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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
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Produktbeschreibung
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.
Autorenporträt
Alexander Clark is a captain in the United States Army and previously worked as a volunteer EMT. Alex attended Norwich University as a member of the Corps of Cadets and helped establish an annual charity ruck march that contributes to the Andrew McKenna Scholarship Fund in honor of fallen Green Beret alumni. He graduated Norwich as a distinguished military graduate with a BA in international studies, then commissioned into the United States Army infantry as a second lieutenant. Alex completed Ranger and Airborne School and deployed to the Horn of Africa in support of Operation Enduring Freedom as a rifle platoon leader. He then served as a mortar platoon leader. Alex speaks French, Spanish, and Modern Standard Arabic and is currently stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.In his free time, Alex and his family own and operate a real-estate investing business founded in 2016.
Rezensionen
The authors not only illuminate the realities of academic work, but also provide brilliant wisdom for keeping one s pilot light of passion constantly ignited, despite the challenges. This book is an excellent resource for doctoral students; it provides an inspirational process for success! Lori Pollard 20171123