Reach Up Reach Out First''' Reach Within

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Reach UpReach Out First... Reach
Within
Achieving as a Woman in TechnologyLois
GradyJune 19, 2008
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REACH
Extraordinary options available to take what you
know and reach for something better than what
currently exists.
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Career Plan Career Path

• No plan
• No path
• Terrific journey

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Career Plan Career Path

• Education
• B.S. Math Psychology
• 1967 Programmer Trainee
• Winchester Western Rifles
• 2003 Retired Executive Vice President
• Information Systems and Services

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REACH WITHIN Deep Within

• Who am I?
• What do I want?
• Becomes your daily guidance and inner locus of
  control

Your core
Inner gut vision Movement towards
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REACH WITHIN Who am I?

• Values
• Beliefs
• Philosophy of life and work
• Energy Source
• Edge

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REACH WITHIN What do I want?

• Power to control
• Respected
• On cover of Spectator
• Legacy

worship materialism
influence
create
envied
always be remembered
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REACH WITHIN Visioning

• What is your set point of happiness?
• Your purpose
• Your authenticity
• Options
• Freedom
• Internal compass Always present

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REACH OUT The fit

• Culture / Sub Culture
• How work actually gets done
• Must fit in for you to contribute

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REACH OUT The fit

• Learn
• Compromise
• Get out!

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REACH OUT Learn

• Master your technical capabilities
• Company / business operations
• Your boss agenda
• Your boss boss' agenda

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REACH OUT Connect

• With everyone Security Guard to President
• Relationships count
• Enlist support departments
• Get feedback
• With secret sauce

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REACH OUT Girl Power

• Neuroanatomically proven
• multi-taskers, (web thinking), multiple agendas
  simultaneously, see interconnectedness
• Engage head and heart
• Offer more options, consider more variables
• More flexible
• Use difficulties to your advantage

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REACH OUT Help

• Colleagues
• People positionally north and positionally south
  of you
• Focus attention/discussions outward
• Offer appropriate dissent
• Offer solutions, fixes
• Hire yourself a coach

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REACH UP Win

• Seize opportunities with
• Visibility management
• Professional excellence
• Passion
• Constructive confidence
• Make fear your friend
• Take a risk Sweaty armpits

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REACH UP Win
We may not have the power to do everything we
want to do, but we have the power to decide what
to do with what we have...and that power is
enough.
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• New Opportunities