Welcome back to the Look and Sound of Leadership, an ongoing series of executive coaching

tips designed to help you be perceived in the workplace the way you want to be perceived.

I'm Tom Henshel, your executive coach, and today we're talking about the Democratic

Leader.

Shalon was chief medical officer at a regional clinic.

Her clinic, along with seven others, had been bought by a national corporation and unified

into a network.

The corporate owners had noticed Shalon, and they were promoting her to chief medical

officer for the entire region.

All eight medical officers at the clinics, seven of whom had been her peers, would soon

be reporting to her.

Shortly after she heard that news, she reached out to me asking for help thinking about

her new role.

I asked what her concerns were.

She said, too, I think, maybe more, but two that I've been thinking about the most.

One is just getting them to acknowledge I'm the boss.

I asked, why wouldn't they acknowledge you're the boss?

Your promotion's been announced hasn't it?

She gave a roofal laugh.

That doesn't always mean so much in the clinics.

We haven't been owned all that long.

Not everyone is sure we like this corporate overlord system, and here I am crossing over

...