56: How To Find a Strategic Project at Work with Jen

Somebody finally tells you to go be ‘strategic’.So you sit down to pick a project, and you stare at a blank page.You are a doer. You solve problems. Nobody ever taught you how to go invent something big and shiny to sit on top of the fifty things already on your plate.You keep waiting for the right one to come along. And every week you keep quietly mopping up the same mess nobody else will touch.Truth is, that mess is the project.Jen is a senior leader at a professional services firm and she came to Jill completely stuck. One question changed what she was looking for, and what she found had been sitting in plain sight the whole time.It became, in her words, probably the biggest thing her firm has done.Tune in to learn:• The one question that turns a blank page into an obvious project• How Jen built the support to change how very senior people behave• What it did for the firm, and what it did for how the partners see herABOUT JENJen is a senior leader at a professional services firm and a seasoned project manager. She leads internal operations and professional development and is known inside her firm as the person who solves the problems nobody else will pick up. Jen is a graduate of the Strategic Leadership Lab for Women.💻 READY TO FIND YOUR OWN STRATEGIC PROJECT?The Strategic Leadership Lab for Women is a six-week live cohort led by Jill where you learn to be seen as strategic and walk out with a strategic project of your own. The kind of thing you can point to for years, the way Jen can. The next group starts September 11 and early bird pricing closes August 15. https://sistersmart.com/SLA—Register for the Free Executive Presence for Women Masterclass: The 3 keys to Increase Authority and Influence, happening live on Thursday, August 8 at 12 PST.A replay will be available for those that register! https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkdOsrDItGdHchQv1BXFozsGRUjL74xlK#/registration —🌟 FREE MASTERCLASS: Achieve Your VP Promotion: 3 Steps to Success in the Next Yearhttps://sistersmart.com/register-sil—✈️ FREE PASSPORT TO PROMOTION PRIVATE PODCAST: 7 STEPS TO GET PROMOTED FROM DIRECTOR TO VP Get access to the Passport to Promotion Private Podcast—👩‍💻 APPLY FOR THE SISTERS IN LEADERSHIP PROGRAM An 12-month coaching program for women leaders who want to rise up and fulfill their career potential and get promoted from director to VPJoin Sisters in Leadership to Get Promoted to VP—💻 EXPLORE OUR LEADERSHIP COURSESWe offer a few leadership courses for you to begin sharpening your skills from meeting management to executive presence and productivity.Sign Up for a Leadership Course—👋 CONNECT WITH JILL 🌐 Website: https://sistersmart.com/ 🎥 YouTube: https://linktw.in/uWD3ko 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jillavey/