Every senior black lawyer will tell you: if you want to progress in a white world, you must have a sponsor – someone invested in you, willing to advocate for you, champion you, mention you in rooms you don’t have access too, positively influence the views of those who don’t know you.
But winning a sponsor isn’t always easy. For many it happens by chance. For most it doesn’t happen at all. So what do you do when you want to progress your career but you can’t find the sponsor to support you?
The answer is, sponsor yourself. That’s right. YOU be the one to put yourself in rooms you don’t have access to and to win opportunities that wouldn’t otherwise go to you.
This isn’t as hard as it sounds. All you have to do to sponsor yourself is to proactively progress your career. That’s it. Just decide you are going to progress to your goal and follow a proven strategy that will get you there.
In this session I outline what that strategy is and show you how following even just one of those steps is going to not only create forward momentum in your career, it’s also going to invite an endless flow of micro acts of sponsorship and attract that sponsor that you so eagerly await.
Here are the 6 steps to take to proactively progress your career:
- Get clear on the goal
- Implement feedback
- Build your brand
- Build relationships with people different to you
- Be visible
- Showcase your value
All of this I teach you in BE THE FIRST Progression for black lawyers. We work together to help you choose the right goal. I teach you the Feedback Formula, Intentional Brand Curation, Relate-Agility, High Visibility and the Value Equation – unique tools and concepts designed to progress your career in a way that is both measurable and sustainable. You won’t find this anywhere else.
P.S. If you are a mid to senior level black lawyer and you want to progress within the industry, BE THE FIRST is the room you want to be in. Book a free call with me and find out if BE THE FIRST is for you. Book your call here: https://calendly.com/carolineflanagan/bethefirst
P.P.S. If you’re a practising or aspiring lawyer at any stage of your career and imposter syndrome is holding you back, I want to invite you to join CONFIDENT Black Lawyers, the new foundational programme for black lawyers where you build the confidence to succeed in a white world so you can keep progressing, all the way to the top. Doors open Friday 15th November 2024. Follow me on social or subscribe so you don’t miss the details.
