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Is A Distressing Experience at Work or in Your Career Bringing You Down? Feeling Afraid, Anxious, Depressed, Isolated or all of these things? Well it’s time to take a deep breath and pick yourself up because you now hold in your hands the key to the solution you’ve been seeking... Recover Your Balance is a flexible, seven-step self-coaching system for people who need to recover their confidence and self-esteem after suffering any sort of bad experience at work. Using real-life stories and proven psychological techniques, this book will encourage and help you to... Create a clear vision of what you want to be different Have a structured plan for overcoming your current problems Understand how the experience is affecting you physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually Get back in touch with your strengths, values and presence Learn from the negative experience and use it to strengthen you Move on with confidence, purpose and renewed energy Seek out and attract the support you want and need Develop unshakable internal balance and recover your emotional poise Whether you’re suffering work-place bullying, burnout, drastic and dramatic changes, problems with your boss, fear for job security, derailment or any other serious setback, the consequences can quickly spill over into your personal life too. So, the sooner you can recover your balance and protect your self-esteem from the negative experiences at work, the sooner you will feel better about your self, your career and your whole life. Ann Lewis, is a leadership and workplace coach, who knows only too well the damage that workplace distress can cause. When she was bullied by her boss early on in her career it damaged her self-esteem for far longer than it would have done if she’d had the information contained in this book! She eventually went on to have a successful HR career, but was still prone to unjustified self-doubt. When she became a full-time coach in 2003 she found her sensitivity to work-related distress enabled her to lead clients rapidly towards increased self-esteem, happiness and productivity. Learn more at www.annlewiscoaching.com
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Format:Paperback
As someone offering training on workplace wellbeing, I was delighted to come across this small, easy to read and highly practical book. Having our life at work go pear shaped is a common experience, particularly in the current context of economic squeezes and constant `efficiency' drives. The many short story examples remind you you're not alone, and the text offers exercises to help you find your bearings, understand what's happening and move on. If you're not enjoying your time at work, have suffered recent setbacks or experienced bullying, this is a book that can help you.
Format:Paperback
Recover Your Balance is a powerful book - simple to read yet never simplistic. It provides a range of practical tools that are key to re-establishing your identity and self-esteem to enable you to progress positively from seemingly dark places. Ann's style is succinct and highly readable and she uses activities, case studies and personal insights to help you to find your own way forwards. Although aimed specifically at bouncing back from bad times at work, the tools and guidance that Ann has created can also be adapted and used successfully in other spheres of your life!
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a great little book, easy to read in one sitting at just over 140 pages with a seven step plan to boost you back to full confidence! And it's also great for dipping into any time you feel a bit overwhelmed. It's a book to pick up when you're feeling tired and worthless at work, when going to work is sapping and energy draining, when you're feeling burnt out, or lacking in confidence about your abilities.
Bullying
Ann herself experienced bullying at work and she talks honestly and helpfully about the effect it had on her and her subsequent crisis of confidence.
"Following an unsuccessful appeal, after which my Staff Council representative declared that he had never seen anyone quite so comprehensively stitched up, I spent the next few months trying to be absolutely perfect, an endeavour doomed to failure. My daily routine included vomiting every morning before I left home. Finally, after taking a couple of days leave, I returned to find that a part of my team's work had been passed around...in an effort to demonstrate that I was failing. I resigned. For more than two years afterwards I simply didn't believe that I was worthy of a well paid job with similar status to the one I had left". Page 4/5 of Recover Your Balance
This book is the result of her reflections and ruminations on that period, her extensive experience of coaching others in similar situations, and her recovery plan for minimising the effects and learning from the experience. It's a blend of the practical and the more esoteric.
For example, Ann talks about energy states and the impact these have on our behaviour, and there is advice on using visualisations and creative imagery to relieve stress. In another chapter she gives some supremely practical advice about only keeping material relating to poor treatment at work as long as it is serving a purpose. If you are thinking about bringing a case of constructive dismissal for example, keep a record of everything. But if the incident is done and dusted, holding onto unpleasant and damaging material can be detrimental to your recovery! Sage advice.
True Stories
Scattered throughout the book are quotes from real people sharing their experiences of troubled times at work. These really help to bring the book to life. My only small criticism of the book is that I found some of the true life stories slightly repetitive, but then I read the book at one sitting. I'm sure if you were picking this book up occasionally you'd be glad of some of the repetition as a helpful reminder!
I think this a worthwhile book to have in your possession, or to encourage your firm to buy! It's not preachy, but full of sensible advice, well referenced and not at all patronising - you can tell that Ann has been there and done it, and bounced back!
Bullying
Ann herself experienced bullying at work and she talks honestly and helpfully about the effect it had on her and her subsequent crisis of confidence.
"Following an unsuccessful appeal, after which my Staff Council representative declared that he had never seen anyone quite so comprehensively stitched up, I spent the next few months trying to be absolutely perfect, an endeavour doomed to failure. My daily routine included vomiting every morning before I left home. Finally, after taking a couple of days leave, I returned to find that a part of my team's work had been passed around...in an effort to demonstrate that I was failing. I resigned. For more than two years afterwards I simply didn't believe that I was worthy of a well paid job with similar status to the one I had left". Page 4/5 of Recover Your Balance
This book is the result of her reflections and ruminations on that period, her extensive experience of coaching others in similar situations, and her recovery plan for minimising the effects and learning from the experience. It's a blend of the practical and the more esoteric.
For example, Ann talks about energy states and the impact these have on our behaviour, and there is advice on using visualisations and creative imagery to relieve stress. In another chapter she gives some supremely practical advice about only keeping material relating to poor treatment at work as long as it is serving a purpose. If you are thinking about bringing a case of constructive dismissal for example, keep a record of everything. But if the incident is done and dusted, holding onto unpleasant and damaging material can be detrimental to your recovery! Sage advice.
True Stories
Scattered throughout the book are quotes from real people sharing their experiences of troubled times at work. These really help to bring the book to life. My only small criticism of the book is that I found some of the true life stories slightly repetitive, but then I read the book at one sitting. I'm sure if you were picking this book up occasionally you'd be glad of some of the repetition as a helpful reminder!
I think this a worthwhile book to have in your possession, or to encourage your firm to buy! It's not preachy, but full of sensible advice, well referenced and not at all patronising - you can tell that Ann has been there and done it, and bounced back!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Recover Your Work/Life Balance
I found this book very sympathetic and knowledgeable, but particularly supportive and understanding with practical solutions. Read more
Published 16 months ago by A Porteous
Practical book on resilience
Ann Lewis' book, Recover your Balance is a great, practical book on how to get over a distressing work experience. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Patricia Lustig
Recover your balance
I have read this book 3 times and each time I get something new from it. I keep looking at it in amazement - so many 'gems' in such a short book. Read more
Published 22 months ago by C. Ware
A highly practical guide
Having worked with many people who've been thrown seriously off balance at work through bullying, learning how to resource yourself in tough times is one of the essential keys to... Read more
Published on 4 April 2010 by Sharon Eden
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