Strategic Relationships at Work: Creating Your Circle of Mentors, Sponsors, and Peers for Success in Business and Life
- 3h 54m
- Kathy E. Kram, Wendy M. Murphy
- McGraw-Hill
- 2014
With job mobility increasing, globalization expanding, and technology advancing, you need more than a steady job and a solid network to keep your career on track. You need mentors--to learn and to grow--whether you're just starting out, are firmly established, or at the top of your profession. Everyone has something to learn, and everyone has something to teach.
Introducing Strategic Relationships at Work:
The first comprehensive mentoring guide written specifically for 21st-century career building, this entrepreneurial approach to work relationships addresses the key issues of our time:
- Job Mobility: How to make personal connections you can transfer from job to job
- Globalization: What you can learn from new mentors in a larger global context
- Technology: How to engage with the latest advances in social media and technology
- Pace of Change: What you can do to keep up--with a little help from your friends
Using simple tools and proven strategies, this essential guide shows you how to leverage the relationships you already have to map out a new developmental network that grows with your career. You'll learn the secrets of companies with excellent developmental cultures, including IBM, Procter & Gamble, Sodexo, and KPMG. You'll discover the most effective ways to develop new talent in your workplace through formal programs that leverage mentors, sponsors, coaches, reverse mentors, and mentoring circles. You'll learn how leaders create work cultures where both formal and informal mentoring thrive. And you'll find handy charts and checklists to assess your work, your relationships, and your career path.
About the Authors
Wendy C. M. Murphy, PhD, is Associate Professor of Management at Babson College. She also serves as the Coordinator for the Mentoring Programs through the Center for Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership (CWEL). Her research appears in a variety of journals.
Kathy E. Kram, PhD, is the Richard C. Shipley Professor in Management at the Boston University School of Management. She is also the author of the book Mentoring at Work and the coeditor of The Handbook of Mentoring at Work,, and she has published in a wide range of journals.
In this Book
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Strategic Relationships at Work—Creating Your Circle of Mentors, Sponsors, and Peers for Success in Business and Life
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Introduction—What are Strategic Relationships?
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Why Relationships Matter
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Map Your Developmental Network
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Analyze Your Developmental Network
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Taking an Entrepreneurial Approach to Relationships
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Formal Programs for Professional Development
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Mentoring Alternatives: Sponsors, Coaches, Reverse Mentors, and Mentoring Circles
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Creating and Sustaining a Developmental Culture
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Making the Most of Relationships with Peers
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Challenges and Opportunities: Diversity, Technology, and Change
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Tor-mentors: When Relationships Are Problematic
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Everyone Should Build Developmental Networks
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Conclusion—Strategic Relationships at Work and Beyond
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Recommended Reading
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Notes
