Coaching Yourself to Leadership: Five Key Strategies for Becoming an Integrated Leader
by Ginny O'Brien
Mentors: A Critical Alliance
One of the most critical alliances you can form is with a senior manager who is willing to mentor you. Research indicates mentoring is a truly powerful way to develop leadership ability. When it comes to women’s leadership, a lack of mentors has been one of the barriers that has held women back in the past. Mentors are role models who offer the wisdom of their experience. A mentor provides valuable feedback that can help you navigate turbulent political organizational waters, gain entry to key people, and smooth out your career climb.
While researching my 1998 book, Success on Our Own Terms, I discovered that 44 out of the 45 women managers and executives from Fortune 500 companies who I interviewed had mentors who ...
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