234. Leverage Your Strategic Visibility at Work

In this episode, Sue Barber explains how to turn overlooked problems, gaps, and high-pressure moments into visible leadership moments.

She focuses on five behaviors that help you connect your work to business outcomes, communicate strategically, and make your impact easier for leadership to see.

Key Takeaways

• Opportunities are often the best chances to stand out inside an organization.
• Common workplace issues like process gaps, broken team dynamics, avoided conversations, and failing plans can become visibility opportunities when you step in and improve them.
• Crisis situations, implementation issues, and plant-level problems are examples of moments that can demonstrate thought leadership and calm problem-solving.
• Don’t assume someone else will handle the issue, since that often leaves the problem unresolved and your contribution invisible.
• She outlines five behaviors for strategic visibility:
  • connect your work to business outcomes
  • communicate strategic thinking
  • build cross-functional awareness
  • make leadership decisions understandable
  • create confidence through consistent communication
• Leadership teams cannot see your value unless you make your thinking, decisions, and results observable.
• Reflect on what is holding you back and intentionally move toward greater visibility.

Connect with Susan M. Barber

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You can connect with Susan M. Barber for coaching, leadership development, speaking engagements, and visibility strategy work focused on helping leaders become more influential, trusted, and impactful inside organizations. Check out my books, The Visibility Factor and Your Journey to Visibility Workbook!

https://susanmbarber.com

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