Today I’m reviewing the book: Network Beyond Bias: Making Diversity a Competitive Advantage For Your Career. It’s a book that helps you to understand your professional network through an inclusive lens.
In todays show I discuss several things including:
- The five types of people that you should consider in your professional network
- The importance of your personal narrative
- The reasons how employee resource groups can help you to leverage your professional network and much much more
Here’s some of what I share in the show:
Your Professional Network Influences your Career Outcomes
I explain how the book is concerned with work-based relationships and how they can influence your career:
“An underlying assumption of the book is that your professional network is indicative of your career outcomes. This can be summed up in a term used in the book: “Your network is your net worth”
Why you need CHAMP’s in your Professional Network
I explain how the author recommends that we would all benefit from having particular individuals in our professional network:
“I want to draw attention to.. the five types of people the author recommends which are Customer, Hire, Associate, Mentor and Protege. The acronym used is CHAMP. A whole section of the book is dedicated to exploring this. And I think it’s important because it moves beyond the myth that everyone in your social network plays an identical role”
The Importance of Your Personal Narrative
I discuss how a big takeaway from the book was the importance of cultivating a personal narrative and reflecting on individual experience:
“The author led by example by sharing some really interesting personal anecdotes about coming out as a bisexual woman in the workplace and how others acted as role models. This suggests to me that even though this book appears to be about managing relationships with others. A lot of work is also required to manage our relationships with ourselves”
Show Notes
Network Beyond Bias: Making Diversity a Competitive Advantage for Your Career
Jennifer Brown: Inclusion, Allies & The Will to Change
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