I Wish I'd Known This
6 Career-Accelerating Secrets for Women Leaders
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About this book
Uncover the six blind spots that derail women's career paths and learn strategies to effectively overcome them for an impactful, sustainable career. Professional women are subject to blind spots-obstacles that can minimize career potential, impact, or advancement. Some women end up drifting instead of driving through their careers, going it alone instead of building a posse, and leaving their reputationality (that special something we are known for) to chance. Authors and executive coaches Brenda Wensil and Kathryn Heath have spent decades coaching more than 800 women and working with women executives, middle managers, and professionals across industries and age groups. In this book, they outline six challenges women commonly face on their professional journeys and map a way to accelerate through them for higher-impact careers. Readers will learn how to Set a vision, strategy, and plan for their careers
Learn who they are, what they offer, and how to tell their stories
Seek and act on feedback to guide their paths
Prepare and practice for the best outcomes
Enlist help and support from others Effective women leaders inspire innovation, sustain profitability, manage risk, and create environments for inclusion and diversity to increase. Chock full of strategies, stories, and practical skills, this book will hasten a woman's progress and impact as a professional woman and liberate her to excel in her career on her own terms.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: Broom on Fire
- Chapter One: Career Drift You Need a Vision, Strategies, and a Plan
- Chapter Two: Lack of Self-Awareness Know Who You Are and How You Land with Others
- Chapter Three: Vague Reputationality Get Known for Something and Tell Your Story
- Chapter Four: Operating on Autopilot Install a Career GPS
- Chapter Five: Missing the Point of Preparation Be Strategic about the Outcome You Want
- Chapter Six: Trying to Go It Alone Assemble a Posse
- Chapter Seven: Before We Go The Deliberate Career
- Conclusion: Light Your Own Broom
- Discussion Guide
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- About the Authors
- About Bravanti