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New conferences are announced almost every day, but realistically you can only attend one or two per year. To decide which ones warrant your time, think about what kinds of people you want to make connections with. Consider your 50 closest professional relationships. If almost all of them are at your company or in your industry, you may want to explore conferences that bring together diverse groups, such as TED or your local TEDx gathering. Conversely, if your ties inside your industry are weak, consider attending events sponsored by your regional or national professional association. It’s important that you don’t only consider the gatherings that your peers frequent. View your conference attendance as a chance to connect with the people whom you wish to have as your peers in the future.

Bron: The Management Tip of the Day, Harvard Business Review

The High Potential’s Advantage: Get Noticed, Impress Your Bosses, and Become a Top Leader

Being seen as a high-potential leader is essential to getting promoted and reaching your organization’s upper echelons, but most companies keep their top-talent list a closely guarded secret. And the assessment process they use to decide who is and isn’t a future leader is an even greater mystery.

“The High Potential’s Advantage” takes you behind the scenes and shows how you can get on, and stay on, your company’s fast track. Leadership development experts Jay Conger and Allan Church draw upon decades of research and experience–designing high-potential programs for hundreds of large well-known global organizations and assessing and coaching thousands of talented leaders–to answer the critical questions asked by ambitious individuals like you: What will it take for me to advance in this organization? What does my boss look for when deciding whether I’m a high potential? Once I’m on the list, then what? Can I fall off it and, if so, what do I do?

Revealing the key differentiators–five critical “X factors”–that set people apart across companies of all types, Conger and Church show what you need to do to achieve and maintain top-talent status. You’ll find detailed advice for cultivating and practicing each X factor, with numerous and rich examples from those on the verge of their first promotion to those only a step away from the C-suite. “The High Potential’s Advantage” also shows you how to gain insight into and excel at the specific process your company uses to identify and develop high potentials–and how to determine which unique capabilities your company values the most.

“The High Potential’s Advantage” is the essential guide to becoming a leader in your organization.

Source: Harvard Business Review

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