RecruitTheBest Daily Digest- How To Overcome Exclusion

Playing the game with unwritten rules means forming relationships with the right people at the right time.’

Knowing who the power players are in your organization is vital to your professional success. Nurture those relationships over time because they will become essential to your career advancement.’

Use your voice to tell other people what you want so they have the opportunity to help you achieve your goals.’

Preparing yourself means positioning yourself for the best career outcomes by letting others in positions of leadership and power in your organization know about your aspirations.’

You need to ensure that your reputation is that of someone who brings value to your organization.’

Whenever you are preparing to speak to individuals about yourself and your career or when you are just giving them the chance to get to know you, do your homework as early as possible. Always know as much as possible in advance about anyone you are going to talk with about your career, but also come prepared with answers about … your goals.’

Always make sure that your development plan is tied to the business outcomes of your organization. They should always be measurable for the current year.’

‘If you wait for permission to have discussions about your career or until the designated time when your organization has such discussions with their employees, it will be too late. Your career growth and development is not a once-a-year conversation, whether you are speaking to your direct managers or others.’

To achieve your goals, you have to know when you can completely be authentic, when you can be somewhat authentic, and when you cannot be authentic at all.’

The network that you develop through building meaningful relationships is one of the most powerful tools you will have in your career.’

A sponsorship relationship takes time and is built on both your actions and theirs.’

‘What are you known for in your organization?’

Source:

Francine Parham (2022). Please Sit Over: How to Manage Power, Overcome Exclusion, and Succeed as a Black Women at Work

Real Leaders Never Stop Moving Forward

‘If you live in the past, you’ll never improve your future. The best lessons in life are the ones you pay for.’

‘If your life isn’t growing and improving, something is wrong.’

‘Facing the fear is always a faster way to get where you’re trying to go than sticking with what is familiar.’

‘Beware of who you allow to connect to you … who we connect with in life can make or break us.’

We can’t change the world for all of them, but we can change the world for one of them, and that’s powerful.’

‘Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.’

It is not your past decisions that define you, it is the next one.’

‘If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you. Swim harder.

‘You aren’t successful unless you take others with you.’

‘You are who you hang out with.’

Great leaders influence; bad leaders rule.’

Source:

Walter Bond (2019). Swim! How a Shark, a Suckerfish, and a Parasite Teach You Leadership, Mentoring, & Next Level Success