The Highly Valued Leader Podcast

In this podcast episode, we delve into the essence of Developing Executive Presence, exploring its building blocks and how to cultivate it authentically. Drawing inspiration from a recent Harvard Business Review article, we take a deeper dive into the subject, building on its foundational principles. We discuss three skill sets essential for naturally embodying Executive Presence in one's unique style, offering actionable insights for aspiring leaders. When you’re ready to become a top-performing leader, book a leadership strategy session to see if executive coaching is right for you. You’ll learn to simplify your leadership style while amplifying your value inside my 1-1 coaching program. Go to https://melsavage.com/chat to book your leadership strategy session now. Love the podcast? Show your appreciation by leaving a review.

In this podcast episode, we delve into the various applications of vision and explore strategies for crafting a compelling vision tailored to each specific use case. From organizational missions to personal goals, we uncover the power of vision in driving success and offer practical insights for creating impactful visions across diverse contexts. When you’re ready to become a top-performing leader, book a leadership strategy session to see if executive coaching is right for you. You’ll learn to simplify your leadership style while amplifying your value inside my 1-1 coaching program. Go to https://melsavage.com/chat to book your leadership strategy session now. Love the podcast? Show your appreciation by leaving a review.

In this episode, we explore how feedback can be wielded as a constructive tool to inspire, foster connection, and nurture critical thinking, transforming it from a weapon of criticism to a catalyst for growth and trust. What I will cover today: How to use feedback as a tool and not a weapon How to use feedback to inspire vs. deflate How to use it to create connection and trust vs. conflict How to use it to grow your critical thinkers. When you’re ready to become a top-performing leader, book a leadership strategy session to see if executive coaching is right for you. You’ll learn to simplify your leadership style while amplifying your value inside my 1-1 coaching program. Go to https://melsavage.com/chat to book your leadership strategy session now. Love the podcast? Show your appreciation by leaving a review.

In this podcast episode, we delve into the non-leaderly behaviors that bosses need to stop doing. We explore non-leaderly things (for your people), why you might be doing it, and what to do instead to foster a healthier workplace culture and stronger leadership presence. When you’re ready to become a top-performing leader, book a leadership strategy session to see if executive coaching is right for you. You’ll learn to simplify your leadership style while amplifying your value inside my 1-1 coaching program. Go to https://melsavage.com/chat to book your leadership strategy session now. Love the podcast? Show your appreciation by leaving a review.

Discover strategies and tactics for mastering the art of managing up as a leader, ensuring effective communication and collaboration with higher-ups for organizational success. In this episode, we’re going to talk about what managing up is, three categories for managing up so you can structure your approach, and I’ll also dive into each category with examples of how to do it. When you’re ready to become a top-performing leader, book a leadership strategy session to see if executive coaching is right for you. You’ll learn to simplify your leadership style while amplifying your value inside my 1-1 coaching program. Go to https://melsavage.com/chat to book your leadership strategy session now. Love the podcast? Show your appreciation by leaving a review.

In this podcast episode, we delve into the essential elements of creating and utilizing a leadership brand plan. I will share insights into my unique framework, guiding you through a step-by-step process aimed at nurturing and enhancing your personal brand. When I do this with my clients, we go through it step by step, we brainstorm, I add value to it and then we use it as a structure to coach against as we grow. When you’re ready to become a top-performing leader, book a leadership strategy session to see if executive coaching is right for you. You’ll learn to simplify your leadership style while amplifying your value inside my 1-1 coaching program. Go to https://melsavage.com/chat to book your leadership strategy session now. Love the podcast? Show your appreciation by leaving a review.

In this podcast, we dive into the essence of leadership value creation. Discover how leaders create value in their role and delve into the 5 main roles every valuable leader needs to prioritize to become a top-performing leader everyone wants. When you’re ready to become a top performing leader, book a leadership strategy session to see if executive coaching is right for you. You’ll learn to simplify your leadership style while amplifying your value inside my 1-1 coaching program. Go to https://melsavage.com/chat to book your leadership strategy session now. Love the podcast? Show your appreciation by leaving a review.

Feeling like a fraud despite your achievements? Join us as we tackle the amplified version of self-doubt – "Imposter Syndrome 2.0". Know what it is, what it looks like and how it shows up in your day to day life, and 3 strategies on how to effectively manage it. Tune in and discover how to silence the imposter once and for all, and step into your deserving place as the capable individual you truly are. When you’re ready to become a top performing leader, book a leadership strategy session to see if executive coaching is right for you. You’ll learn to simplify your leadership style while amplifying your value inside my 1-1 coaching program. Go to https://melsavage.com/chat to book your leadership strategy session now. Love the podcast? Show your appreciation by leaving a review.

Unlock Career Success: Discover 5 powerful beliefs that transform your work, elevate your team, and equip you with skills beyond the ordinary. I’m going to give you 5 beliefs that you'll want to practice integrating into your belief systems in order for you to naturally create success in your career and day to day on the job. I'm also going to talk about what each belief brings to your career and your team. The skills these beliefs will generate. And why these beliefs are more effective than what you might be thinking right now. When you’re ready to become a top performing leader, book a leadership strategy session to see if executive coaching is right for you. You’ll learn to simplify your leadership style while amplifying your value inside my 1-1 coaching program. Go to https://melsavage.com/chat to book your leadership strategy session now. Love the podcast? Show your appreciation by leaving a review.

I want to give you a way to trust everyone you work with, and be able to use that trust to your advantage to get the job done more effectively, and also build more useful relationships with people by… I got to say, I wish someone had told me this strategy years ago. I wish I did not have to figure this one out the hard way. For some of you, this is going to be like instinct, you just get it. When you’re ready to become a top performing leader, book a leadership strategy session to see if executive coaching is right for you. You’ll learn to simplify your leadership style while amplifying your value inside my 1-1 coaching program. Go to https://melsavage.com/chat to book your leadership strategy session now. Love the podcast? Show your appreciation by leaving a review.

Master leadership by balancing micromanaging and autonomy, shifting mindset, and employing three key strategies for peak performance. The goal is to create the balance between micromanaging versus creating autonomy and that's what we're talking about today… When you’re ready to become a top performing leader, book a leadership strategy session to see if executive coaching is right for you. You’ll learn to simplify your leadership style while amplifying your value inside my 1-1 coaching program. Go to https://melsavage.com/chat to book your leadership strategy session now. Love the podcast? Show your appreciation by leaving a review.

Revolutionize your leadership style by implementing a 'work smarter, not harder' strategy. The goal for this session is help you create a strategy for how to embed working smarter/not harder into your leadership style to TRULY decrease the overwhelm and exhaustion and increase your energy throughout the week. When you’re ready to become a top performing leader, book a leadership strategy session to see if executive coaching is right for you. You’ll learn to simplify your leadership style while amplifying your value inside my 1-1 coaching program. Go to https://melsavage.com/chat to book your leadership strategy session now. Love the podcast? Show your appreciation by leaving a review.

The goal today is to help you regulate and proactively choose your emotional responses so that you can be your best leader. We will cover: How you’re currently dealing with your emotions Why that's not a long-term strategy And how to feel through your emotions effectively to be able to show up as your best leader When you’re ready to become a top-performing leader, book a leadership strategy session to see if executive coaching is right for you. You’ll learn to simplify your leadership style while amplifying your value inside my 1-1 coaching program. Go to https://melsavage.com/chat to book your leadership strategy session now. Love the podcast? Show your appreciation by leaving a review.

Welcome to The Highly Valued Leader podcast where I make it simple for leaders at all levels to amplify their value. I’ll help you reset your leadership style, demystify the politics and help you become the leader everyone wants on their team. Get ready for the most honest, direct and revolutionary leadership coaching you’ve ever heard. Let’s simplify leadership together. When you’re ready to become a top-performing leader, book a leadership strategy session to see if executive coaching is right for you. You’ll learn to simplify your leadership style while amplifying your value inside my 1-1 coaching program. Go to https://melsavage.com/chat to book your leadership strategy session now. Love the podcast? Show your appreciation by leaving a review.

The goal for today is to help you be proactive in how you intend to approach who you want to be as a leader, and how you want to operate now that you're a leader. We’re going to cover: Why you're not as ready as you think you are The benefit of taking the time to plan your approach An outline of your new role as a leader, and how I define leadership When you’re ready to become a top-performing leader, book a leadership strategy session to see if executive coaching is right for you. You’ll learn to simplify your leadership style while amplifying your value inside my 1-1 coaching program. Go to https://melsavage.com/chat to book your leadership strategy session now. Love the podcast? Show your appreciation by leaving a review.

Navigating trust dynamics in the workplace can be challenging, especially when you don't have the luxury of choosing your colleagues. Unlike personal relationships where trust is a cornerstone, work relationships can often feel like a trade-off between trust and recognition for your contributions. However, this dichotomy is a misconception. In fact, I argue that embracing trust is a crucial factor in bringing out your best self at work. In this episode, I delve into both apparent and hidden aspects of trusting your colleagues in the corporate setting. I explore how skepticism can inadvertently erode your own trustworthiness and how choosing to trust can elevate your performance and foster a healthier team environment. While it might seem idealistic, I present compelling reasons why trusting others, even in the face of uncertainty, is a pragmatic and astute strategy that benefits both you and your team. Join me in unraveling the intricacies of trust in the workplace and discovering the transformative power of this mindset.

Perfectionism can be insidious, manifesting in subtle ways that hinder the progress of even the brightest minds and high-achievers. It's possible to underestimate your own perfectionist tendencies, and that's where the trouble lies. Join me in this episode as I shed light on the covert aspects of perfectionism that might be undermining your goals without your awareness. I'll equip you with strategies to combat these tendencies and share two key concepts that will help you break free from the grip of perfectionism. By adopting these approaches, you'll not only sidestep the pitfalls of perfectionism but also accelerate your goal achievement with less stress and anxiety. Ultimately, you'll cultivate a newfound trust in your ability to follow through and succeed, without diluting your aspirations or succumbing to self-doubt.

In this episode, we cover how best to utilize friends, mentors, and coaches to get you the informed support you need to achieve your goals faster with a lot less drama. Getting the support you need is critical to enjoying your job and being great at it. Most people would believe that. But it’s amazing how many smart people either don’t ask for help at all. Or they aren’t strategic about who they ask for help. Whether we realize it or not, most people gravitate to asking a safe resource for help vs. the right resource. In this episode, we cover how you’re never too smart or experienced to ask for help and how best to utilize friends, mentors, and coaches to get you the informed support you need to achieve your goals faster with a lot less drama.

Feedback is a powerful tool for personal growth and progress, yet it's often mishandled in the workplace. But today, I'm not here to dwell on that issue. Instead, I want to empower you to navigate messy feedback without letting it turn into a mess for your own development journey. Feedback, when given thoughtlessly or critically, can be challenging to digest without taking it personally. The key is to sift through it all, extracting the relevant parts and not allowing it to dent your self-worth. I know it's not always easy, especially when feedback comes across harshly from figures of authority. The temptation to internalize it as a personal flaw is real, but it's essential to break free from this pattern. In this episode, I provide strategies to transform poorly delivered feedback into a catalyst for growth. It's time to harness even the messiest feedback to your benefit and emerge stronger and more resilient.

Do you ever find yourself questioning whether your current job is a waste of your time? It's a common concern, especially when boredom, stagnation, or a lack of progress sets in. The anxiety of not knowing whether you're making the most of your career can be overwhelming. But here's the truth: It's not your job that's wasting your time, it's the uncertainty surrounding your career decisions. Instead of spinning in confusion, waiting for the perfect opportunity, it's time to take charge. In this episode, I will guide you through a process to finally answer that lingering question. Stop waiting for a magical solution and gain the clarity you need to make informed decisions about your career path.