Accelerating Your Career

Resources to ensure you can build networks and thrive both personally and professionally.

• Article: Keeping Your Career on Track – a Model for Career Success by Roxanne Hobbs, ECC
• Checklist: Setting yourself up for the future by Michelle Smith, ECC
• Article: How to Juggle Your Job, Career and Personal Fitness by Kirsty McWilliam, ECC
• Article: What is Your Ikiagi (Reason for Being)? by EmeraldWorks
• Book: Act like a leader, think like a leader by Herminia Ibarra
• Book Review: Herminia Ibarra Act like a leader, think like a leader, review by Karen Falcocchio, ECC
• Exercise: Preparing for Career Development Conversations – Your Strengths, ECC
• Podcast: Know Your Strengths, Own Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham
• Book: Who is in your Personal Boardroom by Zella King and Amanda Scott
• Article: How to Become Your Own Career Coach by Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis
• Article: How to get a sponsor and the impact of sponsorship by Mayur Gupta
• Article: How To Get A Sponsor, Be A Sponsor, And Make The Most Of The Relationship by Adam Bryant
• Article: A Lack of Sponsorship Is Keeping Women from Advancing into Leadership by Herminia Ibarra, HBR
• Article: 20% of White Employees Have Sponsors. Only 5% of Black Employees by Sylvia Ann Hewlett &  Kennedy Ihezie
• Book: Forget a Mentor, Find a Sponsor: The New Way to Fast-Track Your Career by Sylvia Ann Hewlett (2013)
• Article: How Leaders Create and Use Networks by Herminia Ibarra and Mark Lee