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Turn the top seven career breakers for women into career makers
Statistically, more than one-third of Fortune 500 managers are women - and yet we represent barely five percent of the top earners among executives. Usually, we blame it on men - those "old boy" networks that don't typically welcome women into "the club." But, according to leadership coach Rebecca Shambaugh, the real obstacle to women's advancement is not a "glass ceiling." It's the self-imposed career blocks that prevent us from moving up.Â
These are the seven "sticky floors"Â
- Balancing Your Work and Life
- Embracing "Good Enough" in Your Work
- Making the Break
- Making Your Words Count
- Forming Your Own Board of Directors
- Capitalizing on Your Political Savvy
- Asking for What You Want
Admit it You've probably been "stuck" in at least one or more of these situations. Maybe you're a perfectionist who has trouble letting go of a task. Maybe you're so loyal to your company that you haven't explored other career options. Maybe you're afraid of speaking up in meetings. Or maybe you're so accommodating to others' needs that you never take care of your own.Â
This book will show you how to get unstuck from these common traps. You'll discover how other successful women have managed to break out of middle management jobs to grab the top leadership positions. You'll hear hard-won advice from working mothers who also happen to be CEOs, including proven tricks of the trade when it comes to juggling career and family. You'll learn how to conquer your insecurities, transform your thinking, tailor your behavior, and demand the kind of professional recognition you deserve.Â
Once you've freed yourself from life's sticky floors, there's nowhere to go but up.
PDF It Not a Glass Ceiling It a Sticky Floor Free Yourself From the Hidden Behaviors Sabotaging Your Career Success Audible Audio Edition Rebecca Shambaugh Kathleen Godwin McGrawHill Education Books
"Obviously Ms. Shambaugh had a leg up on the competition due to her family's status. I did not trust this resource. I was a single working mother of three children and Shambaugh's lack of "struggles" in the first dozen pages or so turned me off to the book. I threw it away as it was not worthy of giving to a friend or even the thrift store."
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It Not a Glass Ceiling It a Sticky Floor Free Yourself From the Hidden Behaviors Sabotaging Your Career Success Audible Audio Edition Rebecca Shambaugh Kathleen Godwin McGrawHill Education Books Reviews :
It Not a Glass Ceiling It a Sticky Floor Free Yourself From the Hidden Behaviors Sabotaging Your Career Success Audible Audio Edition Rebecca Shambaugh Kathleen Godwin McGrawHill Education Books Reviews
- I hit a point in my career where I had moved into a leadership position, but found myself frazzled and doing significantly more work than my male peers but getting less recognition. I kept thinking that if I just worked harder, the recognition would come but instead i just got more work given to me. So I started on a journey to read books on leadership and management in order to improve how I was operating. This book helped me identify some of the traps that I was falling into and to change my work style. I have recommended this book to several women and those who have read it have all taken something useful away from it. Obviously, men can fall into some of the same traps, but I think that the author is correct that many of things that she identifies are typically female traits.
One of other reviewers stated that they felt the authors views were sexist, but I think the reader missed the point. She acknowledges both that there is still real discrimination in the workplace and that the work place should value female traits more. I have just started her new book "Make Room for Her" which focuses on how the workplace needs the perspectives of both genders. - Read the book, kindle edition. Superfast delivery. Had a few problems with the concepts though. The term "glass ceiling" is typically meant to refer to an unseen barrier that stops one from achieving a goal that they have. In typical context it is meant to refer to organizations where there seem to be a specific demographic pervasive at upper levels of leadership/management. The sticky floor concept is as the name describes implying there is less of a glass ceiling than one may have thought previously, but rather as a woman that I am somehow unknowingly sabotaging my own efforts to achieve that senior level position. None of the examples utilized in the book resonated with me. I want accuracy and drive towards exceeding goals - but I'm not mired with a perfectionistic tendency which inhibits my career growth. I have learned how to allocate business demands and personal time - and while it's not perfect, it's also not causing me any problems. To me, if this book were written by a man, women all over would be clamoring against the sexist attitudes - it doesn't make it less sexist to me to have the philosophy put forth by a female. I will say that I bought the book out of curiousity having attended a seminar hosted by the author (company sponsored seminar, meaning I wasn't out seminar-shopping and picked this one) and I was flabbergasted that it seemed that Ms. Shambaugh had so little confidence in women in the workplace. I gave the book two stars, because if you do have habits like the ones she identifies in the book (which are not gender-specific by the way - men can be perfectionists as well as women) then she may have strategies to help you overcome those areas. Otherwise, you may just wind up offended.
- Obviously Ms. Shambaugh had a leg up on the competition due to her family's status. I did not trust this resource. I was a single working mother of three children and Shambaugh's lack of "struggles" in the first dozen pages or so turned me off to the book. I threw it away as it was not worthy of giving to a friend or even the thrift store.
- Terrific read
- This is a "must read" for all women who are working towards a career in business. There are also many concepts and explanations about behaviors and traits that could benefit anyone.
- It's a great book
- It's not a glass ceiling; it's a sticky floor is a fantastic book for
anyone interested in career development, especially where they aspire
to a senior executive position. The book is written (as the title
implies) primarily for women but most (if not all) the messages apply
equally as well to men. The central premise is that career development
starts by really knowing what you want and what your strengths ,
weaknesses, values, desires and motivations are. Once you know what
success looks like for you and what sort of person you are you can
then start to act to develop your career. In this book the emphasis is
very much on understanding what it takes to move into a leadership
role. The author highlights seven topics which need to be mastered in
order to win a leadership position and in her view it is these areas
that hold you back when you don't address them correctly - the 'sticky
floors' of the title. The areas are managing you time to achieve some
kind of work/life balance; having a career plan and willingly moving
jobs to implement it; looking at the big picture; having a diverse
network of contacts; understanding company politics; communicating
clearly and with impact; negotiating for what you want. There are
numerous exercises as you go through the book so there is lots of
practical help on 'how to' address the seven topics and there are also
plenty of real life examples contained within the pages including
many from the authors personal experiences of life in corporate
America and building her own business. - This book, although marketed to women, has many things that men can also use as they climb the organizational ladder. Becky Shambaugh stresses the importance of first knowing yourself and then deciding what it is that you want. She peppers the book with many effective personal and professional anecdotes and stories to punctuate her points. This is more than a book. It is a manual for turning your professional life around. The "Sticky Floor" metaphor is a powerful reframe that changes the context of what it is that prevents us from moving up. Barriers are not imposed by anyone except us. Shambaugh does a masterful job of guiding us to put on a new pair of Teflon shoes - non-stick shoes that only we can create for ourselves.
