Winning Roles for Career-Minded Women: Understanding the Roles We Learned as Girls and How to Change Them For Success at Work

By Binnie Kafrissen

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0891061460
• ISBN13: 9780891061465
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Davies-Black Publishing
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 9.0"

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Interviews with women from a variety of backgrounds

Binnie Shusman Kafrissen and Fran Shusman successfully collaborate in Winning Roles For Career-Minded Women: Understanding The Roles We Learned As Girls And How To Change Them For Success At Work to reveal the underlying psychological issues that lay the foundation for women's success or failure in the workplace. The authors draw upon interviews with women from a variety of backgrounds to identify six roles women commonly assume in the workplace (Peacekeeper, Maverick, Pleaser, Caregiver, Survivor, Entrepreneur). By becoming aware of the family/social dynamics that give rise to these workplace roles, women can re-evaluate and discard distorted beliefs, recognize their strengths, and improve their situation in their own workplace. The informative text of Winning Roles For Career-Minded Women is enhanced with worksheets and exercises aiding readers to create their own individual, personalized, hands-on paths to change, drawing upon their own particular strengths to create a successful and fulfilling career in today's competitive, often discriminatory job and career environments.

An Important Book for Any Woman In the Workforce!!

If you are a woman in the work force, if you hire women, or if you are a woman who is thinking of entering the work force then this is the book for you. I am a doctor, a mother, and a wife. I was able to read this book over the weekend which is important with my busy schedule. This book was easy to understand as a lay person. The book really got me thinking about how I may come across to my staff and to my patients, what parts of my personality work and what parts I may need to change. I have enjoyed the exercises because I have become so much more aware of my thoughts and what I tell myself during the day about different things. I have become more aware of what I perceive and believe and what may actually be true. I have become more aware of other people's roles and personalities which has helped me understand where they might be coming from. I believe I will refer to this book often. I also know I will refer this book to others.