362: Why Being Nice Is NOT the Key to Getting Noticed at Work & What To Do Instead That Boosts Team Performance + Innovation

Speak Up: Develop Your Executive Presence & Leadership Communication Style

What if boosting team performance, innovation and your executive presence depends on this strategy you’ve been ignoring?

High-performing leaders often feel the pressure to deliver results while maintaining meaningful relationships. This episode is a must-listen for conscientious leaders who want to align results with relationships and build unstoppable momentum.

By the end of this episode you’ll know:

🎯 The kind of leadership communication that sparks creativity and drives your team to outperform.

💡 How to Master Constructive Feedback balancing accountability with humanity to elevate performance reviews.

🌟 Offering Leadership Clarity for decisiveness and transparency while encouraging input from your team.

Hit play now to transform your leadership approach with actionable empathy strategies—your team (and your bottom line) will thank you.

If you're tired of being seen as a workhorse instead of a leader and feel misunderstood or invisible to senior executives, it’s not your hard work holding you back—it’s how you're presenting yourself.

My 90-Day Executive Presence Mastery System will uncover your blind spots, equip you with the tools to communicate with confidence, and help you master the four key pillars of leadership that senior executives respect and recognize.

If you want personalized help to massively elevate your executive communication, our Executive Presence Mastery System, a 90-day intensive coaching program may be your ticket. Click here to set up a short meetup for us to chat about it.

About our guest:

Maria Ross helps companies create strong leaders, thriving cultures, and winning brands. Clients include LogicGate, Alteryx, ContentSquare, Dropbox, Expanse, Splunk, GSK, Wedgewood Pharmacy.

Forbes named The Empathy Edge: Harnessing the Value of Compassion as an Engine for Success a 2020 Top 11 book redefining leadership and The CEO Magazine named it a top inspirational business book.

Maria wrote an earlier book, Rebooting My Brain, which tells the story of her miraculous brain aneurysm recovery — with tongue-in-cheek humor & levity (yes, really).

In Speak Up communication and executive presence coaching, high performing leaders learn to enhance their influence and confidence, refining their communication style to increase visibility and effectiveness in promotion opportunities.

By honing communication skills and fostering a trusted advisor mindset, aspiring executives cultivate mastery in public speaking and beat imposter syndrome. Your leadership becomes more strategic and inspiring.