How to find the person who can help you get ahead at work | Carla Harris
TED Business
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4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
You know you need a mentor to advance your career, but have you ever considered who your sponsor is? Carla Harris, vice chairman at Morgan Stanley, explains the crucial importance of identifying a person who will speak on your behalf in the top-level, closed-door meetings you're not invited to (yet). Learn why your pool of potential sponsors is bigger than you might think—and how to think carefully about how to present yourself to them.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. |
| 0:02.0 | In a perfect world, merit would be all that mattered. |
| 0:11.0 | Your hard work and your skills would propel you to the top of |
| 0:15.1 | your organization and the top of your field with no other assets needed. But we all know in the real world there are lots of other things that have to happen to help you |
| 0:25.9 | progress in your role and fully pursue your passion. And what's one of the first things? You have to get noticed by the people in power. |
| 0:35.0 | Welcome to the TED Business Podcast. I'm your host, Madupa Akenola, |
| 0:41.0 | Associate Professor of Management at Columbia Business School, and Director of the |
| 0:45.9 | Sanford C. Bernstein and Company Center for Leadership and Ethics. |
| 0:50.9 | Today's talk by Carla Harris is about a crucial ingredient in career advancement |
| 0:56.0 | that doesn't get noticed much. Sponsorship, which means how do we ensure that the right people will speak up for you exactly |
| 1:07.7 | when you need them to? |
| 1:09.2 | Carla Harris is Vice Chairman of Wealth Management and Senior Client Advisor at Morgan Stanley. |
| 1:16.3 | She is one of the most senior African American women on Wall Street, but she's also a writer and |
| 1:20.9 | a gospel recording artist. |
| 1:23.8 | In this talk from Ted Women in 2018, |
| 1:27.2 | Carla pulls back the curtain on the conversations |
| 1:30.2 | that happen about job performance behind closed doors. |
| 1:34.8 | As you listen, pay very close attention to how she defines sponsorship |
| 1:40.0 | and differentiates it from mentorship, because it turns out they are not the same. |
| 1:47.0 | Hey, it's Adam Grant, host of the TED Podcast to WorkLife. |
| 1:51.0 | This episode has been brought to you by Destination Canada. |
| 1:54.0 | Stay tuned for a story about Cohen, a gifted storyteller dedicated to preserving cultural legacies. |
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