626: When You’re a Highly Respected Leader at Work but Nothing Is Ever Good Enough for Your Difficult Boss
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626: When You’re a Highly Respected Leader at Work but Nothing Is Ever Good Enough for Your Difficult Boss

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 14, 202612 min

Are you Director or Above Who Wants Faster Promotions, More Influence, and Stronger Executive Presence? Book a confidential Executive Presence Strategy Call to discover the communication patterns that help high performers get seen as senior leaders. 👉 Book Your Executive Strategy Call here If you’re highly respected everywhere else, but one relationship at work has you second-guessing everything you say and do, your expertise may not be the problem. You can have decades of experience, a strong track record, and complete confidence in your expertise—and sti...

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If you're highly respected everywhere else in your company, but one relationship at work has you second guessing everything you say and do, your expertise may not be the problem. Learn how to deal with this terrible situation today. Welcome back to Speak Up, the number one rate to business communication podcast where we help high performing introvert leaders, including you social introverts, turn your ideas into influence and improve business outcomes because being brilliant does not automatically make

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you influential. I am your host, Laura Camacho, your career accelerator, executive presence strategist and godmother. And in today's episode, you'll discover why trying harder to prove your competence

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can unintentionally decrease your boss's confidence in your leadership. How to identify what your boss actually needs to experience from you in order to build trust, how to adapt your communication without shrinking yourself or becoming a more cautious version of the leader you were hired to be.

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