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Is This a Lousy Job or Is It Me?: A Real-Life Guide for Achieving Success at Work
In IS THIS A LOUSY JOB OR IS IT ME?, executive coach Terri Jacke explores how every success and every struggle at work can be used to develop your character, which determines the way you handle each experience. It is your character that shapes your behavior in the workplace and informs the quality of decisions you make at work and about your career. By using stories—sometimes humorous, sometimes heartbreaking—Terri invites you to join her on a journey that chronicles her growth through the seven stages of character development at work: Beginning, Yuckiness, Fear, Authenticity, Boundaries, Love, and Exit.
Terri holds nothing back in taking you into the heart of her experiences from her first job at a campground at age 12 to succeeding at iconic corporations and finally fulfilling her dream to establish her own firm. Combining real-life experience and organizational development expertise, IS THIS A LOUSY JOB OR IS IT ME? provides practical tools and hard-won wisdom to help you develop your character at work.
The insights you gain into the seven stages of character development, captured in the BY FABLE model, will empower you to make sense of your workplace experiences and effectively move yourself through the stages in their natural sequence, allowing you to create a fulfilling career path leading to your inevitable success.
Terri holds nothing back in taking you into the heart of her experiences from her first job at a campground at age 12 to succeeding at iconic corporations and finally fulfilling her dream to establish her own firm. Combining real-life experience and organizational development expertise, IS THIS A LOUSY JOB OR IS IT ME? provides practical tools and hard-won wisdom to help you develop your character at work.
The insights you gain into the seven stages of character development, captured in the BY FABLE model, will empower you to make sense of your workplace experiences and effectively move yourself through the stages in their natural sequence, allowing you to create a fulfilling career path leading to your inevitable success.
244 pages, Hardcover
First published August 27, 2020
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About the author
Terri Jacke
1 book11 followersTerri is an accomplished executive coach, organizational development consultant, and the founder of Inspired Training Institute, Inc. Terri offers a unique blend of business savvy, perceptiveness and momentum to the development of her coaching clients. Her coaching style fosters the self-discovery, clarity, and personal accountability necessary to accelerate growth with her clients.
Terri captures that style in her first book, Is This a Lousy Job or Is It Me?: A Real-Life Guide for Achieving Success at Work, published in 2020. Over the course of 14 years of observation, inquiry, study, and writing, a fascinating pattern of character development became clear. Is This a Lousy Job or Is It Me? introduces a compelling model about the seven stages of character development at work, and it empowers readers to employ the natural sequence of those stages to achieve more fulfillment from their work and greater success at work. The model, known as the BY FABLE model, has served as a valuable framework for Terri’s work coaching clients.
Terri lives in Green Bay, Wisconsin, with her husband, Chris. She is the mother of three adult children, a daughter and two stepsons. She is also an animal lover, currently raising two rescue cats and three rambunctious tortoises.
Terri captures that style in her first book, Is This a Lousy Job or Is It Me?: A Real-Life Guide for Achieving Success at Work, published in 2020. Over the course of 14 years of observation, inquiry, study, and writing, a fascinating pattern of character development became clear. Is This a Lousy Job or Is It Me? introduces a compelling model about the seven stages of character development at work, and it empowers readers to employ the natural sequence of those stages to achieve more fulfillment from their work and greater success at work. The model, known as the BY FABLE model, has served as a valuable framework for Terri’s work coaching clients.
Terri lives in Green Bay, Wisconsin, with her husband, Chris. She is the mother of three adult children, a daughter and two stepsons. She is also an animal lover, currently raising two rescue cats and three rambunctious tortoises.
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May 23, 2022
Executive/career coaching is an art form. Jacke’s book gives a prospective client insight into her thought process. I think the book is too heavy on her personal history/experiences. I wish she devoted space to empowering readers on how to discuss making their workplaces more conducive to supporting these processes. Additionally, I think some of the advice would have applied pre-COVID, but significant changes to workplaces have occurred in the two years since publication.
Full disclosure: I won a copy of this book from a Goodreads giveaway.
Full disclosure: I won a copy of this book from a Goodreads giveaway.
May 10, 2022
I got this book as a giveaway.
I really enjoyed the book and here is why….
It was honest and I could relate. The stories that the author tells throughout the book reminded me
Of my younger days. Working different jobs and trying to figure out who I was and where I was going. The book was entertaining and provided motivation that things can and will get better even when they seem bad. Sometimes small choices can change everything for the better even when it seems hopeless.
I really enjoyed the authors honesty of her younger years.
I really enjoyed the book and here is why….
It was honest and I could relate. The stories that the author tells throughout the book reminded me
Of my younger days. Working different jobs and trying to figure out who I was and where I was going. The book was entertaining and provided motivation that things can and will get better even when they seem bad. Sometimes small choices can change everything for the better even when it seems hopeless.
I really enjoyed the authors honesty of her younger years.
April 4, 2022
The author really puts a lot of emotion and some pretty decent anecdotes into this novel. Which resonates and makes the information relatable for the reader to enjoy and learn from. The main leadership messages sprinkled thru-out, lean towards self-help and self-confidence. This is one novel to come back to again and again, depending on the circumstances in one's life. This authors' style is very down-to-earth and easy to read.
January 1, 2021
I was gifted this book by my daughter who loves to engage in self-reflection and this book makes you do just that.
Terri uses personal job experiences to explain her By Fable method. A method which helps you to recognize situations, reactions, and behaviors from co-workers/superiors around you (and by you) to enlighten you to changes only you can make for a saner, happier career/life balance.
This book had me revisiting years of flat-lined jobs, employer/employee relationships and has given me numerous "aha" moments in my own life. I encourage everyone to pick up a copy. If anything, Terri's experiences are entertaining in some cases as well as cringe-worthy and jaw dropping in others.
Terri uses personal job experiences to explain her By Fable method. A method which helps you to recognize situations, reactions, and behaviors from co-workers/superiors around you (and by you) to enlighten you to changes only you can make for a saner, happier career/life balance.
This book had me revisiting years of flat-lined jobs, employer/employee relationships and has given me numerous "aha" moments in my own life. I encourage everyone to pick up a copy. If anything, Terri's experiences are entertaining in some cases as well as cringe-worthy and jaw dropping in others.
April 15, 2024
Interesting, insightful, relatable. I came across this book while browsing Goodreads giveaways and was immediately intrigued.
I did win the giveaway which was exciting.
It took me a while to read but I feel like it found me at a good time in my career to appreciate the advice, though it is relevant to wherever you are in your work journey.
I did win the giveaway which was exciting.
It took me a while to read but I feel like it found me at a good time in my career to appreciate the advice, though it is relevant to wherever you are in your work journey.
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