Who you know can be just as important as what you know. And nowhere is this truer than in today's workplace where colleagues and mentors often determine who gets noticed and promoted, who finds a new job, and who thrives in the new organization. Connecting with Success lays the groundwork for building a workforce of proactive professionals who take charge of their careers–by building a network of supporters who can open doors to new opportunities, help accelerate their learning and development, improve their job performance, and support them in achieving their goals.
From the savviest veteran to the newest professional, Connecting with Success is every working person's passport to career success. Kathleen Barton shows how strong mentoring and effective networking have boosted the careers of dozens of working professionals at companies as diverse as Intel, the Tom Peters Group, and PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Drawing from her own experiences and her first-person interviews with a diversity of men and women at every level of the organization, Barton brings traditional behind-the-scenes mentoring out of the shadows of the old-guard network and demystifies the process of how to achieve success in today's world of work.
Packed with worksheets, checklists, assessment tools, chapter summaries, and key action lists for each step of the way, this take-charge toolkit can help jump-start the career of anyone who wishes to make his or her mark and build a career that matters.
Kathleen Barton is a professional speaker, trainer, and consultant who heads her own firm, Kathleen Barton & Associates, specializing in personal mission, mentoring and networking, and issues of work/life balance. She has more than 15 years of experience as a training manager, corporate trainer, program manager, and education consultant and for more than four years managed Hewlett-Packard's award-winning mentoring program. Barton is the executive producer of Mentoring That Makes a Difference videotape, and author of Creating Your Personal Mission in Life and The Balancing Act: Managing Work & Life. Her work has been featured in HR News and Training Magazine.
