This book is designed to help law enforcement professionals overcome the internal assaults they experience both personally and organizationally over the course of their careers. These assaults can transform idealistic and committed officers into angry, cynical individuals, leading to significant problems in both their personal and professional lives.
How to Supercharge Your Career with Purpose and Impact At a time when employee engagement has never been lower, the Good Is the New Cool Guide to Personal Purpose: Designing a Meaningful and Prosperous Career helps employees bring their full selves to work by helping them discover and use their personal Purpose to fuel their careers. This can lead to higher levels of physical, emotional, and mental health, as well as huge benefits to organizations in the form of higher levels of engagement, innovation, recruitment, and retention. This book explores the ground-breaking GPS to Purpose framework for finding Personal Purpose, helping readers pinpoint their Gifts, Passions, and how they can be of Service to others, and in the process drive business growth through solving social and environmental problems. With ideas applied at Fortune 500 companies like Adidas, PepsiCo, Microsoft, and others, this book discusses topics including: Explaining what Personal Purpose is in a clear and accessible way Unpacking the many mental, physical, and financial benefits of finding Purpose How to unleash your inner ‘Intrapreneur’ at work How to write an inspiring Living Vision for your life—and your work The Good Is the New Cool Guide to Personal Purpose earns a well-deserved spot on the bookshelves of all employees seeking to design a career that is both meaningful and successful—and help them drive growth in an entrepreneurial way through solving social and environmental problems.
This book is for those interested in becoming an officer or who is already an officer. For those seeking careers in law enforcement, just starting out, or who want new tips to brush, you will find value in this book. This book is great for those who supervise, train, or teach officers. The book offers a blended academic and practitioner-based approach to learning and understanding the skills needed to be a great officer. The book discusses how to prepare for a law enforcement career, how to master the skills needed to be successful during training and throughout ones career, how to develop decision-making skills, and how to effectively communicate. We discuss patrol issues such as policing strategies, patrol techniques, enforcement issues, officer survival, and use of force. We discuss investigative techniques, dealing with juveniles, understanding intelligence, and report writing. We wrap up with tips on managing your career and ending your tour of duty.
Many in this world are merely 'existing', some 'surviving', a few really 'living', a rare few 'living happily' and the rarest, 'outliving life' itself. 'Tips for Happy Living' shows practical ways of how to live happily and outlive life. Pujya Guruji Swami Tejomayananda's easy-to-remember 'sutras' and easy-to-follow commentary can effortlessly transform us from the 'ordinary' to the 'extra-ordinary'.
From New York to Los Angeles, police departments across the country are consistently accused of racism. Although historically white police precincts have been slowly integrating over the past few decades, African-American officers still encounter racism on the job. Bolton and Feagin have interviewed fifty veteran African-American police officers to provide real-life and vivid examples of the difficulties and discrimination these officers face everyday inside and outside the police station from barriers in hiring and getting promoted to lack of trust from citizens and members of black communi.
Shares the stories of those who overcame great odds or persevered to make their dreams come true while offering a seven-step plan for developing purpose, passion, belief, teams, creativity, and determination.
Discover what it takes to overcome and WIN!Do you find it difficult to succeed? Is your past keeping you from having happiness? Does it seem impossible to find total fulfilment in life?Travis Wolfe answered YES to these questions.Born into poverty, placed into foster care, abused, arrested and told he'd never amount to anything in life - Travis defied all odds and survived the gauntlet. Today, he's the founder of his own company, a speaker, a motivator, a father, a husband and a success. On his quest in search of greatness, Travis uncovered the secrets to exceptional achievement and found what it takes to be happy and fulfilled.In this book, you'll learn the secrets on how to: - Overcome any obstacle- Attract what you want in your family life, social life, finances and career.- Create the life you want to live- Define and achieve your American Dream- Turn your nos into yeses, your failures into successes - Have abundance in every area of your life!"When you become determined not to lose, that's when you'll WIN!"