Getting promoted to a Director level position in a B2B Business requires the element of building trust.
But, it’s not just about building trust with your team, or your direct manager…
It’s also about building trust cross-functionally.
In this episode of the B2B Leadership podcast, Yaswanth Reddy, Senior Director of Customer Success at Bidgely, and best-selling author and leadership coach Nils Vinje dig into the topic of building trust and much, much, more.
Podcast highlights:
0:27 - Yaswanth's background - Yaswanth explains his role at Bidgely.
2:07 - Better end-user experiences - How can customers have better interactions with utility companies?
3:13 - First leadership position - Yaswanth comes from a consulting background.
5:26 - Establishing trust - Yaswanth explains how building trust helped him get promoted to a director position.
9:23 - Defining cross-functional trust - How does this differ from regular trust and what are the best practices?
12:20 - The superpower of asking "why?" - Yaswanth explains what asking "why?" means to him.
16:41 - Defining outcomes - What does it take to define an outcome before jumping into doing the work?
23:15 - A career transition - Yaswanth explains his progression into his director role and why he had to take a step back into an IC role to get there.
31:03 - Yaswanth's advice to himself - What advice would Yaswanth give his younger self?
Connect with Yaswanth Reddy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaswanthreddy/
Learn more about Bidgely at https://www.bidgely.com/
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