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ISBN 978-1-57023-376-0 (softcover) and ISBN 978-1-57023-378-4 (eBook)
By Ronald L. Krannich, Ph.D.
#7281 COMING IN 2024! This book picks up where the authors previous one (Overcoming Barriers to Employment) left off after you get the job offer and are now a new employee, starting from those critical first 90 days on the job to when you change jobs and/or employers.
Accordingly, it primarily focuses on job-keeping, survival, and advancement skills key “job blocks” and “career knock-outs” you need to know about before you invest too much time and energy into what may end up being an inappropriate job for your temperament, skills, and goals.
As many newly minted employees quickly discover, keeping a job and advancing ones career involve a whole new set of attitudes and behaviors that primarily focus on personality and performance a likable team player who is also a star performer.
Beginning with a self-test for identifying key barriers, this inviting book takes readers through 101 barriers that may prevent them from succeeding on the job and advancing their career. After identifying and analyzing each barrier, the author offers sound advice on how to best overcome that particular barrier.
The 101 barriers cover such sensitive issues as:
- lacks drive, enthusiasm, and energy
- takes little initiative and needs supervision
- arrives late and works slowly
- communicates poorly with others
- appears to be high maintenance
- demonstrates intellectual laziness
- dresses inappropriately
- inattentive to details and thoroughness
- uncooperative and contentious
- communicates poorly with others
- exhibits weak telephone and email skills
- technologically backward
- fails to take responsibility
- makes excuses and blames others
- misses deadlines and procrastinates
- fails to ask questions or asks too many
- self-absorbed and narcissistic
- talks too much and wastes time
- exhibits disgusting personal habits
- belittles previous employers and co-workers
- tells inappropriate jokes and stories
- talks big but produces little
- frequently interrupts others
- conducts personal business
- uses poor grammar
- accesses personal emails and social media accounts
- plays dysfunctional politics
- easily distracted and unfocused
- unwilling to work with others
- takes credit for others work
- appears overly ambitious
- communicates negative attitudes
- violates personal boundaries
- reveals too much information
- gossips a lot
- lacks empathy
- deceptive and manipulative
- mean spirited
- tries to sabotage workplace
An invaluable resource that catalogs what can and will go wrong on the job as well as offers simple strategies for making the necessary behavioral changes that can change ones employment life for the better!
232 pages. Copyright © 2021. $19.95. SPECIALS: 10 copies for $179.50; 100 copies for $1,397.00; 1,000 copies for $9,980.00.
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