Make Your Own Map

Career Success Strategy for Women

This book

• Provides tried-and-tested strategic planning tools and practical exercises, borrowed from successful business practice, to apply to individual career paths • Is written specifically for women, to account for and answer the particular challenges and difficulties that many women face in the workplace and with career planning • Is based on material from the Oxford

University's first leadership programme for women, the Women Transforming Leadership course from Saïd Business School

Description

There's no such thing as a pre-set path to career success. Following the footsteps of others can only get you so far - and for women, there are often additional obstacles. But what if you could design your own path to your career goals? What if you could Make Your Own Map?

Based on material from the popular Women Transforming Leadership course from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, Make Your Own Map will help you develop a resilient and aspirational strategy for your career - whatever your starting point.

Effective methods of strategic planning have been tried and tested in the corporate business world, and this book shows you how to repurpose those methods for yourself, even if you're not in the corporate world. Packed with strategic tools and practical exercises, this book will help you: -Assess and define your career goals -Make a plan -Implement your plan to find the work that fits your needs, your skills, and your direction. With your best career as the goal, this book will help you forge your own path and Make Your Own Map.

Author Information

Kathryn Bishop is an Associate Fellow at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, where she has taught strategy development to organizations and individuals for over 20 years. She is the Programme Director for Women Transforming Leadership - Oxford University's first leadership programme for women - and has worked with women from all over the world as they make their career and development plans. Her background includes IT and HR and she has worked as a line director and manager, a project manager, a consultant and as a non-executive director in both the private and public sectors. Edition: 1 Date: 03/02/2021 Price: £14.99 Paperback: 9781789668360 Ebook: 9781789668377 Pages: 248 Format (mm): 216x138 Product Category: General Subject: Career Development

Table of Contents

Introduction – what this book covers, why it will help, and how to use it 1 Devising a strategy for you – the Strategy

Triangle

1 Examining the past and present to plan for the future

2 How you got to where you are now – your

Journey Map 3 What is working well right now – your

Personal Dashboard

2 Envisaging your future – four different approaches

4 The work that matters most to you – the

Ikigai model 5 The purpose you serve – the story of you 6 Organizing your working life – your life architecture 7 What’s worth developing – the Strengths model

3 Making strategy real

8 Making a career transition – the Product/

Market matrix 9 Turning your new strategy into action – planning and experimenting 10 Getting under way – tactics for taking action 11 References 12 Further reading