As you know, I have a series of very useful professional development books to develop team leadership and management skills that have been around a few years.
I've expanded the Workplace Solutions series to include four new books focusing on the needs of women learning how to become management material and honing their confidence and communication skills while climbing the corporate ladder.
Every woman whether just starting work, returning to work after a long absence, striving to understand workplace cultures as women, or struggling to deal with difficult people on the job, all can benefit from learning the lessons of others.
Fast track YOUR progress at work, study the self help career development books, the professional development books, any good self help book will give you the edge over the rest who are just muddling along as best they can, often bewildered by what is happening around them.
Check them out here for both Kindle and paperback versions of the new series:
Business Leadership - Becoming Management Material & Building Better Teams: Workplace Solutions For Women in Charge
Win With Essential Communication Skills & Business Etiquette: Workplace Solutions For Women In Charge
Getting Organized with Less Stress and More Time! Workplace Solutions for Women
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In the meantime, enjoy these self help articles that may give you some tips for becoming stronger and more efficient on the job.
Work on Self Confidence to Maximize Your Success and Personal Satisfaction
In the workplace, a sense of self confidence is crucial for your success. Having a high level of confidence in yourself will also improve your self esteem and personal life. Sometimes, however, forcing yourself to try to become confident when you don’t feel your best is difficult, but it’s extremely beneficial to your overall life.
If you show your sense of self worth in the workplace, you’re more likely to be taken seriously and be seen as strong by your co-workers and even your boss. They won’t use you and walk all over you by delegating their work to you if you have the confidence to stand up for yourself and what you do and don’t want to do.
Dealing with customers will also be easier because they’ll know that you mean business and take your work seriously. For your personal life, confidence is key to being satisfied with yourself.
Confidence is attractive - having it will make your relationship better, whether you’re looking for a significant other or even if you already have one. People also like being around confident people because their confidence rubs off on them, and confident people are more fun to be around because they’re more willing to do fun activities like going out or going to the beach.
While you shouldn’t be afraid to show off your self confidence, make sure that you don’t come across as cocky. Don’t brag about yourself and your belongings to others. Instead, let them notice things about you and if they compliment you, don’t degrade yourself – simply thank them.
Being cocky makes you look less confident, because it looks like you have to show off in order to feel some sort of validation. If you feel like you just can’t seem to find any bit of confidence in yourself, try looking for things you love about yourself instead of things you hate.
This can include things about your work ability and work ethic, your looks, your pride about some sort of passion you have, or just anything else that you feel proud of yourself for.
Having a high self esteem will greatly benefit you both in your work and personal well-being. Confidence is something lots of people don’t have, which will make you much more dominant in the workplace and in your personal affairs. Although for some, confidence is a difficult thing to try to build up, it can be done with a little bit of practice and self love.
Tap Into Your Creative Side for Success and Personal Satisfaction
At work, you want to be the best that you can be. To do this, you shouldn’t only follow the leader because you won’t stand out or be seen any differently than any of your co-workers.
You can do this by using your imagination to come up with innovative ideas that you can present to your boss and co-workers, making you be seen as a top performer in your workplace.
In order to let your creative side come out during work, at home you need to keep in touch with your imagination by expressing yourself through fun activities and artistic expression like listening to or making music, making art, or doing some creative writing like fiction.
These activities will not only help you express and grow your creative mind, but they will also provide stress relief through releasing endorphins. You can even express your creative mind at work by drawing on paper, doing virtual art, listening to music, or even writing fiction during your free time like your lunch break.
Before a meeting, try to think of some sort of idea that you could present to the group that could excite them and reflect positively upon you. Even if your idea isn’t innovative and amazing, you could try to think of a more efficient way to get the job done that both the group and your boss would most likely be open to.
When you’re presenting these ideas, make sure you remain serious about them. You don’t want to make yourself look like the laughing stock of the workplace by trying too hard to get attention lavished on you.
When you’re coming up with different plans, brainstorm and make sure that they would work before presenting them. By tapping into your creativity, you’ll feel more free and confident in your abilities to create and present information and ideas.
Don’t allow yourself to go through your whole life following someone else’s expectations for a path that they have set out for you. There are many ways to allow your creativity to flow, whether you express it through your work, clothes, or activities you do in your free time.
Even if you feel like you may not be good at art, music, or any other sort of creative activity you can always learn through classes or even YouTube videos. Showing your creative side through your work as a problem solver will show your boss what you’re capable of and will end up making you stand out, be seen as a top performer, and maybe even net you a higher salary!
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Level Up in Life with Continuing Education
If you’re not satisfied with where your career is at and it’s causing you to be unhappy in your life, you should find time to expand your skills and education to become eligible for a different job, position, or even better pay.
Schedule time after your work hours are over to level up your knowledge by doing things like research or even online school or college. There are many different online options to broaden your abilities and understanding since most of the work of the modern world is done virtually.
You can also do online schooling on the weekends if you find that you don’t have time to learn after work or you feel too stressed out by trying to handle multiple things at once.
If you want to go back to college to get a different degree and possibly get a completely new job, then you need to make sure that you can handle balancing your work with school in order to be able to support yourself and your family.
Make sure that you keep your original job as a backup plan in case going back to school - online or in person - doesn’t work out in the long run and you end up having to go back to your original position.
You also might want to just level up at your workplace and get upgraded to work at a higher position. For this, you may not need to go back to school, but you will need to expand your skill set by doing lots of research on and learning the tasks of the position you want to be promoted to.
If you just want better pay from your workplace, you can just work harder and broaden your skills as you display them to your boss. Show your boss you are capable of handling a heavier workload with your newly learned abilities, and if you get more duties assigned to you, you will hopefully be eligible to secure a raise in income.
Sometimes you may feel like you’re capable of much more when it comes to the job you chose. It’s never too late to redirect your career path to a place that will make you become much happier and will grant you a higher salary.
Doing this will take practice, dedication, and time because you have to ensure that you still have a source of income to support yourself and your family while balancing school or extra research with your job.
Create a Vision Board That Encompasses Both Your Career and Personal Life
Making a vision board can help you visualize your goals and what you really want to achieve in life. Visually seeing what will result from you meeting your goals right in front of you will inspire you to achieve both your work and life goals by being a constant reminder of the desires you want to fulfill.
A vision board, also known as a dream board, can be made out of a posterboard, a corkboard, and even a piece of paper if you wanted it on a smaller scale. On the surface that you desire, cut out pictures that represent the things that will come from the goals that you want to achieve, or the dreams that you want to make come true.
The pictures that you add to your board could be anything from words that describe how you want yourself to be, like confident, happy, healthy, etc. to pictures of things you want to do, like travelling, gardening, painting, or any other hobbies you’d love to pick up.
If you want, you can make two separate vision boards to separate your work goals from your life goals. To your work board, maybe you could add things that represent your goals like being focused, being the top contender in the workplace, or even getting higher pay.
You can find images in anything like a magazine or newspaper, or you can even print out pictures from online and then put them on the board. You should keep this board somewhere where you can always see it.
This will constantly remind you of your goals and keep you motivated to work hard to have results. If you need to, you can even make a digital vision board by using some sort of photo editing app, and you can keep this “board” as a picture on your phone background or your computer backdrop, if you can’t find a place to keep a real vision board at your workplace.
Having a vision board is a great way to keep yourself motivated to achieve your goals that you have set for your work life and personal life. Constantly seeing these images of what you want will keep reminding you of why you’re working so hard, and what you’re eventually going to get to enjoy once you’ve worked hard enough to succeed.
On this board, make sure to not only add things that you want to eventually do someday, but also add goals for your long-term success and happiness. It should reflect a well-rounded ideal life that delivers high on personal satisfaction.
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