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Your Brilliant Career: The Highs, The Lows & Everything in Between

 

There are many books, articles and websites that are available, however, I know we are all busy professionals.  Below is a small selection of books that I have read and found insightful.  They contain great information that can be applied, personally and professionally.  Please don’t think you need to read all of them!  
Search for these authors on social media, watch them on YouTube and check out their TED talks.

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Surveys and Scales

When I work personally with clients via coaching, I find they enjoy understanding more about themselves.  Their personality, behavioural style, their strengths and resilience, their stressors and thinking styles.
Here are the links to a few tools I use with my clients.

Uncover Your Strengths:  Take the free VIA Character survey here

Your Grit Scale: How do you persevere in the face of challenges, adversity and obstacles.  http://angeladuckworth.com/grit-scale/

Learn your Explanatory Style: Pessimistic or Optimistic.  You will need to read Martin Seligman’s ‘Learned Optimism’ book to understand the results. https://web.stanford.edu/class/msande271/onlinetools/LearnedOpt.html

Excellent Books to Read

** These books will help you further understand the content discussed in today’s workshop

Personal Insight:
– Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking
– Elaine N. Aron. The Highly Sensitive Person

Positivity:
– Barbara Fredrickson, Positivity.

Strengths:
– Michelle McQuaid, Your Strengths Blueprint: How to be Engaged, Energised and Happy at Work.

Meaning and Mastery:
– *** Simon Sinek, Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action.
– Anders Ericsson, Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise

Emotional intelligence & leadership are very important skills to develop:
– Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More than IQ

Stress management and resilience:
– *** Karen Reivich, The Resilience Factor: 7 Keys to Finding Your Inner Strength & Overcoming Life’s Hurdles
– Kelly McGonigal, The Upside of Stress: Why Stress is Good for You, and How to Get Good at it
– David Posen, The Little Book of Stress Relief
– Jane McGonigal, SuperBetter: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver and More Resilient.

Grit:
– Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion And Perseverance.
– Caroline Adams Miller, Getting Grit: The Evidence-Based Approach to Cultivating Passion, Perseverance, and Purpose.

Mindset:
– *** Carol Dweck, Mindset: Changing the Way You Think to Fulfil Your Potential
– *** Marilee G. Adams, Change Your Questions, Change Your Life

Improving your wellbeing and happiness:
– *** Shawn Achor, The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology that Fuel Success and Performance at Work
– Emma Seppala, The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success
– *** Martin Seligman, Flourish
– *** Martin Seligman, Learned Optimism: How to Change your Mind and Life

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