The Chief Psychology Officer
Exploring the topics of workplace psychology and conscious leadership. Amanda is an award-winning Chartered Psychologist, with vast amounts of experience in talent strategy, resilience, facilitation, development and executive coaching. A Fellow of the Association for Business Psychology and an Associate Fellow of the Division of Occupational Psychology within the British Psychological Society (BPS), Amanda is also a Chartered Scientist. Amanda is a founder CEO of Zircon and is an expert in leadership in crisis, resilience and has led a number of research papers on the subject; most recently Psychological Safety in 2022 and Resilience and Decision-making in 2020. With over 20 years’ experience on aligning businesses’ talent strategy with their organizational strategy and objectives, Amanda has had a significant impact on the talent and HR strategies of many global organizations, and on the lives of many significant and prominent leaders in industry. Dr Amanda Potter can be contacted on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/amandapotterzircon www.theCPO.co.uk
The Chief Psychology Officer
Ep46 Creating your Elevator Pitch
What would you say about yourself if introduced to a new potential employer or client for the first time? What would be the most important things you would like to share about yourself? In this episode of the CPO we look at Elevator Pitches, are they useful, how do we prepare one and what is important to share?
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For more information about the BeTalent Strengths questionnaire mentioned in this podcast please contact the BeTalent team via email: Hello@BeTalent.com.
Timestamps
Creating your Elevator Pitch
· 00:00 – Introduction to the Elevator Pitch
· 01:04 – It feels like the first time…
· 01:53 – 30-60 seconds to sell yourself
· 02:21 – Crosby or Otis?
· 03:32 – A ride on the gauche train
· 04:00 – (not) the key to success
· 04:52 – Filling the void, not touching it
· 05:38 – A Proustian moment
Molding the clay
· 06:07 – Anytime, anywhere!
· 08:06 – I have no time for this…
· 09:09 – Great for products, not for people
· 10:01 – The mark of a true warrior, is humility
· 11:04 – Help me, to help you!
· 11:52 – Let’s set the scene…
· 12:34 – What is your role?
· 13:15 – What is the problem you’re solving?
· 13:46 – What’s the solution?
· 14:12 – What’s next?
Practice makes perfect
· 14:48 – Great, now let’s go again!
· 16:12 – The Amanda Potter Story
· 17:10 – A big difference…
· 18:28 – The clock is ticking…
· 19:44 – Contextualizing
· 21:00 – One more time
· 22:51 – In summary…
· 23:42 – Energize!
· 24:11 – It’s not just what you say; it’s how you say it.
· 24:58 – Feedback
· 25:15 – The end.
Episodes are available here https://www.thecpo.co.uk/
To follow Zircon on LinkedIn and to be first to hear about podcasts, publications and news, please like and follow us: https://www.linkedin.com/company/zircon-consulting-ltd/
To access the research white papers mentioned in this and other podcasts, please go to: https://zircon-mc.co.uk/zircon-white-papers.php
For more information about the BeTalent suite of tools and platform please contact: TheCPO@zircon-mc.co.uk