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  • Genre:self-help
  • Sub-genre:Personal Growth / Success
  • Language:English
  • Pages:116
  • eBook ISBN:9798317834371
  • Paperback ISBN:9798317834364

From Networking to Boundary Spanning

How You Can Get Results Inside Large Organizations

By Kitty Wooley

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Overview

This little book is for anyone who’s motivated to make a difference at work by reaching across the organization in support of the mission – in ways that are authentically you. As you gain ease and confidence in this niche capability, you create more capacity within your organization to tackle crosscutting challenges that cannot be solved with a siloed mindset. You will become known for friendly sincerity that enables you to learn from, be trusted by, and get results with colleagues both within and outside of your own unit. As you progress, you will develop portable leadership skill that attracts lifelong opportunity.

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Description

How boundary spanning to the point of ease can benefit you – and the organization:

  • YOUR “SECRET SAUCE” IMPROVES – Proven techniques, mindset, and self-talk invite you to harness your gifts in service to crosscutting goals. You’re in charge.
  • YOUR KNOWLEDGE EXPANDS – Hierarchical organizations share many characteristics across sectors. Knowing how to work with them to get results goes with you as you begin new roles.
  • YOUR CAPACITY INCREASES – The more you practice, the more your comfort zone expands and the more you’ll be positioned to accomplish with others, inside and outside the organization.
  • INNOVATION POTENTIAL INCREASES – As you discuss challenges that others are facing, your perspective may give them new ideas, and vice versa.
  • DISCOVERABILITY INCREASES – As your introductions, translation of jargon between units, or other efforts make work run more smoothly, your reputation is enhanced.
  • NEW OPPORTUNITY EMERGES – If the organization needs this uncommon capability to jumpstart a crosscutting project (or grow more boundary spanners), a unique opportunity may appear for you.

A win/win scenario awaits you.

Kitty Wooley has honed her boundary spanning capability in the federal government and the private sector for forty-five years.  She continues to mentor highly motivated employees at every level who would prefer not to passively await further instruction indefinitely. 

Are you ready to begin – or to begin again?  It is never too late!  Pick up your copy today by clicking the ADD TO CART button on this page. 

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About The Author

Kitty Wooley, M.A., PMP, worked at the U.S. Department of Education for nineteen years, after a decade in college administration. Positions in San Francisco and Washington, D.C., involved work as an institutional review specialist, risk specialist, and management and program analyst. While in government, Kitty also wrote articles for "The Public Manager" and served on the planning committee for several Excellence in Government Conferences. She is the author of "Four New Models of Networked Leadership Development" in "Innovations in Human Resource Management: Getting the Public's Work Done in the 21st Century," published in 2009 by M.E. Sharpe—Vol. 8 in the National Academy of Public Administration book series, Transformational Trends in Governance and Democracy.

Kitty is a member of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), where she represents members in Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming with two colleagues on ASPA's National Council. Through her own Senior Fellows and Friends network, Kitty has connected and convened a global network of motivated high performers since 2003.

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Ann
Leading from the middle in a time of rapid change Kitty Wooley's new book "From Networking to Boundary Spanning" takes a serious organizational problem head on and delivers an elegant solution grounded in decades of her personal practice and informed by today's reality of breakneck change. Wooley provides a roadmap for early and mid career employees to exercise their agency to work across organizational boundaries, not to network, bot to deliver meaningful results. New relationships, and therefore additional capacity to create change, are the natural outcome of this work but not the objective. I've spend the last the last two decades telling employees to take smart risks to make progress and telling managers to have the backs of their employees. Wooley's book provides the roadmap for employees and their managers to put that guidance into practice. While Wooley developed her boundary spanning practices over decades, her advice is grounded in the present, noting that staff who develop boundary spanning skills will be better positioned to adapt to and thrive in an AI enabled organization. If you are an employee in a mid-sized or large organization and are not an executive, this is your roadmap to develop your boundary spanning skills and make an meaningful impact in your organization and to create the conditions where your team can do the same. Read more
Valerie
From Networking to Boundary Spanning I truly enjoyed reading this book! It was filled with many 'golden nuggets' of ideas and information that anyone can use in their current workplaces. I appreciate that details are approachable and can be scaled up and down no matter your situation. Highly recommend! Read more