Thinking Like the CEO of Thinking Like the CEO of Your Own Career: Your Own Career: Goal-Setting, Advancing and Goal-Setting, Advancing and Avoiding Career Derailers Avoiding Career Derailers 6/27/07 6/27/07 Janet Bickel Career and Leadership Development Coach Faculty Career and Diversity Consultant
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Thinking Like the CEO of Thinking Like the CEO of Your Own Career: Your Own Career:
Goal-Setting, Advancing and Goal-Setting, Advancing and Avoiding Career DerailersAvoiding Career Derailers
6/27/076/27/07
Janet BickelCareer and Leadership Development Coach Faculty Career and Diversity Consultant
Critical Career Knowledge Critical Career Knowledge AreasAreas
• know what (scientific/clinical expertise)
• know why you are doing what you’re doing (goals, values)
Political skillsPolitical skills Harder for women and minorities to acquire:
*less likely to be mentored
*often miss out on “hallway” conversations and golf games
*norms of recognition and achievement sustain men’s drive but not women’s
He’s assertive
He’s authoritative
He’s good at details
He’s open
He follows through
He’s decisive
He’s confident
They’re networking
They’re debating
She’s pushy
She’s bossy
She’s picky
She’s unsure
She doesn’t know when to quit
She’s vindictive
She’s conceited
They’re chitchatting
They’re catfighting
Don’t assume your work speaks for itselfDon’t assume your work speaks for itself• Timidity is like waiting to be asked
on a date
• Keep your boss updated
• Recognition attracts new opportunities
• Articulate how your productivity and success benefit your institution and profession
Negotiation is… Negotiation is… a communication process aimed at
getting what you want at the least cost while also strengthening the relationship.
Negotiation skills include:*thorough preparation*analytic and intuitive listening*identifying common goals
and mutual gains*persuasion*building relationships
Women also tend to:Women also tend to: underestimate their worthunderestimate their worth
too rule-orientedtoo rule-oriented
take disagreements personallytake disagreements personally
fold too readilyfold too readily
when nervous, talk too much or shut downwhen nervous, talk too much or shut down
give in to bullies and “ambushes”give in to bullies and “ambushes”
• Women do not initiate negotiations as frequently as men--or fare as well
• Negotiators take harder line against women, making worse first offersand pressuring women to concede more
• Women often out of the loop when important issues decided
• “Likeability problem”: assertive women are less well-liked
Source: Babcock, Linda. Women don’t ask: negotiation and the gender divide. Princeton U Press, 2003.
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ResilientResilient people: people: Possess the capacity to be robust Possess the capacity to be robust
under conditions of enormous under conditions of enormous stress and changestress and change
Have a big advantage because: Have a big advantage because: ‘‘success’ never been so fragilesuccess’ never been so fragile momentum not the force it was momentum not the force it was getting ‘better’ not enough if also getting ‘better’ not enough if also
need to get ‘different’ need to get ‘different’ must anticipate and adjust to deep must anticipate and adjust to deep
new trends new trends
ResilienceResilience depends on: depends on: cognition: free of denial, arrogance, cognition: free of denial, arrogance,
nostalgia nostalgia
strategies: experimenting with strategies: experimenting with alternatives, alternatives, simultaneous projects, simultaneous projects, building building communitycommunity