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Office Survival Guide

Wednesday, 08 February 2006

Surviving Political and Interpersonal Landmines in Corporate America

Marilyn Puder-York

Dr. Marilyn Puder-York is a pioneer in applying clinical psychology to the enhancement of executive careers. She has specialized in coaching executives and professionals striving for excellence. She is also a consultant to CEOâ€™s, senior executives and human resource professionals providing assistance in their management of special behavioral issues in the workplace. In her new book, The Office Survival Guide, she describes the top ten trickiest workplace problems, and presents her unique two-part approach to solving them.

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In today's volatile work world, in fast-moving, ever-changing organizations, it's more critical than ever to manage the inevitable landmines and stresses with good coping strategies.

A boss who issues impossible or unethical demands, a shark of a co-worker who'll use any means to get ahead, a troubled or troublesome assistant--these are among the thorny issues faced by employees at every level of organizational life. Not only do they make the office an unpleasant and stressful environment; if they're managed poorly, tough situations and difficult dilemmas can be real career killers.

Readers learn how to shape responses that are almost ideal--politically correct, adaptive to the context, productive for personal needs and goals, and nondestructive to others. A win-win. Not only does life at the office become more bearable. The employee will maximize effectiveness at work, develop resiliency, and manage his or her career more creatively. Besides: Thoughtful, empathetic, problem-solving behavior is contagious. Employee helps employee. Everyone benefits.

About Marilyn Puder-York

Dr. Puder-York is one of the pioneers in applying clinical psychology to the enhancement of executive careers. She has specialized in coaching executives and professionals striving for excellence. She is also a consultant to CEOâ€™s, senior executives and human resource professionals providing assistance in their management of special behavioral issues in the workplace.

Dr. Puder-York was a Vice President at Citicorp, managing their global in-house Employee Assistance Program for over ten years. Her experience in her executive-centered practice, and as a corporate executive herself, gives Dr. Puder-York a practical, bottom-line business perspective when coaching corporate-sponsored executives.

For more than 25 years Dr. Puder-York has helped executives: maintain resiliency through dramatic upheavals; adjust habits and behaviors; enhance their communication, interpersonal and self-management skills, and identify and manage their internal barriers in order to achieve superior performance.

Dr. Puder-York is straightforward and acute in her observations and counsel. She has a demonstrated track record of attaining positive results, and helping executives and professionals achieve their best within their organizations.

During the course of her career she has presented to a number of corporate and professional associations, such as the New York Chamber of Commerce, Human Resource Planning Society, The New York Times Company. She has been frequently interviewed and cited in print and broadcast, by the business and general media. She has been quoted by The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Business Week, The New York Times and others. She has been seen on CNN,CBS, NBC and Fox television networks. Dr. Puder-Yorkâ€™s publication topics have included ethical issues in executive coaching, managing difficult customers and clients, and the psychology of success. Her debut book, â€œThe Office Survival Guide??? has been published by Mc-Graw-Hill in January 2006.

She is a member of the Human Resource Planning Society, The American Psychological Association, and the New York Academy of Medicine.

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