The Career Toolkit: Essential Skills for Success That No One Taught You

Think back over your life. Did anyone ever teach you networking, negotiating, communicating, leading, or career planning? No? Mark Herschberg would like to remedy that.

The Career Toolkit is packed with dozens of actionable principles, exercises, and practices that will accelerate your success and yield outsized returns for your career and your income. The book guides you through designing and executing your personal plan to achieve the career you deserve. It’s written for office professions, leaders, HR, and students – no matter where you are in your career, Mark has some suggestions to help you keep on the path that’s right for you.

The book is divided into three sections: Career, Leadership & Management, and Interpersonal Dynamics. If you’re currently facing a particular challenge, you can jump right ahead to that chapter. At the end of the book, you’ll have developed a wide-ranging set of skills for your career. You’ll also create a plan for where you want to go and use your newly honed skills to strategically and tactically accelerate your career.

Mark has spent his own career launching and developing new ventures at startups, in Fortune 500 companies, and in academia. He’s been dubbed MIT’s “career success accelerator” and he teaches a course there annually. Now he’s taken so much of what he’s learned and turned it into a book to deliver directly into your hands.

Find out more about The Career Toolkit – including a free download of the first chapter – and Mark’s other resources here: https://www.thecareertoolkitbook.com/.

Build Your Future: The Complete Guide to a Skilled Trades Career

There has never been a better time to consider a career in the skilled trades. More than 2.5 million job openings in 2021 were in the skilled trades, and that number isn’t expected to drop in the coming years. Skilled trades rely more on trade schools, apprenticeships, and on-the-job trainings than a four-year college degree, and they take people above and beyond the entry-level positions that often get called “unskilled labor.”

Skilled trades cover a wide variety of positions in areas like construction, manufacturing and industrial, transportation, energy, and agriculture. They reference specific skills or knowledge essential for current industry. Skilled trade professionals have opportunities for growth and advancement, and many of them become entrepreneurs who can set their own schedules, work for themselves, and enjoy high levels of independence.

Build Your Future breaks down the top ten myths about skilled trades and tackles the question of whether college is really the best option for everyone. It addresses average salaries, future prospects, learning pathways, opportunities for entrepreneurship, and questions of overall job satisfaction to provide students with the information they need to decide their paths for the future.

Perfect for high schoolers and their parents, Build Your Future reminds readers that there are options for success and employment happiness beyond four-year college degrees. To learn more about the book or place an order, contact awp@jenkinsgroupinc.com.

Abuse Exposed: Identifying Family Secrets That Breed Dysfunction

Christine Hammond is a leading mental health influencer, author, and guest speaker who specializes in treating families of abuse and trauma. Her work is based on her own personal experience. Abuse Exposed explores not just obvious abuse, but less obvious tactics like family secrets, intimidation, and the “Silent Treatment.”

Christine knows that victims often ask “Why did this happen to me?” She also knows that victims can rewrite their stories, improve their relationships, and break the cycle for future generations. While her book focuses on the family, it has information useful for all kinds of relationships, including work and professional relationships.

Abuse Exposed teaches readers about the wide range of abuse, both covert and overt; the generational links to abuse; what to do before, during, and after abuse; how to confront your abuser; finding forgiveness despite the pain; how to re-write your story to avoid future problems; and so much more. It has been praised by neurologists, psychotherapists, wellness specialists, and trauma survivor counselors alike. 

Christine specializes in personality disorders (Narcissism and Borderline), mental health disorders, addictions, ADD, OCD, co-dependency, anxiety, anger, depression, parenting, and marriage. She is also the host of the podcast “Understanding Today’s Narcissist.”

For more information about Christine or her book, visit https://abuseexposed.com/.

Intrinsic Inclusion: Rebooting Your Biased Brain

Dr. Janet B. Reid is an innovative thought leader in diversity, equity, and inclusion. Vincent Brown is an expert in diversity and inclusion, organizational and team development, and executive coaching. Together they have written an award-winning book, Intrinsic Inclusion: Rebooting Your Biased Brain, to share the secrets of the naturally inclusive and to disrupt unconscious biases, leading to better teamwork, collaboration, and productivity. 

Intrinsic Inclusion is about re-training your brain to make yourself more naturally inclusive. It works at the intersection of diversity, neuroscience, biases, and biology to disrupt implicit unconscious biases and change “default” mindsets. The book asks timely and provocative questions to prompt important discussions for readers to consider in their business and personal lives. Reid and Brown encourage dialogue and discovery, empowered by intrinsic motivation to be more naturally inclusive.

Intrinsic Inclusion has been embraced by experts in diversity and inclusion, civic engagement, global diversity, HR, and more. Through the book and the offered Facilitated Learning Experiences, individuals and groups can engage in respectful empathy, connected understanding, shared trust, and reaction to significant emotional events or relationships. Intrinsic Inclusion can help teams of any size create an inclusive environment for all.

To learn more about intrinsic inclusion, visit https://intrinsicinclusion.com/.