There are five secrets that highly successful women who
have skyrocketed up the corporate ladder know that you don't.
And today I'm going to be spilling the tea on what those secrets are.
Because in my opinion, more people need to know these secrets
so we can equal the playing field to climb the corporate ladder.
If you are here to learn what those secrets are, tap that like button.
And let's jump straight into it.
The first secret that highly successful professional women
know is that you need to have a clear career vision.
When corporate boardrooms typically look like this,
you know, not a lot of women are going to
find themselves there by accident. And in fact,
I really think that no one gets to the top levels in their career,
especially if you're working for a major corporation by accident,
it takes a lot of intention, it takes a lot of effort.
And it takes a lot of perfectly executed politics,
which we're going to come back to in just a minute.
But first, I want to be really clear that the vision doesn't mean that
it is fixated on the job title that you want at this specific company.
The vision is actually much bigger than that.
Now, of course, your career vision should include
where you want to go,
what you want to achieve,
I have a whole video on that,
but I also really want you to think bigger than this.
What do you want your life to look like?
Because your career is an important part of your life.
But it's not the only part of your life.
And I know a lot of people have this misconception that if
you want to reach the top of the corporate ladder,
you can't have a life outside of work. But that's simply not true.
In fact, every successful woman that I have
worked with, met and studied and observed,
quite the contrary has been true.
And there's been no uniform way that they've designed their lives.
But if you don't have clarity on the life that you actually want,
it'd be really hard for you to build it.
And this actually brings me to the second point.
And this is going to be no surprise to anyone who has been
hanging around here for a while. The second secret that
highly successful professional women know is
they need to have boundaries.
Have you ever met a successful executive that said yes to everything?
Chances are most of the executive and senior leaders
that you work with to say no to most of the requests for
their time, for their attention, and for their input.
They are master delegators.
They know what their priorities are, and they operate within them.
And this is something that I've talked about before on my channel,
they also have very clear boundaries at work in a few different regards.
They are not doing things like oversharing personal details,
or getting caught up in the bad gossip that flies around the office.
And I haven't met any really successful professional women that
didn't have the ability to channel uneffwithable vibes.
And if you're trying to work on those,
I have something coming out, check out the description bar.
Of course, their boundaries aren't just limited to being at work,
though they also have solid work life boundaries,
successful female professionals are not
trying to have it all in the 80s sense of the term.
But they do have it all because they know what all is for them.
Whether it's making time and space for themselves,
for their hobbies for their friends or their families.
They know how to prioritize themselves.
In fact, their willingness to prioritize themselves is one of the
elements that helps them move ahead.
And that actually brings me into the next secret
that highly successful professional women know
and this one if you've been trying to get a promotion at work
and have been struggling to get ahead,
this is going to be a game changer.
They don't wait for opportunities, they create them for themselves.
This is completely contrary to so much of what we've been taught.
We're supposed to wait to be called on in class,
you're supposed to wait to be picked for the team in sports.
Over and over in our lives, we've been taught to wait our turn.
So of course when it comes to getting opportunities at work,
whether it's a plum project assignment,
your dream client getting to lead your biggest customer account or
getting a promotion so many professional women are
waiting for their boss to give them the opportunity.
But you don't have to wait for the opportunity.
You can create it for yourself.
If you're impatient like me, you are going to really ace this.
How do you create your own opportunities?
Well, it starts with knowing your unique awesomeness quotient,
your UAQ. If you have not downloaded my free UAQ Starter Kit yet
you absolutely need to go and do that!
You can get it at UAQstarterkit.com.
Your UAQ is going to define what naturally sets you apart,
it can even be what's already setting you apart that
you're not even fully aware of. Now the real magic
with this happens is when we can find an opportunity
that aligns with the company's priorities and
create an unignorable impact. I think I have a video on this one.
And I'll leave the link in the description if
you want to watch it after this one. Now,
of course, knowing your UAQ and
creating a big impact is really important.
But it's not going to be the only thing that helps you
advance in your career and highly successful professional women.
No, this this leads me into the fourth secret that they know,
that is corporate politics are power plays.
I hear it every day, probably multiple times a day.
"I don't do politics."
Honestly, I used to feel that way too.
I didn't understand it, and I thought that you didn't
really have to play in order to get ahead.
But it was actually one of my executive female mentors that
really taught me how to play the game and how important it was,
but you don't have to play their game.
Remember, you're playing it your way.
I know that there's a lot of gross and icky feelings when it
comes to office politics because there's a lot of bad politics out there.
However, playing corporate politics is really the key to
unlock your influence and a high impact network.
Being savvy at office politics is not only going to get you access to,
it can even get you into the inner circle.
These are the people that make decisions and
create opportunities for you to move ahead.
And honestly, once you're in that inner sphere,
you're really unstoppable at work.
The other thing is, is that corporate politics is
how we influence decisions and influence outcomes.
Because convincing people that your way is the right way
or the best way isn't just exhausting, it's not always very effective.
Look, we already know that it's not always the smartest,
most talented or hardest workers who get ahead.
In fact, all too often, they're the ones that are
getting passed over for promotions.
It's the people that are making big contributions with big visibility
that are getting the opportunities to climb the corporate ladder.
And I promise you it sounds really complicated.
It's really not as hard as you think I got some
office politics videos that I'll leave down below too.
I know that watching videos isn't always enough.
So I do want to mention that I run an AMA over on
my Instagram stories every single Wednesday.
Honestly, it's my favorite thing of the week
getting to answer your questions and I'm basically write you novels.
So in case you ever have a Q that you want to drop in,
go over to my Instagram, give me a follow up and
watch my stories on Wednesdays.
This actually brings me to the fifth secret that
all successful professional women know and fully embody.
You need to be unapologetic in your ambition.
There's a reason why that was my channel tagline forever.
And I still say it all the time.
Think about it this way.
Have you ever met a senior or Executive Women leader who
felt sorry about being in the position she was in?
Or felt sorry for wanting to be there?
No, they know that they deserve to see the table and
in the corner office, if that's their ambition.
They're not getting trapped in stories about
being locked out by the boys club,
or that no one's gonna like them if they try to advance in their careers.
Or so many of the other stories that we tell ourselves
that really hold ourselves back in our careers and in our lives. S
o if you walk away with only one thing in this video,
I want it to be this:
You are allowed to want what you want, and to go after it, unapologetically.
I'll put a post up on my Instagram too so that you can
save it for when you need the reminder.
But this really goes back to that uneffwithable energy that
I was talking about earlier. Once you embody this,
not only do you find yourself dealing with way less drama,
you'll find yourself getting way more opportunities and
the paychecks that come with them.
Because my friends confidence and conviction truly are contagious
and you trust yourself believe in yourself and know deeply
that you can achieve extraordinary things...
other people are gonna believe it too.
I know that this is something that a lot of you
might not have the easiest time with. So what I want you to do is
I want you to go and watch this video right now
with some quick confidence boosters to
start building up your confidence levels.
Don't fake it till you make it when you can just build it in the first place.
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As always my friend, thank you so much for watching.
I will see you in the next video. Bye for now!