Richard Maun - How To Keep Your Job

In Praise of How To Keep Your Job

A compelling read for anyone who isserious about keeping their job. I would also recommend it to anyone currentlyunemployed because once they get a new job this book will help them to keep it.It can take 6 18 months to find a new job so it makes sense to invest timeand energy in the one we have, says Richard Maun. This is so true, andfollowing the practical advice and tips in this book will generate positiveenergy so people can start enjoying their job again. Asking oneself Am I valuefor money? or Would I employ me? is a huge wake-up call how many people,before reading this book, have really asked themselves those questions?

Julie Bishop, Founder,www.JobHop.co.uk

A must read for all employees!Useful tips and practical activities make this one for everyones collection.With this book, everyone can succeed in the workplace! Read it now and dontlook back!

Kevin Bennett, Manager BusinessExcellence, South West TAFE, Australia

If you think you know it all youdont, until youve read this book. Richards calm, structured, non-judgementalapproach focuses on the key issues that provide a foundation and a frameworkthat allow to you develop and grow. Upsizing, just as downsizing, can challengeyou to keep your job and Richard delivers practical, fun techniques andapproaches that encourage you to plan, prioritise and choose to change tobecome a more effective, motivated and happier employee.

David Clover, Chief BusinessDevelopment Officer, EV Offshore Ltd and EVO Inc, UK & USA

What a great book! Once againRichard has hit the nail on the head, providing real insights into thesometimes brutal, modern day working environment. The reality and perspectiveabout decision making and how employees are perceived is bang on and is rarelycommitted to print. Richard highlights exactly the whys and hows of gettingahead at work, and as ever the useful tips, support and guidance can be used inmany areas of life. Trust Richard to tell you exactly how it is, and then giveyou the tool box to manage yourself to employment happiness. I wish he hadwritten this 10 years ago. Genuinely refreshing!

Jordan Dudley, Director, DudleyChild Recruitment Ltd, UK

A refreshingly straightforward book!It shows you how you can be more successful at work and defines success asbeing recognised as a productive and therefore valuable employee. In simple,pragmatic terms it shows how making a few changes in your own behaviour, takingactions that are within your control and using simple tools to manage yourpersonal effectiveness can improve your value to an employer.

The book shows you what to do, whyyou need to do it, and how to get started. With job security hard to come by, Ican think of many people who would benefit from reading this book!

Geoff Nelder, former Director, Fellowshipand Enterprise Centre, Cranfield University, UK

Perfect for anyone who is worriedabout keeping their job or moving up the career ladder. Read this book, and youwill gain skills and confidence that will stay with you for life. I have readand re-read all Richards books. Why have I re-read them? Because they are sogood! Richard provides grounded, practical advice that you can use day in,day out, to make real changes.

Sara Greenfield, co-Owner,www.thebestof.co.uk/norwich

Anyone who spends most of theirwaking life in a working environment needs to read this book. In whateverbusiness we operate we all feel better about ourselves if we believe that weare making a difference. For all sorts of reasons we hit barriers, they mayjust be temporary blockages on a project, or an employee relationship, or thebig one experienced by the character Peter. At a time when we may feeldisempowered and vulnerable, Richard from first-hand experience offerspractical tools (the 4-hour list is a cracker) and great examples, to help usfeel confident and resourceful.

Tony Hall, Chief Executive,Freebridge Community Housing, UK

Full of ideas on how to thinkdifferently about your job. This book will not only help you plan a strategyfor survival in the workplace but will help you to plan a career. Valuable andthought provoking, the book allows the reader to seriously take stock of theirposition and then take positive steps to reduce stress and keep earning money!

David Dawber, CEO, Cliffe PackagingLtd, UK

HOWTO KEEP YOUR JOB

Brilliant ways to increase

performance, stay employed and

keep the money rolling in

RICHARD MAUN

Copyright 2011 Richard Maun

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For George and William

You both sparkle with talent.

Enjoy your successes and always keeplearning.

Contents

How To Keep Your Job is full ofbrilliant ways to improve performance, stay employed and keep the money rollingin. Probably the most useful book for anyone at work today, not least becauseits based on real life examples of people who learned how to keep their job.Its central message is one of hope for us all that we can assert ourselvesand become an Added Value Employee a respected and appreciated person withinour organisation.

Are you facing cut backs or downsizingissues at work and want to know how to reduce the chances of losing your job?Are you new into the world of employment and want to know how to survive? Haveyou taken months to find a job and wish to keep it? Are you under-performing ortired, or fed up with constant change and want to know how to turn thingsround? If you are, then youre not alone, but did you realise just how much youcan influence the result so that when the bosses decide who to keep and whoto lose, youll end up being one of the keepers whom they hang on to?