Your number one goal in life is to help pave the way for future women leaders. You had amazing mentors who helped you grow and develop, and now you’re here to pay it forward.

You give sound, credible advice, always have a listening ear, and push your mentees to give their best every day. You’re there to give the high fives and the real talk. You’re the one they’ll remember as the best leader they’ve ever had.

At Your Best

You’re changing lives and taking names! You inspire many people with your calm, positive energy and patient teaching style. You always have time for a coffee chat with a mentee or friend, and you love being able to use your experience to help them work through problems. You easily see patterns in others’ words and actions, and you kindly point out what they can do to break free from their inner tumult. You’re a natural coach, and you ask great questions to get to the root of problems.

At Your Stressed

Because you have a strategic mindset and easily see patterns to predict the future, at times, your mind can be in overdrive. You sometimes have so many thoughts swimming around your brain that you lose sight of what’s real (your accomplishments) and what’s imagined (your missteps). You help so many people see their strengths and believe in themselves, and you can use a little of that mojo yourself. Self-doubt consumes you when you spend too much time thinking and not enough time doing.

How Others See You

As a Leader: Your team admires so many things about you, but they’re most inspired by the way you teach and develop them. You use every meeting as an opportunity to educate, and you encourage your team to look at every mistake or failure as a lesson to be learned. Your team learns something new every day and is challenged and encouraged (by you) to give their best every day.

As a Peer: Your colleagues are equally inspired by you and often come to you for advice, especially when it comes to their own development as leaders. You have many friends at work, and love getting together with coworkers for coffee or lunch, because you love learning about other people. You make your peers feel like the most important person in the room.

As a Direct Report: Your leader saw potential in you from the first day you stepped on to the scene. That’s why they trust you with important projects and responsibilities. Your leader is impressed by the way you can manage up and easily influence other leaders to buy-in to your projects.

A few more things…

What Gets You Out of Bed in the Morning: The opportunity to teach and develop others, and encourage people to bring their best selves to work every day.

What Keeps You Up at Night: Replaying conversations to make sure you said the right thing, or anticipating conversations before they even happen.

Working with Other Types: You can help develop any of the types, but the people you most love working with are The Enigma and The Dreamer. You can learn how to better execute your plans from The Protector or The Bleeding Heart.

How to Shine: Keep learning, keep growing, and keep developing yourself. The best way to learn is by teaching others, so be sure to share your newfound knowledge with someone else!

Now that you know your Firepower Leadership Style, how can you use this knowledge to create change within your organization?

>> Action 1: Make personal development a habit. Impostor Syndrome is no joke - and it’s not your fault. You need to unlearn harmful thought patterns by reframing negative or self-defeating thoughts, cultivating deeper self-love, and showing genuine appreciation for what you already have - your strengths, experience, and knowledge. Consistent, intentional practices like journaling, meditation, and connecting to your intuition can help take you from fear of the unknown to faith in yourself.

>> Action 2: Find your crew. When you’re working to improve yourself or your organization, it’s important to surround yourself with people that love and support you, no matter what. Especially if you’re the “only” one of you in your organization. Find an accountability partner who shares a similar personal or professional goal, and check in with them every day. You can also join a Meetup group in your area or virtual networking group where you can build a strong network. If you want to take this work to your organization, start an affinity group or women’s leadership group at work. There’s so much power in peer support, because together, we rise.

>> Action 3: Ignite your spark. Start from where you’re at. You have so much knowledge, experience, and inner wisdom that you can tap into immediately. You don’t have to wait until you get another certification or until you’ve worked a certain number of years before you can make the changes you want to see. You are a leader no matter where you’re sitting today. You have the power to use your leadership style to make the workplace a better place for women. And we need more women like you at the top, where the decisions are made. Consider what you can do, and start small! You can start by highlighting the work of a female coworker or asking for your organization to reimburse leadership coaching. Your spark can set the world on fire, and all it takes is that first step.

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