What's Wrong with Work: The 5 Frustrations of Work and How to Fix them for Good - Softcover

Palmer, Blaire

Softcover

ISBN 10: 047066097X ISBN 13: 9780470660973

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2010

Synopsis

Work isn't working. We all love to hate our jobs. Everyone moans about the same things: we're not listened to; we're not trusted; we spend our time in pointless meetings; we re weighed down by bureaucracy; we hate our boss; we're overloaded and work saps time and energy from the rest of our lives. It shouldn't be like this. Work ought to be, and can be meaningful and fulfilling. In What's Wrong with Work? Blaire Palmer shows how work can change. Confronting all the big problems head-on, the book shows what you can do about each one, to make work better for you and those around you, now. Packed with case studies and tips, What's Wrong with Work? is essential reading for the modern office.

About this title

About the Author

Blaire Palmer is one of the most experienced and respected executive coaches, creative facilitators and trainers in the UK. Blaire began her career as a journalist, and spent many years as a top news producer, working on BBC Radio 4's Today Programme and Woman's Hour. Her experience in posing powerful questions and shaping the agenda has proved invaluable in her subsequent career. Since 2000, Blaire has run her own coaching and consulting business, Optimum Executive Coaching Ltd (trading as Blaire Palmer). She has worked with a large number of clients, including GlaxoSmithKline, Airbus and Microsoft, gaining thousands of hours of coaching experience training leaders, working with teams and facilitating large events. Blaire is the author of two previous business titles The Hyper Creative Personality (New Holland, 2007) and The Recipe for Success (A&C Black, 2009).

From the Back Cover

Do you feel fulfilled at the end of the working week? Or do you have that niggling feeling that you didn't really achieve anything?

Do you find meetings exhilarating and challenging or do you suspect that you have just wasted your whole morning?

Do you wonder why, when your company has selected such talented people, it doesn't listen to them?

This vital handbook will show you how you can make a difference to your own working life and the working lives of the people around you by: scrapping waste-of-time meetings; tackling unfairness; knowing what your manager should be doing all day; destroying the silo mentality; and never again eating a soggy sandwich at your desk while you struggle to stay on top of your email.

Blaire Palmer's down-to-earth advice could change your working life.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 047066097X
• ISBN 13: 9780470660973
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304