According to Richard Bolles, best-selling author of What Color is Your Parachute? “this is the most helpful book [he has] ever read about using ‘type’ in the workplace. Donna Dunning’s knowledge of type, popularized by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® tool, is encyclopedic!”

Completely revised and expanded with:

• The latest research on personality type
• Hundreds of new type-preferred occupations
• Enhanced skills, values and interests inventories
• Occupation specific information coded for education and experience level, interests, economic outlook, and the environment
• Fully integrated with a large, on-line occupational database

Thousands of people worldwide rely on the career advice, both general and filtered through the lens of personality type, that is offered in What’s Your Type of Career?

The simple truth is that to be happy and successful in your work, you need a career that matches your personality. In this practical, approachable book—full of checklists and exercises—Donna Dunning helps you find the career that’s right for you.

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Over the course of a lifetime, people can spend 80,000 hours on the job. With this much time invested, your career should be interesting, motivating and rewarding. And in our competitive, rapidly changing society, you need to know how to be effective and competent at work or you may find yourself unemployed or passed over for promotion.

Focusing on day-to-day behavior and providing practical tips and strategies, 10 Career Essentials becomes your personal career coach by showing you how to work effectively, get recognition and steer your career in the direction you want to go. The ideas – such as optimizing your outlook, exceeding expectations and thriving in uncertainty – may sound simple, but applying them takes skill and practice.

In 10 Career Essentials, you will learn how to tailor your career success strategies to your personal preferences. Each chapter describes one career success strategy, providing the key self-assessment tools and tips to stimulate learning and improve your ability to implement your personal career strategy to its fullest.

Testimonials

“This was the easiest book to endorse that I have ever come across. I was able to identify myself to a T in an instant and thereafter found plenty of ways to enhance my strengths and tackle my weaknesses, and what is more, it helped me to better understand others. A great personality guidebook full of riches.”

—Sir John Whitmore, PhD, Executive Chairman, Performance Consultants International, author of Coaching for Performance

“Donna Dunning is one of my favorite interpreters of personality types, and here she uses the typology to offer fresh insights into ten career success factors. A very insightful work.”

—Dick Bolles, author, What Color Is Your Parachute, the bestselling job-hunting book in the world, in 20 languages, used in 26 countries, updated annually

“A groundbreaking way of finding the right job! 10 Career Essentials is an invaluable tool for understanding how one’s personality impacts the key components of career exploration and success.”

—Shoya Zichy, author of Career Match: Connecting Who You Are With What You’ll Love To Do

“By taking the MBTI instrument and reading 10 Career Essentials you will be well positioned to develop a plan to achieve long term career satisfaction and success that is customized to your personality type.”

—Betsy Kendall, Executive Director and Head of UK Business, OPP Ltd

Reviews

- “getAbstract recommends this informative, highly accessible book to all professionals interested in applying a bit of practical psychology and cognitive science to their career
advancement plans.”

– “Throughout 10 Career Essentials, the author offers excellent advice that can benefit anyone at any stage of their career.”

- “This well-written and organized book guides the reader through ten ‘essential career success strategies,’ each of which is thoroughly described and accompanied by specific examples.”

- “PLEASE DO NOT DISMISS THIS BOOK.”

- “I would encourage you to get this book.”

- “… this is one of those books that you will want to have on hand even after you have worked through it.”

Interview with Donna Dunning

– Donna talks about 10 Career Essentials

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1.  Core practitioner competencies that lay the groundwork for a trust-based working relationship and for learning effective techniques to create, coach, and monitor a development plan with others.

2.  The five core competencies every worker needs to succeed in today’s workplace: self-responsibility, communication, mindfulness, productivity, and proactivity.

With powerful assessment tools and checklists, practical tips and step-by-step advice, a sample development plan, and a detailed guide to eight distinct ways of working based on type, this comprehensive field book provides all the resources needed to establish measurable competencies for specific and definable work roles that accommodate differences, help individuals excel, and contribute to improved overall business performance.

A comprehensive guide for anyone responsible for facilitating professional growth and development. — T&D Magazine, December 2004

Breaking down Dunning’s lessons to five competencies for workplace success makes coaching easier and leading others a less painstaking task. — Soundview Executive Book Summary, December 2004

Dunning provides detailed check lists throughout the book so readers can check their own or their client employees’ progress. — HR Magazine, August 2004

Dunning shines in her discussion of personality traits and working with the dynamic uniqueness of individuals. — Biz Books by Jim Pawlak, April 26, 2004

Highly recommended and superbly useful guidebook. Though intended for business use, its principles are also directly applicable to volunteers. — Bookwatch, July 1, 2004

Offers a practical guide for coaches, trainers, supervisors and any leader to achieve professional and personal development. — Incentive Magazine, May 2004

Provides a powerful toolbox of strategies, checklists, tips and techniques. Offers assistance to coaches, trainers, HR professionals, career counselors. — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, May 17, 2004

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From the Author

I wrote TLC at Work because I often see employees, coaches, leaders, and supervisors struggling to achieve results in the workplace. Like basic reading, writing, and arithmetic are necessary for success in school, I determined there are five basic workplace competencies essential for success at work. I wanted to create a resource that outlined these basic workplace competencies. But to simply describe them didn’t seem adequate. I wanted to specifically define them in terms of behaviors, so people could clearly see what they needed to do to demonstrate each competency. The process would be incomplete unless I also showed how to transfer these competencies to workers. I accomplished this by defining two TLC (training, leading, coaching) competencies needed for fostering development. Using specific behaviors, examples, and concrete tips and strategies, I showed how individuals could foster development of others in the workplace. During my 25 years experience as a learning, career development, and work performance consultant, I have learned that individuals tend to respond differently in development situations. To customize the development process and address individual needs, I have provided tips and strategies for considering and accommodating personality preferences. To make the book user-friendly, I incorporated many checklists, tips, examples, and points of balance to consider. My goal was to make the book both practical and comprehensive. If your work roles include training, leading, coaching, or supervising others, I think you will find TLC at Work to be a useful resource.

Dunning uses the well-established personality type theory of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) to identify eight natural work styles – the Responder, Explorer, Expeditor, Contributor, Assimilator, Visionary, Analyzer, and Enhancer-and explore how people use each to communicate, organize, approach tasks, solve problems, make decisions, lead, and be led.

With a rich variety of exercises, checklists, tips, and strategies, Dunning takes readers through an easy five-step career planning process that highlights their strengths and skills to help them make better career choices. What’s Your Type of Career? delivers a set of powerful tools that link personality type to career success. This highly acclaimed book has helped thousands of individuals chart a path to professional growth and greater job satisfaction. Let your personality type guide you toward a meaningful career.

Winner of the Foreword Magazine’s Career Book of the Year Bronze Award 2001

“This is the best written, most insightful, and most helpful book I have ever read about using ‘Type’ in the workplace. Donna Dunning’s knowledge of type popularized by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator ® tool is encyclopedic!”

Richard N Bolles, author, What Color Is Your Parachute?

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