Your Resiliency GPS: A Guide for Growing through Life and Work - Softcover

McDargh, Eileen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0962319058 ISBN 13: 9780962319051

Publisher: Loch Lomond Press, 2014

Synopsis

Your Resiliency GPS: A Guide for Growing through Life and Work is a guidebook for dealing with change. Resiliency is NOT about pain. It is about possibility. Resiliency is NOT about adversity. It is about advantage.

Tired of being whiplashed by economic downturns? Concerned about downsizing, rightsizing, capsizing? Faced with a great opportunity yet worried you won't have the stamina to see it through? Trying to hold work and life together when some times one or both get the better of you?

You need a GPS (Growth Potential Strategy) and Recalculating Questions to revive and renew the spark of hope and optimism as you cultivate resiliency skills.

• Discover four resiliency skills and when and how to use them.
• Throw out the dictionary and learn a better definition of resilience.
• Find out what actions organizations take to create their own growth strategy!

If you are overwhelmed with the difficulties of life and career then this book was written for you because resiliency is the key to a productive, happy life. It also makes the perfect gift for someone who needs guidance and inspiration to get their life back on track.

You can learn more about Eileen at http://www.EileenMcDargh.com.

About this title

About the Author

Eileen McDargh is founder and CEO (Chief Energy Officer) of the consulting firm, The Resiliency Group (a division of McDargh Communications) and is a master facilitator, moderator and emcee. Organizations like Cisco, Novartis, Oracle, and Procter & Gamble hire her firm to teach them ways of building resilient leadership teams and workplaces. Her programs are high content, high energy, interactive, and often hilarious.

Leadership Excellence magazine, which ranked top thought leaders in management and leadership, continually named Eileen to its top 50 Leadership list. Along with her work as an organizational resiliency consultant, Eileen speaks and writes about resiliency in business, in life, and in relationships.

As a platform speaker, she has given thousands of keynotes for organizations and associations in dozens of fields, including aerospace, education, finance, healthcare, hospitality, pharmaceuticals, public agencies, real estate, technology, utilities, and women's leadership.  She has become noted for her ability to speak the truth with clarity, wisdom, humor and compassion.

Eileen authored Work for a Living & Still Be Free to Live, the first book on work/life balance--a topic that placed her as a futurist in this issue and is now in a Kindle edition. Her second book, The Resilient Spirit, is found from South Africa to California. Talk Ain't Cheap... It's Priceless - Connecting in a Disconnected World serves as a leadership guide for numerous organizations. Gifts from the Mountain: Simple Truths for Life's Complexities, won the Benjamin Franklin Gold Award.  My Get Up & Go Got Up & Went was written to help everyone who is stretched too thin by competing demands. The 40 Tips For Speaking Up, Speaking Out, And Being Heard tip booklet was written by Eileen and Dr. Eunice Parisi-Carew for women in the workplace.  Her newest book Your Resiliency GPS was created to help people revive and renew the spark of hope and optimism as they cultivate resiliency skills.

Review

"I really loved this book. It is chock full of powerful tools, questions, and suggestions on how to grow through just about anything that life throws at you. The Resiliency GPS is brilliant. Who doesn't need a GPS to navigate life's challenges more easily? You'll never feel lost. The best part is that you arrive at your "destination" in a better place than you had imagined. Thank you so much for guiding us Eileen."
_Lorna Riley CEO Chart Learning Solutions
chartlearningsolutions

"According Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 'A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.' There is no bouncing back to normal. This is the central theme of Your Resiliency GPS. Eileen McDargh challenges you to embrace the challenges of life and then gives you the GPS (Growth Potential Strategy) to guide you on the journey. Buy this book and start today."
-Stan Phelps, Founder of 9 INCH marketing,
Forbes contributor and Author of Purple Goldfish,
Green Goldfish, and Golden Goldfish

"Anyone who knows Eileen McDargh knows she is a ray of sunshine in an often cloudy world. As important, her work and ideas have substance and create powerful results. Your Resiliency GPS will provide you with new ideas and tools that we all need to face the challenges of life."
-Mark Sanborn, Author, The Fred Factor

"I randomly opened the book at a number of pages. Each time, I smiled and felt both lighter and stronger at the same time. The quotes, stories and easy to implement action steps in Your Resiliency GPS actually rewired my brain to embrace change.  This book isn't momentary motivation; the pages provide longlasting hope and joy."
-Marcia Reynolds, PsyD, Author of The Discomfort Zone:  How Leaders Turn Difficult Conversations into Breakthroughs and Outsmart Your Brain

Edition details

• Publisher: Loch Lomond Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0962319058
• ISBN 13: 9780962319051
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 160