Where do you see yourself five years from now? It’s important to consider where you want to go on your career journey, whether you’re currently in the job market or not. Mapping out a plan for your professional life will help you stay abreast of changes in your field and identify any tune-ups that might be necessary. This TD at Work will help you to: • Recognize what you have to offer employers. • Clarify your preferred skills and work environment. • Refine your career aspirations. • Evaluate your strengths and identify any gaps.• Develop an action plan.

Career derailment, found at all organizational levels in the workplace, is under-documented. Most books examining how careers go off track deal with abstract concepts and focus only on top executives. This book defines 99 potentially career-ending pitfalls, illustrated with real-world examples, and offers specific advice to employees at all levels in business, nonprofit, military, government and other organizations. Topics include the consequences of power and pleasing, the illusion of immunity, meeting behavior, corrective feedback, ineffective image, nonverbal behavior, self-serving analysis and the perception of management as a science. Perspectives are provided on avoiding the indirect hazards of working with superiors or subordinates who may be on the path to derailment. A reader self-assessment is included.

Managers who achieve significant professional goals don’t often worry about career derailment. But complacency isn’t the same as continued success. Many high-performing executives have one or more blind spots that they ignore as long as they meet their business goals. The traps that lead to derailment can usually be found among five leadership competencies: interpersonal relationships, building and leading a team, getting results, adapting to change, and having a broad functional orientation. Managers who rely on any of these skills at the expense of the others or who neglect these skills when promoted from a technical to a managerial role can sidetrack their career. Leadership success—achieving it and continuing it—depends heavily on a manager’s developing and using each of these skills.

The path of a doctoral student can feel challenging and isolating. This guide provides doctoral students with key ideas and support to kick-start a doctoral journey, inspire progress and complete their thesis or dissertation. Featuring observations from experienced supervisors, as well as the reflections of current and recent postgraduate researchers, this intimate and entertaining book offers vital insights into the critical moments in any doctoral experience.

Bringing together valuable insights from a range of research experts, PhD supervisors and examiners, this thoroughly revised second edition of How to Keep Your Research Project on Track details how to deal with the unexpected difficulties of research, and what to do when a project deviates from the plan. Keith Townsend and Mark N.K. Saunders give us essential insights for carrying out research, as well as developing resilience in academia.

The authors provide precise information for avoiding potential career derailment and direction for continuing your self-development in order to become a more valuable asset to your school district and your board.

Based on research, this book explores the workings of the team culture and how it differs from a standard organization. It examines organizations' successful transitions to teams. It discusses issues that teams face, including: the reasons teams struggle; and the challenges facing organizations when implementing teams.

This manual is intended for those job-searching individuals who want to get the best job possible given their education and experience. Presenting material topically and sequentially, it covers the basic skills of writing, research techniques, and interviewing.

Comprehensive, sound advice from a seasoned professional to help individuals of racial or cultural backgrounds achieve success within mainstream America. Shows job seekers how to adopt a business mindset for establishing their goals.