Henna Pryor

Broschiertes Buch

Good Awkward

How to Embrace the Embarrassing and Celebrate the Cringe to Become the Bravest You

Beschreibung

Kirkus Reviews' Top 100 Indie Books of 2023 Distinguished Favorite, NYC Big Book Award 2025 (Self-Help: Motivational) Distinguished Favorite, Independent Press Awards 2025 (Business: Motivational) Winner, American Book Fest "Best Book" Awards 2024 (Self-Help: Motivational) Winner, BIBA 2024 (Self-Help) Winner, International Book Awards 2024 (Self-Help: Motivational) Winner, National Indie Excellence Awards 2024 (Self-Help: Motivational) Silver Medal Winner, Living Now Book Awards 2024 (Motivation/Self-Improvement) Grand Prize Shortlist, Eric Hoffer Book Award 2024 (Self-Help) Shortlist, Business Book Awards 2024 (Business Self-Development) 1st Runner-Up, Eric Hoffer Book Awards 2024 (Self-Help) Runner-Up, PenCraft Book Awards 2024 (Motivational) Finalist, American Book Fest "Best Book" Awards 2024 (Cover Design: Nonfiction) Finalist, American Legacy Book Awards 2024 (Self-Help: Motivational) Finalist, Readers' Favorite Book Award 2024 (Self-Help) da Vinci Eye Finalist, Eric Hoffer Book Awards 2024 (Cover Design) First Horizon Finalist, Eric Hoffer Book Awards 2024 (Self-Help) Winner, American Book Fest "Best Book" Awards 2023 (Self-Help: Motivational) Honorable Mention, Royal Dragonfly Book Award 2023 (Self-Help: Inspirational) Awkwardness isn't a weakness to fix - it's your greatest asset for professional and personal growth. In a time of blurred realities and filtered faces, embracing your awkwardness may seem counterintuitive. As 2x TEDx Speaker and Executive Coach Henna Pryor shows, relishing your "Good Awkward" is essential to becoming more bold, boosting your confidence, and taking the necessary professional risks at work that help you be braver and meet your true potential.In this book, Pryor taps her signature playful and lighthearted writing style to share stories, science-based tools, and simple action steps to guide you to: * Pinpoint the exact reason it's been difficult to take risks - and how to move past it * Learn how to use the concepts of deliberate discomfort and strategic micro stressors to strengthen mental muscle * Create your own personalized plan to be braver in the moments when it counts If your biggest goals have felt elusive or you're eager to find a fresh edge in the crowded marketplace, Good Awkward can teach you how to create a new outlook on moments that once caused embarrassment or cringe and use them as a force for good, so you can become the bravest you."A well-researched and well-designed call to embrace awkwardness."--Kirkus Review (starred review)

Autor

Henna Pryor, CSP is a dynamic Workplace Performance Expert who speaks and writes about performance mindset, interpersonal dynamics, high-impact communication, and embracing bumps in a world that keeps optimizing for smoothness. She is a regular Expert Columnist for Inc. Magazine, 18x award-winning author of Good Awkward, and an in-demand global keynote speaker. Her playful personality and insightful talks blend 2 decades of working with corporate leaders and teams with a fresh, science-based approach to taking more strategic risks and boosting social and mental fitness for success at work. Her clients call her their "secret weapon for impossible change" -- a title she wears proudly. In addition to speaking for TEDx, SXSW, and being frequently tapped by media outlets like Business.com, FastCompany, INSIDER, HuffPost, NBC, FOX, and more, she's a SUCCESS Magazine Woman of Influence, LinkedIn Learning Instructor, and Glassdoor WorkLife Pro.She graduated with her BS from University of Delaware, MS from University of Virginia, and received her Executive Coaching Certification from American University. She grew up in Newark, Delaware and currently lives with her husband, two kids, and puppy in Chester County, PA.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ideapress Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781646872091
• ISBN-10: 1646872096
• Artikelnr.: 73809830