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Career Growth Strategies for Women: Glass Ceiling, Smashed
Glass Ceiling, Smashed covers variety of topics related to business, communication skills, leadership development, career growth, and more!
This podcast is geared toward (though not specific to!) women wanting to climb the corporate ladder, improve their work/life balance, and become successful and respected leaders in their field.
This podcast also talks about sales strategies, process optimization and streamlining, and topics related to small and micro business owners and entrepreneurs.
Designed to educate and elevate, Glass Ceiling, Smashed puts a blunt, yet informational and supportive spin on all topics related to professional life.
Our host, Lauren Erbicella, is the founder of Windrose Coaching and Consulting. She focuses her services on 1:1 coaching related to career and leadership skills development. The consulting side of her business focuses on small/micro businesses and the joys, challenges, and experiences of those business owners and employees. Lauren holds a B.A. in Organizational Development and Leadership from Widener University, as well as an M.A. in Organizational Leadership from Gonzaga University. Lauren enjoyed over 20 years of professional experience in legal, tech, finance, and sales before deciding to take her expertise and channel it into helping others grow.
If you're a woman (or man, any other gender!) who wants to be respected, carry yourself with confidence, and lead yourself and others toward a more fulfilling career and life, you've found the place for you. Whether you're an experienced professional or a new college grad, I guarantee you'll learn something.
Everyone is welcome here, so let's go smash that glass ceiling together.
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This podcast is for you if you find yourself asking questions such as:
How do I ask for a promotion?
Why do high-performers fail to get promoted?
How do I ask for a raise?
How do I communicate better, more clearly, or more effectively?
How do I bridge the gender gap at work?
Do women make better leaders?
How can I be a better manager?
How do I get more respect at work?
What is strategy?
How do I become better at sales and establishing relationships?
What stats do I need to pay attention to to measure business growth?
What are the best leadership styles?
How can I simplify my business processes?
How do I give good feedback?
How can I change careers?
What skills do I need to become a leader?
How can I develop my employees?
How can I influence my coworkers when I'm not their boss?
What is the difference between management and leadership?
...and many more!
**If you have a request for a specific topic, please reach out at glassceilingsmashedpod@gmail.com**
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Glass Ceiling, Smashed is brought to you by Windrose Coaching and Consulting LLC. WRCC provides individual 1:1 career and leadership skills development coaching, as well as consulting services for small and micro businesses.
Visit our website (www.windrosecoachingandconsulting) to learn more about our services and pricing.
Episodes
16 episodes
15 - Managing Up Isn't Sucking Up: How to Lead Your Boss
Link to Scott Mautz's Leading from the Middle: https://amzn.to/4yAicErThis episode makes the case that managing up is the skill of building a working partnership with the person above you, one based ...
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14 - Women's Health is a Workplace Issue (and it's time we treated it like one)
Picture a woman at her third appointment for the same health issue, doing math in her head about how many more half days she can take before her manager starts to wonder what's going on. This episode is about the connection between women's heal...
13 - Overcoming Your Inner Critic: Imposter Syndrome, Self-Doubt, and Finding Your Executive Presence
This episode covers 1978 research that coined the term “imposter phenomenon,” and the mixed evidence on whether this phenomenon is found in women more than men.Then, I'll get into a framework for recognizing which specific pattern of sel...
12 - Navigating Office Politics Doesn't Have to be a Scary Thing Anymore
Office politics has a bad reputation, but avoiding it entirely is practically impossible. Trying to avoid it can also be a career limiting move. This episode defines what office politics means and what happens when it goes unmanaged: more anxie...
11 – Is Gen Z Unprepared for Corporate America, or is Corporate America Failing Them?
Gen Z gets blamed a lot for being “unprepared” for work, with some critics going as far as calling the generation “unemployable.” This episode asks a different question: is that actually a Gen Z problem, or a corporate America problem? Using th...
10 - Running on Empty: Burnout, Who’s Most at Risk, and How to Prevent It
Picture the employee in your workplace most likely to burn out. If you pictured someone struggling, checked out, or not that invested in their job, this episode is here to challenge that picture, because research says the opposite. Burnout usua...
9 - Stop Talking About $10K Months and Start Talking About Growth Rates
If you spend any time on social media, I’m sure you’ve seen someone bragging about having s $10K business month. And if your business’s month looked nothing like that, might have felt a twinge of comparison, or even worse, defeat. This episode ...
8 – Women are Underpaid and Underpromoted: Let’s Do Something About It
Women are still paid less, promoted less, and chosen less often for roles that “matter.” In this episode, I’ll talk about exactly how much less women are paid, promoted, and chosen, using the most current data available, and we need to...
7 - Decision Rights, not Decision Fights
Have you ever been in a meeting where you were supposed to make a decision, but a group consensus was impossible, so the meeting just ended up being a total waste of time because no decision was actually made? Surprisingly, that's not indicativ...
6 - The Quick Fix Trap: Stop Fixing the Same Problem Over and Over Again
Ever fix a problem at work, only to watch it come back a few months later? Of course you have. First, this means you didn't fix the problem, you patched it. Second, this happens in every organization, so for better or fo...
5 - Say What You Need to Say: How to Improve the Feedback Conversation
Giving feedback, performance reviews, behavior assessments...They are some of the most dreaded conversations at work. I don’t think I know anyone who looks forward to the feedback or performance review discussion, and for women, the...
4 - Being Liked vs. Being Respected: How it Affects Women's Career Growth
It sometimes feels like being liked and being respected should be (or are) the same thing.Spoiler Alert: They're not the same, and confusing/conflating the two is one of the more common ways that women stall their careers. In...
3 - Why Women are Seen as Being Less Strategic (and what to do about it)
You've been told to “think more strategically,” but has anyone ever actually told you what that means? Or why women get that feedback more often than men? Has anyone ever acknowledged to you that this feedback isn't accurate? Likely, your answe...
2 - Five Things That Will Help You Communicate More Effectively and Gain Credibility
We communicate every single day through meetings, emails, conversations, and passing comments we don't even think twice about. The problem is, most of us have never been taught how to actually communicate WELL.In this episode, I talk ab...
1 - Motivation - What to Do When You (or Your Team) Just Don't Want to Anymore
Employee engagement in the U.S. hit a ten-year low in 2024. So if you've been feeling like something's off with the motivational vibes right now, you're right.In this episode, I talk about what's happening with motivation and engagement ...
0 - Welcome to Glass Ceiling, Smashed
Glass Ceiling, Smashed has arrived.A man repeats your idea in a meeting and gets the credit. You rewrite an email multiple times because you don't want "confident" to come across as "difficult." You get passed over for a promotion...