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Stretch: How to Future-Proof Yourself for Tomorrow's Workplace Hardcover - 2016

by Karie Willyerd; Barbara Mistick; Foreword by Joseph Grenny


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You know you can do more with your career. And the future is going to demand more of you.

The problem is you are so busy keeping up with the day-to-day that you can't prepare for tomorrow. Stretch: How to Future Proof Yourself for Tomorrow's Workplace gives you the confidence and knowledge you need to achieve your goals in an ever-changing world. Karie Willyerd and Barbara Mistick--established experts and the collective winners of dozens of awards in the field of personal development and learning--offer evidence-based guidance on obtaining the skills you will need to thrive in tomorrow's workplace. Built on solid, global research and dozens of personal interviews with people who have achieved new and inspiring goals, Stretch offers advice, valuable insights, anecdotes, and recommendations to make achieving your goals practical and within reach.

If you are like other professionals, your biggest worry is becoming obsolete at work. Shifting technologies, fierce competition among corporations, and recruitment occurring on a global level would give anyone concern. To remain relevant in spite of change, you need to know how to:

  • Learn in any situation
  • Open your thinking to a world beyond where you are now
  • Connect to the people who can help you make your future happen
  • Seek experiences that will prepare you for tomorrow
  • Stay motivated through the ups and downs of a career so you can bounce forward

Stretch: How to Future Proof Yourself for Tomorrow's Workplace offers five practices to help you start, enhance, and lengthen your career by anticipating the needs of tomorrow's work environment. Don't become obsolete. Instead, stretch to achieve your potential.

From the rear cover

WHAT ARE YOU DOING TODAY TO AVOID BECOMING OBSOLETE TOMORROW?

The #1 workplace concern of people is becoming obsolete at work. Jobholders understand that the world of work is shifting, but don't have the tools to prepare for tomorrow's changes. Until now. In Stretch: How to Future-Proof Yourself for Tomorrow's Workplace, authors Karie Willyerd and Barbara Mistick--experts in the field of personal development and learning--offer evidence-based guidance from their ground-breaking research in collaboration with SAP and Oxford Economics to uncover insights that will help you avoid your career sell-by-date.

Stretch outlines the five essential practices to help you start, enhance, and lengthen your career by anticipating the needs of tomorrow's work environment. With practical strategies you can easily implement, Stretch gives you a glimpse into the future of work so you can prepare now.

Stretch gives you the information and tactics to: learn how to grab meaningful career opportunities that will help you grow; expose yourself to new skills while in your current job; identify the hidden opportunities within your network; along with understanding how a good boss can hold you back from your potential and what you can learn from a bad boss.

This vital resource also includes a wealth of stories from professionals who have successfully stretched in their work, how they went about it, the motivational strategies they used and the new meaning they found.

Don't become obsolete. Take the first step to stretching your skills to future proof yourself for tomorrow's workplace.

From the jacket flap

WHAT ARE YOU DOING TODAY TO AVOID BECOMING OBSOLETE TOMORROW?

The #1 workplace concern of people is becoming obsolete at work. Jobholders understand that the world of work is shifting, but don't have the tools to prepare for tomorrow's changes. Until now. In Stretch: How to Future-Proof Yourself for Tomorrow's Workplace, authors Karie Willyerd and Barbara Mistick--experts in the field of personal development and learning--offer evidence-based guidance from their ground-breaking research in collaboration with SAP and Oxford Economics to uncover insights that will help you avoid your career sell-by-date.

Stretch outlines the five essential practices to help you start, enhance, and lengthen your career by anticipating the needs of tomorrow's work environment. With practical strategies you can easily implement, Stretch gives you a glimpse into the future of work so you can prepare now.

Stretch gives you the information and tactics to: learn how to grab meaningful career opportunities that will help you grow; expose yourself to new skills while in your current job; identify the hidden opportunities within your network; along with understanding how a good boss can hold you back from your potential and what you can learn from a bad boss.

This vital resource also includes a wealth of stories from professionals who have successfully stretched in their work, how they went about it, the motivational strategies they used and the new meaning they found.

Don't become obsolete. Take the first step to stretching your skills to future proof yourself for tomorrow's workplace.

Details

  • Title Stretch: How to Future-Proof Yourself for Tomorrow's Workplace
  • Author Karie Willyerd; Barbara Mistick; Foreword by Joseph Grenny
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Hardback
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wiley, Hoboken, New Jersey
  • Date 2016-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781119087250 / 1119087252
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.1 in (23.11 x 15.75 x 2.79 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Vocational guidance, Career development
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015027971
  • Dewey Decimal Code 658

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 09/01/2015, Page 116

About the author

KARIE WILLYERD is the Workplace Futurist for SuccessFactors, an SAP company. She is the coauthor of the bestseller, The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies Attract, Develop & Keep Tomorrow's Employees Today. Her articles and blogs appear regularly in Harvard Business Review and in the HR and Learning press. She has been a Chief Learning Officer for five Fortune 500 companies.

BARBARA MISTICK is the President of Wilson College. Recently, she made history pioneering the nation's first loan buy-back program for college students. She is a seasoned entrepreneur and was named a Distinguished Service Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Her public service advocacy on behalf of entrepreneurs has won numerous awards from the US Small Business Administration, Ernst and Young and The Girl Scouts of America. Dr. Mistick was the first woman to serve as president of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. She holds an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh, and received her doctorate in Management from Case Western Reserve University.

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