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45 Professional Development Books to Level Up Your Career and Your Life

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In a world with countless ways to level up your professional development, books are one of the most underestimated tools. Professional development books give insight on how to grow in our careers, grow as people and better approach work-related challenges, shifting work environments and new opportunities.

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Unlearning Silence in the Workplace: How to Speak Up at Work

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Unlearning Silence by Elaine Lin Hering It’s a concept Harvard Law School lecturer Elaine Lin Hering , an expert in negotiation, influence and conflict management skills, explores in her upcoming book, Unlearning Silence: How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent, and Live More Fully. A 2020 survey found that 17.5%

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The Decline of Employee Training & The Rise of Side Gigs

Small Business Labs

The chart below, which shows a decline in employer-provided and on-the-job training in recent decades, has been making the rounds in the economic blogs.  But given the Great Recession, it seems pretty unlikely that employer-provided and on-the-job training have done anything but decline since 2008.

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Our AI Coworkers

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Science fiction books and movies of the past drew vivid pictures of today: flying cars, cities on the moon, robots in every household. and TapeACall record and transcribe my interviews, and I have also played with GPT-3-based AI writing tools for fun. GPT-3 stands for third-generation Generative Pre-trained Transformer).

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41 Ways to Improve Yourself in Just 10 Minutes

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According to Discovery’s annual credit health survey from 2020, younger generations are being proactive in learning and improving their credit score. According to Screen Education’s 2020 “ Digital Distraction & Workplace Safety” survey , participating employees spent an average of 2.5 How to improve yourself through your wallet 1.

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Want to expand your horizons? 35 new books from TED speakers that will enlarge your world

Ideas.Ted

In this book, she presents evidence that while large philanthropic donations and headline-making policy changes may get most of our media attention, they are not the only tools to achieve peace. Menopause is not a disease, states ob/gyn Dr. Jen Gunter, author of the best-selling book The Vagina Bible. Read an excerpt here. ) .

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The Perfect Executive Assistant—Hard Skills or Soft Skills?

C-Suite Assistants

A Linkedin survey reported that 89% of talent professionals attribute lack of soft skills as the reason for a bad hire and 92% feel that soft skills matter as much or more than hard skills when hiring. For most C-Suite executives, expertise in booking travel domestically and/or internationally is critical.

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