Your Soul at Work: Five Steps to a More Fulfilling Career and Life [Paperback]

Nicholas W. Weiler (Author), Stephen C. Schoonover (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 2001

Loss of morale, burnout and attrition, especially among professional and managerial employees, have become issues of serious and increasing concern for both individuals and their companies and organizations. Many in the workforce are experiencing a nagging, difficult-to-pinpoint frustration-a growing sense of being too driven, with little or no time for family, important relationships or other personal values. They long for a greater sense of fulfillment and spiritual growth in what they are doing. They look for community and meaning in their jobs.

Your Soul at Work addresses these concerns in two ways: It uses universally agreed concepts of spirituality as a framework and places the process of career planning into this larger viewpoint. It goes on to present a number of very practical, workshop-proven tools and techniques, including a detailed Career and Life Workbook.

Nicholas Weiler and Stephen Schoonover, two seasoned career experts, present a strategy that has been fine-tuned and used very successfully for many years in a broad spectrum of career specialties across the world, including such Fortune 500 companies as IBM, AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, Lockheed Martin, General Electric, Citibank, Xerox, Sun Microsystems, Sprint, Eastman Kodak, Apple and Pfizer.

Your Soul at Work differs from the many spiritually oriented "self-help" books and the business-oriented "how-to" career development books by bridging the gap between straight spiritual and straight business writing. It will enable readers to integrate their career endeavors with their more personal and spiritual needs and to ultimately find vocations and lives with real meaning.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Unlike most "how-to" career guides featuring a combination of exercises and anecdotes, Your Soul at Work: Five Steps to a More Fulfilling Career and Life offers a more mediatative approach to finding and maintaining a vocation that brings long-term fulfillment in today's unstable business climate. While authors Nicholas W. Weiler with Stephen C. Schoonover, M.D. (who have counseled numerous Fortune 500 companies), demand lots of thought and energy from readers, their spiritual approach to the practical demands of work may provide a lasting payoff.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

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"Filled with practical, researched advice that is simultaneously both spiritual and profoundly down to earth." -- M. Scott Peck, author of The Road Less Traveled

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Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: HiddenSpring (March 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1587680068
• ISBN-13: 978-1587680069
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #580,342 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars really good resource, April 20, 2001

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A. Ferry (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Your Soul at Work: Five Steps to a More Fulfilling Career and Life (Paperback)

I'm making a career change and this helped me get some perspective. A "pre-interview"? What a novel idea.

I found good networking tips & the life-stage section was intriguing.

Also, the competency identfication section helped me determine some strengths and weaknesses I was unaware of.

5.0 out of 5 stars Soul Searching, September 18, 2011

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This review is from: Your Soul at Work: Five Steps to a More Fulfilling Career and Life (Paperback)

If you are experiencing career changes, I would highly recommend this book. It has lots of great information, but it is not a quick fix. If you do the work (taking the time to do the presented activities), you will find some answers and be in a better position to assess your career goals and direction.