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I'm a young female leader and nobody takes me serious in the team. What do I do wrong?

I would start with reframing the question. Focus on how do I do things differently.

You need to understand for yourself what do you want to do, and how do you want to be as a leader. It's not always that people are not taking you serious. Maybe they just see that you're not confident with yourself, or you assume they're not taking you serious, but they do if you're confident with yourself.

For you and your confidence it's very, very important that you don't measure yourself on other people's feedback. I know it's helpful as a young person to get feedback, but build out an understanding for yourself, where you want to be and how you get there. And over time with the learning mindsets, you will get to a place where you feel confident. You are always in the mix between different perspectives, different interests, the interest of the organization, the interest of your team members. Look into good leaders you have seen and then replicate what they are doing. But really focus on yourself and look into how can you go deeper and understand what you can do differently rather than what you do wrong.

What you do wrong is the wrong starting point.

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