Ep #91: How Women Rise - Uncover the 12 Habits Keeping You Stuck

Despite being highly competent, women in leadership often encounter unique challenges that can stymie their professional growth.

These habits, which might have served us well early in our careers, can actually become corrosive once we get to a certain point. They can derail us from taking that next step and being the impactful leader we really want to be.

Today, I’m doing something a little bit different and reviewing a book that left such an impression on me that I believe every woman who leads in a male-dominated industry should read.

How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion, or Job by Marshall Goldsmith and Sally Helgeson identifies 12 habits that could be holding women back in their careers, and I just know that you will resonate with at least one or two of these habits as we go through them.

Not only is it important to identify areas that are keeping us from our true potential, we need to take action to combat them and create new ones.

I’ll take you through the following key habits that may be holding you back, and some practical strategies to help you propel your career to the next level:

1. Reluctance to Claim Your Achievements

2. Expecting Others to Notice and Reward You

3. Overvaluing Expertise

4. Building Rather Than Leveraging Relationships

5. Failing to Enlist Allies

6. Putting Your Job Before Your Career

7. The Perfection Trap

8. The Disease to Please

9. Minimising Yourself

10. Being Too Much

11. Rumination

12. Letting Your Radar Distract You

As we talk through each habit, I want you to take note of which ones are keeping you stuck, and how you might take action to break them. Whether it’s working with a coach like me or talking to a colleague who can help, take practical steps to create new ways in which you approach your career in leadership.

Remember, we all struggle with habits that negatively affect us from time to time. It’s what we choose to do to move ourselves forward that matters most.