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Executive Presence Training

Career Advancement

For example, a multi-billion-dollar biotechnology company recently contacted me for a training on executive presence to help newly minted high-potential mid-level managers reach the next level of leadership. They gained the confidence to seize the reins in their careers. Here’s the program and what the audience learned.

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Joining Boards: It's Not Just Who You Know That Matters

Harvard Business Review

For many, a corporate directorship is a career capstone. And 43% cited technology expertise, HR-talent management, international-global expertise, and succession planning as the skills missing most on their boards. pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences, health care equipment and services); Industrials (e.g.,

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Get Your Passion Project Moving Without Quitting Your Day Job

Harvard Business Review

Your timeline, she says, should include clearly defined savings targets for each month or quarter and — if necessary — a plan for raising money from investors. How to Stay Stuck in the Wrong Career. “But if you’ve planned your transition well, you’re not taking a heedless risk.”

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. Uzzi and another colleague, Jarrett Spiro, also discovered that this pattern held across sectors as disparate as the Broadway mu­sical industry and biotechnology. There’s no other way to put it. That makes reaching out harder.

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Case Study: Is a Promotion Worth Hiding Who You Are?

Harvard Business Review

” Hanguk was a large, fast-growing company with diversified interests spanning electronics, biotechnology, shipping, construction, and chemicals. He’d always pushed Mark to advance in his career, and this was an internal promotion, on a three-year contract, so they’d still be working for the same company.