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Want to be an effective, successful and happy academic? This book helps you hone your skills, showcase your strengths, and manage all the professional aspects of academic life. With their focus on life-long learning and positive reflection, Alex and Bailey encourage you to focus on your own behaviours and personal challenges and help you to find real world solutions to your problems or concerns. Weaving inspirational stories, the best of research and theory, along with pragmatic advice from successful academics, this book provides step-by-step guidance and simple tools to help you better meet the demands of modern academia, including: Optimising your effectiveness, priorities & strategy Workflow & managing workload Interpersonal relationships, and how to influence Developing your writing, presenting and teaching skills Getting your work/life balance right. Clear, practical and refreshingly positive this book inspires you to build the career you want in academia.
Introduction \\ Why is this Book Needed \\ Get the Most from this Book \\ Doing the Right Things Right: The Success Pyramid and The Core \\ Language and Terminology Issues \\ Theoretical Basis and Features \\ Chapter 1: Academic Knowledge Work as Extreme Knowledge Work \\ What is Academic Knowledge Work? \\ The Nature of Academic Knowledge Work \\ The Challenge of ’Extreme Knowledge Work’ for Academic Workers \\ Section One: Choosing the Right Academic Work: The Success Pyramid \\ Chapter 2: Values in Academic Work \\ Values and Identity in Academic Work and Workers \\ Exploring Your Values \\ Values and Integrity \\ Reactions to Value Conflicts in Academic Workplaces \\ First Steps to Workable Strain: Increase Your Values Literacy \\ Chapter 3: Success and Its Indicators \\ What Success Looks Like in Academic Work \\ Success Is Not Equal (Especially Around Gender) \\ Success Is About Work and Life \\ Success and Quality Are Different \\ Is Success Subjective or Objective? \\ Approaching Success in Academic Knowledge Work: Occluded Games and Genres \\ Success Indicators and The Success Pyramid \\ Success Indicators over Academic Careers \\ Challenges in Selecting Success Indicators \\ Chapter 4: Doing the Right Things I: Effectiveness, Priorities, and Strategy \\ Priorities: The Key to Effectiveness \\ What Is Strategy? \\ Common Challenges with Good Strategy \\ Chapter 5: Doing the Right Things II: Goals, Tasks and Time \\ Time in Academic Work \\ Goals in Academic Work \\ Common Challenges when Goal Setting \\ Tasks in Academic Work \\ Handling Tasks \\ Common Challenges with Tasks \\ Section Two: Developing The Core \\ Chapter 6: Creativity: Adding the Vital Spark \\ Being and Staying Creative or ‘The Battle for Creativity’ \\ Threats to Creativity \\ Chapter 7: Human Work and Self-Work \\ The Scope and Nature of Human Work \\ What Affects Human Work? \\ Human Work Done Well: First Steps \\ Relationships in Academic Work \\ Building Relational Networks \\ Feedback \\ Teams and Working Groups \\ Conflict \\ Human Work, Self-Work: A Journey Without End \\ Chapter 8: Learning: Success, Failure and the Growth Mindset \\ Mindsets in Academic Work \\ Learning for Growing: What and Why \\ Failure: Necessary and Useful \\ Successful Failure: A Six-Step Approach \\ Chapter 9: Influence: Persuasion and Connection \\ Rhetoric: The Basis for Better Influence \\ Invention: Arguments, audience, and success \\ Arrangement, style, and delivery: Connection and identification \\ Memory: Practised, effortless spontaneity \\ Above all: Be self-aware, but be yourself \\ Chapter 10: Write Anything Better \\ The Vulnerability of Writing in Academic Work \\ Different Types of Writing in Academic Work \\ The Quality-Prevalence Paradox of Academic Writing \\ The Limitations of Trick, Tips and Social Media \\ Genre: A Different Approach to Academic Writing \\ Chapter 11: Developing Better Habits and Systems \\ Everyday Tasks: Marginal and Fundamental Gains \\ Taming Everyday Tasks \\ Other Systems, Routines, and Habits \\ Section Three: Bringing It All Together \\ Chapter 12: Projections, Introspections, and Reflections on Academic Work \\ Thinking Forward: The Future of Academic Work \\ Thinking Inwardly: Reading Your Own Reactions \\ Thinking On: What We Learned Writing this Book
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