Rocking Your Role

Jenny Garrett is an executive coach, consultant and speaker. She is passionate about: challenging leaders to make a positive difference, motivating women to live their best life, inspiring authentic leadership. She is founder of Reflexion Associates, a holistic and expansive leadership development consultancy that has worked internationally over the last ten years to deliver executive coaching and training with a difference: depth, personalisation and meaning. Jenny's clients are leaders from the corporate world as well as the public and third sector. The common theme is that they want to make positive change, they engage her to help them successfully do just that.Before becoming an executive coach, Jenny held senior marketing roles in global private sector organisations, where she experienced the complexity of working life. She holds an MA in Management Learning and Leadership as well as a number of coaching qualifications.

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Introduction

My story
Rising MEs
Guidance
Women's voices

Chapter 1 - Are you ready?
The tools
Small things make a difference
What's important to you?
Awareness of ME
Happy ME
Wellbeing
Making ME happy
Energise ME
Temporary ME

Chapter 2 - ME Choices
You always have a choice
Femi's story
ME perspective
How you see the world impacts how you are in the world
ME attitude
ME legacy
Feeling you have a choice
Don't hold back on your choices
Restore your sense of control

Chapter 3 - Good for ME
What's good about being ME
Being ME, in control
Financial independence
ME voice
The future looks bright for ME
The legacy we leave

Chapter 4 - Guilty ME
Stop being so hard on yourself
Guilt-informed decisions
Entrusting ME
ME buttons
Risky ME
Share the responsibility
Light and shadow
Develop resilience

Chapter 5 - Assumptions of ME
Liberate yourself from assumptions
Andrea's story
Justify ME
The right decisions for you
Embarrassed ME
Who is benefitting and how?
It's OK to be different
Women as hunter gatherers
Trendsetter

Chapter 6 - Stop ME
Know what you don't need to do
Sally's story
Time is precious
Be present when you're there
Superwoman syndrome
It's OK not to
ME, stay-at-home mum
Perfectly imperfect ME
You're wonderful, but...
Switch off auto-pilot
Big things don't matter
Small things bring joy
Make dates

Chapter 7 - Communicating ME
Communication is critical
ME ego
Ideas spring from communication
Listening is a gift
Making ME the norm
Finding the words
Changeable ME
Things may need to change
Daily changes

Chapter 8 - Interdependent ME
Every action has a reaction
Thriving
Consequences
ME system - health
Nourishing your system
Aware of your interdependencies

Chapter 9 - The Real ME
ME at home
Being your `shoes-off' self
Everyone needs some downtime
You are still a woman
Feeling like the man and woman of the house?
Value your femininity
Being you is good enough

Chapter 10 - Enjoying ME
You enjoy having a voice
You enjoy making decisions
You enjoy the power
Empowerment and freedom
Feeling positive
Sense of accomplishment

Chapter 11 - Invest in ME
A dangerous message
Your early warning system
You are the jam
Sustaining ME 1
Picking yourself up

Chapter 12 - Share with ME
Moving from me to we
Sharing lessons learnt
You are in good company
You have more to gain
How will you share? 1
Creating opportunities
Practical tips on sharing

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