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The accelerated pace of technological change and, most recently, the advent of AI are reshaping jobs and organizations in ways that call for constant career reinvention. So we all need to learn how to get better at making the most of the frequent transitions that will constitute a long working life.
Networking is critical for senior executives who are making job and career transitions, but it’s hard to find advice on how best to manage the process. In this article, the authors — who have decades of experience working with executives during periods of transition — identify six networking hurdles that executives often encounter, and they provide guidance on how to get over them.
Sponsorship is a vital mechanism for advancing the careers of junior employees. But it’s not just a one-way relationship in which everything flows from the sponsor to the sponsee. What sponsees bring to the relationship, in fact, is just as important — if not more important — than what sponsors do. This article describes six of the most important attributes of successful sponsees.
Sponsorship initiatives are increasingly popular today, but few sponsors are given any guidance about how best to work with the people they’ve been asked to work with, and as a result the relationships often don’t develop as productively as they should. Aspiring sponsors need more practical guidance. In this article, drawing on their long experience with sponsorship, the authors describe six important steps all sponsors should take.
Mentorship isn’t enough. To develop productive career relationships, you’ve got to be authentic.
Ingrid Covington meets Professor Herminia Ibarra to talk identity and transition across our working lives.
Powerful sponsors with specialist training and a deep commitment are needed to help propel women into senior roles.
Sponsorship is emerging as a valuable tool for increasing diversity in an organization’s senior ranks. In this piece, Herminia and Nana von Bernuth define a number of dos and don’ts that apply specifically to the use of sponsorship to help the careers of promising employees from under-represented groups, and to boost diversity at the executive level.