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Coaching Real Leaders

Harvard Business Review / Muriel Wilkins

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4.8 • 759 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Her out-of-the-box approach to solving business problems has made her successful in her current role – and she surpassed all her performance goals, despite the challenges of leading during a pandemic. But she’s been passed over for a promotion that would put her on track to the C-suite.

Host Muriel Wilkins talks this leader through how she can reposition herself for a top leadership role at her company and what steps she can take to get there.

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0:00.0	Imagine a state where you can get from big cities to big nature in less than half an hour,
0:06.0	with some of the best quality of life in the nation.
0:09.1	Welcome to Minnesota, America's least stressed state.
0:12.7	Learn more at exploreminnesota.com slash live.
0:20.6	HBR Presents.
0:21.9	I'm Uriel Wilkins, and this is Coaching Real Leaders, part of the HBR Presents
0:37.0	Network.
0:38.8	I'm a longtime executive coach who works with highly successful leaders who fit a bump in the road.
0:44.5	My job is to help them get over that bump by clarifying their goals and figuring out a way to reach them.
0:50.3	I typically work with clients over the course of several months, but on this show, we have a one-time
0:56.2	coaching meeting, focusing on a specific leadership challenge they're facing.
1:07.0	Chances are you haven't climbed to a leadership role at your organization without being pretty good at your job.
1:12.6	Today's guest is struggling at a pivotal transition period in her career, where she wants to keep moving up the ladder, but she isn't sure the message is coming across.
1:21.6	To protect confidentiality, we don't use real names on this show, so we'll refer to today's guest as Grace.
1:28.8	She leads a sales team in a pretty corporate environment and has had a number of different
1:33.5	roles at the company before rising to her current position as vice president.
1:37.9	She didn't intend to become a senior executive when she started her career, but it turns out
1:42.2	she's enjoyed it, and she's been really good at charting her own path.
1:45.9	I have kind of made my leadership run by almost being off-brand, you know, being a lone wolf, sort of
1:55.8	anti-culture, like I'm being very real, being very transparent, and I was very resistant to kind of the corporate
2:03.0	culture. And so I kind of got this reputation for, you know, she's not sort of the process
2:08.6	person who follows all the rules. But when we have a product and we need to go big, she's going to go
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