Work the Problem: How Experts Tackle Workplace Challenges - Softcover

Stafford, Kathryn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1947308572 ISBN 13: 9781947308572

Publisher: Association for Talent Development, 2018

Synopsis

Cultivate the Mindset to Overcome Anything

A software engineer sees her tech skills slipping even as she rises to manage her own team. A marketing director is squeezed between a demanding, artistic boss and her staff. A tech-savvy manager of operations wants to modernize his warehouse but is surprised when he is stymied. Everyone has experienced a situation at work where challenges pile so high that the only solution seems to be to cut and run. But what if we faced our problems head on instead of quitting?

 

Each fictionalized case study in Work the Problem is coupled with in-depth analysis and commentary by two learning and development experts who offer fresh ways of looking at seemingly insurmountable difficulties. The result is an engrossing collection of unique yet familiar stories that build on one another, creating a conversation about universal workplace problems and how we can think about solving them for ourselves. Work the Problem is about more than the specific demands of any one workplace―it's about cultivating the mindset and skills to take on the inevitable challenges that will arise in any career. Whether you're thinking of quitting your job, you feel stalled out at your workplace, or you're advising someone who has hit a wall, Work the Problem is the book to reach for.

About this title

About the Author

Kathryn Stafford is a publishing industry professional who has been an editor and writer with numerous prestigious institutions, such as the Smithsonian Institution and SI Press. She has written feature stories about problems of conservation and the environment in the Americas, visited newly protected reserves where indigenous communities were transitioning from traditional farming, and interviewed beekeepers, woodworkers, biologists, and union organizers.

An avid long-distance runner and hiker, she competed in the Paris Marathon the last time it was held on a Saturday night and later trekked separatist-filled mountains of Kashmir with her husband, Jeff, and a Buddhist monk companion. When she can, she likes to return to a Maya village in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, where she lived for a time between jobs.

Because she’s been mired in mud in a Guatemalan jungle, surprised by a coral snake in her toilet in Yucatán, and felled by hypothermia at the end of the Paris marathon, she feels uniquely qualified to write about problems in other murky, meandrous, and chilly places.

Today she lives on seven acres near the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay with Jeff, a beagle, a cat, two chickens, and a vulture family of three.

She is a developmental editor with ATD Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: Association for Talent Development
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1947308572
• ISBN 13: 9781947308572
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168