Take Charge of Your VIEW: Career Advice You Won't Get From Your Boss

by Lisa Ann Prior

Overview

Lisa Prior, a 20-year veteran leadership coach and change consultant, is on a mission to help people build the career of their dreams. Unlike most self-help books that tell people to quit their jobs and follow a “do what you love and the money will follow” theory, Lisa challenges you to dig deep to develop yourself, your career and your organization in your current role, whether you work for yourself or someone else.

When you take this six-week journey, you will discover your VIEW, Lisa’s framework of skills needed to create the career you love: Vision, Insight, Engagement, and Will. Lisa shares success stories of people she has coached and offers practical tips, including: (1) how to capture your VISION; (2) how to gain INSIGHT through feedback and “flow”; (3) how to boost career ENGAGEMENT through win-win situations and by abandoning the idea that success relies on “who you know”; and (4) how to cultivate WILL by creating your mentoring network and naming your mountain— the thing you shy away from. In Lisa’s case, this mountain was a MOUNTAIN. By the end of this interactive book, you will be able to jumpstart your own career changes, and put your VIEW into action, lead the life you were born to live, and do the work you were born to do. Whether you are 22 or 62, you can take charge of your VIEW.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780986134227
Publisher:	Nexus Impress Publishers LLC
Publication date:	09/13/2017
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	174
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.37(d)

About the Author

Lisa Prior is the author of Take Charge of Your VIEW: Career Advice You Won't Get from Your Boss (Nexus Impress LLC, July 2017). A 20 year veteran leadership coach and change consultant, Lisa is the founder of Prior Consulting, serving leaders and highly skilled professionals in healthcare, biopharma, biomedical, academic, financial services, asset management, retail and nonprofit sectors. Working closely with organizations such as Harvard University, Staples and Citizens Bank among others, her mission is to enable leaders to bring out the best in themselves and their people so they create win-win relationships with one another and their organizations. In addition to Prior Consulting, Lisa is currently on the Steering Committee of the Executive Development Roundtable at Boston University.

Editorial Reviews

"A simple and practical guide to navigate a challenging journey: Your Career. A Must Read." - Dr. Albert Siu, VP and General Manager of PAREXEL Learning and Development, PAREXEL International

In this book Lisa guides you through a journey into what really makes you tick. You’ll come away with new insights, a fresh perspective, and an enlightened approach to your current work or new venture. After years of corporate assessments, team building, and other work style classifications, it was hard to imagine there would be anything left to learn about myself. Yet Lisa’s book shed new light on known motivations, and even managed to reveal new insights. Don’t just read through this book. Work with it. You’ll be glad you did. - Ellen DiResta, Product Strategy Advisor and Author

"Let Lisa Prior be your guide on the six-week journey to self-discovery and discernment. "Take Charge of Your View" is a small package with a big punch. Engaging, provocative, and encouraging, this book provides actionable steps that will challenge and empower you to make good career choices. Make this walk with Lisa to embrace "awe, humility, and hope" as you take in the VIEW. I will..." - Charles D. Allen, COL, US Army retired, Professor, Leadership and Cultural Studies, U.S. Army War College

"Take Charge of Your View is an accessible, user-friendly, step-by-step guide to create a vision for your career and turn it into action. Drawing from the latest research in positive psychology and neuroscience, it includes many exercises, templates, and opportunities to reflect and plan. Most importantly, it recognizes and acknowledges the emotional overwhelm that career planning often stirs up, and offers holistic strategies and techniques to move past the anxiety and move forward into a brighter future." - Susan R. Crandall, PhD, Director, Center for Social Policy, University of Massachusetts Boston

"This book is a gem that distills the essence of a career into four core career capabilities. It is very clear how the book is organized around these capabilities, and the basic model in the book is framed in a very lively, user-friendly and original way. Notions like having a vision for yourself, having self-insight, etc., really “stick” with the reader.

I also love the 60 day time frame. That is long enough for a person to accomplish things and feel successful, but short enough that it feels manageable.The writing is brilliant! Full of rich examples that bring the ideas to life. I know the author, and the book’s voice comes through as Lisa! This is a real strength of the book. Reading the book is sort of like listening to Lisa in an in-person meeting, which means that I am always feeling stimulated, engaged, and inspired. If you, or someone you love, or someone you coach has a career, you need this book!" - Tim Hall, Professor Emeritus Questrom School of Management, Boston University

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