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Leading with Kindness and Strength

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Learn how to make "nice" your superpower at work. Get practical guidance on balancing empathy with decisiveness in your professional life.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Balancing empathy with decisiveness
1. Nice Is Your Superpower
  • The myth
  • Meet the nice girl
2. Use Empathy Effectively
  • Empathy as a tool
  • See feedback as a gift
  • How to give empathetic feedback
3. Speak Up and Cultivate Confidence
  • The importance of speaking up
  • Speak-up strategies
  • Cultivating evidence-based confidence
4. Ask for More and Seize New Opportunities
  • Why and how to ask for more
  • Techniques
  • How Amy got a salary increase
  • Own your qualifications: The 60/40 rule
5. Create Boundaries around Your Most Precious Asset: Your Time
  • Say yes to the things that matter
  • How to say no
  • The sweet spot between yes and no
  • Sorry, not sorry
  • Speech weakeners
6. (Net)Work It
  • Prioritize networking and know your why
  • How to network for results
  • My favorite icebreakers
7. In Closing: Pay It Forward
  • Four tips to pay it forward
  • Closing thoughts

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