Book description
Even if you don’t have your dream job, every day is precious and filled with opportunities. Make the Most of Your Workday challenges you to actively manage and make the most of workday possibilities and problems. With drive, determination, and optimism, it offers solutions to workday predicaments. You can take control; you don’t have to wait for leaders, people, or circumstances to change. No matter your level, situation, or dilemma, Mary shows you how to regroup, reframe, and bounce back.
Make the Most of Your Workday begins with six common scenarios. Can you relate to any of the following challenges?
Getting caught up in office dramas.
Watching workloads increase while resources decrease.
Feeling your interest, enthusiasm, and focus fade.
Yearning for effective leadership.
Wanting to avoid working with certain people.
Feeling at the mercy of technology.
Make the Most of Your Workday contains powerful strategies and tools from several key areas and combines them into a concise practical guide, from strengthening your mindset and self-awareness to identifying needs and goals, from prioritizing your time and energy to communicating effectively and managing the unexpected.
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- DEDICATION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION: Get Your Hopes Up!
- 1: Today's Workday
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2: Manage Yourself—It's All About You
- “Before” Profile for Nicole
- Self-awareness
- Your Personality
- Your Needs, Goals, and Dreams
- Application Tool: What Kind of Job Do You Have?
- Application Tool: Workday Balance Reflection
- Workday Interactions
- Application Tool: Self-Check
- Application Tool: Workday Chats and Check-ins
- “After” Profile for Nicole
- Summary
- Reflection and Action
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3: Focus on Priorities—Yours, Mine, and Ours
- “Before” Profile for Carla and Jim
- Your Organization's Priorities
- Application Tool: Aligning Organization Goals With Team and Individual Goals
- Prioritization Approaches: Solo, Silo, or Team Collaboration
- Application Tool: Paper Plate Activity
- Application Tool: Team Matrix
- Key Points About Prioritization Tools
- Application Tool: The Case for Calm and Composure
- Application Tool: The Priority Shuffle
- Application Tool: Escalate—You Are Not Alone
- “After” Profile for Carla and Jim
- Summary
- Reflection and Action
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4: Value Time and Energy
- “Before” Profile for Donna
- Some Things About Time
- Application Tool: Your Time Choices
- Some Things About Energy
- A Tale of Workday Warriors
- Connecting Time, Energy, and Focus
- Putting It All Together
- Application Tool: Seeing Time in Chunks
- Application Tool: Mind Map for a Day
- Application Tool: Flipping Things Around
- Tips and Traps
- Interruptions and Distractions
- “After” Profile for Donna
- Summary
- Reflection and Action
- 5: Communicate Effectively
- 6: Confront, Challenge, and Conquer Chaos
- 7: Choosing Change
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Product information
- Title: Make the Most of Your Workday
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2018
- Publisher(s): Career Press
- ISBN: 9781632658784
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