Owning your career | Advice from monday.com’s Chief People Officer

Shiran, this is so exciting. You are one of the most powerful women I know.

I really don't. I say it to a lot of the people I have in the interview booth because I look for the powerful women. You have done something incredible in your career. You have led the legal team. You've taken over the people team. You are now Chief of Legal and People.

Okay. And just to quickly talk about the Build Your Brand program. It's something that's very close to my heart. Just for the listeners to know what we're here for, I think that a lot of people, women especially and people of diversity, struggle to showcase their success at work and there are significant promotion disparities for women and people of color and that's what the data is showing us. I think also it's very hard for women and people of color to find sponsorship at work. And often in our careers, we don't realize how important sponsorship is going to be and developing those relationships is going to be until it's pretty far down the line. And so this program is about understanding how we can help empower women at work to find their voice and showcase their success without feeling like they're bragging and how to teach them how to invest in relationships and how to take ownership of finding sponsors at work. And before I get started on the questions, it's very important for me to say that this program is about enabling women. It is not about saying that anyone is the problem except for each and every one of us who needs to take ownership of these things and learn how to promote ourselves in order to get promoted at work. And I've obviously had a lot of success using Monday to get promoted. So, that's a nice bridge. And now I'd like to ask you, tell me one fun fact about yourself before we get started that nobody knows.

I seen you baking on the Zoom call.

Oh, that's a good one.

Me neither. And also, I have no time.

Okay. All right. That's a good fact. Now I feel normal.

That's right. So talk to me about your success at work. What are three successful behaviors that have helped you get to where you are? Let's start with the first one.

Wow. There were two ones in there. There was the empathy and there was the listening.

Yes. That is one thing that our leadership does so well is getting in the room and listening. And I think that's a great answer. Very powerful. And now just a quick question about the challenges. I think you know and maybe you could tell me if you agree with me or not. In many scenarios your manager has like no idea of even 50% what you're doing at work.

Yeah. It's an understatement. Yeah. So I think you know as well as I do that even if you're working very hard and you're doing great things, if your manager doesn't know about it, you're not going to leverage that into a promotion and to moving forward. And often if you're not taking credit for your achievements, somebody else is when you're not there. So, what advice would you give to women who work very very hard and feel like they are not seen at work?

Absolutely. Another one of the things I love about our journey as a company is the way that we celebrate success. I think it is so motivating. Obviously, it makes it easier for us because we live inside of Monday. And it's very easy to build your work into reporting that you can showcase for your manager. And I think it's been one of our growth engines that we're able to use to motivate people. I don't know if you know, you know, like celebrating success.

Yes. Sky's the limit.

Exactly. Exactly. No such thing. Wow. Shiran, it has been a joy to have you here. Thank you so much for joining me.

Of course. I'll see you at the next Build Your Brand workshop coming soon to a city near you.