Mapping Your Career Success: Managers Edition Written especially for managers, this book will help you develop your employees and mentees to reach their career ambitions-plus you can also use the process to further your own career. The first nine chapters were written to guide employees (and their mentors, coaches and managers) through the entire system. Those nine chapters are available as a separate book: Mapping Your Career Success. This Managers Edition contains the full text of the original book, followed by another four chapters designed to make you more effective in developing your employees. Created by pioneering executive Carol Evanoff, Career Gap Analysis helps anyone who uses it to understand why their career hasn't evolved exactly as they'd hoped. (Or even if they're doing well now, this book will show how to accelerate their success so they can reach whatever goals they set.) Readers learn to examine work history for clues to achievements-and failures. If you've ever wondered why you (or the people you supervise and mentor) were passed over for a promotion, this workbook can help you figure that out-and best of all-learn how to be better prepared for the next advancement opportunities. In this groundbreaking book you'll discover: -How to wow selection panels -How to document every facet of a career and make that an advantage -Why ladders are wobbly and pyramids are perfect -How to make optimal use of feedback -Why you need nitpickers, fault finders and naysayers -Secret tools for overcoming obstacles -How to become the sort of employee everyone wants to hire -How to envision-and attain-your greatest career possibilities As a leader and innovator in managing diverse groups of people, Carol Evanoff is uniquely qualified to lead people through the process of creating the career of their dreams-even if they haven't fully dreamed it yet. (She'll help with that part, too.) Along the way, readers will experience a growth in self-confidence as successes add up to a more fulfilling work life and beyond.
About the Author: CAROL EVANOFF: You've probably heard about women who broke the glass ceiling-the barrier that kept women from advancing to the highest levels of corporate life. Carol Evanoff is one of those women, and now she's ready to share a lifetime of truly hard-earned wisdom to help others achieve their own dreams. There isn't a more male-centric work environment than a major defense contractor who supplies materials and services to the U.S. military, yet that's where Carol spent her entire 35-year career. She rose through the ranks from an hourly employee to supervisory then management positions. Along the way she earned her degree in management and attended numerous postgraduate institutes all across the country to study advanced leadership skills. Throughout her career Carol often became the first woman to hold each new position she attained, and from the beginning, she made it her mission to help other women and minorities achieve the same level of success in their own careers. She's an award-winning innovator in executive leadership, change management, professional development and performance coaching. Her own success is measured by the professional success of over 1,000 colleagues and mentees she has guided. In her last position, Carol was the Lockheed Martin Resident Director of the Strategic Weapons Facility Pacific, where she supervised over 400 employees and managed an annual budget of $55 million. Yet she always found time to take a personal interest in creating programs to benefit her team as well as mentoring individual employees to reach their own dreams. Recently retired from corporate life, she spends her time consulting, speaking to groups about career management, writing and enjoying life on Washington state's spectacular Olympic Peninsula. Through her efforts, major corporations, small businesses, leaders and individuals all create results-oriented and competitive differences in radically changing business environments.