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The research, and many anecdotes from my peers and friends, indicate that ladder pulling, gatekeeping, and bullying can be far worse for women of color, with both gender and racial bias driving their workplace experiences.
The discomfort I experienced reading the benefit package was followed by a wash of shame and the now familiar determination I have to make sure every one of my employees, mentees and friends is informed and can take maximum advantage of family-friendly and employee-centric policies. Why on earth should they suffer and sacrifice in the many stupid ways that I had to? Just because my path through this industry was challenging does not mean that I am better for it. I can definitively tell you that I would have needed a lot less therapy to be where I am now if the journey had been a better one.
To be clear, it's not just up to women to be ladder-builders. We know that corporate leadership teams are overwhelmingly white and male. It is every leader's responsibility to mentor the women and people of color coming up in their organization. Coach them on how to get that next promotion. Push back on company policies that are actively creating barriers to women and people of color advancing into leadership positions.
In August 2021, I received the Change Your World Champion Award and it was one of the most defining moments in my journey as an Entrepreneur. It was not the recognition that I received but it was the realization that I had shifted from being a Ladder Climber to a Ladder Builder.
When I joined The John Maxwell Team (rebranded recently as The Maxwell Leadership Team) in Sep 2018, my desire was to develop my leadership skills further and be a better communicator so I could rise up the corporate ladder and be one of the most influential women.
I got certified as a DISC Trainer and took my own Personality Assessment to identify what were my strengths. I focused on building upon my strengths and making the most of them. One of the reasons I started picking the WORD OF THE YEAR was to remain focused on where was I headed and to ensure that I had the right mentors to help me on this leadership journey of mine as I chased Success in my life.
Watch this video to hear about the approach I take while picking the Word for the Year and Opportunities that I seized to start climbing the ladder. I worked on myself and started evaluating the steps that I was taking every day.
I decided to adopt a serving attitude so that those I work alongside with as a Coach see that I am willing and able to serve, this has allowed them to be willing and to be able to serve others even further.
My word for 2022 is Equip - I have been equipped by my mentors (you can read more about the power of mentoring in -from-soloist-conductor-part-2-anupama-kinatukara-pgmp-pmp-/) and it is now my turn to Equip others to build their own ladders.
I would like to invite you to one of my upcoming MasterClass so I can help you understand how you could start Developing Leaders Around You and I can show you how to take the rights steps towards Developing The Leader Within You!
Let me leave you with a few questions that I am asking myself as I have started helping others and mentoring them. If you are ready to mentor someone, ask the following questions about anyone you are considering helping:
Meanwhile I hope you have already purchased this book "Leadershift" by John C. Maxwell which is where I have been studying these leadership principles and sharing with you a few "golden nuggets" based on how I have applied it in my leadership journey so you can learn it live it and lead it.
Next, you can select from three different predefined maturities for your ladder or choose to create your own custom ladder structure. The predefined ladders have a maturity length of 1 year, 2 years, or 5 years.
Your ladder choices from Step 1 can be found and modified in the "Your Criteria" section.
To build your ladder, check the box next to the investment that you wish to buy for that rung. You may select up to two investments per rung.
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In this model the potential earnings increase the higher up each ladder you climb. They also increase as you move left to right to more advanced ladders. But the difficulty increases with each move as well.
Our first ladder is trading time for money. This is how most people you know earn a living. It may start with an hourly job working for Starbucks, but then transition into a salaried position working at a company.
This is also where many business owners expand beyond their ability and start to lose the lessons they should have mastered from the previous ladder like being reliable and showing up consistently. Which is how a friend of mine with no plumbing experience bought a small plumbing company and doubled revenue in the first year with two simple changes:
Up until now each sale has been made by talking to customers or an employer directly in person or over the phone or email. But to truly reach new levels of income you need to learn a different lesson: how to sell without ever talking to the customer.
Okay, so far this is great. On our income-earning ladder he has gone from the first rung to the second and done it quite quickly. In just four years going from an entry-level position to a fantastic salary.
Those downsides are balanced by the fact that it can also have an incredible reward because recurring software is one of the greatest business models on the planet, which is why acquiring companies and investors will pay an incredible premium to own them.
My friend Patrick bought a house that needed plenty of work and immediately dove into renovating it himself. Since he works construction full-time he was well equipped with the skills to transform this fixer-upper.
Just a couple hours after listing it for rent on Airbnb he had his first booking. His first month booked up immediately generating over $1,800 in revenue. When combined with his job working on a construction crew, this new revenue stream was a 50% increase in his monthly earnings.
The best part is that not only is this making him money while he works construction, and that the extra work he put in will raise the resale value of his house, but really that for as long as he holds on to it, he has steady cashflow to more than cover his mortgage no matter what job he does.
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