From the course: Lessons in Enlightened Leadership
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Finding your mentors, sponsors, and personal board
From the course: Lessons in Enlightened Leadership
Finding your mentors, sponsors, and personal board
- As you think about sponsorship, mentorship, and personal board, I think they're three different areas that you can think about in terms of how you assemble people around you. So mentorship, there's often programs at companies or people may say, would you like to be my mentor? I've always found formal mentoring programs where they set you up to be not as effective. I think mentorship needs to occur a bit more naturally. But I understand that for some people it can be very hard for it to occur naturally and you need the formal program. Sponsorship is even more powerful in my view than mentorship because sponsorship are when, within your company, people are going out of their way to sponsor and champion you when you're not in the room. So these are the people that are going to talk about you and say, this person is just killing it, they're crushing it, they're exceptional, they should be on your radar, oh I heard about a new opportunity on that team, we should talk to that person. And…
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