Unlabeled Leadership

160: Ginny Clarke Encourages Fundamental Listening

Jan 19, 2024

Ginny Clarke, conscious leadership expert, discusses the importance of knowing what you want for personal and professional fulfillment, quality feedback in employee management, and the power of empathy and caring as a leader

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Quick takeaways

Clear communication about your desires is important in the workplace.

Providing feedback with compassion and genuine concern creates a supportive environment for growth.

Deep dives

The Power of Expressing What You Want

Jenny Clark shares a powerful lesson she learned from her father about the importance of telling people what you want. In her early career, when she was feeling frustrated and unsure about her next steps, her father advised her to be bold and express her desires to her manager. She took his advice and communicated her interest in exploring a different role within the company. This led to a new opportunity and a shift in the direction of her career. Jenny emphasizes the significance of not assuming that others know what you want and highlights the value of clear communication in the workplace.

Introduction

2min

The Influence of Jenny's Father on Her Career

3min

Knowing What You Want

9min

Importance of Quality Feedback and Empathy in Employee Management

4min

The Power of Feedback, Caring, and Leadership

6min

I invite guests to share personal stories about acts of leadership that help shape their lives. In Episode 160, Ginny talks about advice from her father, provides performance feedback to team members at Google, and advises us about making needs explicit.

Prologue

Ginny is a conscious leadership expert with more than three decades of experience in executive recruiting, talent management, and commercial real estate. She is passionate about helping individuals and organizations build strong cultures rooted in conscious choices and personal accountability.

Ginny authored Career Mapping: Charting Your Course in the New World of Work. She hosts the Fifth Dimensional Leadership podcast. She holds an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and a BA in French and Linguistics from the University of California at Davis.

01:32 Part 1: What Do You Want?

13:44 Part 2: Quality Feedback Involves Inquiring, Listening, and Caring

18:50 Part 3: Activate the Good in Others

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Robynne Orr is the opening voice narrator. To learn more about her amazing storytelling capabilities, visit Robynne’s website, R.ORR.

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Episode links

Jenny’s LinkedIn Profile, website, blog, YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram

Jenny’s book: Career Mapping, Charting Your Course In The New World Of Work

Sample of some of Jenny’s videos: Find Your Voice, Rethinking Your Job Search, Becoming Your Own Compass

Gary DePaul’s website

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