Episode 186: 5 Strategies to Design Your Leadership Growth Pathway (Part 1 of Leadership Mastery for Managers Series)
Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career Advancement
Release Date: 01/09/2025
Episode 206: Special Announcement from Finka
Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career Advancement
I’ve got an announcement. My third book is in the works, and I’ve got a solid draft that I can now work with. To get to the next stage of my writing process, I need to start from the beginning to write my second draft. My goal is to share a readable draft with a few select readers by the end of the summer. I need to put all my creative energy into this next draft and as a result I will be pressing pause on my podcast for the summer. I’ll be back in the Fall to give you an update on the book and what is coming up next. Thank you for tuning in and being here week after...
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Episode 205: The Power of Coaching to Brilliant Differences
Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career Advancement
Struggling to tap into your team’s full potential? You know your employees are talented, yet you can’t seem to bring the most out of them. Chances are it’s because you’re not coaching to their Brilliant Differences. A Brilliant Difference is composed of people’s God-given gifts, their talents and strengths, and how they uniquely actualize them to transform the lives of others. It just so happens that the workplace and people’s careers are the perfect arenas to live it out. I think of Brilliant Differences as diamonds; they need pressure and cuts to be realized and...
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Episode 204: 3 Coaching Skills Every Leader Needs—Let’s Do LAPs!
Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career Advancement
There are three coaching skills you cannot forgo in your leadership and career, and they are LAP: Listen. Ask questions. Pause. Seems simple enough, right? Wrong. Trust me when I say there is an art to executing each of these skills. When done wrong, it can be dismal and tiring. But when done right, it not only fuels your career and leadership, but those of the people in your company! I’ll teach you how to do it the right way. By the end of this episode, you’ll learn: Lessons from workplace coaching experiences (from myself and...
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Episode 203: How to Create a Successful Coaching Session: 5 Things You Need to Do
Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career Advancement
What are the elements of a successful workplace coaching session? What makes an employee eager to grow and change vs. stuck in their ways? I’ll answer both questions. Even better? I’ll teach you exactly how to facilitate a coaching conversation at work that actually uncovers potential and gets results from your people. You might think you’re already coaching, supporting and mentoring your people through weekly huddles and individual touchpoints, but the truth is, if you aren’t doing these five things, you’re not actually coaching: Making space for intentional,...
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Episode 202: Workplace Coaching vs. Edge Mover’s Coaching and Why You Need the Latter
Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career Advancement
Workplace coaching has been used for years to garner performance and results from employees...but it only goes so far. Traditional workplace coaching is limiting, and if you really want to see long-term, sustainable growth and development from your team and business, you need to be an Edge Mover’s coach. Where does traditional workplace coaching fall short and what is Edge Mover’s coaching? I answer these questions in episode 202, the catalyst of a new podcast series: Edge Mover’s Coach. Coaching is one of the most vital skills needed in the workplace, but it’s often done...
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Episode 201: CHARISMA Framework: How to Establish Executive Charisma
Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career Advancement
People with executive presence often have charisma, or executive charisma. What is it and how can you establish yours? First off, charisma is your ability to compel people with your charm, inspiring them to understand your message or take action. Sounds pretty close to executive presence, right? But how you actualize and elevate your charisma to fuel your executive presence differs. You do so by following my simple eight-step CHARISMA framework: Courage Humility Authenticity Responsiveness Intention Storytelling Mindfulness Articulation Paired with resources below, learn...
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Episode 200: Storytelling: Your Executive Presence Secret Weapon
Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career Advancement
If you’ve ever wondered, “How can I have more executive presence?” this episode is for you. Stories have been shared for millennia and are more memorable than facts, yet corporate professionals and employees give it a middle-of-the-pack priority, even though it’s a critical key to boosting their executive presence and leadership at work. The priority revelation is based on data from my (give it a read if you haven’t yet). So, I'm taking storytelling—what’s seen as an underrated, nice-to-have skill—from the middle and spotlighting it at the top because you cannot have...
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Episode 199: How to “Own a Room”: 3 Executive Presence Primers
Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career Advancement
People with executive presence are often told they know how to “own a room,” igniting engagement and attention without saying a word. But what does this look like and how can you do it too? Using these three executive presence primers: Be intentional Define the stakes Bring your Brilliant Difference Owning a room isn’t about owning it, but making space for others, which is where intention, stakes, and your Brilliant Difference come into play. Tune into this new Executive Presence 101 episode and elevate your EP at work. Leadership Development Audit Executive...
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Episode 198: What It Means to Have Executive Presence (+ an Exercise to See Where You’re At)
Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career Advancement
It’s elusive. People often don’t know exactly what it is or looks like. Let’s change that. Discover exactly what it means to have executive presence, as well as where yours is right now. This is the start of a new, four-part series: Executive Presence 101. Executive presence is something you either have or don’t. It’s an invisible ingredient that enables you to capture attention in a room without uttering a single word but makes people lean in when you do speak, remembering how you made them feel hours afterward. So it’s no surprise that it’s often called the “X...
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Episode 197: Value-First Centre of Influence Framework: Proven Method to Build Career-Elevating Relationships (Part 4 of Influence Without Authority Series)
Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career Advancement
To have influence, you need to tap into the influence of others. You need a centre of influence (COI). Influence is built and nurtured; it’s not something you’re automatically granted. And the process starts with building your influence network, or what I like to call, your centre of influence. To grow in your career and leadership, it’s essential to surround yourself with the right people. Knowing and working with the right people can bolster your chances of being hired into a new role, getting promoted, getting invited to important conversations, and expanding your network and...
info_outlineWelcome back to the Your Brilliant Difference Podcast! While the show paused over the holidays, Finka Jerkovic is back in action with an exciting new series that will help you pave a successful, meaningful pathway for your leadership and career in 2025: Leadership Mastery for Leaders.
In this four-part series, she gives you high-level, tangible insights from her recent workplace report, Finka Inc. Career Advancement Forecast: Skills and Strategies to Rise at Work in 2025. In episode 186, she double-clicks on how to design your leadership growth pathway to achieve your workplace/career goals.
According to the Finka Inc. report, one of the biggest aspirations people have is to grow, move up, and get promoted, yet the biggest challenge for people is knowing where to go and how to do it. They know they want to grow in a new direction, but they don’t exactly know what’s next or what that direction should be. Are you in the same boat?
Finka gets it. She’s been at this crossroads herself before in her corporate career, which is why she’s helping you get clear on your where and how through her own stories and five strategies:
- Be intentional.
- Go deep or go wide.
- Have an excellence mindset.
- Use your Brilliant Difference as an act of service.
- Futureproof your leadership with skills.
What exactly do these strategies mean and how can you implement them? Tune in and find out!
What You’ll Learn:
- Why 2025 is a pivotal year for your leadership and impact.
- The importance of being intentional with your career and leadership moves.
- Going deep vs. going wide in your career.
- The difference between an excellence mindset vs. accomplishment mindset.
- How to lean on your Brilliant Difference and skills development to add value despite a shifting technological landscape.
Get Career Clarity and Direction for 2025: Download the Finka Inc. Career Advancement Forecast
Surveying over 100+ corporate leaders and professionals, Finka Inc. has the pulse on what’s top of mind for people at work in 2025. What should be your priorities? What is the workplace landscape going to look like? What are career advancement critical skills you need to help you soar? Find out by clicking the button below to download your copy.