The Reality-Based Rules of the Workplace: Know What Boosts Your Value, Kills Your Chances, and Will Make You Happier
- 2h 56m
- Cy Wakeman
- John Wiley & Sons (US)
- 2013
More than anything else, you need to understand exactly how your employer evaluates you, and your annual performance review doesn't tell the whole story. In The Reality-Based Rules of the Workplace, Cy Wakeman shows how to calculate how your true value to your organization by understanding your current and future potential against your "emotional expense"—the toll your actions and attitudes take on the people around you. With Cy's clear, straight-to-the-point advice, you can confront and reduce your emotional costliness, become an invaluable member of your team, and even learn to love your job again.
- Reveals a formula for measuring your current performance, future potential, and the biggest detractor, your emotional expense
- Shares real-world advice for quickly boosting your value and becoming a highly-valued, sought after employee and teammate
- Builds on the lessons in Reality-Based Leadership, Cy Wakeman's first book for leaders and managers
The Reality-Based Rules of the Workplace is the essential guide for boosting your value, owning your career, and becoming the kind of employee no organization can afford to lose.
About the Author
Cy Wakeman is a speaker, blogger, consultant, and human resources thought leader. A sought-after conference headliner, she also delivers more than a hundred keynote programs annually. Cy has honed her Reality-Based Leadership philosophy as a consultant to top executives and organizations seeking to thrive in difficult times. For more than two decades, she has consulted on talent development with major clients in manufacturing, banking, government, high tech, and health care, including Bayer, New York Presbyterian, National Institutes of Health, Hospira, Hallmark, Federal Reserve Bank, Weil Cornell, Verizon Wireless, U.S. Cellular, TD Ameritrade, ConAgra, Omnium Worldwide, First National Merchant Solutions, Wellmark, Wells Fargo, Cabela’s, Farm Bureau, and Trinity Health Systems. She has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the New York Post, and on SHRM.com. She is also an expert blogger on FastCompany.com and Forbes.com. In 2010, Cy published Reality-Based Leadership: Ditch the Drama, Restore Sanity to the Workplace, and Turn Excuses into Results (Jossey-Bass).
In this Book
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The Reality-Based Rules of the Workplace—Know What Boosts Your Value, Kills Your Chances, and Will Make You Happier
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The New Rules of the Game
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Your Current Performance
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Your Future Potential
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Your Emotional Expensiveness
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Rule #1—Your Level of Accountability Determines Your Level of Happiness, so DON’T HOPE TO BE LUCKY. CHOOSE TO BE HAPPY.
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Rule #2—Suffering Is Optional, so DITCH THE DRAMA!
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Rule #3—Buy-In Is Not Optional. YOUR ACTION, NOT OPINION, ADDS VALUE.
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Rule #4—Say ‘‘Yes’’ to What’s Next. CHANGE IS OPPORTUNITY.
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Rule #5—You Will Always Have Extenuating Circumstances. SUCCEED ANYWAY.
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Call to Action—Put the New Rules to Work
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Notes
