Please Sit Over There: How To Manage Power, Overcome Exclusion, and Succeed as a Black Woman at Work

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The key to your career advancement is understanding how power works–who has it, where it hides, and how it’s used. Please Sit Over There teaches Black women the career skills they need to navigate an uneven playing field and achieve long-lasting professional success.

Black women continuously navigate systems that were never intended for them while playing by a set of rules they never agreed to or were ever trained for.

In this book, Francine Parham shares her knowledge as a Black woman and a former global executive of two major corporations on how to move up in the workplace while maintaining a sense of sanity. The key skill–one that Black women are rarely taught–is understanding the power dynamics within your organization and learning how to “shift the power” to your advantage. Parham shows how to use your voice, strategically build the right relationships, and support others once you have achieved a powerful position–tools any woman can use to increase her power and ensure a successful, fulfilling career.

Parham says Black women are already empowered; there is no shortage of qualified professional Black women in the talent pipeline. But it does not feel empowering when organizations force Black women to work every day to overcome biases, discriminatory institutional practices, and unwritten rules of power at play that hinder their career development and professional advancement.

Please Sit Over There honors the painstaking work being undertaken to deconstruct broken institutions and demonstrates how Black women can achieve their goals while those institutions still exist—effectively opening doors for all women of color.

From the Publisher

Your career advancement is dependent on having the right individuals within in your organization know you; know what you do and; know what you aspire to do. Your power is about building the right relationships at work to make this happen for you.

Career advancement for Black women is a leadership imperative, not a grass-roots activity. It needs to start at the top with leadership providing access, exposure and yes, even placement. We are ready and have been qualified for sometime. Leaders, get going.

Your voice is your power. Use it wisely and strategically to achieve and advance your career goals at work.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Berrett-Koehler Publishers (August 9, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1523001526
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1523001521
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.42 x 9 inches