Leading Yourself

Leading Yourself is an engaging guide to owning and elevating your work experience. With tips, watchouts, and funny stories, Leading Yourself will give you the encouragement and tactics to up-level your career, even if you aren't in your dream job. You'll learn to manage your self-talk, find meaning in the mundane, optimize your time at work, and build relationships with the people who matter. Elizabeth Lotardo, a wildly popular LinkedIn Learning Instructor, shares key behaviors and habits that will transform the way you experience your job and unlock opportunities for career growth. This is a book about real-life work, not theoretical musings from an executive think tank. Leading Yourself includes... Strategies to overcome self-doubt, embrace change, and navigate uncertainty Talk tracks for handling challenging people, like micromanagers, know-it-alls, and leaders who constantly change their mind How to avoid awkwardness when giving or receiving feedback and what to do when the feedback is wrong Tips for preserving your own reputation when other people don't deliver (or if your company majorly messes up) Frameworks for evaluating and making your next career move Leading Yourself is about controlling the controllable. It's owning, from whatever seat you're in, your work experience. If you're frustrated with your organization, your job, your coworkers, or your boss, you're the one paying the price. Not them. Identifying what you can control is the antidote to burnout. Recognizing that you're in charge of you is what gives you the emotional freedom to create the career you want. It's what gives you the authority to create the life you want. You deserve to feel like your life is purposeful, joyful, and full of opportunity... because it is. Leading Yourself puts the power back in your hands.