This is the essential guide for anyone looking to get ahead in the warzone that is often the workplace.
However good you are, there are always times you come under fire at work. But how do you turn a crisis into an opportunity, and make yourself bulletproof?
In Be Bulletproof, business trainers James and Simon Brooke reveal the top practical solutions for strengthening your resilience - so you can bounce back from every setback, rejection or criticism. You'll learn to be confident, positive and self-assured in the face of any office adversity.
Arm yourself against workplace hazards like:
- Harsh criticism and hostile colleagues
- Company politics and bad bosses
- Rejection and failure
- Redundancy or losing your job
- And - dare we say it? - your own mistakes
James Brooke is a director and co-founder at Threshold, an international training and consulting firm dedicated to helping companies, teams and individuals to communicate and work together better. James has twenty years' experience in the field of internal communication and change management. He has held senior positions with a number of consultancies and has directed multi-national programmes for a number of high-profile companies. He has led major research programmes for international institutes and business schools, and is a regular contributor and speaker on business courses and seminars.
www.threshold.co.uk
Simon Brooke is a communications strategist and journalist with 25 years' experience in communications training and development. Having started his career in corporate, financial and consumer PR, he moved into political strategy and has held senior communications positions with major political parties on both sides of the Atlantic. Simon now works with senior executives to develop their communications strategies, identify their key messages and to help them to express their ideas in both speech and writing. As a journalist, he currently writes and edits on a freelance basis for most of the national newspapers, on subjects ranging from business and management to marketing, education and the media. He is also the author of two novels.
Title: Be Bulletproof: How to achieve success in tough times at work
Author: James Brooke, Simon Brooke
ISBN: 9780091939816
Binding:
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
Publication Date: 2012-03-01
Number of Pages: 288
Weight: 0.2995 kg
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