Get Your Career in SHAPE: A Five-Step Guide to Achieve the Success You Need, Want, and Deserve

by Candace Steele Flippin

Overview

Instead of holding our careers down or back, women can rise—on our terms. Are you ready to own your power and take the next step in your career?

With groundbreaking research on women's leadership, Dr. Candace Steele Flippin's guidebook empowers women to "challenge the glass ceiling system within their own minds" (Tyree C. Daniels, executive chairman at Memphis College Preparatory).

Women's careers are held back by cultural norms, gender bias, sexism, and self-policing.

And too often, their self-efficacy—the belief in their ability to be successful—is at risk.

TEDx speaker Dr. Candace Steele Flippin has been recognized as one of the Most Influential Black Executives in Corporate America and knows firsthand what women in the workforce must overcome.

In this revolutionary book, Dr. Candace Steele Flippin delivers practical career guidance to accelerate women's leadership and professional development. This tested framework pairs her experience as a communications executive with her research as an engaged management scholar in the Weatherhead School of Management community at Case Western Reserve University.

Her game-changing SHAPE career framework is organized into five accessible steps:

• Save: Create and nurture a strong financial future
• Hard work: Gain alignment with your boss on your impact
• Advocate: Stand up for yourself, speak up, and get noticed
• Persevere: Keep going, keep trying, and know when it's time to leave
• Educate: Continually advance your knowledge base and improve upon your skillsets

With new research insights, as well as personal experiences from Dr. Candace Steele Flippin and other accomplished female leaders, Get Your Career in SHAPE provides a realistic overview of the roadblocks women confront in the workplace—and how to overcome them effectively.

Following the success of Lean In, Burnout, and We Should All Be Millionaires, Get Your Career in SHAPEis an essential read for women at all stages of their careers.

"A good dose of medicine for women to restore, recharge, and refocus on career success." —Tabrina Davis, vice president of marketing and communication at Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare

"A true guide to earning the success that you have been working so hard for. Dr. Candace Steele Flippin's system makes career success attainable to anyone." —The Lost Chapter, LLC Bookstore

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781634895019
Publisher:	Wise Ink Creative Publishing
Publication date:	03/08/2022
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Recognized as one of the most influential Black executives in corporate America by Savoy Magazine, Dr. Candace Steele Flippin is a global communications expert, multigenerational workplace scholar, TEDx speaker, and bestselling author. She is the publisher of WorkStats™ and author of Generation Z in the Workplace and Millennials in the Workplace.

Since 2016, Dr. Candace Steele Flippin has been appointed as an engaged scholar in the Weatherhead School of Management community at Case Western Reserve University. Her research focuses on practical methods to accelerate the leadership development of women, Gen X, Gen Z, and millennials in the workplace.

Dr. Candace Steele Flippin, affectionately known as "Dr. Candace," is a frequent speaker and thought leader who uses her unique background as a researcher and executive to provide practical career insights on the future of the multigenerational workplace. Her advice and research findings have been featured in Forbes, CNBC, CBS, Authority Magazine, The Network Journal, and Today.

In her downtime, she collects works from emerging visual artists and enjoys traveling with her family. She and her husband live in Atlanta, Georgia. For more workplace resources, visit candacesteeleflippin.

Previous books by Dr. Candace Steele Flippin:

Generation Z in the Workplace

Millennials in the Workplace

Table of Contents

Author's Note 1

Introduction 3

How to Apply the SHAPE Framework 12

Self-Efficacy Check Questionnaire 16

Getting to the Green Career Zone Behaviors 18

Chapter 1 Save your money so finances won't get in the way of your career options 21

Chapter 2 Hard Work is subjective-make sure you and your boss are aligned 41

Chapter 3 Advocate for yourself so you are not the one holding your career back 61

Chapter 4 Persevere to navigate your career journey over the long term 89

Chapter 5 Educate yourself on how to expand your skills land knowledge throughout your career 113

Where to Go from Here 133

About the Study 137

Appendix 1 Sell-efficacy assessment 139

Appendix 2 SHAPE action template 143

Appendix 3 Getting the most out of your support circle 149

About the Author 151

Editorial Reviews

2021-12-22
A guide offers a comprehensive plan to help women improve their careers.

“You have the power to choose how you manage your career,” writes Flippin at the beginning of her business manual. “Believe it or not, your career isn’t a final destination. It’s a journey.” In order to help her readers along that journey, the author proposes a model called “SHAPE”: S for save(“create and nurture a strong financial future”), H for hard work(“gain alignment with your boss on your impact”), A for advocate(“stand up for yourself”), P for persevere(“keep going, keep trying, and know when it’s time to leave”), and E for educate(“continually advance your knowledge”). This model is intended to help Flippin’s readers achieve and maintain what she refers to as “self-efficacy,” the personal belief that success at any given task or goal is possible. A great deal of the prompts and advice the author supplies are for internal stocktaking—Am I inflexible? Do I fear change? Do I give off the impression of being inadequate? The author acknowledges that research shows women are far more likely to feel pressure to balance work and home life, which stresses the importance of H: know how your boss defines hard work and deliver what is expected. This carefully articulated approach is very clearly and engagingly written, with Flippin using sample categories, such as “Red Career Zone” and “Yellow Career Zone,” and examples drawn from her personal experience dealing with women at all career stages. Since so much of her advice boils down to urging women to speak up for themselves, her message is considerably aided by the confident, upbeat tone she adopts throughout. Many of her readers will feel they’ve at last met the professional mentor of their dreams.

A valuable, forcefully worded series of practical encouragements for women seeking advancement.

Kirkus Reviews