398: What You Gain By Sponsoring People, with Julia Taylor Kennedy
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
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🗓️ 4 March 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Julia Taylor Kennedy: Coqual
Julia is Executive Vice President and Director of Publications at the Coqual. She has co-authored Disabilities and Inclusion, Mission Critical: Unlocking the Value of Veterans in the Workforce, and The Power of the Purse: Engaging Women for Healthy Outcomes, on women and health. Coqual recently released a new report, titled, The Sponsor Dividend.
Key Points
- A sponsor actively advocates for the career of their protege.
- If you’re looking for a sponsor, be very clear on where you want to go in your career.
- Sponsors want to be sure they can trust the protege to deliver on the opportunities the sponsor presents.
- Sponsors do better when they have a protege who has complementary skills to their own.
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| 0:00.0 | Get a mentor, mentor others. |
| 0:03.0 | It's a directive I've heard for decades as a strategy for success. |
| 0:07.0 | But what most of us traditionally think of mentoring |
| 0:10.0 | may not be the most helpful focus anymore. |
| 0:13.0 | Today, how to move to sponsorship |
| 0:16.0 | and what it can do to help others and you. |
| 0:19.0 | This is Coaching for Leaders, episode 398. |
| 0:23.0 | Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. |
| 0:28.0 | Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm your |
| 0:37.1 | host Dave Stahoviac. Leaders aren't born, they're made, and this weekly show gives you access to the practical wisdom |
| 0:45.8 | that will empower you to become a better leader. |
| 0:49.2 | You've probably heard the word sponsorship. Over the last few few years it's a word that we're |
| 0:55.1 | hearing more and more in leadership and being able to support so many people in |
| 1:00.7 | the workplace and in their professional careers of getting more effective as so many of us care about in this community. |
| 1:09.0 | And today I am thrilled to be able to welcome an expert who's going to help us to learn and |
| 1:14.7 | discover more about sponsorship. What are some of the first actions we can take? |
| 1:18.4 | And also some of the next steps. I'm thrilled to welcome Julia Taylor Kennedy to the show. |
| 1:24.9 | Julia is a sought-after speaker and thought leader in the diversity and inclusion |
| 1:29.7 | space as the Executive Vice President and Director of Publications at the Center for Talent Innovation, |
| 1:35.0 | she drives cutting edge research into the issues impacting today's professional workforce |
| 1:41.0 | with an eye towards solutions for a more inclusive and equitable |
| 1:45.2 | global workplace and world. She has co-author disabilities and inclusion, |
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