![]() A Wall Street veteran who has been named one of the most powerful Black executives in America, Carla’s worked across multiple industries in her 30+ year career, and was appointed by President Barack Obama to chair the National Women's Business Council. It’s an episode from ReThinking with Adam Grant, another podcast from the TED Audio Collective.Ĭarla Harris is a fierce leader, a devoted mentor, and a dynamic speaker. In the meantime, here is another podcast we thought you’d love. I know that I will fail, I know that things won’t always go smoothly, I know that I will fail more often than I succeed, and I want to know that my sponsor is not a fair-weather one.Hi Fixable listeners! We are going on a short break before we bring you new episodes of Fixable. I would rather acquire a sponsor through relationship currency. With relationship currency, I felt that my sponsor believed in me. With performance currency, I felt that my sponsor believed in my work. I valued the latter much more because the relationship was central to my attitude. I’ve benefited in my life from having sponsors through performance currency and relationship currency. This kind of sponsor is rarer and more valuable because the sponsor hangs in there with you through successes and failures. It requires sponsors who exhibit an abiding personal loyalty to you and your career goals. It requires building a deep and vulnerable relationship with a sponsor to make them want to back you through the good and the bad. Landing a career sponsor through relationship currency requires work of a different kind. This kind of sponsor will stick with you as you succeed, but likely because you succeed and even more likely only when you succeed. People who acquire performance currency will automatically and easily attract sponsors. Everyone loves a winner, everyone wants to back a winner, and everyone wants others to know that they can pick winners. Landing a career sponsor through performance currency is almost a given. When you acquire relationship currency, people will want to expend their own currency on you because of personal loyalty to you. This can happen only if there is a genuine relationship with a “frequency of touch,” a consistent effort to build strong personal ties that makes people want to associate their own character with yours. They are willing to expend their hard-earned currency on vouching for you. This is where you have built such a deep relationship with someone that they feel personally invested in your career, and are willing to go to bat for you. ![]() When you acquire performance currency, people will want to expend their own currency on you because of wanting to be associated with your successes. People instinctively recognize a rising star in you, and people want to be your sponsor so that they can bask in your halo as you ascend. Your stock keeps rising, and people feel it will continue to rise. This is when you consistently deliver above and beyond expectations that you accrue this type of currency with every win you notch. A sponsor is the person who advocates for your ascendancy.Ĭarla Harris says that a mentor is nice, but a sponsor is essential.įirst, acquire performance currency. A sponsor is the person who “carries your paper into the room” when decisions (salary, promotion, opportunity) are being made about your career. A sponsor is in the room when decisions are being made about your career. A mentor tells you the good, the bad, the ugly, without pulling any punches.Ī mentor and a sponsor are two different things.Ī sponsor helps your career ascend. There’s no question that you want to have a mentor for your professional life. Today, I listened to a remarkable TED talk from Carla Harris on How to find the person who can help you get ahead at work. Who carries your paper into the room where decisions get made?
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