100 Conversations for Career Success by
Introducing yourself : how to communicate what you offer -- How to wow your audience on the phone -- How to inform your network you're searching for a job -- How to cold call -- How to contact and inform potential references about your search -- How to solicit, secure, and succeed at an informational interview -- How to network at events (and make it easy to follow up) -- Post-networking event follow-up -- How to reach VIPs -- How to communicate online : a primer for using social media -- How to communicate via LinkedIn -- Communicating professionally using Twitter -- Communicating professionally using Facebook -- How to communicate on Google+ -- Examples of how to be generous in your job search.
Awaken to Your Calling by
For the many people currently in the throes of career or life transition and wanting a deeper sense of purpose and direction, career and life coach Benator offers clarification, support, and inspiration in creating a meaningful and fulfilling career and life.
Bringing up the Boss by
"A practical guide for new managers, and especially those in fast-growing or start-up organizations, Bringing Up the Boss combines anecdotes, data, how-to exercises, and templates to help the reader build the fundamental skills of being a great boss"-- Provided by publisher.
The Career Toolkit: essential skills for success that no one taught you by
The Career Toolkit will help you master vital skills for your career and your income. Every chapter is packed with dozens of actionable principles, exercises, and practices that will accelerate your success. It is a multivitamin for your career! The Career Toolkit shows you how to design and execute your personal plan to achieve the career you deserve.
Don't Wait, Create by
Erica Barry provides a roadmap to digital content creation and finding one's creative voice, and highlights the journeys of successful digital creators like Bo Burnham, Chloe Fineman, Jimmy Tatro, and others.
Dream Bold, Start Smart by
In Dream Bold, Start Smart, visionary business advisor Tatiana Tsoir gives “almost-preneurs” the skills, tools, and confidence to successfully pursue their dreams of starting a business. In plain language Tatiana shows you how to bulletproof your idea, and arms you with a framework that will enable you to run a sustainable and profitable business. You’ll learn where to start, how to build your team, what to charge, how and when to ask people for help, and more. With specific checkpoints and milestones laid out, you’ll address any potential stumbling blocks before they arise, and set yourself up for success right out of the gate. Filled with stories, insights, facts, and tips, Dream Bold, Start Smart takes the anxiety and guesswork out of building a business—from the spark of an idea to launch and beyond. With clear steps and detailed how-tos, you’ll have everything you need to turn your entrepreneurial dream into a reality.
The Entrepreneur's Paradox by
The Secret to Finding Next-Level Success as an Entrepreneur. This book contains all you need to overcome the entrepreneur’s paradox. By addressing the 15 mistakes that every entrepreneur risks making, despite the business they’re in, author and educator Curtis Morley provides budding entrepreneurs a defined pathway to success.
HBR Guide to Getting the Mentoring You Need (HBR Guide Series) by
Whether you're eyeing a specific leadership role, hoping to advance your skills, or simply looking to broaden your professional network, you need to find someone who can help.
Managed correctly, mentoring is a powerful and efficient tool for moving up. This book will show you how to:
Find new ways to stand out in your organization
Set clear and realistic development goals
Identify and build relationships with influential sponsors
Give back and bring value to mentors and senior advisers
Evaluate your progress in reaching your professional goals
HBR Guide to Managing up and Across (HBR Guide Series) by
Are your working relationships against you? To achieve your goals and get ahead, you need to rally people behind you and your ideas. But how do you do that when you lack formal authority? Or when you have a boss who gets in your way? Or when you're juggling others' needs at the expense of your own? By managing up, down, and across the organization. Your success depends on it, whether you're a young professional or an experienced leader.
Launch Your Career by
Expert career coach Sean O'Keefe shows how students can get their dream job right out of college by building their own professional network from scratch.
Leading Inclusion by
Organizational psychologist / executive coach Gena Cox delivers the message that humans vary, and human variation is normal. Yet true inclusion that embraces these variations remains elusive in the workplace. Drawing on psychological science, interviews with corporate leaders, the work of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) experts, and her own experience in corporate America, Cox goes beyond the business case for diversity and answers the clarion call for human-centered organizational leadership. Leading Inclusion is not a how-to book; it's a how to be book--one that educates, challenges, and empowers you and your C-suite and board colleagues to lead a diverse workforce effectively. You'll learn the historical facts that created the racial inequities and systemic injustices that show up in the workplace, even today. Leading Inclusion shows the importance of taking the pulse of all your employees, so you can identify meaningful actions to build an inclusive, respect-first organizational culture.
Love + Work by
Buckingham first starkly highlights the contours of our loveless work lives and explains how we got here. Next, he relates how we all develop best in response to other human beings. What does a great work relationship look like when the other person is cued to your loves? What does a great team look like when each member is primed to be a mirror, an amplifier, of the loves of another? Finally, he shows how you can weave love back into the world of work as a force for good, how you can use your daily life routines to pinpoint your specific loves, and how you can make this a discipline for the rest of your life.
Becoming a Paralegal by
Becoming a paralegal -- All about training programs -- Financing your education -- How to find your first job -- Job-search skills and interviewing -- How to succeed once you've found the job.
Becoming a Writer, Staying a Writer by
Offers expert insider advice to help fellow writers establish lasting careers as storytellers.