Working Successfully with Screwed-Up People

Working Successfully with Screwed-Up People

by Elizabeth B. Brown

About the book (from the publisher):

Let’s face it. Some people just don’t listen, don’t care, and aren’t willing to compromise. And you probably work with some of them - the incomprehensible supervisor, the person in the next office who chats more than works or the customer who, by the way, isn’t always right. For all those you come across at work who drive you crazy, there’s a solution.

Working Successfully with Screwed-Up People offers healthy ways to have good working relationships with those around us. Author Elizabeth B. Brown covers everything from daily annoyances to serious workplace issues. Brown, the bestselling author of Living Successfully with Screwed-Up People turns her insightful eye to the workplace, showing readers how they can get along with and work successfully beside the people who drive them up the wall. “It doesn’t take two people to change a relationship in the workplace,” says Brown. “It takes one—me!” Her expert advice will help workers in any profession learn how to be unflappable, imperturbable, and unflustered when dealing with the difficult people in their workplace. The majority of our waking life is spent at work.  Don’t let difficult people drive you crazy.  With Brown’s help and encouragement, you can make the changes that will improve your work environment and enhance your life

The title of this book grabbed my attention right away. Who hasn't worked with people who drive us up the wall, or make us think there is no way to get along with them? Elizabeth B. Brown offers practical solutions for figuring out how to work with these people in a loving way, and without losing your mind. I enjoyed reading this book, and I think anyone who works anywhere - so, that would be everybody! - would benefit from reading this, even just to use as a reference guide for the future.


About the author:

Elizabeth B. Brown is a teacher, speaker, and the author of the popular Living Successfully with Screwed-Up People. Her books offer practical helps for healing hearts, as well as tools to turn around ailing relationships. She offers hope and suggestions that shine light in the chaos swirling around difficult life issues. Elizabeth assures you that you can find JOY, in spite of curves life may throw at you. When dealing with someone who causes your emotions to spin, she assure you that the person who is obtrusive, uncooperative, and unreasonable chooses his behavior. You, also, can choose - choose to be unflappable, imperturbable, and unflustered. Elizabeth has provided workshops on grief around the country. "Today," she laughs, "the seminars are on a much lighter subject - SUPS, an unfortunate label our emotions scream when we are trying to be heard, appreciated, or seek cooperation with a difficult person in our workplace or family." The great news is through her books and seminars, you can find tools to free you to find humor, joy, and freedom in the midst of relationship strangleholds or life tragedies. Find out more about Elizabeth B. Brown at http://www.elizabethbbrown.com/.


Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from Revell Books. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR, Part 255: "Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising."

You're Already Amazing

You're Already Amazing

by Holley Gerth

From the back cover:

Pssst...pull up a chair and I'll tell you a secret. You'd better lean in close for this one. 

Ready?

You don't have to do more, be more, have more.

I'm sure there are security alarms going off somewhere. You should probably hide this book when your in-laws come over. And this could be the makings of a Sunday morning scandal. 

But it's true. 

It's the kind of true that will change your life, set you free, and make you wake up smiling for the first time in a long time. I know because that's what it did for me (and believe me, for this non-morning girl that's nothing short of miraculous). I've seen it happen to a lot of other women too. I've read it in their words through thousands of comments on my blog. I've seen it in their faces on the couch in my counseling office. I've heard it in a new kind of laughter over coffee with friends. 

So watch out, sister. If you keep reading, you just might be next.

Even if we've never met, I know this about you: you're a daughter of God, a holy princess, 

a woman created with strengths you've yet to fully grasp and a story that's still being written by the divine Author Himself. And if you really take hold of who you are and what you're called to do, there will be no stopping you. That's because there's no stopping him in you - and he's got bigger plans for your life than you've even imagined. 

Okay, you've been warned. 

If you're feeling brave, I dare you to keep reading...

Doesn't that make you want to keep reading? This book was such an encouragement to me. Holley Gerth's open and encouraging writing style made me feel like I already knew her, like I could sit down for a cup of tea with her and be very comfortable. The book made me think about my gifts and strengths, and how I could better use them for God's kingdom. This is definitely a resource that I will hold onto and reference in the future!

I rate this book a "5" and highly recommend this as a "must read" for every woman who needs some encouragement!

This book is available March 2012 from your favorite bookseller from Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group. 

About the author:

Holley Gerth is a cofounder of (in)courage, author, counselor, life coach, wife to Mark, follower of Jesus, and friend to YOU. She'd love to have coffee with you. As the next best thing, she hopes you will stop by and say hello at Heart to Heart with Holley. 

Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from Revell Books. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR, Part 255: "Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising."