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Riding the Rocket means managing your Modern Career. This is the only book in this genre that uses the unique concept of a Modern Career to guide people. It's a practical 'how to' book, giving people the tools and motivation to create opportunities for themselves. People need to self-manage their career in order to keep working and this book is here to enable them to do so. Like rockets, careers can be unpredictable, require fine tuning, need maintenance and above all need someone to control their direction and speed. We have to be to be proactive, resilient and adaptable and manage our career so that it works for us and gives us the working life that we want. The working world is full of risk, change and uncertainty ...and also opportunity. Compared to the static career-ladder approach of the post-war era, we now live in a Modern Career world where technology, globalisation and economic rebuilding are giving people the opportunity to create and manage a flexible career for themselves. We can all choose to retrain, change industries, set up our own business, work as a consultant or create a portfolio lifestyle.

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Publié par	Marshall Cavendish International
Date de parution	01 octobre 2013
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9789814484831
Langue	English

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In Praise of Riding the Rocket

This book lives up to its title and gives you answers that really help you!
Riding the Rocket: How to Manage your Modern Career has been written to be used and provides us with useful thoughts and insights about being a success, changing careers and looking after ourselves at work.
The chapter about using our intuition to choose a job that we are well suited for was really inspiring. A novel and useful way of helping us to decide on a career path! We can also make a positive choice to learn from our past, be in charge and make our modern career what we want it to be. A great book!
Angela Farmer, General Manager, Guys Dental Hospital

This is a great book for anyone who is working - no matter what stage of your career you might be at. Packed full of practical advice, top tips and some truly hands-on life lessons, Riding the Rocket is an insightful read.
I particularly love Richard s Antidotes - he has converted me from a life-long Ignorer to a Chooser .
Anna Stevenson, Director, Stevenson Consulting

Sometimes it takes a major life event to make you stop and think; is this really what life and work are all about? Riding the Rocket is a book that not only helps you take stock of who you are and what you have achieved, but helps guide you on your future path and frame some choices at your own pace.
To make the best use of this book, make yourself a delicious cheese sandwich (Richard does mention sandwiches), sit down and work through the exercises and see where your own rocket ride takes you. Life is often not easy and with this book in our pocket, we can make it much easier for ourselves.
Erin Weston, Human Resources and Occupational Health and Safety Coordinator, Brophy Family and Youth Services, Warrnambool, Australia
Riding the Rocket brings together a valuable and potent mix of intuition, evidence and experienced views to help you on your rocket - probably more than any of us, either individually or with a group of well-meaning friends, can pull together.
Richard has included useful tools and thought-provoking exercises that you can use for your rocket. Reading this book is like having a lovely coaching session - you just need to add you to the mix. Good luck!
Andie Hallihan, Director, Applied Angle

Richard s Riding the Rocket holds a full cargo of instruments, tools and techniques to help us actively manage our career. Trajectories don t necessarily go straight up in a predictable pattern and his skilfully crafted work helps to align, direct and manage our career in a path of our choosing - and it s good to know that we do have some choice, no matter how off course our flight pattern might feel at times!
An enjoyable read with lots of practical tools, to create an enjoyable future!
Helen Fisher, Business Consultant

We all know that we are in times of constant change, so our ability to manage this change and make good career decisions is essential. This book hits the mark and is a valuable addition to the series. Looking after our career engine and ensuring we keep powering along will reap benefits for all.
The toolkit and companion e-book (Building the Rocket) are both excellent and full of practical tips.
Kevin Bennett, Director, KB Business Solutions Pty Ltd, Australia

Copyright 2013 Richard Maun
Cover design by Cover Kitchen
Artwork supplied by Rebecca Maun, www.richardmaun.com
Published in 2013 by Marshall Cavendish Business
An imprint of Marshall Cavendish International
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eISBN : 978 981 4484 83 1
Printed and bound in Great Britain by TJ International Limited, Padstow, Cornwall

DISCLAIMER
Please note: This book is full of real life examples and stories. However, personal details have all been changed to preserve anonymity, so if you think you know whom I was writing about you are mistaken. It was someone else completely, from a different place and a different time, riding a different rocket.
For Steve and Graham
For their support and generosity.
CONTENTS
We live in the age of the modern career, where we have to fend for ourselves and be proactive to ensure we have a happy, successful and rewarding life. We do this by riding the rocket through the arc of our career, from our first working day to our last. Our rocket transports us through space and time and we decide how high to fly, how fast we travel and where we go - we re in control.

This book is intended to support us on our journey and to provide essential insights and tools to enable us to keep safe, make good decisions and create opportunities for development and career change.

Please read the detailed contents and ask yourself:
How can I use this book to help me make progress?
What aspect of my career needs attention?
Which item do I need to read now?

PREFACE

Time To Fly!
Unique Content
Unique Combinations Add Value
Our Key Developmental Task
You Can Choose
Acknowledgements
1. CAREERS COUNT - Riding Our Rocket

Cockpit Question
Start Here
Use This Book
Forget School
The Modern Career Is Here
Rickety Rocket?
So What?
Richard s Be Uncommon Group Classification
Learning Exercise
2. THE CAREER ENGINE - Keeping Us In Flight

Cockpit Question
No Power, No Go
The Career Engine
1) Physis
2) Ability
3) Influencers
4) Environment
Career Top Tip
5) Experience
6) Chance
7) Workplace Skills
8) Workplace Effort
9) Mixing
10) Thrust
Burn Out
System Maintenance
So What?
Learning Exercise
3. FRAMING OUR CAREER - Progress To Date

Cockpit Question
Framing Counts
Richard s Story - A Rubbish Career?
We All Have Magic
Exercise - Your Journey So Far
Your Life - Your Career Reflection
So What?
Learning Exercise
4. MODERN CAREER THINKING - Key Skills For Success

Cockpit Question
We Are All Riding Our Own Rocket
An Essential Permission
Unit Of One
It s Okay To Be Self-Interested
Pride Is Power
The Birth Of The Modern Career
Global Trends
Take Me Home Table - The Essential Guide To A Successful Modern Career
7 Tenets Of A Modern Career
3 Key Skill Groups
6 Career Challenges
Case Study - Justin
Case Study - Melanie
So What?
Learning Exercise
5. AWARENESS PLEASE - Don t Be A Tourist

Cockpit Question
Reality Check
Tourism Is For Tourists
The Enemies Of Awareness
Enemy No.1 - Fatigue
Antidotes To Fatigue
Enemy No.2 - Fear
Antidotes To Fear
Enemy No.3 - Stress
Antidotes To Stress
Enemy No.4 - Inexperience
Antidotes To Inexperience
Enemy No.5 - Lack Of Interest
Antidotes To Lack Of Interest
Enemy No.6 - Filtering
Antidotes To Filtering
Case Study - Terry
So What?
Learning Exercise
6. HOW TO CHOOSE CAREERS - Navigation Lessons

Cockpit Question
In The Beginning
Career? Job? Life? Vocation?
Career Decision Shortcut
Career Top Tip
How To Use Your Intuition
Accessing Intuition
Case Study - Richard
Career Choice Permissions
Exercise 1 - Job Grid
Exercise 2 - Skills Aptitudes
Exercise 3 - Matching Comparing
Exercise 4 - Career Dynamics
Iterative Process
Portfolio Lifestyle
Putting It All Together - The Career Scope
Reflection Time
So What?
Learning Exercise
7. SETTING CAREER GOALS - Money vs. Happiness

Cockpit Question
A Life Lived
If We Retired Now...
Sun-Tanned Happiness Is A Myth
Don t Live A Lie
Beware The Dazzle Of Metallic Paint
A Profound Insight
Career Top Tip
Happy In The Middle
One Goal Is Imbalance
Parents Birth Order
What Is Your Career Goal?
Career Goal Prompts
And Then What?
So What?
Learning Exercise
8. HOW TO CHANGE CAREERS - Pulling G

Cockpit Question
G-Forces Can Be Fatal
Practical Experience
A Recession Makes It More Difficult
Reality Check
The Career Step Change Model
Career Top Tip
Same Role, New Industry
New Role, Same Industry
New Role, New Industry
Networking
How To Network
4 Steps Of Successful Networking
Perseverance Pays
Budget For Retraining
Essential Resources
Sample Cash-Flow Forecast
Case Study - Graham
So What?
Learning Exercise
9. CAREER ACCELERATORS - Flying Higher, Flying Faster

Cockpit Question
Setting Us Up For Success
What Do We Do?
Section 1: People Skills
1.1 Easy To Do Business With
1.2 Engaging With People
1.3 Being Present
1.4 Being Visible
1.5 Building The Psychological
1.6 Medal Days
Gold Medal Case Study - Meghan
Gold Medal Case Study - Adrian
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