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Failing Forward
Turning Mistakes into Stepping-Stones for Success
By John C. Maxwell
Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville 2000
ISBN 0-7852-7430-8 hard cover
ISBN 0-7852-6815-4 paperback
209 pages
The Big Idea
Failing forward tells you how to look at life’s setbacks and learn from your mistakes. If you haven’t failed at anything, it means you haven’t really taken a risk at anything. Failures are only as bad as you perceive them to be. Life is much better when you live, and try, and fail. Living requires failing every now and then. The basic steps to moving on and failing forward are:
Realize there is one major difference between average people and achievers. The difference is in how they respond to failure
Learn a new definition of failure.
Remove the “you” from failure. Don’t take it personally.
Take action and reduce your fear.
Change your response to failure by accepting responsibility.
Don’t let failure from outside get inside you.
Say good-bye to yesterday.
Change yourself, and your world changes.
Get over yourself and start giving yourself.
Find the benefit in every bad experience.
If at first you do succeed, try something harder.
Learn from a bad experience and make it a good experience.
http://www.bizsum.com/2page/b_FailingForward.php
That conference 2015 fear and self-loathing in itAngela Dugan
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Learning to understand our fellow members and leaders is one of the best things we can do in Toastmasters to maintain club membership. This presentation speaks to one of the most effective ways to accomplish that goal. While this deck was prepared for Toastmasters, it may be applied in many other business and personal environments.
This deck was presented at the Toastmaster's District 45 Fall Conference on Prince Edward Island, Canada on October 25, 2014.
Since the presentation, I noticed that TM has updated the survey with 2014 data. It can be found here: http://bit.ly/1FwRRoE
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http://www.radicalcandor.com/
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Book Summary Preview :
Failing Forward
Turning Mistakes into Stepping-Stones for Success
By John C. Maxwell
Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville 2000
ISBN 0-7852-7430-8 hard cover
ISBN 0-7852-6815-4 paperback
209 pages
The Big Idea
Failing forward tells you how to look at life’s setbacks and learn from your mistakes. If you haven’t failed at anything, it means you haven’t really taken a risk at anything. Failures are only as bad as you perceive them to be. Life is much better when you live, and try, and fail. Living requires failing every now and then. The basic steps to moving on and failing forward are:
Realize there is one major difference between average people and achievers. The difference is in how they respond to failure
Learn a new definition of failure.
Remove the “you” from failure. Don’t take it personally.
Take action and reduce your fear.
Change your response to failure by accepting responsibility.
Don’t let failure from outside get inside you.
Say good-bye to yesterday.
Change yourself, and your world changes.
Get over yourself and start giving yourself.
Find the benefit in every bad experience.
If at first you do succeed, try something harder.
Learn from a bad experience and make it a good experience.
http://www.bizsum.com/2page/b_FailingForward.php
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How many times do you find yourself paralyzed with fear at the thought of raising your voice and speaking your opinions out loud, whether at a conference, in a business meeting, or even just from your cubicle chair? Do you cringe at the idea of asking for help when you get stuck on a challenging problem? Many of us do, and it can be crippling. Imposter syndrome is alive and well in IT, and the fear and self-doubt that we all experience can be a major blocker to progress and success. Not just in our personal lives, but on our software teams, and ultimately in our careers. As a fellow “imposter”, I’d like to share some of my own adventures in embracing my fears, learning to ask for help, and the sometimes unexpected and very positive outcomes that followed taking the leap.
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This deck was presented at the Toastmaster's District 45 Fall Conference on Prince Edward Island, Canada on October 25, 2014.
Since the presentation, I noticed that TM has updated the survey with 2014 data. It can be found here: http://bit.ly/1FwRRoE
This presentation introduces the basics of digital identity / online presence for high school age students through young professionals. It's a great primer before a LinkedIn workshop or class.
Goal Summit 2016: How to be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity or Cr...BetterWorks
Guidance — praise and criticism — is the key to being a good boss and building a great team. This interactive session from Goal Summit 2016 will help you understand why feedback is so hard, and how you can get better at giving it, getting it and encouraging it on your team. Presented by author and advisor to Twitter and Dropbox, Kim Malone Scott.
Radical Candor: No BS, helping your team create better work.Digital Surgeons
Inspired by Google's Kim Scott, the Digital Surgeons team adapts Radical Candor to fit with their agile & innovative approach to designing the future of experiences.
Source: Candor, Inc.
http://www.radicalcandor.com/
Respect in the Workplace Training PowerPoint for Respectful Workplaces Education and Awareness available in DVD, Video, Online Web Course, and PowerPoint Sound. We cover ten common problems and issues associated with respect in the workplace and this training covers each topic intensely and without fluff or filler. Every word is this program is chose for a precise purpose. The 33 minutes of respect in the workplace training covers what five hours of movie videos would require. That's because the respect video, respect DVD, respect Flash Movie, respect online web course, and the Respect PowerPoint all contain no fluff, only solid content. You also receive a non-sound format of the course with trainer notes.
A 20-minute talk on overcoming impostor syndrome -- the persistent feeling that you're not qualified to be doing whatever you're doing, and everyone's going to find out you're a fake any minute now.
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Self Promotion for Women
1. ADVANCE YOUR CAREER
PATH THROUGH EFFECTIVE
SELF-PROMOTION
Melanie Nelson, PhD
MRN Consulting
Monday, June 1, 2015
2. It Is NOT Your Fault
You are “bad at self-promotion” because you’ve been
trained to be bad at it
We are socialized from a young age to be self-effacing
Women and girls receive negative feedback if we self-
promote like the guys do… So we don’t do it
Story from “Talking from 9 to 5” by Deborah Tannen
Screenshot of letter from:
http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20107010,00.html
3. Implicit Bias and Getting Ahead
This is an example of implicit bias
Implicit biases are “baked into” our systems and culture
Both men and women have them, and women “enforce” cultural
expectations for other women just as much as men do.
Can keep you from succeeding, while making you feel like it is your
own fault!
In his book “The Hidden Brain,” Shankar Vedantam likens implicit bias
to the ocean current:
“Those who travel with the current will always feel they are good
swimmers; those who swim against the current may never realize they
are better swimmers than they imagine.”
See What Works for Women at Work, by Joan Williams
and Rachel Dempsey, for more on implicit biases
4. Walking the Tightrope
Women are penalized for being “too masculine”
Self-promoting, aggressively negotiating in our own self-
interest, etc.
“Doesn’t play well with others” “Difficult to work with”
Women are also penalized for being “too feminine”
Self-effacing, nurturing, etc.
Judged to be less competent
than equally qualified men
5. Women Aren’t All The Same
Because of racism, many people choose to leave volunteer
work that links them to a specific race off of their resumes
This hides some valuable accomplishments and experience
Women of color report more issues with implicit bias than
white women do, and report more openly disrespectful
comments
Cartoon by Liza Donnelly
6. Women Aren’t All the Same
Some backgrounds emphasize humility more than others
Even if you can balance on the tightrope, it feels wrong to self-
promote
Studies find more latitude for assertiveness in Black women… as long
as it is in service of the group, not themselves.
Latinas report being assigned more “office housework” and having
junior colleagues treat them like a mother
Viewed as caring, but not promotable
Asian-American women face the “model minority” stereotype
Seen as competent and hard-working, but not as leaders
Asian women often face particular challenges around assertiveness
When they are assertive, can trigger strong negative stereotypes
From: What Works for Women at Work,
by Joan Williams and Rachel Dempsey
7. What to Do?
We need to self-promote
To get jobs
To get promotions and raises
To get the recognition we deserve
To have the impact we desire
So we need to find ways to do so effectively without
triggering negative biases.
The ideas in this presentation are given as ideas for navigating the existing
bias, not as prescriptions for what women “should” do. In the world we
“should” be living in, women could do whatever was natural and be judged
in the same way as men are!
8. The Passive Method
Let the facts be known, and let them speak for themselves
Ideas for using this method
Display awards
If you’re out of office to be on a study section, or get an
award- put the reason on your calendar
Make your resume available
Add detail to your LinkedIn page
Consider a professional blog
9. The Buddy System
Form a group of friends/colleagues who promote each
other
Ideas for using this method
Team up in meetings to call attention to misattribution
of ideas
If you choose to use social media in professional
capacity, find group to cross-promote each others’ work
Make sure your friends and
family know what you do!
10. Just the Facts, Ma’am
Find ways to present the facts about your achievements
when it will be seen as an “update,” not “self-promotion”
Ideas for using this method
Get in the habit of providing your boss
with regular updates. (Check for their
preferred method!)
Keep an accomplishments folder so that
you have the facts on hand at review time
Don’t lead with your accomplishments.
Let them come out over the course of
conversation
11. Use Networking
A little bit of self-promotion is expected at networking
events- i.e., your elevator speech
Since it is expected, you can do it without triggering the
negative bias
Helpful for more than just job searches! Your external
reputation will influence internal promotion decisions,
too.
Ideas for using this method
Attend networking events when you can
To network without feeling smarmy: look for ways to
help the other person
12. Balance Harder
You can “get away” with more masculine coded behavior if
it is balanced with more feminine coded behavior
Ideas for using this method
Adopt a “social” speaking style when talking about your
own accomplishments
Friendly face, less assertive tone of voice, moderate hand
gestures
i.e., play up “likeability”
Pair discussion of accomplishments with more feminine
coded topics (e.g., asking about the other person)
Make primary focus the team, instead of yourself
13. Build Your Toolkit
Don’t hide your accomplishments from yourself!
Know what you’re good at
What’s your “value proposition”?
Learn what sort of networking works for you
Some people prefer big groups, some
prefer 1:1
14. Get Past the “Icky” Feeling
Networking and self-promotion are essential for your
career.
Assertiveness is more accepted in women when it is in
support of others… you may feel more comfortable with it
in this context, too
Networking: focus on how you can help
Self-promotion: focus on the good your work does
Practice away the awkwardness
Practice your “pitch”
Find “friendly” networking events to start at
15. Closing Thoughts: We Are Not Broken
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic’s research indicates that
society over-rewards confidence and under-rewards
competence
What we really need is competence, but we tend to hire
and promote on confidence
The power of humility: people who are seen to be more
competent than they think they are garner more respect
and get more done
Work to find ways to succeed in the world as it is, but take
heart from the idea that if the world changed to be more
like us, it might be a better place!
17. Finding Me Later
Website: http://beyondmanaging.com/
I write about management of projects and people, with a
science and technology focus.
On Twitter: @melanie_nelson
I tweet about the same things. Plus cute animal pictures.
Upcoming online class: Get More Done- learn the
fundamentals of project management so that you can get
more done.
Registration closes June 5. There are <5 seats left.
http://beyondmanaging.com/get-more-done-online-
course/
18. References and Resources
What Works for Women at Work, by Joan C. Williams and Rachel Dempsey
Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America, by Charisse Jones
and Kumea Shorter-Gooden
Talking from 9 to 5, by Deborah Tannen
Women and the Labyrinth of Leadership, by Alice Eagly and Linda Carli:
http://citt.hccfl.edu/Newsletters/NewsletterID1.pdf
Dr. Chamorro-Premuzic on confidence vs. competence:
https://hbr.org/2014/07/the-dangers-of-confidence/
“Hidden” leadership experiences of people of color:
https://hbr.org/2005/11/leadership-in-your-midst-tapping-the-hidden-
strengths-of-minority-executives/ar/1
Review of Shankar Vedantam’s The Hidden Brain:
http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/04/09/the-hidden-brain-shankar-
vedantam/