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Personal Boardroom roles for your Career


Information Roles:

Inspirer – helps you with your creative thinking, can help generate new ideas or someone with who you can bounce creative ideas.

Expert – really understand the area you’re working in and are happy to share knowledge and give advice in your professional sector. Possibly a similar role to a mentor.

Customer Voice – happy to talk about the customer, their journey, and the marketplace

Navigator – tells you who you need to know and who does what in the organisation, sector, or industry

Power Roles:

Unlocker – can give you access to resources – people/time/money

Sponsor  – endorses you and your ideas to more senior people in the organisation or sector. They’re happy to sing your praises and suggest you for opportunities

Influencer – works behind the scenes to gather support for you and get things going

Connector – makes introductions and connects you with the people who can help you.

Development Roles:

Improver – gives you candid and constructive feedback. Tells you how things are landing and how you come across. Can help identify where your blind spots are.

Challenger – challenges your decisions and your thinking. May have a completely different way of thinking to you but makes you face up to your blind spots and move away from groupthink. Stretches you!

Nerve Giver/Cheerleader – strengthens your resolve and reminds you of your purpose.

Anchor – is a grounding influence and holds you to account.

As you can see there are lots of roles BUT you don’t need to have all of them right now. Some may be more appropriate later in your career, or at specific points. Plus one person may fulfill more than one role for you, your Navigator may also be your Connector.

Be strategic

Firstly do a little review – who is performing any of the roles for you at the moment. Identify the gaps and consider how you can find someone who can fulfill the missing role for you.

Next, consciously connect with them and find ways to engage them and interest them in your career. Think about how you can help them too, rather than it all being one way. You can tell them about your Personal Board but you don’t have to.

Be a career activist

Actively identifying people who can help you in your career and engaging with them will definitely help you move forward faster in your career. There is no reason you have to ‘go it alone’.

Upon finishing this exercise, I assigned my immediate line manager, mentor, husband, and a couple of my best friends to fulfil these roles. It's essential to recognize the individuals within your network who can offer support and aid.

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