Nancy Struck - Working Smarter from Home (A Fifty-Minute Series Book)

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Your DayYour Way

Nancy Struck

A FIFTY-MINUTE SERIES BOOK

CRISP PUBLICATIONS, INC. Menlo Park, California

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CREDITS

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Copyright 1995 Crisp Publications, Inc.

Printed in the United States of America.

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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 94-68199

Struck, Nancy

Working Smarter from Home

1-56052-310-7 (Print Edition)

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Ideally, working from home will give you an opportunity to improve your job performance while at the same time letting you buy back some quality time in your personal life. To gain this advantage you need to understand productivity inhibitors that keep you from this goal and how to manage them.

Working away from a corporate office environment provides great flexibility while providing unique challenges. Although the primary alternative is working from home, most of the ideas discussed are independent of the physical location. Whatever the location, think of it as a base from which you then reach out to clients, other co-workers, the community, or your company if telecommuting. Heed the word from in the title Working Smarter from Home. Avoid the mindset of camping out at home.

This book takes an approach that is different from traditional time management and organizational techniques. The idea is for you to develop your own approach. In other words, how can you capitalize on your preferred work style to best meet your business and personal productivity needs?

Exercises in this book will help you answer these questions and provide the basis for developing a personal plan to maximize your efficiency and performance. Take time to discover how you can work smarter. Its a small cost for the time youll recoup to spend on those things you value most.

Nancy Struck

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There is a growing trend to work from home whether full- or part-time. Reasons vary as:

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Working productively from home requires a different skill set than working at the structured corporate work place. This book will assist you in identifying personal strengths and weaknesses and to develop a plan unique to you. The objective is to help you maximize the potential of working from home to enhance your professional success and your personal lifestyle.

This book can be used in a variety of ways:

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Nancys experience and interest in the topic of working productively from home stems from her transition from the corporate environment to establishing her own home-based business. Her focus is to help individuals understand and honor their own values and work style preferences. Capitalizing on these gives an individual an opportunity to enhance their professional success while at the same time buying back quality time in their personal life. She teaches workshops on the topic.

Nancy is the principal in Moving Forward, a training and career services company. She has extensive business experience having worked for IBM for 26 years in a variety of positions including management, systems engineering, marketing support, training and customer-executive education. She holds an M.A. in Career Development and a B.S. in Math. She is very active in her community as a Parks/ Recreation Commissioner, a Big Sister (Big Sisters/Big Brothers program), and is an active alumnae in the Leadership Mountain View program. She is also a member of the American Society of Training and Development and a board member of the Bay Area Association of Psychological Type.