Episode Details

How do you become more strategic at work and finally get seen as a leader instead of the best doer in the room? Strategic perspective is the single biggest skill that separates senior leaders from middle managers and it is the one capability that quietly decides who rises into executive roles and who stalls out at the director level.

In this episode of the SisterSmart Leadership podcast Executive Coach Jill Avey shares a surprising truth for women leaders who want to get promoted from director to vice president. Research shows that women outscore men on 17 of 19 leadership measures and yet rank dead last on strategic perspective. Most women are already strategic. The real problem is that they are not being seen as strategic and that is a much easier fix.

Jill walks through the doer to leader spectrum, why strategy lives in your visible behavior and not in your head and how one small shift can set off a visibility flywheel. You will leave with three concrete shifts you can make this week to be recognized as the strategic leader you already are.

In this episode you will learn:

• Why strategic perspective is the number one skill that separates senior leaders from middle managers
• The signs you are being seen as a doer and not yet a leader
• Why strategy lives in your behavior and how to make your thinking visible
• Three simple shifts you can make this week to be seen as strategic

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

• Free Strategic Perspective Worksheet: rate yourself across the five places strategic perspective shows up
• Strategic Leadership Lab: six live sessions to build the strategic perspective that gets you seen as a leader

RESOURCES AND LINKS

FREE STRATEGIC PERSPECTIVE WORKSHEET: https://sistersmart.kit.com/f669e87427

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