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Key Productivity and Performance Strategies to Advance Your Career

  • 1st Edition - February 8, 2019
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Lesia L. Crumpton-Young
  • Language: English

Key Productivity and Performance Strategies to Advance Your STEM Career shares valuable knowledge and insights on best practices used by high performing individuals in the STEM… Read more

Description

Key Productivity and Performance Strategies to Advance Your STEM Career shares valuable knowledge and insights on best practices used by high performing individuals in the STEM fields to enhance their professional endeavors. The strategies contained in this book are based on Lesia L. Crumpton-Young's experience and expertise as a STEM professional and a certified Life and Career Coach. The book includes real-life examples from STEM professionals of career hurdles and efficient solutions to reaching your career goals. It covers effective goal setting, decision-making, and how best to overcome doubt and criticism, as well as practical advice on critical path analysis.

Finally, the book includes a five-year career planning tool, along with additional problem statements and exercises, making it a valuable resource those involved in the STEM fields.

Key features

  • Includes a five-year career planning tool, additional problem statements and exercises
  • Discusses topics such as decisive decision-making, setting clear and concise goals, objectives, targets and how to efficiently allocate resources
  • Present insights on the best practices used by high-performing individuals in the STEM fields

Readership

Those working in the STEM fields as well as professionals in other industries

Table of contents

I. PrefaceII. IntroductionIII. Strategies for Enhancing Productivity and Performancea. Clear and Concise Goals, Objectives, and Targetsb. Strategic Immersionc. Decisive Decision Makingd. Adopting a Get Things Done Mentalitye. Binding Fear, Doubt, and Worryf. Overcoming the Limiting Views in Your Mindg. Chasing the Fat Rabbitsh. Silencing The Critica. Completing and Closing MattersIV. Practices for Improving Productivity and Performanceb. Paradigm for Creating Completion Consistencyc. Critical Path Analysis for Task Executiond. Efficient Resource Allocation Theorye. Task Completion Principlesf. Tools to Expedite Task Executiong. Work Flow and Efficiency Enhancement Toolh. Effective and Efficient Network Utilization ToolV. ConclusionVI. ReferencesVII. Performance and Productivity Master Planning Template

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: February 8, 2019
  • Language: English

About the author

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Lesia L. Crumpton-Young

Vice President, Division of Research and Institutional Advancement, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN
Affiliations and expertise
Vice President, Division of Research and Institutional Advancement, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN

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