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.In Soaring on Your Strengths, Ryan shows you how to: identify your most marketable qualities and strengths self-promote and brand yourself for the best jobs and promotions. establish an appealing career identity implement fresh approaches to networking with colleagues improve your relationship with the boss Filled with her client success stories, solid strategies, and smart, easy-to-follow advice, this book is the next best thing to having your own career coach on-call to advance your career and prosper.

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.In Soaring on Your Strengths, Ryan shows you how to: identify your most marketable qualities and strengths self-promote and brand yourself for the best jobs and promotions. establish an appealing career identity implement fresh approaches to networking with colleagues improve your relationship with the boss Filled with her client success stories, solid strategies, and smart, easy-to-follow advice, this book is the next best thing to having your own career coach on-call to advance your career and prosper.

A groundbreaking, inspiring book for businesses, managers, and individuals on how to achieve the absolute best by focusing on strengths and steering away from weaknesses, this revolutionary, humanistic approach to business will transform companies, build careers, and change lives.

A guide to the many issues gifted children face that offers parents and teachers advice on identifying gifted children, helping them get the most of classroom programs, forming parent support groups, meeting social and emotional needs, and choosing the appropriate curriculum.

In less than two NFL seasons, Carson Wentz's impressive leadership, strong arm, and winning personality have made him the most popular Eagle since a young Donovan McNabb. Carson Wentz: Soaring to the Top is the ultimate tribute to the quickly-ascending quarterback taking Philly by storm. Including dozens of full-color photographs, fans are provided a glimpse into Wentz’s superb play early in his career, as he leads the franchise back to contention for an ever-elusive Super Bowl triumph. This keepsake also explores Wentz’s charitable endeavors off of the field, and looks ahead to where he could one day stack up among legendary Eagles’ names like Jurgensen, Jaworski, Cunningham, and McNabb.

In the corporate world, complacent companies run the risk of extinction. In this guide, James Belasco and Jerre Stead propose that management must identify and focus on long-term future goals to propel a business into the future.

The Strengths Profile Book takes you on a journey to discover your strengths, and gives you insights and practical suggestions to help you develop them. If you're a coach, manager or parent wanting to get the best from others, this book shows you how. It reveals all 60 strengths from Capp's online strengths assessment tool.

"A new & upgraded edition of the online test from Gallup's Now, discover your strengths"--Jacket.

Thomas Edison, whose inventions changed peoples' lives for the better, said: "If you want something you've never had, you have to do something you've never done." 30 Days of Character Strengths is a guided practice to help you shift into new possibilities in your work, relationships, health, and virtually every dimension of your life. Character strengths are human traits that cultivate goodness and excellence. Being grounded in character strengths elevates your capacity to express who you are and what you do when at your very best. Day by day, you'll observe your strengths in action and apply them in precise ways to boost achievement, strengthen relationships, and rise up to challenges. This book is for everyone: the parent seeking to create a happy home, the new manager or leader bringing together her team, and the college student finding his way in the world. If you're new to character strengths, it will help you develop a meaningful awareness of your strengths and engage them optimally. If you're a seasoned strengths practitioner, it offers practices you may not have explored, like creating a strength-based habit or taking a Mindful Pause to shift into your strengths when you need a boost in energy. If you're a leader, manager, coach, consultant, therapist, teacher, parent, grandparent, or someone passionate about bringing out the best in others, this book offers 1) an approach to introducing character strengths work and 2) activities that apply a lens of strengths to navigating challenges, reaching for dreams, and walking through daily life. Jane Anderson, your guide who accompanies you every step of the way, weaves together inspiring stories and examples with research distilled from positive psychology, the scientific study of human flourishing. Discover how your strengths can become pathways to living more authentically, cultivating excellence, and shifting into new possibilities!