An Amazing College Experience Starts with You! The Naked Roommate's First Year Survival Workbook is your personal roadmap to creating and living your own very best college experience. Based on the bestselling book, The Naked Roommate: And 107 Other Issues You Might Run Into in College, this guidebook is the ultimate companion for a student looking to have the most successful and productive first year. Harlan Cohen, the most trusted voice on the college transition, and expert instructor Cynthia Jenkins give you ways to evaluate your expectations, interests, and concerns about college life, and then track them against the real deal as you make your way through the exciting, surprising, and, yes, sometimes difficult first year experience. Filled with 107 Naked activities and exercises covering: • Finding your place(s) on (and off) campus • Making friends, talking to parents, and paying for college • Juggling the perks and pitfalls of technology • Study strategies, classroom essentials, and instructor insights • Roommates, relationships, drinking, drugs, sex, no sex, and more...(roommate contract included) If you are open to possibilities and ready to expect the unexpected, some of the best years of your life are about to begin.
A near-death experience inspired this literary work. The life flashes during this event resulted in new career moves. While developing a new career and sitting on professional development panels, I explored 100(s) of methods job seekers generally apply to enter new careers. The education, training, and relationships equipped me to develop leadership programs for frontline employees, executives, and government leaders. However, a deeper understanding of the entire talent management process arrived via a diversion to teach elementary and adults on the college level. This experience revealed critical development approaches for career moves. Most people wouldnt be willing to explore learning via a diversion from corporate or executive roles. However, the observations inspired an Intel of career development approaches for the bosses of the future. This journey created the framework for Millennial Moves. A Workforce that Merits Attention By the year 2025, Millennials will contribute 75 percent of the workforce innovating company brands and bottom-lines (Hais, M. & Winograd, 2014). Therefore, it is vital to give back, help them prepare via a system that holds them and people who care about them accountable. This book reveals 10 main strategies in a simplified format. Use this book as a planning tool to help Millennials measure, map out, and execute new careers in real-time.
This book is about going above-and-beyond for your boss, your employer, your employees and the public, your customer. This was the order of the day at the Clayton Solicitor General's Office. Although on any given day or moment we had to wear many hats to help the public, it was the synergy amongst the employees that made us dynamic. How common it is to hear the expression: "Look out for No.1!" or to see the "me first attitude." However, during my years at the Clayton Solicitor General's office I noticed heroes who exemplified the very opposite. For example, have you ever had a boss that thought you deserved the benefits of retirement? Maybe there was a team that came together to encourage and support you without your request? What about the boss that values you so much he or she rewards you with an afternoon off or a reward of your choice? What about a manager that is such a good leader, she welcomes you to the office with open arms, fills in all blanks every step of the way, never removing herself as your cheerleader and friend? What about the boss that thought you were capable of so much more? These are just a few of the special people I had the privilege of working with for over 12 years. Interestingly, you can find all of them in an unlikely place, a government office. I dedicate this book to them out of a heart full of appreciation. Book Review As a hard-working single woman in a male dominated field, it's quite challenging to receive ongoing praise for your dedication and contribution to the job. Very few of my employers were my personal cheerleaders or asked for my personal contribution to a project or solution to a problem. The few that were, are my personal outstanding leaders and the ONLY jobs that I looked forward to going to, with full knowledge that I was going to face another stressful day. This book is a self-help book for the "how to be a great employer" and for the employee who should never be overlooked or unappreciated. Some of my personal leaders are mentioned by name in this book and I feel that they are worthy of emulating, honor and praise. Talya N. Blazia, Bilingual Court Interpreter Talya.Blazia@yahoo.com
This book is about going above-and-beyond for your boss, your employer, your employees and the public, your customer. This was the order of the day at the Clayton Solicitor General's Office. Although on any given day or moment we had to wear many hats to help the public, it was the synergy amongst the employees that made us dynamic. How common it is to hear the expression: "Look out for No.1!" or to see the "me first attitude." However, during my years at the Clayton Solicitor General's office I noticed heroes who exemplified the very opposite. For example, have you ever had a boss that thought you deserved the benefits of retirement? Maybe there was a team that came together to encourage and support you without your request? What about the boss that values you so much he or she rewards you with an afternoon off or a reward of your choice? What about a manager that is such a good leader, she welcomes you to the office with open arms, fills in all blanks every step of the way, never removing herself as your cheerleader and friend? What about the boss that thought you were capable of so much more? These are just a few of the special people I had the privilege of working with for over 12 years. Interestingly, you can find all of them in an unlikely place, a government office. I dedicate this book to them out of a heart full of appreciation. Book Review As a hard-working single woman in a male dominated field, it's quite challenging to receive ongoing praise for your dedication and contribution to the job. Very few of my employers were my personal cheerleaders or asked for my personal contribution to a project or solution to a problem. The few that were, are my personal outstanding leaders and the ONLY jobs that I looked forward to going to, with full knowledge that I was going to face another stressful day. This book is a self-help book for the "how to be a great employer" and for the employee who should never be overlooked or unappreciated. Some of my personal leaders are mentioned by name in this book and I feel that they are worthy of emulating, honor and praise. Talya N. Blazia, Bilingual Court Interpreter Talya.Blazia@yahoo.com
On March 7, 1965, voting rights demonstrators were brutally beaten as they crossed the Edmund Petis bridge in Selma, Alabama. One of the most-publicized incidents of the civil rights campaign, images from that day have been seared into the nation's consciousness. Yet little has been written about the civil rights events in the surrounding counties, the vast sections of the rural south. Cynthia Griggs Fleming addresses this gap by bringing to light the struggle for equality of the citizens of Wilcox County, Alabama. Although right next door to Selma, their story has been largely ignored. Through the eyes of the residents of the county, Fleming relates a struggle punctuated by cowardice and courage, audacity and timidity, fear and foolishness. And, in the end, the entrenched power structure refused to yield and the county remains segregated to this day. Personal and compelling, In the Shadow of Selma is essential reading for everyone interested in the continuing struggle for civil rights in the United States.
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