Work Your Strengths 1st Edition by Chuck Martin, Richard Guare, Peg Dawson ISBN 978-0814414071 0814414079
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ISBN 10: 0814414079
ISBN 13: 978-0814414071
Author: Chuck Martin, Richard Guare, Peg Dawson
Do you panic when your car won’t start or blurt out the first thing that pops in your mind? Can you keep track of your possessions and remember your appointments? How good are you at coming up with long-term plans and then actually sticking to them?
The answers are determined by your Executive Skills, a set of cognitive functions hardwired in the adult brain that define who you are and how you operate. Figure out the strengths and weaknesses of your own skill set and you can figure out exactly what job you’ll excel at.
That’s the promise of Work Your Strengths, the most on-target, research-based career advice you’ll ever find. Written by an award-winning author, together with experts in the field of neuroscience and psychology, Work Your Strengths draws on the latest discoveries about the brain and the authors’ original data to help you accurately assess your Executive Skills, pinpoint your ideal job—and avoid potential trouble.
You’ll learn about working memory, emotional control, sustained attention, organizational skills, goal-directed persistence, flexibility, stress tolerance, and more—skills that can make or break your chances of success. Take a free online test to gauge your own skill set, then match your profile against the Executive Skills exhibited by more than two thousand high achievers in a multitude of industries and positions.
Packed with the authors’ eye-opening findings, this unique book gives you a wholly new, scientifically sound way to play to your strengths—and locate the job that best fits your own strongest set of Executive Skills.
No more haphazard job switching, hazy career path, or worse, landing a really great job that you’re really bad at! Now there’s a surefire, scientific way to pinpoint the best job for you—and those you should definitely avoid.
Work Your Strengths taps into the powerful new concept of Executive Skills, which you can use to predict and maximize career success. With Work Your Strengths, the groundbreaking neuroscience behind the Executive Skills model has finally been brought into the career realm.
Executive Skills aren’t simply your IQ or temperament or even education and training. Instead, they’re a combination of brain functions that begin at birth and become hardwired in adulthood. Take the authors’ free online test to discover your innate strengths and weaknesses in areas such as working memory, emotional control, sustained attention, organizational skills, goal-directed persistence, flexibility, stress tolerance, and more. By matching your own profile against the Executive Skills of high achievers in a multitude of professions and industries, you’ll understand exactly which ones are crucial in which positions—and which weaknesses could spell serious trouble in specific jobs, departments, and industries.
The authors dig deeper than the vague “good with numbers” or “likes working with people” assessments. And the focus is far more practical than career books that ask you to explore your inner desires. Instead, Work Your Strengths draws on original research with more than two thousand people at hundreds of organizations of all types, from Fortune 500s to nonprofits, and at all levels, from CEOs to frontline employees.
This is solid, real-life data that you can use to match how your brain is wired with the wiring of people already successful in specific jobs. And the book makes its message plain, with an easy-to-read style devoid of scientific jargon and an abundance of examples of everyday behaviors that indicate high or low skills in each of the twelve areas.
Whether you are seeking a new and better job for yourself or a manager struggling to match the right employees with the right jobs, Work Your Strengths brings you a completely new, science based way to build a highly successful career.
Table of contents:
CHAPTER 1: DETERMINING YOUR OWN STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES … AND FINDING THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF OTHERS.
Skill 1: Response Inhibition
Skill 2: Working Memory.
Skill 3: Emotional Control
Skill 4: Sustained Attention
Skill 5: Task Initiation
Skill 6: Planning/Prioritization
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Skill 7: Organization
Skill 8: Time Management
Skill 9: Goal-Directed Persistence
Skill 10: Flexibility
Skill 11: Metacognition.
Skill 12: Stress Tolerance
Finding Your Own Strengths and Weaknesses
Workload and Executive Skills.
Voices from the Front Lines:
Workload
Exceeding Your Cognitive Bandwidth
Knowing in Advance.
CHAPTER 2: FINDING SUCCESS AND AVOIDING FAILURE: WHY YOUR STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES ARE THE WAY THEY ARE: THE SCIENCE BEHIND EXECUTIVE SKILLS
Executive Skills in Psychology
Executive Skills and the Brain
Executive Skills and Brain Development
CHAPTER 3: WHAT IS A HIGH PERFORMER AND HOW DO YOU BECOME ONE? SELECTING THE RIGHT PATH TO INCREASE THE CHANCE OF SUCCESS.
Performance-Based: Consistency Is Key
Quantitative: Expectations and Results.
Qualitative: Some Subjectivity
Position in the Organization
Company First.
Multidimensional
How Many Are High Performers?
Voices from the Front Lines: Number of High Performers.
What Sets High Performers Apart
Voices from the Front Lines: What Sets Them Apart.
CHAPTER 4: NAVIGATING YOUR ROAD TO HIGH PERFORMANCE: FINDING YOUR SKILLS COMBINATION TO DETERMINE WHAT INDUSTRY YOU SHOULD BE IN.
Most Prevalent Executive Skills Strengths and Weaknesses..
Some Skills Go Hand in Hand.
Strengths vs. Commonly Found Weaknesses.
High-Performing Males vs. High-Performing Females.
Executive Skills of High Performers by Age
Task Initiation: The Common Weakness
The High-Performing Pair.
Executive Skills of High Performers by Industry.
Financial Services
Healthcare
Manufacturing.
Technology.
Education
Nonprofits
Finding the Match
CHAPTER 5: WHAT’S THE RIGHT DEPARTMENT FOR YOU? THE STRENGTHS OF HIGH PERFORMERS BY DEPARTMENT
Marketing/Advertising/Promotion: Always Getting Better.
Sales: Not Falling Through the Cracks.
Systems/IT: All About Road Maps
General Management: Goal-Oriented
Operations: Good on the Fly.
Customer Service: Strategically Important
Administrative: Organized and Can Adapt.
Finance: Modify on the Fly.
Accounting: Methodical Approach.
Clinical: Organized and Starting Right Away.
Executive Skills in a Department: Clinical High Performers.
Right-Seating People the First Time
CHAPTER 6: DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO BE IN THE CORNER SUITE? SKILLS BROKEN DOWN BY TITLE
Are You in the Right Job?.
The Brains in the Corner Office.
The Brains Down the Hall
The Self-Correcting Directors
.The Managers with a Plan.
The Organized Employees
CHAPTER 7: HOW YOUR STRENGTHS MATCH THOSE OF OTHERS AT WORK: WAYS TO MATCH BEHAVIORS TO EXECUTIVE SKILLS IN YOUR BUSINESS
Shared Strengths in One Organization
Shared Strengths in Two Nonprofits
Mapping Characteristics to Executive Skills.
Avoiding Potential Conflicts
Focus on Executive Skills Strengths
Voices from the Front Lines: Strengths and Weaknesses.
Healthcare: Clinical vs. Nonclinical.
High Performers in Sales-Buyer Interactions
Observable Behaviors.
Strong Flexibility: Typical Behaviors
Weak Flexibility: Typical Behaviors
Strong Response Inhibition: Typical Behaviors
Weak Response Inhibition: Typical Behaviors.
CHAPTER 8: AVOIDING THE WRONG PROMOTION: SORTING THE STRENGTHS OF EMPLOYEES VS. MANAGERS VS. EXECUTIVES
Voices from the Front Lines: High and Low Performers
The Failed Sales Promotion.
Voices from the Front Lines: Promoting Salespeople to Management.
Sales Employees vs. Sales Management
Working in a Comfort Zone
Voices from the Front Lines: Job Satisfaction
IT Executives Can Shield the Heat
Operations: Order and Organization
Administrative: Organization Is Key
Customer Service: Recalling Past Solutions
Can Performance Be Predicted?.
CHAPTER 9: DETERMINE YOUR FIT-THE HIGH-PERFORMANCE EXECUTIVE SKILLS MAP: WHERE DO HIGH PERFORMERS WITH YOUR STRENGTHS WORK?
Response Inhibition
Working Memory
Emotional Control
Sustained Attention
Task Initiation
Planning/Prioritization
Organization
Time Management
Goal-Directed Persistence
Flexibility
Metacognition
Stress Tolerance.
The High-Performance Executive Skills Map
Industries by Executive Skills Strengths
Departments by Executive Skills Strengths
Job Functions/Titles by Executive Skills Strengths
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