Beyond the Boys' Club - Strategies for Achieving Career Success as a Woman Working in a Male-Dominated Field

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Beyond the Boys' Club focuses on the practical and ethical strategies professional women can use to advance in male-dominated workplaces. Drawing on interviews, research, and coaching experience, it addresses obstacles such as gender bias and limited awareness of organisational politics. The book emphasizes power image, lobbying before key decisions, and networking and profiling as core political skills. It highlights how advocacy, collaboration, and teamwork help ideas get heard, resourced, implemented, and promoted.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLifestyle

FormatPDF

Pages328

Reading Time8 h 25 min

AccessFree to download

Strategies for Achieving Career Success

Understanding organisational politics

Building influence and a power image

Lobbying and timing key decisions

Networking, profiling, and advocacy

Overcoming gender bias

SUZANNE DOYLE-MORRIS,PHDBEYONDTHE # STRATEGIES FOR ACHIEVING CAREER SUCCESSAS A WOMANWORKING IN A MALE DOMINATED FHELD https://archive.org/details/beyondboysclubac0000suza PRAISE FOR BEYOND THE BOYS'CLU B This book addresses one of the major challenges faced by most areas of business.Iishould be read by women who wish to be part of the solution.It should also be readby men who wish to understand the problem. Guy Beringer,former Senior Partner,Allen &Overy LLP In all my years of coaching professional women,I've not come across a resource tooffer them that helps them overcome the obstacles outlined by Dr·Suzanne Doyle:lackof knowledge about politics and lack of confidence about playing the game.Finallya book for women by women that shows how to play the game of politics in an ethicaland feminine way.Increasing your power image,lobbying before the importantdecision-making meetings are held,networking and profiling are all political skills.These skills ensured that the women Suzanne interviewedgot their ideas heard,finded,resourced,implemented and ultimately got them promoted in their male-dominatedindustry:Kudos for Beyond the Boys'Club for reframing politics from a four-letterword to advocacy,collaboration,and teamwork! Michelle Brailsford,President,European Professional Women's Network-London We invest in our education,health,home and wardrobe,but so ofien not in our careerdevelopment.Beyond the Boys'Club reminds us of the importance of this investmentand provides us with a variety of tools and tipsfrom the pioneers that have shown thepotential Return on Investment.After reading this book.you should have no reason notto push at the barriers to your own progression and achieve your full potential —Fleur Bothwick,Director of Diversity and Inclusiveness,EMEIA,Ernst &Young LLP In her book Beyond the Boys'Club Dr Suzanne Doyle-Morris outlines with humourand imagination many top tips and strategies for high achieving professional womento enhance their career potential by overcoming the many unconscious gender biasesin a male-dominated workplace.She writes with real passion and this is an essentialread for women wishing to emulate the success of those she has interviewed for thisbook. —Dr Jenny Brookman,Chair, Cambridge Association for Women in Science and Engineering In an economy of increasing pressure,companies with few women must be ever moreinnovative and proactive in retaining the talented women they do have.This is a bookborn out of extensive research,interviews and coaching conversations with seniorprofessionals who have each succeeded as one of the few women in their team and whohave the ambition to keep climbing that ladder:It fills an obvious gap in modernbusiness literature-on the experiences and successes of women who work primarilywith men. —Caroline Buckingham,Equality and Diversity Manager,Microsoft UK PRAISE FOR BEYOND THE BOYS'CLUB A gift for any woman looking to raise her profile,develop her brand,understandorganisational politics and take her career to the next level.Dr Doyle-Morris has aneve for the irreverent and uses plenty of wit to keep the topics of gender equality andpolitical savvy accessible,practical and fun.Absolutely crammed with ideas and richin the kind of stories that feel both familiar and inspirational at the same time. —Lesley Everett,Personal Branding Expert and author of 'Drop Dead Brilliant' This is an important book that gives professional women well-researched,practicaland tested advice based on interviews with twenty-one women in senior positions ina range of professional areas.All women in science,engineering and technologyshould read this book. Dr Esther Haines,Regional Officer,Institute of Physics I loved this book-it's a 'must have'book for all women looking to raise theirprofile,understand organisational politics and really progress in their careers. Claire Palmer,former President,UK International Coach Federation (ICF) This inspiring and exc

FAQs

本书主要解决女性在职场中遇到的哪些困难？

书中聚焦女性在男性主导领域常见的障碍，尤其包括对职场政治的认知不足以及在参与“游戏”时缺乏信心等问题。

作者强调的组织政治能力有哪些？

强调提升“权力形象”、在关键决策会议召开前进行游说，以及通过网络与个人展示来建立影响力。

这本书如何帮助女性实现晋升？

通过将倡导、协作与团队合作等政治技能用于实践，帮助女性让自己的想法被听见、被支持、被落地，并最终获得更好的发展机会。

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