Embrace the Work, Love Your Career is a workbook for any woman who feels that their career is stalling, they've reached a crossroads and aren't quite sure about their next move, or they feel like they are fading into the background. Centered around five main actions, the workbook will help you move ahead without sacrificing your love of the job. It starts with Focus, where you'll be prompted to set your own specific priorities. Enable lets you set boundaries so you'll be able to carve out the time you need to work on your priorities. The Listen section helps you create a personal advisory board--people who can be there when you need them to support and encourage you--and also learn from. Be offers tools to move through your career with confidence and intention. And finally, Reflect gives you the space to look back and decide what's working--and what isn't. You'll revisit and reevaluate your priorities so you can continue to move forward. Each chapter starts with an essay on the subject and includes skills exercises and plans that require you to actively apply your newfound knowledge to your own situation. Throughout are inspirational affirmations to help keep you focused and on track. The chapters end with a "palate cleansing" meditation and mandala, which will give you a chance to slow down and reflect. By the time you complete the workbook you will have a clear path to move forward and activate your career with clarity, intention and confidence.

Creating Careers with Confidence inspires careers and empowers lives as it reflects on life story themes and uses the best of career development theory and practice. Its main focus is helping students discover careers that provide meaning and purpose in addition to income, balance, and fulfillment across various life roles. This self-paced workbook covers essential career management topics such as self-awareness, world-of-work information, person-job matching, networking, decision-making, resume writing, job interviews, and an activity-packed appendix that includes time and stress management strategies. Plus a portfolio summary facilitates academic advising that is useful for informed course selection. The book s tone is practical and engaging and its points are amplified by the various inspirational quotes throughout."

Demonstrates that with the appropriate tools everyone is capable of developing a physical and mental presence.

IDEO founder and Stanford d.school creator David Kelley and his brother Tom Kelley, IDEO partner and the author of the bestselling The Art of Innovation, have written a powerful and compelling book on unleashing the creativity that lies within each and every one of us. Too often, companies and individuals assume that creativity and innovation are the domain of the "creative types." But two of the leading experts in innovation, design, and creativity on the planet show us that each and every one of us is creative. In an incredibly entertaining and inspiring narrative that draws on countless stories from their work at IDEO, the Stanford d.school, and with many of the world's top companies, David and Tom Kelley identify the principles and strategies that will allow us to tap into our creative potential in our work lives, and in our personal lives, and allow us to innovate in terms of how we approach and solve problems. It is a book that will help each of us be more productive and successful in our lives and in our careers.

Back to Business makes returning to the workforce accessible for anyone who believes that finding a decent job after taking a career break is impossible. When on the hunt for a job, make sure your LinkedIn profile is just as polished and updated as your resume. If you aren’t getting responses from recruiters, chances are your profile is missing pertinent keywords that bots aren’t selecting. In addition, dress codes have changed too, so you’ll need to know new technologies such as Slack and Google+ Hangouts. If you have no idea what any of this means, YOU’RE NOT ALONE. You’re one of the forty-five percent of women who, after taking a career break, quickly discovered that the job search has changed rapidly in the last decade. With new modes of communication, rules of discoverability and expectations, this book lays out a clear path for anyone ready to re-enter the workforce. Getting started is much easier when you know what the first step should be. In Back to Business, career coaching and re-entry experts Nancy McSharry Jensen and Sarah Duenwald, have put together a guide for women returning to the workplace. Practical and easy to understand, Back to Business teaches you how to: Identify and talk about what you want. Understand your personal brand and how your skills translate to your new career. Become professionally relevant and gain confidence in returning to the workforce. Look for job opportunities while being productive and intentional with your time. Nancy and Sarah understand through first-hand experience the anxiety of returning to work. They have helped hundreds of women facing the job search process to overcome the anxiety of what is often overwhelming life change.

Within Authentic Confidence, Ben Fauske incorporates successfully proven strategies based on research and real-life stories that guide leaders to a confidence breakthrough. Ego, arrogance and narcissism commonly describe ineffective leadership. Nobody likes a show off, but it also doesn’t work to shrink into the shadows. Ben Fauske had significant confidence issues early in his career and he was miserable. After years of struggle, he discovered a pattern that some of the greatest recording artists have used to overcome confidence issues and find success. He called it Authentic Confidence, and the process dramatically improved his career. Since, Ben has taught thousands of leaders the step-by-step instructions to find and communicate confidence in every situation. He shows readers these instructions and communication strategies in Authentic Confidence. It includes a self-assessment called the Authentic Confidence Quotient along with a career building tool called the Career Confidence Guide. Authentic Confidence has been proven to elevate the influence of leaders and enhance employee engagement at all levels.