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Podcast Episode #102: "The Importance of Pay Transparency" - an Interview with Gavriella Schuster

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The Importance of Pay Transparency

In case you missed my LIVE interview with the remarkable Gavriella Schuster (DE&I Advocate, Global Business Executive, Board Director, Strategic Advisor, and Former Corporate Vice President at Microsoft), here are a few of the wisdom gems she shared:

In your career growth, the first thing that you do doesn’t have to be the thing that defines you. You are going to change things up multiple times throughout your life. The important thing is that you’re learning and getting experience
Every decision in life doesn’t have to determine the pathway you take in your career or entire life. You will always have the opportunity to adjust and change as you learn more
Always learn new things and be a continuous learner
Always self-reflect. “If I don’t want to do what I’m doing. What is it ‘I do want to do?’ And how am I going to define my own success doing that?”
The importance of pay transparency is knowing your worth in the work that you do, how much y

She Got the Raise, the Title, and the Respect…

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"She Got the Raise, the Title, and the Respect…"

Are you owning your value enough?

If that question made you take a pause, it’s ok. Not voicing our value or owning our worth has happened to most of us at one time or another.

But, it doesn’t have to.

According to DiversityWomen Media, ‘Women are often less assertive than men in the workplace and tend to apologize or minimize the importance of what they say when they do speak up-even female executives in meetings with their peers.’

Part of the challenge is that owning our value is a counterculture for many of us.

That was the case for Sue (not her real name:), a 1:1 Limitless Leader client of mine who is a female senior executive in finance. She had a 30-minute call scheduled for her annual review. The call was actually 10 minutes (...her boss was 10 minutes late and left 10 minutes early.)

She was rated as ‘far exceeds’ due to the growth of her line of business and progress on major (new) initiatives that she’s now responsible for. ‘Far ex...