Communications skills
Presenting your way to the top

• No skill opens more doors, creates more visibility, or gives you more opportunity to exercise power. Right or wrong, fair or unfair, the person who is capable of articulating an idea is usually credited with having had it.''

  (J. Calano and J. Salzman, ``Career Tracking: 26 Success Shortcuts to the Top.'' New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.)

How to find a mentor:

• assigned by company
• choose a role-model
• your advisor, your boss
• have several mentors
• change mentors as you are ``growing up''
• electronic mentoring
• a network of people you can rely on

• The ability to work with variety of people
• Early overall responsibility for important tasks
• A need to achieve results
• Leadership experience early in career
• Wide experience in many functions prior to age 35