Building capacity: Navigating organizational opportunities as if they were a subway system

8th Annual NW Diversity Learning Series (2006)

Session Five: September 28, 2006:
Asking for and giving directions: Using coaching, mentoring and ownership as a strategy to guide you toward opportunities and growth.

Following is a bibliography of selected resources provided by Greg Clark and Kay Iwata for the September 28th presentation.

Bibliography

Bell, Ella L.J. and Stella M. Nkomo. Our Separate Ways: Black and White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identify. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2001.

Buckingham, Marcus and Clifton, Donald O. Now, Discover Your Strengths. New York: The Free Press, 2001.

Cobbs, Price M. and Turnock, Judith L. Cracking the Corporate Code: The Revealing Success Stories of 32 African-American Executives. New York: Anacom, 2003.

D'Allessandro, David F. with Michele Owens. Career Warfare: 10 Rules for Building a Successful Personal Brand and Fighting to Keep It. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004.

Frankel, Lois P. Ph.D. Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious mistakes that women make that sabotage their careers. New York: Warner Business Books, 2004.

Iwata, Kay. The POWER of Diversity: 5 Essential Competencies for Leading a Diverse Workforce. Petaluma CA: Global Insights Publishing.

Klaus, Peggy. BRAG! The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn Without Blowing It. New York: Warner Business Books, 2003.

The 2006 NW Diversity Learning Series (now in its 9th year) focused on the theme, Building Capacity: Navigating organizational opportunities as if they were a subway system.

Using the metaphor of a subway system, each of the six-bi-monthly morning seminars explored some of the ways that access to organizational opportunities and career development are hidden and therefore more difficult for women and people of color, as well as people who speak English as a second language, to utilize. The purpose of this Series was for everyone to become more aware of organizational culture and how it impacts building people's capacity, and for everyone, managers and employees, to become better at navigating these cultural obstacles along career paths.

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