My new book, Developing resilience – the key to professional success has arrived! Rather than my previous two books that focussed on business development, this one is about personal development. I wrote it because I was all too aware of how much good professionals, who care about the quality of the services they provide have been knocked off course in recent years.
For more information, please contact me on faw@westwood-associates.com.
With increasing pressure on graduate employment, I feel that professional educators play an important role in getting their students as resilient as possible before they seek to enter the workplace. It is essential from the outset of their academic experience to show students the importance of behaving professionally and with integrity by going back to first principles and formally stating what will be expected of them in all Student Handbooks. This goes beyond statements about plagerism. In addition, students should become used to getting constructive feedback on their performance and be able to respond to this positively. They should also be able to learn by observing other people and build on their own self-awareness. And finally, they should be taught to become comfortable with managing uncertainty.