The Inner Work of Work: Getting Along With Others (Paperback)

by Michael Baroff (Author) "You have in your hands a guidebook for dealing with some of the most common issues you will face in the workplace..." (more)
Key Phrases: coaching points, inner work, Coaching Point, Coaching Prompt

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Review
"Michael Baroff has assembled a comprehensive set of self-instructional and eye-opening guides..." -- Ray Vaudo, Education Area Manager, U.S. Internal Revenue Service

"The booklets cover a wide range of topics that are essential for success in management/leadership." -- Sara Jane Hope, Senior Director, Recruiting, Training and Communication, Valley Innovative Services.

"These booklets will be useful to highly self-motivated employees in a wide range of workplace settings." -- Carol Kirsch, Senior Learning Consultant, Kaiser Permanente

Product Description
Restructured, reorganized, re-engineered, redeployed: employees today face constantly changing roles and responsibilities at work that can leave them feeling isolated, confused and unproductive. And managers, facing the same types of pressures themselves, rarely have time to give employees the kind of one-on-one attention that might help them rediscover their sense of purpose and commitment. These days, everyone must be their own coach.

In The Inner Work of Work, experienced organizational consultant Michael Baroff has created a series of three hands-on guides that enables employees to coach themselves on the job, showing them how to develop key competencies in self-management and interpersonal relations, and meet and exceed corporate expectations.

Baroff employs a unique reflective rather than prescriptive format to make these guides as relevant, real and memorable to the reader as possible. He skillfully uses a series of probing questions, thought-provoking observations and innovative activities and exercises that enable readers to use the guides by drawing on their own experiences, not the someone else's.

This makes The Inner Work of Work unusually flexible-it can be used by people in any industry, at any level. And readers proceed at their own pace-they can use the guides as a comprehensive, progressive program, or dip into the booklets as difficult situations arise.

The work employees do "inside"--improving their own attitude, behavior and skills, and understanding of organizational dynamics--pays off in improved performance and greater job satisfaction. The Inner Work of Work guides readers in taking over their training and being their own best coaches.

The other guidebooks in the Inner Work of Work series:

Being Your Best helps people become more aware of how their personal attitudes and the choices they make ultimately determine their success. This guidebook enables readers to come to terms with who they are, what they have to offer, and where they want to go in their work lives. They will explore their beliefs about work, what motivates them to succeed, how to use their creativity and intuition, clarify the roles they play at work, learn how to adapt to change, and create the outcomes and lifestyles they want.

Contributing to Your Company's Success illuminates the organizational dynamics that create and support a productive work environment. This guidebook enables readers to determine where they fit into a company's big picture, learn how to work as part of a team, understand how a company evaluates the bottom line, determine how to add value in what they do, and develop their own approaches to being a leader.

Product Details

• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers (December 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1583761543
• ISBN-13: 978-1583761540
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #654,594 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Getting Along with "Getting Along with Others", May 1, 2001

By	Benjamin Kennedy (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

I am a busy man who, at times, can have difficulty getting along with others. It was the prospect of solving this problem in 57 pages that led me to "Getting Along with Others".

Not far into the book, I realized that Michael Baroff was attempting to force me to coach myself through improving my professional relationships by reflecting upon my own experiences rather than using a mindless format to tell me what to do. I suspected that I would not solve all my problems in two hours as I had hoped.

As I went farther into the book, I found myself neglecting my bad attitude and actually dwelling on the way my behavior affects those around me. The author had succeeded in putting me on the road to getting along with others by telling me little more than "think about it".

After finishing the book, I came away with less than I expected. While my expectations may have been a little ridiculous, I would have liked to have seen more of the author's thoughts and ideas. That said, I trust that this book will continue to be an excellent tool to have around constantly forcing me to reassess the methods with which I interact with those around me.