highlights of a presentation that she had a chance to give earlier this week. She elaborates on the skills of the “Future of Work”, things we can all think about from our own personal and professional development to build & accentuate as we advance our own careers. Episode Highlights:  Sheila states that she started the presentation talking about a staggering fact that 85% of jobs that will exist just 10 years from now haven't even been invented yet. As the speed of change is moving so quickly, it really does come down to this idea of being a lifelong learner and finding meaningful ways not only through traditional education and training but also through non-traditional ways. Sheila mentions that one of the best ways to prepare for the future of work is to be open to acquiring new technology skills. In the future of work, we're going to need that human ingenuity to invent, dream-up new products and ways of working, says Sheila. Professionals with digital skills like coding, web development and digital marketing, are going to and will continue to become even more important than they are now. Sheila says that at times when people feel uncertain about their future, jobs, business, or industry, it's key to connect with people on an emotional level. She talks about three buckets in terms of the future of work including how the work is going to be done, who's going to be doing this work, and where & when is the work getting done? Rather than focusing on replacing workers, forward-thinking employers are going to harness the power of man-machine relationships to improve productivity and creativity among their employees. Education systems can be leveraged to help create pipelines of workers with needed skill sets based on the Future of Work projections but education systems need to get better at exactly that. Sheila points out that organizations need to be thinking about workforce planning. Employers need to build an infrastructure that supports the future of work. She highlights that there's little point in rescaling your employees investing in that huge endeavor if they aren't going to stay.  3 Key Points: Sheila talks about highlights of her recent presentation during the ‘Midwest Academy of Management and Annual Conference'. There she spoke on the topic which she really is passionate about i.e. - “Future of Work”. She says that we need to develop some new skills that will help us to feel like we constantly have this fresh opportunity to expand on something we're already good at. Based on the research that's been coming from researchers, the host highlights eight top skills of the future workforce that have really become illuminated throughout this process of studying this. There will be very few jobs for life, someone that's going to succeed in the world that we see coming out of all these changes, is going to be able to adapt to ever-evolving workplaces, and have that ability to continuously update and refresh their skills. The reality is that technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, the Internet of Things, even virtually augmented reality and robotics are going to make businesses more resilient to future disruptions. Anyone that can help companies to really exploit and tap into these technologies is going to be in a great position. Tweetable Quotes: “How can we best prepare ourselves for this future where that speed of change is accelerating?” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “There is definitely a list of skills that seem to be rising to the top as we think about what are the skills of the future workforce.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “The first skill is Adaptability & Flexibility because one thing is for certain, the way companies operate & work is going to change, the world was already changing rapidly.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “We consider ‘Data Literacy' the fuel of the Fourth Industrial Revolution because Data is a critical asset for every company.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “The opportunities to put these digital skills to work are countless.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “Employers need to prepare for new jobs and career paths through on-going analysis through advanced training and rescaling of our workforce.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “Determining technology aspirations by area, department or division is going to be key.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli Resources Mentioned: Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website   Podcast

In today´s episode of ‘Professional Success Podcast' Sheila shares few tips on how you can craft a job you love, she talks about what it means to craft a job and how you can do this. Sheila discusses 5 great steps on how to craft your Job. Episode Highlights:  ‘Job Crafting' is actually a term that was coined by Jane Dutton and Amy Wrzesniewski, and it is the act of customising your job to better fit your own individual strengths, passions, and what motivates you. Sheila achieved success by focusing on the things that she enjoyed the most and that actually ended up helping her to make a pretty big career pivot. You need to ask yourself that what is it that fuels your energy, it's about finding the things you love, and that you're good at and what it is you want to be known for? Having clarity on what you love doesn't mean you can stop doing all the things you don't love. Shifting form commitment to action involves putting your insights to work and building an action plan. ‘Job Crafting' is not a discrete activity, you don't just do it once, but it's something that we form into a continuous habit and process. 3 Key Points: If your job has you dreading Monday mornings, start thinking about to craft a job that you love without needing to do that full update of your resume. ‘Job Crafting' isn't about changing your title or your function or your salary, necessarily, instead, it's about infusing more of what you love, and more joy into your work. You need to ask yourself a few questions like, “What is it that you're most interested in?” Take notes, look for patterns, and then notice, what do you see, maybe you discover that your favourite activities include learning something new, or solving a problem. Or maybe you really enjoy mentoring, training or coaching other people.   Tweetable Quotes: “Step one, maybe this sounds simple, but it's simply making a decision making a decision to take action because job crafting begins with making a choice.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “You have to first know what brings you joy: the tasks, the actions, the projects, the conversations, the challenges, the interactions, etc.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “A state of flow is when you almost get lost in what you're working on.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “You might still need to do the boring meeting updates or run those reports that don't get you terribly excited or crunch those numbers.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “Start by finding links between the things that you love to do, and the potential positive outcomes for the company.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli Resources Mentioned: Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website   Podcast

In today´s episode of ‘Professional Success Podcast' Sheila talks about and gives few easy steps to coach yourself. She mentions the reasons why you should become your own coach as well as advocates why hiring a coach is a fantastic investment in your personal and professional development.   Episode Highlights:  Sheila started coaching business in 2011 and what she needed the most at that time was some coaching for herself. She ended-up in a messy situation, but came out of it by accidentally coaching herself to where she is now. Think about what you are looking for, think about specific questions like what's the timeline of what I need, etc. Ask yourself a series of questions to ensure that you're on the right path and get very clear on what that goal is. One of the greatest gifts a coach can give you is that accountability partnership. They help you think about and identify your next steps. The final step is to show yourself some empathy; a great coach will deliver tough love, but with a huge dose of empathy. 3 Key Points: Consider hiring a coach for your personal and professional development because coaching can move you forward, helping you jump over hurdles and achieve really big things. A great coach can help you achieve outcomes in many different domains in your life. Think broadly, not to just limit yourself to the most obvious next step and finally, tap your energy. She says once you've identified all of your alternatives, just sit with them, imagine yourself walking towards each and make a note of which one gets you the most excited and inspired. That should be your first action. Find other means of creating accountability for themselves, how can they make their action feel like they have to do it. She suggests a couple of strategies to consider scheduling it like determining what actions they need to take and what is the time line and book them as well as considering finding an accountability partner or a buddy. Tweetable Quotes: “With discipline and practice and a little bit of a structure, you can often coach yourself out of some of these difficult times.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “So, a coach might ask you questions like what's important to you about that promotion; what does that job entail, what will that look like?” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “Take yourself on a quick journey through this framework: define what your current reality is, be factual and objective.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “Do a little bit of outreach, find someone looking to create their own accountability partner up, keep each other on track, check in with each other maybe weekly or every other week.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “True coaching is delivered with kindness, and you need to show that kindness to yourself.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli  Resources Mentioned: Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website   Podcast

In today´s episode of ‘Professional Success Podcast' Sheila Leader shares few tips on how to get rid of impostor syndrome. She shares her personal experience of overcoming it and also highlights some facts about it. Episode Highlights:  Impostor syndrome is that terrible feeling where everyone can see you're perfectly qualified to be there to ask for that to win the deal to be successful, except you. Impostor syndrome is not terminal and no pills are required to treat it. We are wired to see the bad in ourselves, but the good in others and you can use this to your advantage by choosing a trusted friend or colleague, who will tell you all the reasons that your fear is unbounded, they can see your qualification, what helps you stand out from everyone else, and sometimes hearing that from an external source that can help you to counteract that noise of that internal voice. We need to fight fear with logic while defensively to do the scary things, recognizing and labelling impostor syndrome, getting support from others and planning for the worst. Our impostor syndrome has had years of practice, it's embedded in our brain and our wiring, so we won't be able to defeat it overnight. 3 Key Points: It is that feeling that you don't deserve the success you've achieved or that you're somehow fooling everybody into believing you're much more competent or qualified or capable than you are. To overcome it, first, we need to recognize and label impostor syndrome, next tip is to grab a trusted friend or colleague, tell them what you want to do and what's holding you back and ask for their unfiltered opinion. Third tip is to practice fear setting and the final step is to be patient, to practice and to be persistent. It takes time, patience, practice and persistence to conquer impostor syndrome, so hang in there as you deserve your success. Tweetable Quotes: “If you're not a doctor and you're afraid to perform surgery, that's not impostor syndrome.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “Your impostor syndrome is a version of your meanest inner critic.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “For fear care and self-doubt, they can drive even after you've done your best to eliminate them.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “So, let's kick this imposter syndrome, to the curb.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli Resources Mentioned: Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website   Podcast

In today´s episode of ‘Professional Success Podcast' Sheila talks about how we can cope with change at work, without stressing out too much. Sheila discusses a few actions you can take to open your mind and expand your comfort zone with change. She advises listeners to put five tips into play and make change feel just a little bit less stressful.  Episode Highlights:  Prior to 2020; you could still get by as a fantastic performer at work, even if you were a little bit resistant to change but now not so much change has become everything. Sometimes a change is coming can sound very similar to the sky is falling. She suggests starting by putting some boundaries around the change, this should actually help you to take a deep breath and move ahead. Change is an opportunity to add some type of new learning or some type of new fluency in a system to your resume, or to build your reputation with a brand new leader a team or a customer base. A big part of what makes change so scary is a sense that we don't have control or that we're losing control. So it's normal for us to crave a sense of autonomy or a sense of control. Notice when you have your first positive experience with that new system or that new manager / client or a new team, even if it was an accident.  3 Key Points: If you want your career to continue to rise, you're going to need to be able to deal with change. If you find it hard to get comfortable with change, you're not alone. Put some boundaries around change and remaining optimistic. Let yourself acknowledge the pain that change brings. Do focus on the upside, but not at the expense of acknowledging and preparing for some of the challenges. Don't just put your head in the sand; we resist change for a reason.  Tweetable Quotes: “Our natural inclination is to resist anything that feels different, but more exposure, often leads to more comfort.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “Next is to go ahead and let you acknowledge the pain that change brings.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “There will be challenges, transitioning to a new system, definitely provides us with new opportunities, but what comes with it is a brand new learning curve that we have to work our way up to take time, it's going to take effort.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “Give the anxiety a little bit of space and allow yourself to address it.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “When I arrived at this step, I identified a number of things that were in my control.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “The fifth step is to commit to positive change and to commit that positive change to memory.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli  Resources Mentioned: Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website   Podcast

In today´s episode of ‘Professional Success Podcast' Sheila dives into the topic of ‘Future of Work'. She says that lots of experts are out there, predicting what the future of work is moving us towards. No matter what your job, your career stage or your aspiration, there are plenty of pieces of tangible advice that you can put to work to prepare for your future professional success.     Episode Highlights:  Remote work is probably going to be here to stay. During pandemic, working virtually has become the norm for many of us. In the future, we'll see a more complex definition of productivity grounded in actual outcomes versus just time online. Don't just pay lip service, but be proactive and engaging with a variety of voices and experiences and most importantly be humble. Companies are working to determine the ideal balance of hierarchy and freedom and the previous trends that were so big are having an impact on that decision. No one can predict the future but there are some actions you can take that will be sure to serve you, no matter what the years ahead might look like.   3 Key Points: Studies on productivity are not conclusive, some show productivity is up and others conclude that work time is up. One prediction is that virtual work is here to stay, kind of the way we use the traditional office will likely shift. This means, there will be an office to go to, but you won't necessarily see that as everyone's default. You'll go occasionally when the project demands. In future companies will also have to think in terms of diversity and inclusion. Companies are starting to move away from having standalone diversity strategies and departments and the most progressive organizations are weaving diversity and inclusion into the fabric of their business strategies and what they do every single day. The “Gig Economy” may expand; there's a tension that a lot of US workers are facing between desiring independence of gig work, but also relying on healthcare and the benefits provided by full time employment. This tension, most likely will keep the gig economy in the US.   Tweetable Quotes: “Prior to the pandemic, company philosophies on remote work were really all over the place.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “The good news is that you're going to have a little bit more freedom of choice.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “Consider your priorities, let go of that mindset that busyness equals productivity. What impact do you want to have and what work do you need to prioritize in service of that impact?” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “Know that you'll make mistakes along the way, listen, and just assume that you don't know everything.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “And the future of work also requires us to look at shifts in corporate structure and hierarchy.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “The common thread is that everyone's trying to design for more agility, and more resilience.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli   Resources Mentioned: Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website        Podcast

In today´s episode of ‘Professional Success Podcast' your host Sheila shares few tips to help as you make the job transition after taking a pause and move towards that goal of getting that next job.    Episode Highlights:  The first tip would be to assess your needs. She thinks that this is so important because we might automatically assume that we need to jump right back in where we work. Your thoughts and responses to some of the questions that she spoke about during today's episode can really guide you in selecting the possible next roles and career paths. Your new resume and the story that you're focusing on should reflect to bring specific facts to the forefront designed to really position you as the expert that your prospective employers are going to be excited about. Now that you're armed and ready with your resume and your story, you'll need to start researching companies reaching out to your network scheduling and coffee chats comprising all those things that are involved in job searching. These past two years have been very challenging for all of us so you're not the only one, who is in this process, hence keep on going.   3 Key Points: Reflecting while you assess your needs before making a job transition move because time has passed, things have changed, you might have changed, and what you need or want or even what you're ready for that may have evolved. The number one rule with your Resume and LinkedIn is that you need to make sure you are absolutely being honest. Though honesty is non-negotiable, however the highlights of your history can be articulated in a million different ways. Think about the right accomplishments being featured right at the top of Resume. You are absolutely entitled to tell a different, but equally authentic story about yourself to help you move in a new direction. The best way to keep momentum high and disappointment low is to focus on what you can control versus what you can't. You cannot control the exact results, so you might want to set some action oriented goals and keeping on top of those will help you to feel like you're making forward progress.   Tweetable Quotes: “Time has passed, things have changed, you might have changed and what you need or want or even what you're ready for, that may have evolved.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “Be thoughtful about the last role or roles that you held and consider how much do you actually want your next role to be similar or to be different?” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “Have you focused on those skills and metrics and experiences that you really want to make sure you highlight and call your potential new employers attention to.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “So, now that you're getting good at telling the story, you want to think about the story that centers you as the hero.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli Resources Mentioned: Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website   Podcast

In today´s episode of ‘Professional Success Podcast' Sheila talks about the various reasons for Work Burnout (Where you're just not able to or not feeling-up to going into work) and also gives some tips on how to overcome Work Burnout. Episode Highlights:  ·      You might experience burnout, if you don't have much control over your work or if you feel you never have enough time to finish tasks and projects that you're working on. ·      “The consequences of burnout can be severe, your productivity can drop dramatically”, says Sheila. ·      Spending a little bit of time really thinking about your purpose or discovering your purpose can go a long way towards helping you avoid burnout and keep that stress at bay. ·      One quick and easy way to add meaning to your career is to be able to give back to others or help others. ·      When stress isn't managed well, it really can contribute to burnout, so we need to manage stress effectively. 3 Key Points: 1.     The common causes of Work Burnout could be when your values don't align with the actions or the behaviors, or the values of the organization that you work for or if you feel lack of recognition for the work that you're doing, or having monotonous kind of low stimulation work. 2.     When feelings of burnout start to occur, many people focus on short term solutions like taking a vacation and this can certainly help, but the relief is often only temporary. You also need to focus on strategies that will have a deeper impact and create more lasting change. 3.     You can avoid or even overcome burnout by finding ways to create more autonomy. Try talking with your boss to see if they're willing to let you have more control over your tasks or overdue dates, etc. Tweetable Quotes: ·      “And then even having little or no support from your boss or your organization just the perception of that can be a big cause.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli ·      “This not only ends-up impacting your career but can negatively impact your team and your organization as well.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli ·      “Also, performing a little bit of a job analysis can really help.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli ·      “Burnout is a mixture of professional exhaustion, but also disillusionment with other people or an organization or your career path over the long term.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli Resources Mentioned: ·       Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website    Podcast  

In today´s episode of ‘Professional Success Podcast' - your host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach, Recruiter and Talent Development Leader talks about how we can get a little bit more organized at work as well as in our personal lives to help us to be more productive and efficient. Episode Highlights:  It's important to make sure you establish a routine that you think can benefit you as you begin your day go through your day and then close down your day. Having a central to-do list is one of the things that she finds tremendously helpful. Organizing your to-do list will vary depending on your priorities and how you need to organize them, but you want to write them down. Setting-up your workspace and making it a workable workspace, whether it is an office or at home, you want to make sure you feel comfortable in your workspace. Avoid not giving yourself any free time, working all day and night, when you're really, really trying to be productive can actually have the exact opposite impact. There are few apps that are available across different online platforms and can be very easily used in your computer or phone. These apps really help Sheila in increasing her productivity. If you are looking for a tool for a little bit of types of things that are along the lines, project management, check out Trello.  3 Key Points: Organizing and seeing your pending tasks can help you by centralizing what it is you need to do, and then it gives you one place to be able to see what's on the radar, be able to move things around and look at priorities and shuffle as you need to. Try cleaning out your inbox and knowing what's most urgent and what's most important, potentially, by organizing your emails into categories. Sheila shares some of the online apps like Todoist, Evernote, Trello, Toggl and Google Calendar that she thinks are particularly valuable in increasing the productivity and can be very easily used in your computer or phone.  Tweetable Quotes: “Every day, we can end-up feeling like our tasks just keep increasing. We might feel like time is simply slipping away from us or slipping through our hands.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “If you are organized in a way where's a place for everything you need, you will be much more productive.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “Put away the unnecessary things, and only take them out when you need them.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “If you are not using Evernote you are missing out.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli Resources Mentioned: Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website        Podcast Links to Apps: Todoist Evernote    Trello Toggl Google Calendar Podcast Editing

Quick Tips to Modernize Your Resume, 31/08/2021 In today´s episode of ‘Professional Success Podcast',your host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach, Recruiter and Talent Development Leader gives some vital tips on updating and reconditioning your resume. She stresses that it is a great time for people who are considering switching careers, to make a transition.  Episode Highlights:  The foremost item that Sheila thinks might be there in the resume is to limit the job history. The second tip that the host discusses about is to avoid potential things that could cause ageism. Unfortunately, assumptions that people make about age referred to as ageism becomes a problem. Sheila recommends dropping off email addresses including AOL, Hotmail or Yahoo as they are considered outdated and shift to something that's of much more importance like Gmail. The host states that due to the recent pandemic situation, it could be a really good time to play-up your remote skills in the resume. Even if a person doesn't necessarily have experience working remotely, there are other transferable experiences to highlight in this section. Sheila says, “This really is a particularly good time to refresh your resume and to start looking for that new position.” Sheila points out that it is a great time for people who are considering switching careers, to make a transition. 3 Key Points: Sheila reminds not to include every single thing you did on your resume. She says you can always include other important things in a cover letter or discuss those during an interview conversation. So beyond limiting occupational history that contains dates to 10 or 15 years Sheila also suggests omitting any graduation dates omitting any graduation dates. She also says that showcasing objectives on top of the resume is a very outdated practice and should not be used anymore. Sheila mentions that beyond people switching positions within their industry, the current job market could really also provide prospective job seekers with the ability to test a new career path. This current pandemic situation is highlighting more companies to consider transferable skills and skills based hiring, as a way to hire new talent. Tweetable Quotes: “Now you wouldn't want to do that for seven different employers that would fall into this additional experience section so you want to be judicious here.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “This could potentially open you up to ageism, with certain age identifying resume elements.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “Instead, we want to shift our mindset, we want to shift that top part of the resume to be our summary of qualifications rather than here's what I want.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “So you want to make sure that you're kind of finding those ways to showcase that you're able to collaborate and work effectively virtually.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli “I encourage you to take some of these tips, put them into play and get that resume, refreshed.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli  Resources Mentioned: Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website   Podcast

In today´s episode of ‘Professional Success Podcast', Sheila talks about web browser extensions that she has found to be most helpful in streamlining, increasing efficiency, and supporting productivity. She talks about some of her favorite chrome extensions, how she uses them and why she thinks they're particularly valuable. Resources Mentioned: Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website         Podcast Grammarly Momentum Pocket Hovercards Screencastify

In today´s episode of ‘Professional Success Podcast', Sheila talks about what has widely become known as the ‘Great Resignation'. Sheila states that during these unprecedented times, it is a great opportunity and invitation for all of us to pause and think about how we want to be spending our time, how do we want to align the things that we're most excited and passionate about with our career or job in a meaningful way. Episode Highlights:  Over the past year; she didn't think that this was going to be a period with so much uncertainty and that we would see this level of resignations. American workers are quitting their jobs more than any other time in the past two decades. Companies are offering flexible and remote work options where possible; also we're seeing different bonuses and other incentives for securing workers. {eople are re-thinking what it is they want to do, where they want to do it and how they want to do it. However, do not to quit your job unless you have something else lined-up or unless you truly do have a financial cushion to support yourself. 3 Key Points: We've learned firsthand how fragile life is and many people have really taken this as an opportunity to re-examine their lives. They realize that they have limited time, and this has caused a little bit of an existential moment for us. There are still people concerned about the virus and have pulled themselves out of the job market completely. People dealt with overwhelming stress and anxiety during the pandemic and these people have taken a break or sought out employers who provide a more empathetic and caring environment. Sheila recommends to not to leave your job until you've got something lined-up, it's going to give you a little bit more negotiating power and create a little bit more impact in your job search and interview process.  Tweetable Quotes: “Now there's definitely been emotion, there's been a change.”- Sheila Boysen – Rotelli “There are still people concerned about the virus and have pulled themselves out of the job market completely.” - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli “Without a job, you have very little negotiating power, without a current job you can't leverage the possibility of a counteroffer to gain a higher salary.” - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli Resources Mentioned: Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website  Podcast

In today´s episode of ‘Professional Success Podcast', Sheila talks about the importance of taking time off. Sheila is taking time off this week as she is on a vacation with her entire family. She has been broadcasting from her vacation week. Episode Highlights:  Americans are specifically known for not being very good at unplugging and taking that much needed time off. A study done at the Harvard University looked at the Boston Consulting Group, or BCG specifically at Executives and showed how much productivity increase when employees set standard time off boundaries. Taking that time off or at least find a little bit of time to unplug this week can make a huge difference 3 Key Points: One study recently found that many people respond to what they call phantom phone vibrations; they think they feel their phone vibrating, even when it isn't. Even if we aren't addicted or don't check our emails and text compulsively, often our mental health is still at stake. Busy managers and professionals tend to amplify through their own actions and interactions and the inevitable pressure of their jobs, making their own and their colleagues' lives feel more intense, more overwhelming and more demanding. Sheila mentions that she is not fantastic at these things that she just talked about but she is going to make a commitment to be a little bit better and work on this. Tweetable Quotes: “So, if you also agree that you feel like you spend a little bit too much time working, maybe even a lot, too much time working, you're definitely not alone.”- Sheila Boysen – Rotelli “This power of PTO is that it breaks that cycle, mitigating the pressure, freeing individuals to spend time in ways that are more desirable for themselves personally, and even for their actual work process.” - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli “I promise it's going to be worth it, we have plenty of research to back this up.” - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli Resources Mentioned: Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website         Podcast

In today´s episode of ‘Professional Success Podcast', Sheila talks about the need to have a ‘Career Sponsor' and how they help in advancing career in the current modern and competitive work environment.   Episode Highlights:  Sheila Boysen says that if you want to advance in your career, sometimes having a mentor alone is not enough. She talks about a few things that she thinks really helps to get the sponsorship. Sheila points out that once you achieve something noteworthy make your achievements visible to leaders in a tactful and professional way. The host reminds that there are multiple sources of support that you want to work on building throughout your career including a Mentor and a Sponsor.    3 Key Points: Mentors help in skilling-up, whereas Sponsors help in moving-up in a career. So having the support of a sponsor is like having a safety net, allowing you to confidently take risks like asking for a stretch assignment or a promotion. You can't expect a sponsor to put their reputation on the line, when they don't know the quality of your work. She suggests looking for a special project working directly for the potential sponsor that you've identified, maybe a special task force or committee that they serve on. You want to have some level of clarity about your career goals; there's little chance that a sponsor is going to know what opportunities match for you really well, if you don't know.    Tweetable Quotes: “If your career is moving forward, chances are there might already be a sponsor, behind the scenes pulling the strings on your behalf.”- Sheila Boysen – Rotelli “Know who the good sponsors are; now this can be tricky……” - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli “This takes some career planning, but tremendously important to make sure you have this lined-up in order to align yourself really strongly with the sponsor.” - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli   Resources Mentioned: Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website  Podcast  

In today´s episode of ‘Professional Success Podcast', host Sheila Boysen – Rotelli, talks about Mentorship, seeking out opportunities to be a great Mentor and the different types of Mentors. In this episode she discusses on a Mentor-Mentee relationship and the things that make it as effective as possible.  Episode Highlights:  Mentoring is tremendously important! Mentors often protect the interests of their mentee and teach them kind of learning from that relationship. Peer Mentors are professional colleagues who advise you but a peer mentor might share your role when you start a new company, maybe they can teach you about the job or about what's worked well for them. Life Mentors can offer advice during difficult career decision where you're making really big decisions about your life or about your career maybe changing to a completely new industry or relocating. Helping to drive the relationship and agenda of these meetings can be a great way to be active and take ownership in the relationship. Searching for people who not only have the professional experience to advise you, but also share your core values and look for diverse perspectives as well. Mentoring can be so valuable not only for the Mentee but also for the Mentor; it provides so much intrinsic value. Getting to know your Mentee by asking about their background, their aspirations, how they enjoy spending their time, etc. 3 Key Points: Sheila talks in detail about what specifically a Mentor is as well as various types of Mentors including Peer Mentors, Career Mentors and Life Mentors. Sheila thinks that there are a few things that are helpful to look forward to in terms of catering to the mentoring relationship needs and this includes Compatibility or Chemistry. Sheila encourages considering looking for a Mentor that you genuinely connect with. As per her, one invaluable form of support that you can give a Mentee is connecting them with opportunities and other colleagues; help them build their professional network by offering to put them in touch with other individuals who are in your network.    Tweetable Quotes: “But, I'm also striving very hard to be a good mentor to others and that's been tremendously rewarding and exciting to do as well.”- Sheila Boysen – Rotelli “Mentors also benefit from growing in their leadership, you know, being able to step into this role as a trusted adviser.- Sheila Boysen – Rotelli “I think that's a question I get often: ‘Can my Career Mentor be my current manager?' ” - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli “The truth is each mentor mentee relationship is going to be completely different.” - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli “You want to be able to trust your mentor with confidential information.” - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli    Resources Mentioned: Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: WebsitePodcast

Host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli is talking about the value of upskilling and reskilling in your career. Whether you're happy where you are or looking for a new career, it's important to constantly evolve with the world! Episode Highlights: The world is in a constant state of shifting so we must stay in a constant state of preparation and learning Upskilling is all about enhancing your current skills while reskilling is about gaining new skills There are many different methods and strategies to both upskill and reskill your soft skills and hard skills Upskilling and reskilling don't necessarily mean just working on your technology skills Soft skills are just as important as hard skills when it comes to learning and growing Show some initiative by asking for more responsibility which will allow you to learn new leadership from different people Leadership is about influencing and helping a team move towards a goal even if you don't have a management position Participate in cross-training opportunities with peers or mentors because everyone knows something that you don't Developing emotional intelligence increases your ability to lead others through their own emotional awareness Emotional intelligence is something that you can improve and increase through consistent work Improved resilience and stress-tolerance management allow you to recognize what changes need to be made to avoid burnout Hard skills are the technical skills that help you shift with the job and industry Your formal education will never give you every single skill that you will need for a job as it changes Stay involved in your industry and the ones that are closely connected to it There are plenty of low-cost/free training and educational opportunities to accomplish your learning goals Up to 80% of jobs come from non-published sources, so dedicate some time to networking If you're looking for a completely different path, then you might want to look at vocational training or formal education Use your growing portfolio of skills to create a side hustle or work on a passion project 3 Key Points: Whether you're feeling stuck or you are completely happy where you are, upskilling and reskilling are highly valuable. Emotional intelligence consists of being aware of your own emotional state and the emotional states of others and being able to navigate that for both of you. In ten years, up to eighty-five percent of jobs that will exist have not been invented yet. That's why you must look at learning as a lifelong process or you'll get left behind. Tweetable Quotes: “Up to eighty-five percent of jobs that will exist just ten years from now haven't even been invented yet.” - Sheila Boysen-Rotelli “Upskilling is really about facilitating enhancements to current skills that you have, building on them, expanding on them.” - Sheila Boysen-Rotelli “It's really all about you taking ownership of your professional growth and development.” - Sheila Boysen-Rotelli

In today´s episode of ‘Professional Success Podcast', host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach and Talent Development Leader talks about Micro-credentialing which aligns well with the topic of up-skilling and re-scaling. She discusses what micro-credentials are, why they are so in demand in the marketplace these days and how it helps you to grow your career.  Episode Highlights:  Employers are very quickly realizing that the old ways of doing things as before the pandemic, might just not be a fit anymore to help companies succeed. The pandemic has really necessitated a vast and immediate change in the employment landscape. Sheila talks about Digital Credentials and what they really are. Micro-credentials sometimes take less time to complete than a full academic certificate or degree program. Micro-credentials and Digital Badges really give you the edge to customize a set of skills that you align with your interests, and then strategically align with the business needs and positions that you would like to become a part of or grow into. Sheila discusses how to think about different types or content areas of micro-credentials. “They can be used for both academic & professional purposes, and give you that opportunity to really be able to pick skills that align with what you'd like to do next” says, Sheila. Micro-credentials are worth it, but it takes a little bit of research and opportunity to think about what skills would be most helpful. Check out Episode No. 32 to explore more about value of up-skilling and re-scaling. 3 Key Points: Forward-thinking organizations are doing better than they were before the pandemic and due to the rapid evolution of digital technology, they are thinking about how they can shift what they were doing to meet the future demand of business. Digital Credentials are a different way for us to look at representing a specific competency or a specific skill. Meanwhile, Micro-credential is a compact digital credential that verifies some type of achievement in, in demand skills and competencies. Micro-credentials are specifically designed for professionals who want to advance their knowledge and fill in the gaps, either with specific skills, or on their resume, and one of the biggest benefits is that you don't have to go and take two years off to get an MBA.  Tweetable Quotes: “Last year, when the global pandemic hit, it seemingly up-ended the American workplace almost overnight.”- Sheila Boysen – Rotelli “Micro-credentials allow us to represent a specific competency or a specific skill.” - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli “Micro-credentials give you the opportunity to really choose what you learn.” - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli “While still working and not putting your career on hold, you can go study a specific area of skill and achieve a micro-credential.” - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli “We're seeing a tonne of Micro-credentials in Business, Project Management, Digital Marketing, and Computer and Data Sciences; Micro-credentials are becoming huge in the education space.” - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli Resources Mentioned: Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: WebsitePodcast  

In today´s episode of ‘Professional Success Podcast', host Sheila Boysen - Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach, Recruiter and Talent Development Leader talks about the transition of going back into the office after the pandemic.  Episode Highlights:  A recent study done by PwC shows that many employees are concerned about the transition back to the office. Many people feel that they'll be less safe if they're forced to commute on public transportation, spend nine to five and close quarters with colleagues again. On top of health and safety concerns, many employees are also worried about losing the benefits of working from home and working remotely. There are ways that we can ease this transition. There are even some advantages of resuming work in office. 3 Key Points: This transition can be a little bit easier to think about and things to be mindful about to make sure that you're taking care of yourself, and really tapping into that self-care during a time of what could be a big transition. There are a lot of mixed feelings because working from home really did provide people with a way to continue to earn a living without risking exposure to the Coronavirus. For many of those people who are already vaccinated the biggest concern is losing the benefits that come from working from home.  Tweetable Quotes: “We know that many employers are starting to reopen their offices and workers employees have mixed feelings about this.” - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli “This will be a big change-we even saw things like the common cold, really not be a big issue this year, because so many people simply weren't exposed to it.” - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli “The reality is the disruption of changing from what you've become used to over the last year and a half can be a little bit daunting.” - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli  Resources Mentioned: ·      Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website Podcast

In today´s episode of ‘Professional Success Podcast', host Sheila Boysen - Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach, Recruiter and Talent Development Leader talks about learning and building “Power Skills” and the ways to move further in this direction. Episode Highlights:  When we talk about how we define skills (hard & soft skills), she thinks it helps when we consider it in a way that's opposite. Power skills are essential in the world that lays ahead of us in central in the future of the world of work. Creative thinking would be another example for being able to come up with unique solutions, or alternatives because that's what drives innovation. One of the most interesting new corporate competencies that she wants to touch is actually curiosity. Put some intention into continuously developing each of your own power skills.  3 Key Points: Hard skills change all the time, they're constantly becoming obsolete and they're actually relatively easy to learn. The bottom line is that we need to take these power skills seriously and we need to build ways for people to really learn them. Focus on listening to learn, and not just listening to respond.  Tweetable Quotes: “”You've probably heard the terminology quite often of hard skills versus soft skills.” - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli “Specifically, we're starting to see the language change from soft skills, to power skills.” - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli “And how does shifting the language to something like power skills, make a difference?” - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli “So this means not only being cooperative, but also displaying strong leadership skills when necessary.” - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli “So let's all change this language, let's all focus on how we can actually go about calling these not soft skills, but power skills.” - Sheila Boysen – Rotelli Resources Mentioned: Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: WebsitePodcast