Unlock Your Leadership Secrets & Straight Answers on Standing Out, Moving Up, and Getting Ahead as the Leader You Really Are

by Price, Damaris Patterson

• ISBN13: 9781543988710
• ISBN10: 1543988717
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2019-11-11
• Publisher: Bookbaby

Summary

Unlock Your Leadership: Secrets & Straight Answers on Standing Out, Moving Up, and Getting Ahead as the Leader You Really Are is an essential resource for early or mid-career professionals who want to attract and accelerate leadership opportunities at work.Written by Damaris Patterson Price, a Human Resources veteran and practicing executive coach, Unlock Your Leadership takes a look at why you're not being offered leadership positions and what to do about it by exploring:- What may be getting in the way of your next promotion.- The key differences between people who attract choice career opportunities and those who do not. - The nuanced walk and talk of professionals who are considered promotable leadership material. - Strategic behaviors that can help you demonstrate that you are ready for what's next - right now. Getting ahead at work often means learning the hard way - and usually on your own. Unlock Your Leadership is a supportive partner that will offer a development plan and honest insights about career climbing that, unfortunately, most professionals will never get. If you don't have a personal career coach, this book is the next best thing.

Author Biography

Damaris Patterson Price is the principal of Working River Leadership Consulting—a northeast Ohio training boutique that designs and delivers B2B and B2C coaching, consulting, and learning products to grow the Leadership, Career, and Managerial competencies of an organization's most powerful asset: its leaders. As a Human Resources veteran, Damaris' work is the product of nearly 30 years in the people-development business focused on the growth of leadership talent for next-level positions. Informed by her own experiences coaching and managing leaders, her solutions have been effectively applied by a broad and diverse spectrum of people within Corporate Retail firms, Chemical companies, Financial Services, Marketing & PR firms, Higher Education and Independent School administration, Insurance providers, Tech companies, Non-Profits, Specialty Food Manufacturers, Foundations, Professional Associations, Large Hospital Systems, and Law Firms. Damaris is the author of the non-fiction book Unlock Your Leadership: Secrets & Straight Answers on Standing Out, Moving Up, and Getting Ahead as the Leader You Really Are, which Kirkus Reviews described as a "road map" and "a practical, in-depth guide and the closest thing to having a personal career coach". It is an essential strategic playbook for early or mid-career professionals who want to attract and accelerate leadership opportunities at work.Damaris Patterson Price holds a Master's degree in Organizational Psychology. While also serving as an adjunct professor at Cleveland State University, Damaris is a certified Organizational Development and Diversity practitioner, as well as a Board-Certified Executive Coach, with additional credentials from the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland and Forbes Coaches Council. Damaris and her children, a set of twins, live in northeast Ohio.