Product Description

New hires almost always are competent to perform the tasks they were hired to do. But success on the job is due to much more than that. It comes form understanding how the organization really works - the unique aspects of how things get done in that particular organization. And it comes from learning how to "fit in" - knowing how to get accepted, get respected and earn credibility. Built around Ed Holton's dynamic 12-step process - extensively field-tested and firmly grounded in research - How to Succeed in Your First Job gives new college graduates essential insights and tools for mastering a variety of transition challenges, from learning how to manage the impressions they make on others to acquiring the knowledge, skills, and abilities they need to quickly succeed on the job. How to Succeed in Your First Job helps recent graduates understand the ways in which college not only does not fully prepare them for the workplace, but actually counter-trains them, and provides vital tools to help new hires apply the concepts they've learned.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1289062 in Books
• Published on: 2002-01-17
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .46" h x 6.06" w x 9.00" l, .51 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 150 pages

From Amazon.com
International trainer and consultant Carl Zaiss says too many of us approach the various key relationships we develop throughout our lives, be they at work or at home, with a mindset that actually hinders our chances for success. In True Partnership he advances the notion that we can better realize our goals by positively redefining the way we see, and act toward, everyone with whom we become associated. Utilizing principles adopted from the new quantum model in physics, Zaiss proposes a similarly interrelated behavioral framework for completely refashioning how we initially engage and later associate with all of those involved--eventually moving us far beyond the "shallow and simplistic" reality prevalent in most of such unions today. The bulk of the book delves further into the four tenets that support his fresh method for relating to others: connecting "as integral parts of a system," communicating "through our speaking and our listening," expanding "access to different perceptions about every situation," and observing "through the lens of our own personal history." Ultimately, as Zaiss suggests, this "paradigm-altering approach" to changing the quality of our relationships could very well open "the door to new opportunities" that we may not now even know exist. --Howard Rothman

From the Publisher
Introduces the Breakthrough Learning Process™—a proven, results-oriented process for creating significant improvements in individual and group performance by focusing on the quality of relationships with others.
• Offers a radically new framework for our relationships based on leading-edge quantum thinking
• Provides examples and real-life stories to optimize the practical application of the principles and practices of true partnership
• Challenges the reader to rethink basic assumptions and beliefs about the way they relate to others and go about producing results and to think in radically new ways

About the Author
Elwood F. Holton, III, Associate Professor of Human Resource Development at Louisiana State University, is author of The Ultimate New Employee Survival Guide. He has consulted to J.P. Morgan, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. General Services Administration, and the Multiple Sclerosis Society, and many others. Sharon S. Naquin is Director of the Office of HRD Research at Louisiana State University. She was formerly Vice President of Savings Operations and Human Resources with a major bank.