Amplify your career (Asli Bilgin, Career & Leadership Talk)

Asli Bilgin

Practice Area LeadCloud & Custom TechnologiesSlalom Consulting

www.slingalibi.com – asli@slingalibi.com – aslib@slalom.com

* Amplify your Career: 10 Step Checklist

*agenda

*Strategize your approach to your career

*Build a powerful ‘favor bank’

*Mobilize your network

*Review winning strategies for managing down, up and around effectively

*Have a fun time living your work

*10 daily tips to amplify your career

*(1) share

*share through social networks

*write, write, write

*publish

*information is no longer power

*ego-less

*(2) mentorship

*your mentor new job

*Two above, two below

*who do you admire? read biographies

*6 degrees of separation

*social networking & organizations

*(3) balance

*work life harmony not balance

*blurred lines

*athletic reset

*Create distinct Windows7/8 profiles

“a woman who

is well

organized has

time to do

everything”

caroline

herrera

*(4) delegate

*ask for help

*create virtual teams

*help others

*give your best ideas to others for execution

*(5) goals

*create measurable activities per goal

*set checkpoints

*assign an accountability partner

Harvard

Business

Journal cites

9/10 CEOs

have written

goals

*(6) connect

*join communities

*build communities

*virtual teams

*social networking

*(7) prioritize

*not everything urgent is important

*schedule meetings with yourself

*be proactive

*triage your mail

It’s not about

learning,

information is

everywhere. It’s

about prioritizing

that information”

Professor Mitch

Resnick, MIT

*(8) humility

*let your actions speak as your words

*broadcast your idea

*let others broadcast you

*humor

*don’t be over modest

*(9) passion

*do what you love

*if you do don’t love what you are doing leave

*one bad apple can spoil a batch

*(10) optimism

*life is either pleasant memories or learning experiences

*stay away from negative energy

*you are average of your 5 closest friends

*consider the value of complaining before you do it

*checklist to amplify

1 of each every day

*(1) share

*(2) mentor

*(3) balance

*(4) delegate

*(5) goals

*(6) connect

*(7) prioritize

*(8) humility

*(9) passion

*(10) optimism

*questions?

*www.slingalibi.com aslib@slalom.com

*APPENDIXES

*2009 Fortune 500 (15 CEOs) - 3%

* Angela F. Braly, WellPoint, Inc. (#33)

* Patricia A. Woertz, Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) (#52)

* Lynn Laverty Elsenhans, Sunoco (#56)

* Indra K. Nooyi, PepsiCo, Inc. (#59)

* Irene B. Rosenfeld, Kraft Foods Inc. (#63)

* Ellen J. Kullman, DuPont (#81)

* Carol M. Meyrowitz, The TJX Companies, Inc. (#132)

* Mary F. Sammons, Rite Aid Corporation (#142)

* Anne M. Mulcahy, Xerox Corporation (#144)

* Brenda C. Barnes, Sara Lee Corporation (#203)

* Andrea Jung, Avon Products, Inc. (#265)

* Susan M. Ivey, Reynolds American, Inc. (#290)

* Laura Sen, BJ's Wholesale Club (#291)

* Carol Bartz, Yahoo! Inc. (#353)

* Christina A. Gold, Western Union Holdings, Inc. (#473)

*Organizations Making a Difference

* Catalyst - http://www.catalyst.org/

* NCWIT - National Center for Women & Information Technology

http://www.ncwit.org/

* GIFTE - Global Institute for Technology and EngineeringDedicated to Technical Women

http://www.gifte.org

* NGCP – National Girls Collaborative Project

http://www.pugetsoundcenter.org/ngcp

* DigiGirlz http://www.microsoft.com/about/diversity/programs/camps.mspx

* NAF – National Academy Foundation http://www.naf.org

* Npower http://www.npower.org

* Year Up http://www.yearup.org/

* OPLITE - Outreach Program for Long Island Technology Education www.cewit.org/oplite

* Women’s Bond Club - http://www.wbcny.com/

*books to read

*Write It Down, Make It Happen: Knowing What You Want And Getting It (Paperback)

*~ Henriette Anne Klauser (Author)

Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Biography An extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America's most famous and admired womenhttp://www.amazon.com/Personal-History-Katharine-Graham/dp/0375701044

Reading this took me to the next level in any major life exercise or experiment

http://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Shrugged-Ayn-Rand/dp/0451191145

*other resources

*WiT organizations

*Anita Borg Institute Through our work every day, the Anita Borg Institute seeks to: increase the impact of women on all aspects of technology, and increase the positive impact of technology on the world’s women.

*Mentorship programs

* Systers - Systers is the world’s largest email community of technical women in computing. It was founded by Anita Borg in 1987 as a small electronic mailing list for women in “systems”. Today, Systers broadly promotes the interests of women in the computing and technology fields. Join Systers

* Mentorship Network for Women, the premier source for mentoring guidance designed exclusively for women. Find your dream mentor or become a trusted advisor, use the Mentorship System to track and achieve career success. Learn more or Sign Up for FREE.

* MentorNet is the award-winning nonprofit e-mentoring network that positively affects the retention and success of those in engineering, science and mathematics, particularly but not exclusively women and others underrepresented in these fields. Founded in 1997, MentorNet provides highly motivated protégés from many of the world's top colleges and universities with positive, one-on-one, email-based mentoring relationships with mentors from industry, government, and higher education. In addition, the MentorNet Community provides opportunities to connect with others from around the world who are interested in diversifying engineering and science. Read more About MentorNet.

*Ask for It!

“Nice girls don’t ask, but smart women do. Ask for It provides the tangible tools and tips you need to get your fair share of the raises, promotions, and perks you’ve earned–and deserve.”

http://www.askforit.org/