How to Be the Employee Your Company Can't Live Without: 18 Ways to Become Indispensable [Paperback]

Glenn Shepard (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 17, 2006

In his previous books, noted management consultant Glenn Shepard showed managers how to get the most from their workforce. Now, in How to Be the Employee Your Company Can't Live Without, Shepard shows employees how to get the most from themselves, their jobs, and their careers.

This practical, actionable guide explains what today's managers are really looking for in employees, what they place the highest value on, and how employees can surpass expectations to gain raises and promotions. Based on common-sense principles that will work for anyone in any career, this practical, real-world guide shows you how to:

• Answer the one question that will immediately make you a highly valued employee
• Excel in your job by simply showing your employer how much you care about your job
• Create job security by earning a reputation as the most reliable person around
• Learn the right way to make mistakes
• Develop the kind of professional work ethic that gets you promoted
• Be the problem-solver companies are looking for
• And take control of your professional destiny!

Millions of Americans feel stuck in dead-end jobs that are getting them nowhere. Often they think, despite their best efforts, that no one will notice or reward their success. How to Be the Employee Your Company Can't Live Without shows you how to excel at the office and garner the recognition you've worked hard to earn. Master these principles and apply them every day at work and unlimited success will be your reward.

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From the Back Cover

In his previous books, noted management consultant Glenn Shepard showed managers how to get the most from their workforce. Now, in How to Be the Employee Your Company Can't Live Without, Shepard shows employees how to get the most from themselves, their jobs, and their careers.

This practical, actionable guide explains what today's managers are really looking for in employees, what they place the highest value on, and how employees can surpass expectations to gain raises and promotions. Based on common-sense principles that will work for anyone in any career, this practical, real-world guide shows you how to:

• Answer the one question that will immediately make you a highly valued employee
• Excel in your job by simply showing your employer how much you care about your job
• Create job security by earning a reputation as the most reliable person around
• Learn the right way to make mistakes
• Develop the kind of professional work ethic that gets you promoted
• Be the problem-solver companies are looking for
• And take control of your professional destiny!

Millions of Americans feel stuck in dead-end jobs that are getting them nowhere. Often they think, despite their best efforts, that no one will notice or reward their success. How to Be the Employee Your Company Can't Live Without shows you how to excel at the office and garner the recognition you've worked hard to earn. Master these principles and apply them every day at work and unlimited success will be your reward.

About the Author

After buying his own business in 1988, Glenn Shepard learned that managing a staff of three was harder than working for a national corporation with thousands of employees. He discovered that managers everywhere faced the same problems he was, and so he created the live seminar How to Manage Problem Employees in 1998 (a book by that same title was published by John Wiley & Sons in August 2005). Within two years, it has become so popular that it was selling out in each of the 25 states where he taught it. Today, Glenn gives between 100 and 150 seminars per year.
Visit www.GlennShepard.com for more information or to subscribe to Shepard's free e-zine.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (March 17, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471751804
• ISBN-13: 978-0471751809
• Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.5 x 8.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #496,199 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book, August 20, 2006

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L. Lawrence (Wilmington, DE) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Be the Employee Your Company Can't Live Without: 18 Ways to Become Indispensable (Paperback)

If you want to earn as much as you can earn, for the work you do -- if you want to be as valuable, indeed as indispensable, to your employer as you can be -- Glenn Shepard explains clearly and completely how and why. And how far. And every bit of it makes perfect sense.

If you've been told to work harder and sacrifice deeper -- but you find that you can't articulate the why and how -- and if you find that the lack of a clear understanding of why and how makes it somehow difficult for you to bring focus and motivation to your efforts to succeed in your employment -- then Glenn Shepard may have answered all your questions.

If you are discouraged by the chaos of the job market and you are seeking desperately to discover how to clearly distinguish yourself in a difficult environment -- the answer to your dilemma awaits your patient perusal in these readable 150 pages.

Mr. Shepard acknowledges that everything he's saying is common sense -- and frequently, book reviewers disdain explanations of common sense. But it's sensible, for lots of people, to have this common knowledge stated concisely and with a clear structure.

If you're trying to become employed -- or if you're already employed, and you're trying to maintain or improve your situation -- this excellent book may be just the turning point you need.

And Mr. Shepard enjoys good food and good service -- and there's nothing wrong with that.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Indispensable By Proxy?, January 3, 2012

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Zolton "Veni. Vidi. Reviewi." (Brookline, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Be the Employee Your Company Can't Live Without: 18 Ways to Become Indispensable (Paperback)

I just started a new job, and I'm looking to make a good first impression. Which usually means the impression of my lips on the boss' backside. It's the old "pucker up and trickle down" theory. So I've been shopping for products to keep my proverbial butt smooching sharp.

There's more to keeping a job than pure sycophantery. You've also got to convince the higher-ups that you're just the right person for the job -- and they'd never do it without you. That's where this book, devoted to being all the employee you can possibly be, comes in mighty handy.

Or would, I guess, if all the stuff it suggests weren't so darned HARD. I mean, seriously. Earning a good reputation? Developing a work ethic? Excelling at your job? Solving important problems? Showing up before noon?

Bossman, please. No job is worth all of that. So I paid a couple of guys twenty bucks apiece to read the book and just SAY that I did all of those things, nearby where the boss can hear it. That ought to vault me up the corporate ladder in a hurry. I'll just wait here on the bottom rung for somebody to come by, take my apron and paper hat, and give me the key to the executive washroom.

Should be any minute now. No time like the present.

Yep, any time at all. I'm ready for my closeup, boss. As in... NOW!

Now? Bueller? Hello?

Aw, rats.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Too much what...not enough how, June 20, 2011

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This review is from: How to Be the Employee Your Company Can't Live Without: 18 Ways to Become Indispensable (Paperback)

I was disappointed in this book to be honest. I was hoping for more actionable info that could help me turn my career around. This did not give it to me. I expected this to be a "how-to" book but it was fairly light on the how. :(

Maybe it is because I already do many of the things he talked about. I wanted something new and fresh. This is an adequate work but not spectacular.