The Sponsor Effect: How To Be A Better Leader By Investing In Others

Who's delivering for you? Who has your back? Who's burnishing your brand and expanding what you can get done in this world? Sponsorship is a two-way alliance where a leader partners with junior talent to build their skills and advocate for their promotion--all while receiving stellar performance and loyalty in return. Many know the benefit of finding a sponsor: men and women with sponsors are much more likely to progress to the next rung in their careers than those without. But according to author Sylvia Ann Hewlett, being a sponsor is just as important to career growth as finding one. Senior executives who proactively sponsor others are 53 percent more likely to receive a promotion--and middle-level managers who have proteges are 60 percent more likely to receive a stretch assignment--than those who don't.--

• | Author: Sylvia Ann Hewlett
• | Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 18, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 208 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1633695654
• | ISBN-13: 9781633695658