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Your first thirty days : building a professional image in a new job / Elwood N. Chapman and Robert B. Maddux.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chapman, Elwood N.
- Series:
- Fifty-Minute series.
- A Fifty-Minute series book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Success in business.
- Self-presentation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (85 p.)
- Edition:
- Rev ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Menlo Park, Calif. : Crisp Publications, c1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This newly revised guide for career development during the first month on a job is for anyone just hired or anticipating a new position.
- Contents:
- TITLE
- COPYRIGHT
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
- In Memoriam
- CONTENTS
- TO THE EMPLOYER
- TO THE NEW EMPLOYEE
- PART I PREPARATION GETTING READY FOR YOUR FIRST DAY ON THE JOB
- START WITH A POSITIVE MIND SET
- LEARNING ATTITUDE SCALE
- THE CHALLENGE!
- WHAT TO EXPECT
- LEARNING THE ROPES
- BE A TEAM PLAYER
- UNDERSTANDING PRODUCTIVITY
- GETTING READY CHECKLIST
- SUGGESTION
- PART II WEEK ONE GETTING THE LAY OF THE LAND
- THE FIRST DAY
- WARDROBE AND GROOMING ADJUSTMENTS
- BE A COMFORTABLE PERSON TO MEET
- REMEMBERING NAMES
- TELEPHONE TIPS
- HOW MUCH PRODUCTIVITY IN WEEK ONE?
- PACING IS EVERYTHING*
- QUALITY STARTS DAY ONE
- QUALITY AWARENESS EXERCISE
- YOU CAN'T LEARN UNLESS YOU LISTEN!
- YOU AND YOUR SUPERVISOR
- COWORKER RELATIONSHIPS
- CASE #1: RESCUE
- FIRST-WEEK ASSESSMENT SCALE
- WHAT DO I NEED TO LEARN NEXT WEEK?
- PART III WEEK TWO MOVING AHEAD WITH CONFIDENCE
- SECOND-WEEK PRODUCTIVITY
- IMPROVING WORK HABITS
- COPING WITH SKILL DEFICIENCIES
- CASE #2: UNPREPARED
- IMPROVING YOUR JOB SKILLS
- HOW TO HANDLE EMBARRASSING MOMENTS
- PROTOCOL
- YOUR COMMUNICATION STYLE
- TEASING AND TESTING
- SECOND-WEEK ASSESSMENT SCALE
- PART IV WEEK THREE STRENGTHENING RELATIONSHIPS
- THIRD-WEEK PRODUCTIVITY
- CASE #3: ABSENTEEISM
- REINFORCING RELATIONSHIPS
- THE THREE C'S OF OFFICE POLITICS
- WHAT IF YOU DRAW A DIFFICULT SUPERVISOR?
- CASE #4: CHOICE
- AVOIDING PERSONAL JOB STRESS
- THIRD-WEEK ASSESSMENT SCALE
- PART V WEEK FOUR IMPROVING YOUR PROFESSIONALISM
- BALANCING PRODUCTIVITY AND HUMAN RELATIONS
- CASE #5: PREMATURE
- CAREER COUNTDOWN
- THINKING AGAIN
- FOURTH-WEEK ASSESSMENT
- DEMONSTRATE YOUR PROGRESS
- PART VI FINAL REVIEW
- CONSOLIDATING YOUR GAINS
- CASE #6: STYLE
- CREATE A PLAN FOR THE FUTURE.
- THIRTY-DAY EVALUATION
- VALIDATE THE CONTENT OF YOUR NEW JOB
- JOB SPECIFICATION WORKSHEET
- ANSWERS TO CASES.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 1-4175-2430-8
- OCLC:
- 56112981
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