JobDig Recommended Reading

86 Creative Ideas for Having More Fun and Less Stress at Work

By Joan Lloyd
Booklet packed with fun ideas, some build a family-friendly atmosphere, some are stress busters, others have a business purpose. Each will spark creative ideas of your own.
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How To Feel Great At Work Every Day

By Deborah Brown-Volkman
How To Feel Great At Work Every Day guides you through creating a practical plan to finding more energy to fuel your career. Instead of complicated suggestions and ideas, this book offers easy-to-understand steps you can implement in your career today.
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How To Gain The Professional Edge: Achieve The Personal And Professional Image You Want

By Susan Morem
Provides the tools, skills and techniques to help people achieve their career, income and professional goals. Perfect for people looking for a job, new to the work place, or wanting to move ahead in their current career. Explains the business casual phenomenon. Gives expert advice on work place dress, image and behavior.
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How to Work Smart! And Enjoy Your Job

By Melinda Howard Erickson
Ms. Erickson's short but highly insightful 25 ways will improve your bottom-line when your employees take new interest in their job & demonstrate greater productivity as a result of what they learn from Ms. Erickson's gem of a book. Simply to read, comprehend & use -best investment you'll make this year for employee training.
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How You Can Help: An Easy Guide to Incorporating Good Deeds into Your Everyday Life

By Bill Coplin
This book is a guide to "Transforming your life by giving something back." Coplin (the Maxwell Sch. of Citizenship, Syracuse Univ.) thoughtfully discusses how to become a volunteer in various sectors, and describes the lives of both well-known and unsung activists. Resource lists in this book are useful; game-plans and self-evaluation quizzes less so. Public librarians may want to toss a coin in deciding whether to purchase this book or The Cathedral Within (LJ 6/15/99), a remarkably similar volume by Share Our Strength founder Bill Shore. Shore's book covers much the same ground, is the more readable of the two, and is in hardcover. Heads or tails?
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Innovation at the Speed of Laughter : 8 Secrets to World Class Idea Generation

By John Sweeney
The path to innovation is a long, patient, inward journey. This book gets us moving at the speed of laughter.
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Love It, Don't Leave It: 26 Ways to Get What You Want at Work

By Bev Kaye
Love It, Don't Leave It encourages employees to assume responsibility for the way their work lives work. This is not difficult, say authors Beverly Kaye and Sharon Jordan-Evans, who take a witty and practical approach to finding job satisfaction. Presented in an appealing, accessible A to Z format, the book includes strategies for communication, career growth, balancing work with family, and more. Chapters include "Ask: And You May Receive," "Jerk: Work with One?" "Passion: It's Not Just a Fruit," and "Zenith: Are We There Yet?" The same breezy, results-minded style that made the authors' Love 'Em or Lose 'Em a bestseller makes this follow-up a fun and inspiring read.
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Negotiating Your Salary: How To Make $1,000 A Minute

By Jack Chapman
The fourth edition of Jack Chapman’s salary negotiation classic includes updated Internet research sources with passwords to useful sites; new lingo for earnings conversations; thorough coverage of stock options and grants; and the final word on when to get a lawyer involved. NEGOTIATING YOUR SALARY focuses completely on the job candidate’s side while demonstrating how to develop a comp package that will satisfy the employer, too.
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Soaring on Your Strengths: Discover, Use, and Brand Your Best Self for Career Success

By Robin Ryan
Robin Ryan’s groundbreaking new book is designed to help readers take advantage of a paradigm shift in the workplace. Instead of hiring or promoting generally qualified people and improving their weaknesses, companies are now looking for workers who have the strengths that match particular jobs. Ryan shows readers how to identify those strengths and use that knowledge to advance their careers and better promote themselves to prospective employers. She shows how to establish an appealing career identity using self- branding tools like résumés, Mind Maps, and on-the-job success stories, and outlines fresh approaches to networking with colleagues and negotiating with bosses. Savvy and entertaining, Soaring on Your Strengths will be the job and promotion seekers guide for the twenty-first century.
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Thrive: Standing on Your Own Two Feet in a Borderless World

By Mike Cook
Thrive is a paradigm-breaking, down-to-earth look at the deeper meaning of work, mentoring, relationships and interdependence in the new global workplace. An indispensable guide to developing vital inner skills necessary to succeed in today's shifting economic realities and tomorrow's international marketplace.
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You Want Me to Work with Who? : Eleven Keys to a Stress-Free, Satisfying, and Successful Work Life...No Matter Who You Work With

By Julie Jansen
In I Don't Know What I Want . . . But I Know It's Not This, career consultant Julie Jansen won over readers with the same comforting, clear headed approach that she brings to her many Fortune 500 clients. Now she tackles a problem that affects every working person, regardless of occupation: difficult people. Whether the problem is an "abusive" boss, "toxic" coworker, or "difficult" assistant, Jansen shows how to master the eleven keys to getting along with even the most dysfunctional colleagues. Featuring self-assessment exercises designed to identify the root causes of problem behavior and smart, viable solutions and tips for managing different kinds of difficult people - from subordinates to superiors - this invaluable resource is a savvy, humane guide to reducing stress, establishing workplace harmony, and making sure that no one stands in the way of your career goals.
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