Workplace sponsors matter more than mentors for pay and promotions
Carla Harris · Carla Harris – Pearls of Career Wisdom (Capital Allocators, EP.267) · Aug 22, 2022 · at 20:48
Morgan Stanley Senior Client Advisor Carla Harris defines the distinctions between sponsors, mentors, and advisors in corporate environments.
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“Because that's even more important than mentorship. The sponsor uses their capital on your promotion, your pay, your ability to get new opportunities. The mentor, in my parlance, is the person that will give it to you straight, no chaser. Good, bad, and ugly. And tell you what you need to do, how you need to manage your career, how you need to course correct, all those things. And an advisor is anybody in your environment that can answer any question you have about that environment because they have the intellect or the experience.”
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