Women's Leadership, Women's Career Development, Business Executive Coaching & Podcast by Sabrina Braham MA PPC

Do you or your teams feel powerless? Are your customers satisfied? The sad truth is many teams and customers do not and suffer – even in medical leadership organizations… Here’s the good news. You can advocate and influence change for both your teams and customer service to improve your company and bottom line from this sage advice below. Join me today with a best selling author and CEO of a large medical leadership management group on how they grapple with these challenges and the solutions they have developed, that you can use too. You think you have organizational problems? The medical field is one of the business systems that is most seriously wounded and rigid.  82 % of physician’s feel they have little ability to change the system. Learning how and why this is changing is valuable information for ANY leader. New York Times Best Selling Author Leadership Tips We have the pleasure of talking to Dr. Halee Fischer-Wright who is a nationally recognized healthcare executive, physician leader and former business consultant whose work focuses on innovation and creating cultures of excellence in the medical field.  Dr. Fisher-Wright is president and CEO of Medical Group Management Associates and is the co-author of Tribal Leadership, which was a New York Time bestseller, and she’s just written a great book called Back to Balance: The Art, Science, and Business of Medicine Dr. Halee Fischer-Wright Join us today to learn how to improve your management skills and customer service, even if you are not in medical leadership. Listen & Download Now   Best Practices Learned from Medical Leadership - WLS 90 How does Medical leadership improve patient customer service? Is your leadership so focused on making a better product you forget about your customers? What is the driving force in medical Leadership and customer service today? And how does that impact you? How can you as a patient get better health care from the medical field? Is there a silver bullet to solve the medical leadership and customer service problem? Medical leadership’s new role as customer service advocate. How can someone working in medical leadership change the system? Shocking reasons why 70% of people go bankrupt from medical care. Why you need health insurance, for the best health care, even if you are young and healthy. Want to be more confident? Do you want to be able to: Speak up in meetings? Influence others more easily? Overcome obstacles? Have courage to take risks? Check out Sabrina's 11 Free Confidence tips top leaders use that will help you get promoted, increase your income, and influence your peers.     I Want to Hear From You on Your Top Women Leadership & Career Development Questions. Please comment below your most pressing questions on: How to promoted? Managing people? Leadership? Career development? How to get hired? Also be sure to subscribe to my Women's Leadership Success podcast. You'll get new episode automatically delivered to you via iTunes or Stitcher direct. You will get tips, advice and insights from expert women (and men) on leadership, career development, communications, management and much more. Also thanks for sharing my show and your 5-star review of Women's Leadership Success Podcast in Stitcher & iTunes. I am working on building my tribe of like minded souls dedicated to helping each other lead and succeed in your business or career.        

Here is the problem. Many leaders lack effective leadership skills and communication that inspires their strategic vision and engages their team to implement their most important goals. This causes the leaders to micromanage which blocks progress and profits. Can you relate? Is this a problem for you or your company? Join Sabrina and best selling author Dianna Booher as they share practical guidelines to effective leadership skills and communication that inspires and advances your top goals with less effort and time.  Also see the bottom of this page to get the full interview transcripts and other free bonus tools.   “Great leaders are great communicators, as Dianna Booher points out in this smart, useful book. If you want to become a top-notch strategic communicator, you'd do well to heed the advice in its pages.” —Marshall Goldsmith, executive coach, business educator, New York Times bestselling author, and Thinkers50 #1 leadership thinker in the world.   About Our Best Selling Author & Guest Dianna Booher is the author of this easy to read new book Communicate like a Leader and the founder and CEO of Booher Research Institute, and she works with organizations to help them communicate clearly and with leaders to expand their influence by a strong executive presence. She provides communication programs and coaching to some of the largest Fortune 500 companies and governmental agencies such as IBM, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, ExxonMobil, BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and many more, and she’s been on many, many national television programs. Due the importance of the insights she shares, this is Dianna’s 2nd time as guest on Women’s Leadership Success Radio Podcast. Listen & Download Now Effective Leadership Skills – Actionable Insights from WLS 89 How her personal challenge lead to becoming a prolific writer Learn the root cause of failure for a leader Solutions to ‘having too much work’ Develop effective leadership skills Discover how to communicate like a leader Improving the different aspects of a good leader Why speaking is the most effective leadership skill to develop How to hold your own when interrupted in a business meeting Secrets to increasing your influence in a meeting   Down Load These Transcripts with Dianna Booher & Improve Your Leadership Skills for Free If you liked this interview with Dianna, be sure to listen to her other interview on Women's Leadership Success on how women can have improve their executive presence with effective leadership skills   Expert Reviews About My Guest Dianna Booher: “Dianna Booher's brilliant new book, Communicate like a Leader, is the single-best communication guide I have ever read. In it are thirty-six clear, concise, relevant, and practical bits of strategic advice on how to connect with others. No fluff. No wasted words. All substance. I guarantee you that there is something in this book that you can use immediately—and more that you can apply tomorrow and the next day and the next. Buy this right now, read it as soon as you get it, and then put Dianna's expert advice to work for you. You will be very glad that you did.” —Jim Kouzes, coauthor of the bestselling The Leadership Challenge and Dean's Executive Fellow of Leadership, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University  “If you're a micromanager, you need to know it's not just ineffective—it's also the most labor-intensive leadership style. When you read Communicate like a Leader, you'll learn strategic communication skills that will improve your relationship with your people and actually make leading easier. Dianna Booher is the communication guru of the ...

Here is the problem. Many leaders lack effective leadership skills and communication that inspires their strategic vision and engages their team to implement their most important goals. This causes the leaders to micromanage which blocks progress and profits. Can you relate? Is this a problem for you or your company? Join Sabrina and best selling…

Does the path to your career advancement seem unclear? Have you ever wondered how some people advance, in spite of the odds? In part I of this interview Karmyn Norwood, a black woman leader shares her journey from entry-level engineer to becoming a vice-president at Lockheed Martin while still in her early 40’s. In this great interview you will get one of the most comprehensive, step by step strategies on how to advance your career that I have ever published. Also at the end of the show check out the free webinar and tip sheet to help you advance your career & leadership success. Listen Now Quotes from our Special Guest Karmyn Norwood “Yes, we have to deliver our products, but really the people who I’m leading; they are the most valuable asset and not necessarily the products. In a business environment, you quickly learn that you’re not the smartest person in the room, and to get to the end state, it takes the entire team, and there are strengths and weaknesses on every team. We leverage those strengths and we develop and build the weaknesses, and so as a leader, a first time leader, I had to learn that very quickly.”   Karmyn Norwood: Profile of a Successful Black Woman Leader Karmyn is the vice president for the Air Mobility & Maritime Missions (AMMM) International Programs Line of Business for Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company in Marietta, Georgia. Prior to this role, she served as director of operations in the Technical Operations branch at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, responsible for more than 7,000 engineers accountable for the design, development, integration, production and sustainment of military aircraft for the United States and countries around the world. She holds a bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Jackson State University (Jackson, Mississippi), a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from George Mason University (Fairfax, Virginia), and an Executive MBA from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Karmyn is also a recipient of the 2015 Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA) Special Recognition. Women’s Leadership Success Celebrates Black Women Leaders -  Part I Highlights: What are detours in your career journey and how to benefit from them. What would it take to start building up your leadership skills. Why collaboration is critical and how it can help your career. The role of a mentor in developing your career development plan. Strategies to find a good mentor. How to measure progress in your career development.  What is targeted networking? Steps to build your network. Learn the difference between a sponsor and a mentor and their respective roles. Look for part II of black woman leader Karmyn Norwood’s great rise from entry-level engineer to Vice President of Lockheed Martin here soon. Building self-confidence for women is key to your career and leadership success. That is why Sabrina is hosting free webinars to help you build your self-confidence. Sign Up for Self Confidence Webinar Here   Thanks for sharing this show and webinar with friends and associates. Everybody wins.      

Does the path to your career advancement seem unclear? Have you ever wondered how some people advance, in spite of the odds? In part I of this interview Karmyn Norwood, a black woman leader shares her journey from entry-level engineer to becoming a vice-president at Lockheed Martin while still in her early 40’s. In this…

Do you know how lack of self-confidence is impacting your career,  employees or direct reports? When you fail, do you know how to recover? What keeps you from feeling confident? Have you noticed that you may be very self-confident in many areas, and yet still have fear and self-doubt in other ways? This is not unusual. But there is good news. What keeps you from feeling confident and what can you do about it? In a 2015 study on women’s leadership with the major accounting firm KMPG showed a high correlation between high self-confidence, higher wages, getting promoted and even being listened to.  Lack of self-confidence and fears can be overcome so that you can be even more successful in your career. In this part II of this audio podcast interview below with Sabrina Braham MA PCC we will be discussing: Some of the reasons even successful self-confident woman leaders can struggle with confidence in certain areas.  New brain research that begins to rewire the brain and increase confidence. Failing, getting demoted and how to turn these experiences into wins. Listen Now   About Sabrina Braham MA PCC Sabrina is an author and executive coach with over 25 years experience helping develop leaders, high self-confidence and career advancement. She has studied with top experts in the fields of Positive psychology including Martin Seligman and Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi, and has personal experience overcoming her own lack of confidence. She is in the process of designing a six-week interactive program; “The Master Keys to Confidence: How to Stop Sabotaging Yourself and Get Promoted©.” She is also a great gardener. :-) Self-Confident Woman Leader Highlights Influence of naysayers on your advancement Tips to be more fully engaged and take action What to do when being in the minority keeps you from speaking up Changing your early negative programing How to succeed when you did not get the promotion Building resilience after a mistake Using self-awareness to increase your confidence When self-care changes the game A simple exercise to you be a more self-confident woman leader Building self confidence for women is so important is why Sabrina is hosting free webinars to help you build self-confidence and advance your career. Sign Up for Self Confidence Webinar Here  Thanks for sharing this show and webinar with friends and associates. Everybody wins.   If you missed Part I of this interview with Sabrina on How to Build Self Confidence, listen to it here.           Related Shows to Help You Be a More Self-Confident Woman Leader Episode # 76: Carrie Kish; How to Navigate Career Development: Work Life Balance for Women  https://www.womensleadershipsuccess.com/how-to-navigate-career-development-work-life-balance-for-women/   Episode # 83: Susan Combs; What Motivates Women to Seize Opportunities? Texas Tenacity https://www.womensleadershipsuccess.com/motivate-women/     Episode #38: Dianna Booher; Creating Personal Presence:  Look, Talk, Think and Act Like a Woman Leader. She’s an incredible person and has some wonderful tips and things that will definitely improve your confidence. https://www.womensleadershipsuccess.com/communication-skills-and-career-advancement-for-woman-dianna-booher-and-executive-coach-sabrina-braham/   Episode # 49: Terry Pearce Leading Out Loud https://www.womensleadershipsuccess.com/communication-skills/    

Do you know how lack of self-confidence is impacting your career,  employees or direct reports? When you fail, do you know how to recover? What keeps you from feeling confident? Have you noticed that you may be very self-confident in many areas, and yet still have fear and self-doubt in other ways? This is not…

How is your Self Confidence? Have you ever refused an opportunity or promotion? Have you doubted your skills, knowledge or expertise even though others praise you? Do you compare yourself against others and many times come up short? Do you have difficulty recovering from failure? You may one of the 67% of women who say they need more support building confidence to feel like they can be leaders according to the KPMG Women’s Leadership Survey 2016 According to this Women’s Leadership Survey, Lack of confidence affects many activities that are needed to get into management. courtesy Dr. Nick Lazaris Here’s some shocking statistics on why lack of confidence is a career killer:  9 out of 10 women are not confident asking for a sponsor (a executive advocate to help you get promoted). 78% lack confidence to ask for a mentor 76% do not ask for access to senior leadership 73% afraid to ask for a career path plan 69% do not request a promotion 65% do not ask for a raise 56% do not request a new role or position How to build self confidence that helps Your Career Most of these problems above relate to not speaking up.  This is something that most women were trained to do culturally.  It is not your fault you may have some of these confidence challenges that hurt your career above. The good news is that you can build self confidence that helps your career, is a skill set you can develop. When you do you will outshine your own expectations. Read on. I am going to show the way.   Listen Now   Sabrina Braham helps women leaders build self confidence I Grew up Feeling I Was Stupid… Growing up I felt that not only was I was stupid, & ugly, but I couldn’t do anything right. My family agreed with me, which supported that I really couldn’t do anything. All through grade school and high school I struggled… Then one day I met a great teacher that believed I was more capable then I did. He insisted I take risks, encouraged and guided me. Much to my surprise I excelled! I went on to graduate from college with a Master’s degree in psychology. I created a successful psychotherapy practice and then moved into the field of management consulting and executive coaching. I have spent twenty-five years struggling and mastering self-confidence for others and myself. Over these past twenty-five years + I have developed an expertise in leadership mastery and changing limiting behaviors’ to help people get promoted and enhance their careers.  That is why I am being interviewed in this 2-part podcast Building Self-Confidence and announcing my free webinar to help you build self-confidence and advance your career.   Access Part II on Building Self-Confidence Here: Women's Leadership Success Radio Interview #86 .   Build Self Confidence Interview With Sabrina Braham MA PCC How to overcome lack of self-confidence Why being self-confident is so important to your career success. Why the basis for getting promoted & excelling in any career is self-confidence Learn the secret to being fully engaged and taking action What it looks and feels like when you are self-confident A simple tip to quiet your inner critic and build self-confidence Free webinar announcement on "How to Grow Your Self Confidence to Advance Your Career & Leadership.   Sign Up for Self Confidence Webinar Here Related Shows to Help You Build Self-Confidence: Episode #38: Dianna Booher; Creating Personal Presence:  Look, Talk, Think and Act Like a Woman Leader. She’s an incredible person and has some wonderful tips and things that will definitely improv...

How is your Self Confidence? Have you ever refused an opportunity or promotion? Have you doubted your skills, knowledge or expertise even though others praise you? Do you compare yourself against others and many times come up short? Do you have difficulty recovering from failure? You may one of the 67% of women who say…

Have you heard about the Malcolm Baldrige Leadership Award? It is a business quality improvement standard and famous award that top women leaders use to enhance their staff engagement, leadership skills and profits developed by the former secretary of commerce, under Ronald Regan How are these standards creating world-class leaders that increase team engagement and deliver exceptional results? Join me today to learn about the Malcolm Baldrige Leadership award, & how you can use this proven system to advance your career, and your company, whether it is large or small. What is The Malcolm Baldrige Leadership Award? In the 1980’s United States industries had lost their competitive edge with other countries. Foreign manufacturers understood the importance of delivering high quality products. The United States was falling behind. Malcolm Baldrige who was the Secretary of Commerce under Ronald Reagan was very concerned. America’s was less competitive in manufacturing, particularly in the automotive and electronics industries, while Japanese attention to quality was taking the market share. So in 1987 the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Improvement Act was signed into law. Why do Top Companies Use Malcolm Baldrige Leadership Standards? Our guest today Kay Kendall stated; “one study in the manufacturing sector showed remarkable financial growth in the few years leading up to the award and in the years after winning the award.” The Malcolm Baldrige leadership standards are highly adaptable, highly flexible, and there aren’t many other models out there that have that kind of power.  There are so many things that you and your organization can learn from the remarkable results of these winners. Listen to learn how Malcolm Baldrige Leadership methods will give you tools to engage yourself and your employees. You will hear some of the best practices of the award winning leaders in business today. Listen Now Kay Kendall, One of the Nation’s Top Experts on the Malcolm Baldrige Leadership Practices Kay is the co-author of Leading the Malcolm Baldrige Way and spent more than 20 years as a quality executive leading challenge initiatives across diverse industries—aerospace, semiconductor automation equipment, computers and storage devices, and pharmaceuticals. She was introduced to the Baldrige Framework in the early 1990’s and became an examiner, served as a judge for a 3-year term limit, and is still engaged in the program as an alumnus. This great interview with Kay will give you surefire suggestions you can put into action immediately to improve your leadership and bottom line. Malcolm Baldrige Leadership Interview Key Points: Learn exciting research proving that companies using Malcolm Baldrige Leadership criteria, performed significantly better than their peers. Why employee engagement is so important to an organization’s success. Discover the relationship between employee engagement, customer loyalty, profitability, marketplace success that the Malcolm Baldrige Leadership developed. Shocking information on why more members of senior management don’t work harder to try and engage their employees. Check out the different mindset leaders need to utilize Malcolm Baldrige Leadership. How important is that leader’s vision?  How vital is it to the company’s success? Maintaining momentum when there’s a downturn.   Got Questions on Malcolm Baldrige Leadership Award or Women Leadership? I want to know. Ask your questions on this important topic in the “Leave a reply” window below or the “Ask Sabrina” page. If your question is chosen,

Have you heard about the Malcolm Baldrige Leadership Award? It is a business quality improvement standard and famous award that top women leaders use to enhance their staff engagement, leadership skills and profits developed by the former secretary of commerce, under Ronald Regan How are these standards creating world-class leaders that increase team engagement and…

Are there circumstances or choices you have made that have you stuck? Do you need some encouragement to take more risks?  Maybe you want more control of your life and career? Or do you want to help motivate women to never give up? Our special guest Susan Combs says, “Every day, every age, is the…

Are there circumstances or choices you have made that have you stuck? Do you need some encouragement to take more risks?  Maybe you want more control of your life and career? Or do you want to help motivate women to never give up? Our special guest Susan Combs says, "Every day, every age, is the right day, and the right age, to direct your destiny.” Susan has been through lots of ups and downs in life and has come through her experiences with grace and a sense of humor. Her mission now is to motivate women and girls and encourage them to “seize opportunities wherever they find them and to hold on to their identities with every thing they have got.” Author Susan Combs Motivates Women Susan Combs served as the Texas State Comptroller from 2007 to 2015 where she pushed through reforms in state government spending.  Previously, she served as Texas agricultural commissioner in the Texas State Legislature.  She also served as an assistant district attorney in Dallas, Texas.  She’s written Texas Tenacity:  A Call for Women to Direct Their Own Destiny. And has founded a non-profit http://www Herdacity.org which is committed to building a community where women can find others who share their interests, encourage their growth and dare to follow their passions. Listen Now Texas Tenacity with Susan Combs Interview Summary: Motivate Women to Seize Opportunities Learn the most important qualities to have when it comes to being yourself How to develop the courage to stand up for yourself Why optimism is crucial to your success. Tips to getting things done when doors are shut. Discover the difference between a goal and a core mission The surprising reason you have got to take action now! How to motivate women to take risks Discovering your secret strengths How to reach for the opportunity Take your fear out and put it on the table Where to go if you are in trouble Got Questions on Women Leadership ? I want to know. Ask your questions on this important topic in the “Leave a reply” window below or the "Ask Sabrina" page. If your question is chosen, not only will I answer it in future special episodes of “Sabrina’ Secrets”®, you also may be selected for $500 worth of Executive Coaching with me.    

Learn The Steps That Leading Companies Take To Retain And Attract Top Female Talent & Dramatically Increase Profits with Gender Balanced Leadership     Listen Now   We all know that women are 50% of the population. And you may know that women hold 46% of the entry-level jobs… But why does this figure dropped down, to ONLY 14% when we get to senior management?  Do you think losing 84 % of the most talented women, is hurting companies bottom line? Hell yes! Melissa Greenwell   My guest Melissa Greenwell, COO of The Finish Line, and author of the book, “Money On The Table, contends that most women’s initiate programs fail to help women get top jobs in corporate America. She explains what types of actions actually do have an impact on the number of women in leadership roles. And what businesses and women themselves can do to help drive this change. She will show that having more women leaders has a direct and positive impact on a company’s bottom line.   Melissa Greenwell Quote on Gender Balanced Leadership “I think an interesting one to watch on this subject is Procter & Gamble, so they have definitely received some very fantastic recognitions relative to diversity, relative to promoting women, and they’re one of the very large companies that is doing a lot of work and has been actually for a very long time around having a flexible workforce.  So I don’t know that they have any data published, but they definitely have inferred that taking this approach has yielded better productivity.”   Women’s Leadership Success Show Summary on Gender Balanced Leadership Learn the physical differences between men and women’s brains and how that predispositions us to think differently Why more businesses are started every year in the United States by women versus men? What you need to do differently to make an impact? How organizations have implemented flexible work arrangements to increase productivity. How gender balanced leadership and diversity helps get the best solution that develops the best products and services. What do we as women leaders, as women that want to be successful in businesses and companies, how do we need to show up? Why taking a mentor is really important. Which behaviors as a female have you been conditioned to have socially, that interfere with your career advancement?   Attention Women and Men - Find Out How You Can Work Together There is no question women are underrepresented at the top level of management. So join me today to learn the steps that leading companies take to retain and attract female talent, AND at the same time, dramatically increase profits.  Find out what the problem is and how you can help change this. So it is not different than the concept of the value of diversity, which has been talked about a lot, but it is the understanding that these different qualities or behavioral tendencies exist in the different genders and that if we only have largely one gender in a room, we’re really missing out on our full capability of problem solving.   

Learn The Steps That Leading Companies Take To Retain And Attract Top Female Talent & Dramatically Increase Profits with Gender Balanced Leadership     Listen Now   We all know that women are 50% of the population. And you may know that women hold 46% of the entry-level jobs… But why does this figure dropped…