BRX Pro Tip: Who’s on Your Personal Board of Directors?
Stone Payton: And we are back with Business RadioX Pro Tip. Stone Payton and Lee Kantor here with you. Lee, you’ve come across an interesting concept, I think. This idea of a personal board of directors.
Lee Kantor: Yeah. Businesses have boards of directors. Non-profits have boards of directors. Why shouldn’t we individually have our own board of directors? And this group of people, they should be diverse. They should come from different places. I wouldn’t have more than, you know, four, five, six of them. They should come with different skills, different perspectives. And the best part of this board of directors, they don’t have to really be people you know. They could be also, you know, people that you read, or you listen to in a podcast or watch on a YouTube video. They should be mentors, they should be peers, they should be former managers, industry experts, coaches, a wide variety of people that you kind of look to guide you throughout your career.
Remember that having a personal board of directors can be a tool for career growth and development. And if you do this right, if you carefully select and nurture the relationships with these trusted advisors, you can gain, obviously, valuable insight, support and guidance as you move throughout your career. Now, again, some of them should be people you know, obviously people you trust and work with, but some of them can be people that you just want to know or lived a long time ago, and that you’re using them kind of as a guide as you progress.
