Recap: Leadership for Working Moms
Mom of two, corporate executive and champion of female leaders, Stephanie Farley, left moms wanting more at our most recent Table Talk! Stephanie skillfully guided moms through meaningful leadership principles designed to enhance trust and encourage women in the workplace while sharing examples from her own life as a mom who travels often, leads a team of 130 and loves her family well.
Providing actionable takeaways, Stephanie homed in on developing trust since it is the most foundational component of good leadership. She shared exceptional tips on how we can become empathetic leaders, how to earn trust and what to do when trust is broken.
Here are a few key takeaways you may want to incorporate into your own role at the office:
Lead with emotional intelligence by remaining self-aware and empathetic so you can properly relate to team or family members - even when you may feel triggered by situations or events.
Create emotional safety for others so that when they come to you, they trust that you are a safe place to land.
Repair trust when it’s broken by using these five steps:
Acknowledge that trust has been broken.
Admit your role in the breach of trust.
Apologize for what happened.
Assess where the breakdown occurred.
Amend by taking meaningful corrective action.
There was so much to this content that this blog post would be way too long to read if we posted it all!! At the end of the session, Stephanie provided each attendee with journaling questions and a helpful handout to contemplate their own leadership skills.
We’re so thankful to Stephanie for sharing her expertise and situational examples with us. If we sweet-talk her enough, maybe she’ll come back to teach one one of the other four leadership topics she coaches her employees through at her own office! :)