Visibility at the workplace. Pros and cons explained.

[00:00:00]So, visibility for me is good. Like, everything will have its pros and cons, but from my viewpoint has more pros.

[00:00:05]>> More pros >> than cons. Especially in leadership, you can't shy away. There's a meaning about being a leader, isn't it? Now, how do we know the leader? How do we buy into the leader?

[00:00:15]>> Mhm.

[00:00:15]>> If we cannot see the leader. I'm not saying in terms of physically, but understanding how the leader thinks, what [music] they stand for, who they are.

[00:00:22]>> Mhm.

[00:00:23]>> I think those are key elements of leading, isn't it? You're going to buy into a vision.

[00:00:29]But, you want it to align with your own values as well. So, I think as a leader, it's especially in this modern day where we communicate using social platforms, it's it's important more so for women.

[00:00:40]Women >> Wow.

[00:00:41]>> More so for women because we've also been trained and groomed to see it as a bad thing.

[00:00:46]>> Mhm.

[00:00:46]>> While in the workforce, it is an It's actually a plus. It's an edge. Cuz I remember as a as a young uh career professional, I just thought people should know. I did this project. I did this. I'm good at this. I was doing this. They should know. Why should I be telling them? They should, you know. And I realized that when the chips are down, nobody even remembers. People will give people that have no clue or did not even do 1/10 of what you did. And that's just because you didn't call it out.

[00:01:10]So, I suddenly realized that it was important to do that. And it was because as women, it's just like telling a woman to ask a man out on a date.

[00:01:17]It's weird. I thought it was weird. I remember when my mentor first told me, "Why don't you tell him you like him?" I was like, "No.

[00:01:22]He'll think I'm cheap. He'll think I know." So, when you come with that mindset to the workforce, you also apply it. Why would I be telling my manager I did this? Didn't he know?

[00:01:30]>> Didn't he [laughter] know?

[00:01:31]>> Didn't he see it in the presentations?

[00:01:32]Didn't he Is it because it was somebody else that presented? It was on the team.

[00:01:35]I even contributed the most. All the parts of the work nobody wanted to do, I did. But, the truth is that maybe they don't know.

[00:01:40]>> They wouldn't know.

[00:01:41]>> Maybe they don't know. And maybe your ability to communicate gives them the confidence that you can do it again.

[00:01:45]>> Again and again.