Ep 80 - Michael Wenderoth, Executive Coach - From “Meh” to “Yeah!”: Your Top 3 Power Map Mistakes (and What to do Instead)

Learn more about Michael Wenderoth, Executive Coach: www.changwenderoth.com

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Your Power Map should dramatically help increase your career success. But you created your Power Map and are finding it, well, “meh” (not very impressive). In this brief episode of 97% Effective, host Michael Wenderoth explains why you are getting poor results, sharing the top 3 mistakes he sees executives make in their Power Maps. He walks you through what you are missing, what to do instead, and examples from real clients. Use this episode to self-audit your Power Map and you’ll go from “meh” to “yeah!” results, dramatically helping you accelerate your career and get big things done at work.

• The origin and meaning of the expression “Meh”
• Practical tip: use this episode to audit your Power Map (which you created in Episode 78 HERE, using the FREE tool you downloaded on Michael’s coaching website, HERE).
• Mistake #1: Not creating Your Power Map by hand
• Mistake #2: Ignoring the Ego
• Mistake #3: Great Analysis, No Action
• “It’s all about increasing your odds of success”
• Summary and Additional Resources

BIO AND LINKS:

Michael Wenderoth is an Executive Coach that helps executives re-examine their assumptions about power, politics, and authenticity to get promoted, become more effective at work, and break glass ceilings holding them back. Having served 20 years in senior roles with companies across the globe, and then 7 years as a professional coach, he has helped accelerated the careers of clients from diverse industries, backgrounds, and levels of seniority, helping them get ahead – without having to sell their souls in the process. Michael is the award-winning author of Get Promoted, host of the 97% Effective career acceleration podcast, and a frequent speaker and media contributor on career advancement, leadership and navigating power and politics. His work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Stanford Business School Executive Education and IE Business School, where he collaborates with renowned professors, coaches, executives and experts. Michael holds an MBA from Stanford and trained as an executive coach at Columbia University (3CP).

• The Power Map explained (Episode 78, 18 minute episode): https://tinyurl.com/2b56dps3
• The expression “Meh” -- origin and popularization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meh
• Download the FREE Power Map tool, on Michael’s website: https://changwenderoth.com/the-power-map/
• The Power Map, exampled in depth: Chapter 9, in Get Promoted: https://tinyurl.com/453txk74
• Michael on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelchangwenderoth/
• Michael on X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/mcwenderoth
• Michael on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wenderoth.michael/
• Summary of Michael’s 3-step Power framework (“The Rock, the Map and the Snowball”), in his Harvard Business Review article: https://hbr.org/2022/10/how-to-get-your-first-promotion
• Michael’s Book, Get Promoted: https://changwenderoth.com/#tve-jump-180481ecea3

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