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Career Resources June 2025 |
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Patriarchy Inc. : What We Get Wrong About Gender Equality—and Why Men Still Win at Work
by Cordelia Fine
Work remains much as it always has: men occupy the vast majority of leadership roles and are overrepresented in positions from engineer to plumber. We see many jobs as “male” or “female,” with women dominating in healthcare and childcare professions. Pretending that this is the natural state of things—or that, instead, both sexes should submit to working 24/7—is just not right.
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Talk to me nice : the seven trust languages for a better workplace
by Minda Harts
"The author of The Memo helps you discover what you need to navigate every workplace communication challenge with confidence. We are living in a world of broken trust, especially in the workplace. Employees have heard too many empty promises and are unmotivated. Managers are scrambling to keep eyes on direct reports in demanding environments. Nobody knows how to talk to one another. Trust is the central pillar of any functioning workplace. But without it too many of us are unhappy, fed up, and ready to walk out the door. Minda Harts knows from years of experience as a highly sought-after workplace consultant how a lack of trust between colleagues, managers, and executive leaders is bad for business and our own professional well-being. That's where the seven workplace trust languages come into play. Earning trust is different for every one of us. Some respond well to verbal affirmations of their contributions, while others need visibility to see how business decisions are made. By understanding the seven languages of trust-transparency, security, demonstration, feedback, acknowledgment, sensitivity, and follow-through-we can all learn to navigate conflict, be more productive, and communicate more effectively. In Talk to Me Nice, you'll learn what workplace trust languages work for you and how to show colleagues, managers, and direct reports that they are valued. When we're talking one another's languages, we can rebuild a more equitable, sustainable, and profitable workplace that works for us all"-- Provided by publisher
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How to Manage Remotely : Work Effectively, No Matter Where You Are
by Gemma Dale
How to Manage Remotely provides a primer on the logistics of remote work that will serve managers and employees equally well. The guide contains advice for employees hoping to work remotely, addressing everything from the design of the ideal home office setup to managing career aspirations. Similarly, managers of remote workers receive instruction on a range of topics, from planning and facilitating meetings to recruiting and onboarding new remote team members.
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Four days a week : the life-changing solution for reducing employee stress, improving well-being, and working smarter
by Juliet Schor
"Around the world, long hours and intense pressure are taking their toll. When the pandemic hit in 2020, work-induced stress and burnout skyrocketed. Many reached a breaking point. Now, three-quarters of the world's employees are disengaged and struggling, including in the US and Canada, where half are experiencing high levels of daily stress. Our current work culture ,the five-day, forty-hours-a-week model--which has gone unchanged for nearly a century--is failing. But a remedial countertrend has emerged: the four-day work week. Kickstarter, Bolt, Basecamp, ThredUp, and hundreds of other employers have eliminated the fifth day of work, successfully figuring out how to maintain productivity while seeing remarkable improvements in employee well-being. Hiring is easier and fewer people are quitting. These results are global. Working a four-day week, people feel energized, capable, and more optimistic about their lives--and their jobs. Four Days a Week is the first large-scale study of this trend. Juliet Schor--an expert who has researched and written about work for more than four decades, beginning with her New York Times bestseller The Overworked American in 1992--shares her pioneering analysis of the benefits of a shorter work week, how companies can achieve them, why the concept has taken so long to emerge and gain acceptance, and why doing so will help a company's employees and its bottom line. The book is a blueprint for implementing a change that once seemed radical, but is now within reach"
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In Focus: Mental Health at Work |
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The happy high achiever : 8 essentials to overcome anxiety, manage stress, and energize yourself for success--without losing your edge
by Mary E. Anderson
"Resolve burnout, anxiety, perfectionism, and imposter syndrome with CBT-based strategies to optimize your mental health for sustainable success. The Happy High Achiever is the roadmap every anxious-yet-ambitious person needs to block the cognitive errors that drain them, refuel for success, and strategically deploy their energy in pursuit of their goals. Grounded in more than a decade of watching her most ambitious clients struggle with the same cognitive errors and destructive habits, Harvard-educated psychologist Dr. Mary E. Anderson has curated eight evidence-based strategies: -Strive For Excellence, Not Perfection -Invest In The Ultimate Currency: Your Energy -Navigate Uncertainty With Curiosity -Cultivate Healthy Connections -Transform Shoulds To Cans -Level Up To Gratitude-Based Thinking -Celebrate The Victories -Curate Meaningful Goals, Create Your Legacy-Start Now! If you're struggling with imposter syndrome, perfectionism, chronic stress, or just hoping that maybe there's a world where success doesn't come at the expense of happiness, this book is for you"-- Provided by publisher
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Saving time : discovering a life beyond the clock
by Jenny Odell
In this thought-provoking, deeply hopeful reframing of time, the author takes us on a journey through other temporal habitats, urging us to become stewards of different rhythms of life, to imagine an existence, identity and source of meaning outside the world of work and profit.
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The good enough job : reclaiming life from work
by Simone Stolzoff
Drawing on hundreds of interviews with Michelin star chefs, Wall Street bankers, overwhelmed teachers and other laborers across the American economy, a designer and journalist reveals we are obsessed with our work and makes the urgent case for us to emotionally extricate ourselves from our jobs to reclaim our lives.
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