Ep 08: Unlocking the Secrets of a Successful Mid-Year Review

Your Permission to Pause

In today's episode, we're discovering the secrets of a successful mid-year review. As we approach the midpoint of the year, it's the perfect time to pause, reflect, and recalibrate our goals to ensure we're on track for success. Many senior leaders see this process as merely a tick-box exercise, but it can be so much more. By taking a deep dive into your achievements, challenges, and areas for growth, you can transform this review into a valuable opportunity for connection, engagement, and motivation.

Join me as we explore best practices, essential questions to ask, and strategies to make your mid-year review not only effective but truly meaningful. Whether it's fostering vulnerability-based trust within your team, seeking actionable feedback, or revisiting your leadership brand, this episode will equip you with the tools to elevate your performance and that of your team. So, make yourself comfortable and get ready to unlock the secrets of a successful mid-year review!

Here are the Highlights:

01:06 Reflect on midyear progress and success.

06:39 Year-end review: connect, celebrate, prepare, consolidate.

10:31 Leaders should embody values for effective reviews.

13:11 Fostering trust through acknowledging and addressing development.

17:35 Seek specific feedback, listen actively, and clarify.

20:48 Think creatively, seek feedback, be specific.

24:07 Reflect on leadership brand, plan action.

25:38 Prioritise goals, focus on impactful actions.

Meet your host Jo Cowlin

Jo Cowlin keeps it real.

Some people might like to call her ‘a motivational people development expert’ but Jo would rather you didn’t.

Jo is a no-nonsense, straight-talking northerner

She is also a transformational coach, facilitator and game changer. She has a passion for results and is dedicated to helping leaders realise their aspirations without compromising their wellbeing.

She dares individuals to be different by eliminating corporate BS, life coaching, and hand-holding, and instead encourages breaking through barriers to gain clarity and step into personal power for a life without limits.

Passionate about learning and growth, she is dedicated to delivering results, drawing from her own experiences of overcoming corporate burnout, overwhelm, and a lack of direction. She turned this all around, and created a way forward that brought the balance that she needed to thrive no matter what life threw at her. Resilience and a proactive approach to mental wellbeing is at the core of all of her work which is predominantly aimed at helping leaders and their teams refocus, regroup and rapidly adjust to change. With a background in pharmaceutical leadership and expertise across various sectors, she offers coaching and leadership programs tailored to individual and organisational needs.

When Jo isn’t transforming company cultures, you’ll find her managing her 3 teenage girls’ busy social calendars. She’s a dab hand in the kitchen and true to form, loves to keep her food real. And if she isn’t doing either of those you will find her out in nature walking her dog or lifting a barbell in the gym.

Find out more about Jo here: https://jocowlin.com/

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jo-cowlin/

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