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Be an Advocate for Yourself :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Mentoring is defined as career advice and guidance and sponsorship is advocacy. Usually sponsors have more senior positions than mentors, and it is their responsibility to advocate for an individual and pull them up the ranks to a top level position in the company. Communicate your intention to advance your career.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2019

Leading Blog

L EADERSHIP development is a lifelong process. It’s like having a mentor guide your journey. Drawing on her twenty-year career as an advisor to the C-Suite, Davey shares real-world examples and practical tools you and your team can use to handle even the most contentious conflicts as allies?instead instead of adversaries.

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Don't Let Your Career "Just Happen"

Harvard Business Review

In others, they lack the critical experiences or skills required to take the next step, such as an international assignment, high-risk project, or major P&L responsibility. But we also found that these traits are not synonymous with proactive career management. And they need to do so early in their careers.

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Tell Me Something I Don't Know About Women in the Workplace

Harvard Business Review

We talked to 24 current and former not-white-male CEOs , who spoke candidly about what they faced as they built their careers and how they developed inclusive organizations. And we''ve got advice about how to sell your ideas to women , in a world where there are growing numbers of women with P&L power.

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