This week, host Emily Chipman steps out of the host role and into the hot seat. As the first woman invited to teach other coaches the internationally top ranked executive coaching certification, Emily operates a strategic partnership firm, collaborating with HR teams in multiple industries to elevate the healthy development and increase the influence of their top talent leaders and teams.
In our conversation, we discuss:
Emily takes us back some of the harder, early lessons she had to learn in her career
It is not uncommon for women to struggle with creating career plans
Three questions you can reflect on to get a sense of your long-term legacy - which can make it easier to set goals
What newly graduated employees need to know about the difference between performance evaluations and report cards
The difference between accountability and over-responsibility
Knowing your worth vs what you are contributing
To successfully manage your career, you need to know what you’ve done over the last year
Faith & Leadership
The value of creating good stories - and end destinations - in life
The importance of looking for God’s hand in all parts of our life as a tool for maintaining and strengthening faith
(As always, look to the end of the newsletter if you want to find the start time for a particular conversation point.)
Some takeaways:
Many women struggle to make career plans. Career plans are easier to make when you know your long-term life objectives. Once you know where you want to go, creating different paths to get there becomes easier.
Every employed person eventually learns the following truth: your performance evaluation is not a report card or an official statement of your personal worth.
There is a difference between taking accountability and being over-responsible. You are responsible for your words, actions, and intent. You are not responsible for the presumptions others make about your intent.
Your worth as a person is not defined by your job. When we tie those two together, we can lose ourselves and who we really are. Our performance at work is a measure of what we have contributed - not our personal value.
Faith & Leadership
Whether you are in a leadership role at work, home, or church, come to the table with solutions. Not included on the podcast: Emily shared prior to the recording that having someone earnestly ask what she hoped to accomplish in a leadership role was a tremendous vote of confidence in her and one that was very helpful. Leaders of leaders can foster the leadership development and confidence of the people reporting to them. A simple way to do this is to express confidence in and encourage those leaders to share their ideas and lead those projects.
Sometimes, it’s not easy to walk with faith when life is turning out differently than you anticipated or hoped. Seeing prayers answered in all areas of life—work as well as church situations—can be a helpful reminder that God is aware of us. In the end, even when life doesn’t turn out like you’d hoped, you can still have joy. Faith doesn’t mean we have a problem-free life, but it’s a lot easier to make it through when you lean on the Lord.
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Resources and Topics Mentioned In the Podcast
Book, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller
In this episode, we cover:
[00:02:16] Unique career path
[00:05:46] Career paths for women.
[00:10:45] Finding your impactful billboard message.
[00:14:57] Making choices when uncertain.
[00:17:01] Managing early career naivety.
[00:23:46] Worth vs value.
[00:25:32] Accountability vs. over-responsibility.
[00:27:34] Perception vs reality.
[00:33:35] The power of personal stories.
[00:38:25] You matter, you are valuable.
[00:39:02] Encouragement and professional growth.
