To Get Ahead at Work, Get a Sponsor @TED #ted #shorts

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You are not going to ascend  in any organization
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without a sponsor.
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This person
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who is going to pound the table on your behalf,
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this is a sponsor.
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It is the critical relationship in your career.
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Now, I'm asked all the time,
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"How do you get one?"
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Every time you deliver  upon an assignment
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above people's expectations,
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you generate performance currency.
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Strong performance currency raises your level of visibility
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in the environment,
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such that a sponsor may be attracted to you.
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So it is important that you invest the time to connect,
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to engage and to get to know the people that are
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in your environment,
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and more importantly to give them the opportunity
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to know you.
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Because once they know you,
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there's a higher probability that when you approach them
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to ask them to be your sponsor,
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they will in fact answer
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in the affirmative.
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