Winning Conditions: How to Achieve the Professional Success You Deserve by Managing the Details That Matter

by Christine Hofbeck

Overview

WITH WINNING CONDITIONS, EVERYONE CAN FIND THEIR EXTRAORDINARY.

Let’s face it—professional success isn’t built only on the work itself. Instead, it’s often largely influenced by the manner in which you share or present your work. Small improvements in delivery can result in substantial improvements in outcome.

People succeed not simply because they deliver a winning work product or idea, but also because they deliver their work in a winning way. Winning Conditions is a joyful, insightful, and empowering book about delivering your work and ideas so that they (and you!) are more likely to be recognized, accepted, and celebrated. With Winning Conditions, you can show the world what you are capable of—it’s probably more than you ever thought possible.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781632281265
Publisher:	Viva Editions
Publication date:	09/08/2020
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	NOOK Book
Pages:	240
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Christine Hofbeck is an actuary and analytics expert, and has been named a pioneer and trailblazer in her field. An in-demand keynote speaker, she has a large established platform driven by extensive television, magazine and radio coverage including appearing in Ron Howard’s critically acclaimed National Geographic documentary series Breakthrough and CBS’s hit reality television show Survivor. Christine is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and MIT, and lives in NJ with her husband and three children.  

Table of Contents

Introduction-My Winning Story ix

Part 1 Embrace the Bigger Picture 1

Chapter 1 Develop Your Conscious Awareness 3

Chapter 2 Consider the Past 15

Chapter 3 Build a Coalition of Support 27

Part 2 Optimize Your Current Engagements 45

Chapter 4 Accommodate Different Perspectives 47

Chapter 5 Match Communication Styles 63

Chapter 6 Respect the Current State 79

Chapter 7 Understand Motivations for Change 99

Part 3 Elevate Yourself 115

Chapter 8 Create Experiences 117

Chapter 9 Define Your Own Value 133

Chapter 10 Be Magnetic 153

Chapter 11 Celebrate Kindness and Integrity 173

Conclusion-Your Winning Story 187

Acknowledgments 197

About the Author 200

Editorial Reviews

06/15/2020

A cheerful, get-out-the-pom-poms business guide arrives from consulting actuary and first-time author Hofbeck. She directs her advice and encouragement to hard-working businesspeople who have wondered, as she once did, why the “best” person—i.e., oneself—doesn’t always succeed. Success, she argues, is not just about the work one does, but about how one presents it—delivering “winning work” in a “winning way,” and creating a winning story around it. Hofbeck guides readers through the process of getting better at defining and communicating their own value and brand, self-reflection, building a support system, tailoring messages to the audience, and developing charisma, garnishing her advice with a little bit of behavioral economics and a lot of her own story and path to success, from making a bad first impression in a meeting with her company’s CFO, to being appointed to the Society of Actuaries’ board of directors. Fans of Survivor should particularly enjoy her story, as references to her 2017 stint on the show, and second-place finish, appear throughout. The advice is not particularly new, but the easy-to-follow presentation and encouraging tone may be just what’s needed for readers doing the work but not reaping the reward. Agent: Jessica Faust, BookEnds Literary. (Sept.)

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