Be Business Savvy - Create a Career that Soars!
by Susan Colantuono
How do I grow in my career? What’s the key to greater confidence? How can I speak up with authority?Your host, Susan Colantuono, has helped women at all levels, from most industries and from around the world answer all these questions. But the answers she’s found aren’t what you will expect. And as you might know from her viral TED Talk (over 4.5 million views) the answers lie in the career advice that you probably didn’t get.Now, Susan’s sharing this key that unlocks the power of conventional advice to women AND goes far beyond typical career success tips for womenm. The key turns flawed advice into fabulous. It’s the advice that women regularly tell her they wish they had heard much earlier in their careers. If you:- Have ever felt like your career is languishing while men around you progress.- Have big dreams, but aren’t sure how to realize them.-Want your work to feel less stressful and your workload less overwhelming.- Have ever wished to speak up with greater authori
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Master Your Voice, Own Your Message
In Part 3 of our conversation with Helen Jonsen, founder of Helen Jonsen Media, we dive into practical media coaching tips that every professional woman can use. Helen shares insights from vocal technique to signature remarks, revealing why memorization isn't the key to powerful speaking -...
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The Power of Solving Real Business Problems
Show Notes In Part 2 of our conversation, Michelle Redfern reveals what makes her leadership programs transformative for ambitious women. Unlike traditional programs that focus primarily on soft skills, Michelle's approach combines essential business acumen training with real-world strategic...
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Shine in High-Stakes Meetings - Master Executive Communication
Show Notes Understanding business context is crucial for effective communication with senior leaders Tailoring your communication style for executive audiences is essential Preparation and practice are key to improving executive communication skills Body language and voice tone play significant...
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Thrive as an Ambitious Woman
Key Takeaways from Part 1 with Michelle Redfern Being an ambitious woman is often seen as a risk. Lead to Soar helps members practice expressing their ambition comfortably Ambition should be reframed as a positive force - not just for personal gain, but for improving the world around you…
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Gillian Fox on Unlocking Confidence and Accelerate Your Career
Key Takeaways Confidence for women in the workplace is about more than just feeling self-assured; it's about showcasing your business value Developing strategic and financial acumen helps women feel more confident in their ability to contribute to the organization The focus should shift from what...
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Rewrite Your Career Story: Racquel Moses on Crafting a CEO-Minded Resume
Show Notes In Part 2, Racquel Moses focuses on highlighting your unique impact in each role, not just performing as per your job description. Approach each new role with a mindset of measurable improvement from day one Aim to advance from entry to mid-level positions within two years Track your...
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Journey to the Top: Racquel Moses on Career Success
Show Notes Racquel Moses is the CEO of the Caribbean Climate Smart Accelerator and host of the "Getting to the Top" podcast. Early career experiences in banking mergers, JP Morgan Chase, and tech startups provided crucial exposure to business strategy and financials. Understanding both the "what"...
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Reimagine Your Career: Helen Jonsen on Your Kaleidoscope Career
Key Takeaways from Interview with Helen Jonsen: A kaleidoscope career utilizes fundamental skills and talents in various roles and industries throughout one's professional life. - Business disruptions (e.g., pandemic, AI) are changing how people work and view their careers. Non-linear career…
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Don't Just Cope. Conquer 3 Common Career Frustrations
We are highlighting 3 common career frustrations that women face: Overcoming career stagnation, Standing out in job searches and Reducing work-related overwhelm And providing actionable tips for conquering them including prioritizing tasks based on business impact and aligning work with strategic...
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From Girl Talk to Woman Talk: 3 Shifts to Command Respect
In Part 1 of a series of podcasts based on my conversation with Helen Jonsen we discuss the crucial differences between "Girl Talk" and "Woman Talk" in professional settings. She shares three key strategies for women to command respect and authority: eliminating unnecessary apologies, owning the...
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You're NOT "Too Emotional!" Here's Why
Your emotions aren't the problem, it's how you're packaging them. Discover how to couple your passion with business savvy to shatter stereotypes and command respect in the workplace. Go Deeper Links ⭐ Business Savvy YOU! delivers the business, financial and strategic acumen you need to succeed:...
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I'm All In for VP Harris: Let's Win This!
5 reasons ( out of dozens) why I support VP Kamala Harris for President and hope you will too! Check out the Go Deeper Links for a comprehensive list of VP Harris' positions and experience. Go Deeper Links ⭐ Comprehensive list of VP Harris' positions and experience. ⭐ Business Savvy YOU! delivers...
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Kick Your Career into High Gear: 8 Tips from the Pitch
This is undoubtedly a blog of a different color! I had the pleasure of watching many of the Euro Cup games over the last few weeks, and while I'm from the U. S., and more or less agnostic about who wins, I do have to say that this year my preferred team time did win. Spain had an amazing run and…
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1 Career-Changing Question Every Woman Should Ask in Interviews
TLDR: Use your smart search capabilities to discover where a woman can go in the company you're interviewing for. Also ask questions to discover what the hiring manger thinks about where women can go. A Lesson for the Ages As a college graduate, I had the opportunity to interview for two…
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Your Strengths Don't Matter
Your strengths don't matter! Do I have your attention yet? It's not 100 percent true, of course, and I will get to that in a minute. But first, let me explain what I mean. When it comes to career growth, decisions are made on the basis of your proven and perceived leadership skills. (Of course,...
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Managers (Not Women) Must Break the Glass Ceiling
If organizations, coaches, and consultants spent half as much time getting managers to do their jobs rather than putting energy and effort into "fixing" women, we would be much further ahead on creating a level playing field, on women's advancement and on closing the wage gap. For far too long,...
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Biz Talk - A Success Secret
This morning I'm musing about the question that I often I've gotten asked, mostly from men in my audiences, "Well, if organizations don't do such a good job teaching about The Missing 33%, how is it the men get ahead?" Two Reasons Men Advance In Spite of HR I'm here to explain a couple of reasons...
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Speak Up!
I recently gave a webinar and before the webinar I had my colleagues inside the company poll their internal women's group to see which of nine topics they'd prefer me to touch on. One of them was "speaking up with comfort and credibility and authority." Reflecting on my own and the career…
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Unlock Doors to Opportuinity
TLDR: Having financial acumen and speaking the language of business will ensure that you aren't locked out of career opportunities. You might have noticed in a past podcast that I recorded several in the town of El Rompido in Spain, where I had quite an adventure. I was in an Airbnb and when I...
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Strengthen Your Strategic Acumen
TLDR: This is already a very short summary of key info about strategic acumen. Please Read ON! Strategic acumen is perhaps my favorite of the three elements of Business Savvy, because I had to unlearn everything that I thought I knew about strategic acumen, and perhaps you will too. Strategy...
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About Business Savvy YOU!
About Business Savvy YOU! Good morning from beautiful South County, Rhode Island, where I am enjoying the second day of sunshine for my morning walk. It has been kind of a brutal spring. As a regular listener to the Be Business Savvy podcast, You've heard me talk about the many ways that being…
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5 Indicators that You're Ready for a Promotion
I recently delivered a webinar on how to Make the Most of Mentoring. During the Q& A one of the attendees asked: "How do I know if I'm ready for a promotion?" if I were to go simply by my Myers-Briggs preferences, I would say, "You will know because you feel ready for a promotion." And while part...
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But I'm Not Ambitious, Do I Need Business Savvy?
These are five reasons, and there are many more, that even if you don't self identify as ambitious, developing and demonstrating business savvy will serve you well. Hi, this is Susan Colantuono coming from beautiful South County, Rhode Island. Not long ago, a woman said this to me, "Susan, I…
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Tip: Get Heard in Meetings
TLDR: Use preparatory language to increase your chances of being heard and gaining the respect you deserve. Preparatory language is a comment made before the important comment. It is designed to draw attention to you so that you have gained attention before making your important point. "I am...
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Interview with a STEM Trail Blazer
TLDR: Scroll down to the Recap to read the summarized career advice from a woman who was a pioneer in engineering and IT. Susan: Good morning from beautiful Epona Dressage Center outside of Carmona, Spain, where I have spent the week with some amazing women. This morning I'm speaking with Wendy...
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Leadership Differs by Levels
Leadership Differs by Levels - Get the Table: https://www.bebusinesssavvy.com/download-leadership-differs-by-levels ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ TL;DL: As you move into new opportunities there are things you leave behind, there are things you take with you and things you have to add. By "things"…
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Four ways to reclaim confidence in toxic work cultures
TLDL: Instead of covering over your flame of confidence, try these 5 ways to give it oxygen! (scan the headings for the 5 tips). This morning I answered a LinkedIn message from a woman who wanted to know how to deal with "learned" lack of confidence due to the toxic work culture she lived in. She...
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Consciously Develop and Use Business Savvy
Good morning from the sleepy little village of El Rompido in Andalusia, Spain. About as close to the Portuguese border as I could be. This morning I'm musing on the consciousness of successful women about having developed business, financial and strategic acumen. They Just Don't See It I have...
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No, It's NOT Just You!
Stop Accepting the Blame Good morning from the sleepy little village of El Rompido in Andalusia, Spain. This morning (Oct '23), for the first time in about 10 days, I scrolled through my homepage on LinkedIn and there were two bits of research that caught my eye. One was the latest McKinsey and...
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The Most Important Thing to Know When Seeking a Promotion
Good morning from the shores of beautiful Rincon, Puerto Rico, where this morning, I am musing on the most important thing to know when you're seeking a promotion. First, Do This! Before I get into it, I want you to try something. If you're in a place where you can stand up, I'd like you to do...
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5 Steps You Need to Self-Promote and Still Be Humble
5 Steps to Self-Promote with Grace, Ease and Authenticity. Good morning from the nature trail in El Rompido, Spain. Based on a post I wrote on LinkedIn while I was here, I am musing on self promotion. Specifically for this podcast, the myth that if you self promote, you cannot be humble. The...
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Build Business Acumen
Build Business Acumen When I discovered The Missing 33% of the career success equation for women - in other words, the fact that managers don't expect us to have or demonstrate business, financial, and strategic acumen - and that is a barrier to our advancement, it means we have to work extra…
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Why DIY Business Acumen will Fail You
WHY DIY Business Acumen Will Fail You Imagine that you have just bought the perfect piece of furniture from Ikea and you open the box and in front of you are pieces of wood and screws and screwdrivers and nuts and bolts in the dozens and you frantically search within the packaging And you cannot...
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Keep Leadership Simple with Business Acumen
This morning as I walk along the beautiful shore in Rincon, Puerto Rico, I'm focusing on keeping leadership simple. What popped into my mind this morning is when I was working at a large medical center, and I was consulting to the Chief Nursing Officer, working with her managers. Nurse managers…
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Insights into Business Acumen
Business, financial and strategic acumen are all Interrelated, so sometimes it can be difficult to define each one without slipping over into the others, but this morning I'm going to try to do that for business acumen. Intro Good morning from the shores of Rincon, Puerto Rico. This morning I'm...
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Why You MUST Know Your Positional Purpose
If you are like most people, you come to work with a laser sharp focus on the job ahead of you. You've heard messages like "Work hard." "Do your job." " Get results, and good things will come to you. So your orientation is looking downward at the job for which you've been hired. In this morning's...
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Your Leadership Daily Practice
Good morning. It's Susan Colantuono here with my musings on The Missing 33%. This morning. I want to touch on something that I mentioned in another podcast. It's what I call your leadership daily practice. I want you to know that I walked my talk about this as I was growing my company that I have...
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To Have Executive Presence You Have to Know What it Is!
" Executive presence is the ability to comfortably draw and hold attention while delivering a business-savvy message." Susan L. Colantuono ------------------------ In an earlier podcast I talked about a woman who had received feedback about needing greater executive presence. This could be an any...
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Presenting to Higher Levels
"In order to be prepared to present at higher levels. It's important to realize that your work product means different things at different levels." Susan L. Colantuono ---------------- Yesterday a woman told me that she got feedback about needing executive presence because she had to have all the...
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Courage, Confidence and Business Savvy
Good morning again from the boardwalk in beautiful El Rompido in Spain. This morning I'm musing about courage, confidence, and business savvy. You've Earned Your Place Imagine that you're walking into a business meeting. It's the first time you have encountered the members of the team you'll be...
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Use Business Savvy to Declutter Your To-Do List
Use Business Savvy to De-Clutter Your To-Do List Hi, this is Susan Colantuono coming to you from beautiful South County, Rhode Island. Today I'm musing on the importance of de-cluttering your to do list for your mental sanity and well being. Have you ever had the experience where something comes...
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The Single Best Way to Proactively Seek the Benefits of Mentoring
The Single Best Way to Proactively Seek the Benefits of Mentoring This will be a multi part series of musings coming to you from the shores of Rincón, Puerto Rico. Part one. 8 Things To Know About Accessing Mentorship Women are improperly/imperfectly mentored. So you may have seen books and...
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The Missing 33%
In an earlier musing on The Missing 33%, I gave a brief summary of my TED Talk. On this I want to dive a little further into the concept of The Missing 33%. Discovering The Missing 33% I discovered it based on research published in 2000. Which was kicked off by a BusinessWeek title that said, "As...
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The Career Advice You Probably Didn't Get
This morning I'm using about the fact that you might not have found me through my TED Talk, so I want to share with you key messages from the TED Talk that will help you in your career journey. First of all, I needed to have a definition of leadership that was actionable if I wanted to help women...
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Introducing the Be Business Savvy Podcast
Hi, this is Susan Colantuono introducing my new mini podcast series, "Be Business Savvy." I want to share its backstory, so that you understand why you're hearing what you're hearing. Short to Fit Your Busy Life I'm a very busy woman, as are you, and I find sitting through 60 minute and even 30...
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How do I grow in my career? What’s the key to greater confidence? How can I speak up with authority?Your host, Susan Colantuono, has helped women at all levels, from most industries and from around the world answer all these questions. But the answers she’s found aren’t what you will expect. And as you might know from her viral TED Talk (over 4.5 million views) the answers lie in the career advice that you probably didn’t get.Now, Susan’s sharing this key that unlocks the power of conventional advice to women AND goes far beyond typical career success tips for womenm. The key turns flawed advice into fabulous. It’s the advice that women regularly tell her they wish they had heard much earlier in their careers. If you:- Have ever felt like your career is languishing while men around you progress.- Have big dreams, but aren’t sure how to realize them.-Want your work to feel less stressful and your workload less overwhelming.- Have ever wished to speak up with greater authori
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