Advocating For Yourself And Your Ideas

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5 Days

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Cohort-based Course

Stop getting told what to do. Learn how to advocate for and effectively influence your work and your team's work.

Previously at

Meta
McKinsey & Company
Thumbtack
Instagram
Sequoia Capital

Course overview

Advocate for yourself and your ideas. Manage upwards successfully.

Stop getting told what to do. Learn how to advocate for and effectively influence your work and your team's work. Get your perspectives and ideas heard and resourced. Make decisions that stick. Gain the trust of your executive team.


In Western business culture, leaders are vocal, assertive, and opinionated. As someone rising through the ranks, we’re often praised for being hard-working, modest, and flexible. If you want to be viewed as a leader, it’s important to find and develop your voice and the best ways to get your perspectives heard by your teams and the company. 


As you increase in seniority, it becomes increasingly important to advocate for your perspectives and ideas in addition to your wins and impact. If you want people to follow you, then you must let them know what you value and stand for. For aspiring executives, it is never too early to start getting your ideas heard across the organization. The more people who believe in your ideas and your approaches, the more influence you’ll have at the company. Companies promote people who have influence and can make decisions that stick.


Take this course to make self-advocacy a regular part of your work. Build in systems to broadcast your accomplishments. Dedicate time to relationship building and talking about ideas. These are just as important to becoming a leader as "doing the work".


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Alumni from: Slack, OpenAI, Instacart, Guild Education, SurveyMonkey, Paypal, Braze, Meta, Instagram, Thumbtack, Sequoia-backed Tier I Startups, Google, Capitol One, Figma, Microsoft, and more.


Well-loved and Effective

A version of this course was run on Reforge with 90% promoters for the content and 98% promoters for the instructor.


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This is one of three Maven courses by Yue designed to help women and minority leaders fast-track to the C-suite.


* Mastering Executive Presence & Communication: https://maven.com/yuezhao/execpre

* Chart Your Path to Executive Leadership: https://maven.com/yuezhao/superpowers

* Self-Advocacy and Influencing Upwards: https://maven.com/yuezhao/selfadvocacy


For more, Yue also runs The Uncommon Executive Leadership Launchpad, an 8-week leadership transformation program that helps women and minority leaders fast-track to executive levels. The program covers the topics above and adds additional topics like sponsorship, relationship building, and building sustainability in your career. It also combines curriculum with coaching and community in a way you will not find anywhere else.


Check out the full program here: https://www.yuezhao.coach/accelerate


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Who is this course for

01

You work hard but don't get noticed. Someone else steals the credit for your work or your ideas.

02

You are performing well and get lots of praise. You get more of the same type of work but not stretch projects.

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You want to learn how to get buy-in and resources for your ideas but aren't making progress.

What you’ll get out of this course

How to advocate for your work without bragging

Does it feel like bragging? Does it not feel like a part of getting the work done? Learn how to make "talking about your work" align with your values.

Develop a system to prioritize "talking about your work"

Build a system into your daily work so that you are regularly talking about your accomplishments (and that of your team).

How to get your ideas heard by senior leadership

As you move up, it moves from advocating for your accomplishments to advocating for your ideas. Learn how to go about pitching your ideas to senior leadership.

Turn high performance and strong relationships into getting ahead

Learn a proven method to getting ahead: high performance and strong relationships with your peers and your leaders.

This course includes

4 interactive live sessions

Lifetime access to course materials

5 in-depth lessons

Direct access to instructor

1 projects to apply learning

Guided feedback & reflection

Private community of peers

Course certificate upon completion

Maven Satisfaction Guarantee

This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.

Course syllabus

Week 1

Jan 23—Jan 26

    Day 1: Advocating for your accomplishments

    1 item

    Jan

    23

    Day 1: Self Advocacy & Influencing Upwards with Yue Zhao

    Thu 1/234:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)

    Jan

    23

    Day 1: Bonus Q&A with Yue (Optional)

    Thu 1/235:30 PM—6:30 PM (UTC)
    Optional

Week 2

Jan 27

    Day 2: Advocating for your ideas

    1 item

    Jan

    27

    Optional: Day 2: Bonus: Q&A with Yue (Optional)

    Mon 1/275:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)
    Optional

    Jan

    27

    Day 2: Self-Advocacy & Influencing Upwards with Yue Zhao

    Mon 1/274:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)

Post-course

    How to Build Influence with Influence Mapping

    4 items
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Join an upcoming cohort

Advocating For Yourself And Your Ideas

Feb 2025

$449

Dates

Jan 22—26, 2025

Payment Deadline

Jan 24, 2025
Get reimbursed

Meet your instructor

Yue Zhao

Yue Zhao

Yue is a Chief Product & Technology Officer turned career coach for aspiring executives. Her mission is to help women and minority aspiring executives reach the C-suite. She is a part of Women In Product, AWCC, and Reforge and has coached hundreds of senior leaders since 2016.


Prior, she was the CPO and CTO at Fuzzy Pet Health, PM manager at Meta and Instagram, and first PM at Thumbtack. Outside product, she has dabbled with a failed wine startup, early-stage venture capital in healthcare, and consulting with McKinsey and Company.


Yue has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.S. Biomedical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.


Check out her other Maven Courses (www.maven.com/yuezhao) and The Uncommon Executive Leadership Launchpad (www.yuezhao.coach/accelerate)

Frequently Asked Questions

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Join an upcoming cohort

Advocating For Yourself And Your Ideas

Feb 2025

$449

Dates

Jan 22—26, 2025

Payment Deadline

Jan 24, 2025
Get reimbursed

$449

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