Moving forward on your goal of becoming a public company board member requires a purposeful focus with dedicated time and effort. You can help shape your future with these actions:
Separate your leadership skills out from the crowd: Think about what is hard to forget about you or your leadership experiences. Share this with others.
Develop your story line: This narrative should provide high points of your past and how that fits into your next step toward being a director. Think past, present and future. Connect the dots with how you add value and will add value in the future.
Introduce yourself: Do this in a strategic manner by defining all the stakeholders on the road to the boardroom and letting them know about your new goal and direction. Ask for help.
Become the expert: Overcome hesitancy by speaking and writing as a professional in corporate governance. Discuss the current challenges and offer insights that are unique. Use social media and virtual learning to promote yourself.
A great resource for director candidates is an ebook: Becoming a Public Company Director (Amazon, Barnes, iBookstore $9.99).
Separate your leadership skills out from the crowd: Think about what is hard to forget about you or your leadership experiences. Share this with others.
Develop your story line: This narrative should provide high points of your past and how that fits into your next step toward being a director. Think past, present and future. Connect the dots with how you add value and will add value in the future.
Introduce yourself: Do this in a strategic manner by defining all the stakeholders on the road to the boardroom and letting them know about your new goal and direction. Ask for help.
Become the expert: Overcome hesitancy by speaking and writing as a professional in corporate governance. Discuss the current challenges and offer insights that are unique. Use social media and virtual learning to promote yourself.
A great resource for director candidates is an ebook: Becoming a Public Company Director (Amazon, Barnes, iBookstore $9.99).