The Essential Work Skills Workbook For Jobs, Community and Home: Self-Assessments, Exercises & Educational Handouts

Reproducible Assessments, Exercises & Educational Handouts

Written for practitioners to use one-on-one or with groups, the purpose of this workbook is to provide workers and prospective workers with the requisite skills they will need to be successful in any work setting. The workbook contains five separate sections to help participants learn more about themselves and the work skills that they possess that are fundamental to their ability to work effectively. They will learn about the importance of these skills in the changing workplace and complete assessments and activities to define the required workplace skills and determine their skill gaps in the workplace. Key areas include: Leadership Skills, Work Stress, Cultural Competency, Organizational Skills and Balancing Work and Leisure.

Given the rapid rate of change in the workplace, prospective workers need to develop new skill sets to cope and thrive in this changing economy. Mergers, takeovers, and business-closings will continue to be the business norm. Workers with the most effective work skills will be the most likely to retain their position and even thrive in the workplace.

Dr. John J. Liptak, EdD, frequently conducts workshops on assessment-related topics. With Kathy Khalsa and Ester Leutenberg, he has written three other comprehensive books for teachers and counselors to use with their students and clients: The Self-Esteem Program, The Social Skills Program and The Stress Management Program: Inventories, Activities & Educational Handouts.

Ester R.A. Leutenberg has worked in the mental health profession for many years as both a publisher and as an advocate for those suffering from loss. She personally experienced a loss when her son Mitchell, after struggling with a mental illness for eight years, died by suicide in 1986. Soon after, as a way of both healing and helping others, she co-founded Wellness Reproductions & Publishing. Ester began developing therapeutic products that help facilitators help their clients. She is the co-author of the book Meaningful Life Skills for older adults, the eight-book Life Management Skills series for adults, The Anger & Aggression Workbook, The Communications Skills Workbook, and The Substance Abuse & Recovery Workbook. Ester, a breast cancer survivor of five years, has counseled other survivors in overcoming body-loss issues. She says that GriefWork Healing from Loss is the culmination of a book she has been formulating in her mind for almost thirty years