How to Become an Elite Leader and Achieve the Career of Your Dreams

Do your leaders want to grow? Do you want them to level up but they aren’t sure exactly how? Do you want to develop an elite force of leaders in your company?

In this dynamic presentation, Patricia will give your leaders five ways to become high performers and grow their careers. You will get even more motivated, activated, focused and ambitious people leading your company, and they will get the opportunity to fall back in love with their work, focus on their own career success, and lead with more enthusiasm, skill and wisdom. 

Your leaders will learn these critical five steps to becoming the highest possible performers:

Build a strong personal brand: Everyone already has a brand at work – intentional or not.  In a few simple, insightful exercises, Patricia will help each attendee find out what their brand is, like it or not, and start to show up in a way that reflects the leader’s goals, ideals and vision for the team they lead. Each attendee will quickly ascertain how to authentically make the impression that gets them the results they seek. 

Do work that matters: Most leaders spend too much time on busy work. That’s why those with a strong work ethic can burn themselves out by taking on too much work and not all of it is high value work; and it is why some can get so far behind on paperwork that they simply give up on the task.  But getting the right work done in the time allotted is critical not only to smooth operations, but to team congruency, reduced frustration on the part of all, speedier results and improved harmony.  Every leader must be discerning about how they spend their time and look realistically at the busy work that consumes them and how to best handle it, delegate it or remove it from their personal work flow. Efficiency and smart thinking will help your leadership team focus more closely on the work that really matters to your company’s objectives. 

Project executive presence: We’ve all heard you should dress for the job you want – but it’s more than what you wear.  Every day is a “dress rehearsal” for leaders to demonstrate that they are ready for the next level. Executive presence is a lot more than clothing. It includes manner, demeanor and outlook ; efficiency and clarity of speech and ideas and the way you deliver messages and present a business case.  This segment will explain what executive presence really is – and what it’s not – and how each leader can show up like they’re already in the C suite.

Build an unstoppable team: Every leader’s ability to “level up” hinges directly on the success and capability of their team. It’s imperative to develop a high performing team that produces the best work effectively and efficiently.  A leader has the opportunity to create an environment that attracts, retains, directs and energizes high performers – and identify and mitigate potential derailers within the team. The leader’s highest and best use of their energy is to create a powerhouse that propels the company, their department, their team – and their own career – forward.

Cultivate career influencers: To grow in their careers, every leader needs to be able to find and sustain relationships with senior leaders and any other career influencers in an authentic, honest way.  The job of leaders is to nurture those underneath them, and the job of those who aspire to great things is to identify and develop sponsors, role models and mentors and to have the humility to learn from them. The leaders who get promoted are those who build a network that has the power and desire to support, guide and endorse one’s career.  

These five steps are inspiring to attendees because it shows them the proven path to achieving more with their careers, inside their current company, and to push themselves to grow even as they push their teams to do the same. Every day at work is another opportunity to move ahead personally and professionally, and Patricia’s clear-eyed, practical and concise strategy session will help the leaders in your company to feel confident in taking responsibility for their destinies.