Get Work + Life: Finding The Fit Thats Right For You: Finding The Fit Thats Right For You Compiled By Cali Williams Yost Hardcover

read this mostly for the anecdotes, since it's meant to be a workbook that helps you decide how to approach a worklife balance shift.
I anticipate I'll probably need to work through this book at some point in the future, but right now it was mainly good food for thought.
Cali Yost's book is an excellent guide to creating the worklife fit that works best for you, Yost weaves personal anecdotes, background, and convictions together with tips for identifying your personal values and needs and setting yourself up to achieve.


While many books seek to convince the organization of the strategic value of worklife flexibility, this one aims to empower the individual worker.
This is a critical piece of work, as no organizational philosophy or strategy can produce the right fit for employees who don't advocate for themselves.
Every working parent should read this, I bought a copy to keep for reference after I'd finished the library version, Change when, how, and where you work know why and how anyone can have more flexibility be inspired to live life the way you want to live it.


Because the old ninetofive corporate culture will never return, you need to change the way you think about, approach, and interact with work.
Cali Williams Yost, a dynamic and innovative work/life expert who has both coached individuals and consulted

for Fortunecompanies, believes that you can choose how work fits into your life instead of work choosing how much life is left over for you.


Work Life presents a practical, stepbystep process that helps you to create, propose, negotiate, and successfully implement a flexible arrangement that meets not only your needs but also the needs of your employer.
Filled with inspiring success stories, as well as thoughtprovoking exercises focused on finding answers to every individual's unique work/life dilemmas, this is the only book that can be used by anyone to achieve any kind of flexibility, in any industry, at any stage of their career.


TheSteps to Help You Fit Work Into Your Life

Step: Change Your Mindset
Get rid of misconceptions about work flexibility claim responsibility for your own work and life choices and redefine what it means to be a loyal employee.


Step: Identify and Bypass the Roadblocks
Reevaluate your definitions of success cope with your fears overcome resistance from your manager, coworkers, or spouse and learn to think outside the box.


Step: Figure Out What You Really Want and How You'll Get It
Analyze the specific demands of your job and your life to determine the adjustments you'll need to make write a formal business proposal negotiate it with your manager and implement it.
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