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Reaching your goals with Athena
Reaching your goals with Athena

The importance of stating your goals and how to leverage Athena in support of my goals

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What are Athena Goals?

Athena Goals are designed to help us understand how we can better support you in your Athena journey.

Upon setting up your profile, you will be prompted to answer a variety of questions that will help us understand how we can better support you. You will be asked to select your career/learning goals and barriers/obstacles you are encountering that are prohibiting from reaching your goals. You can edit this information at any time during your membership. To edit your goals/barriers, go to your Athena Profile > Edit Profile > Background & Experience > Goals. Make sure you select save changes once you are done.

What does Athena do after I've selected my goals?

Once you have selected your goals, they will remain private to the community, but will be used by the Athena team to offer you tailored resources that will help you in your journey.

We will use these goals to:

  • Offer salon recommendations

  • Send targeted emails that contain new and relevant information for you

  • Send you notices about upcoming salons, peer groups and learning circules that you may be interested in

  • Send you notices about recently created Pathways

  • Help identify networking opportunities

  • Guide coaches to prepare sessions more meaningfully

  • Guide the Member Success Managers (MSM) Team to understand your focus and offer you the best support when connecting on a call or via the chat.

Athena Goals and Barriers to choose from:

Goals

  • Achieve a board seat

  • Keep my boardroom skills current

  • Boardroom strategies & best practices

  • Become a stronger operational leader

  • Get into the c-suite

  • Start a company

  • Build my business development funnel

  • Invest

  • Build my company to scale

  • Transition my career

  • Expand my thought leadership

  • Develop my network

  • Business financial acumen

  • Strategy leadership

  • How to raise capital or invest capital

  • Financial side of exits and M&A

  • HR and human capital strategies

Barriers:

  • Confidence

  • Knowledge

  • Opportunities

  • Time

  • Practice

  • Focus and Prioritization

  • Support from Management

  • A bigger Network

  • Support from your community

If there is a goal or barrier that you would like to work on that does not appear on our site, please reach out to us via the gold chat icon in the bottom righthand corner of your screen and we will do our best to accommodate your needs.

How to leverage Athena in support of your goals?

  • Attend live Virtual Salons and other events to learn from experienced board directors and leaders.

  • Request a Connection with other Athena members to expand your network with meaningful connections.

  • Access in-depth, on-demand learning in our Salon Library. Visit the "recommended for you" section to view salons that are related to your learning goals.

  • Work with Executive Coaches for expert guidance to accelerate your advancement. Our coach roster identifies what area of expertise that coach focuses on to help you in identifying which Coach better fits your needs.

    • All annual members have 2 hours of coaching included in their membership. If you would like to purchase more Coaching Hours you can do so in our Add-ons section.

  • Develop a focused Branded Career Portfolio (CV, Bio, and LinkedIn alignment) with our Executive Writers. You can purchase a Branded Career Portfolio in your Add-ons section.

  • View and apply for Opportunities, including Board, CxO, and Advisory roles.

For more pointed guidance and suggestions, feel free to schedule a call with an Athena Member Success Manager or connect with us at any time via the gold chat icon in the bottom righthand corner of your screen.

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