Country Values City Wise: Lessons in Personal Development and Workplace Savvy
Country Values City Wise: Lessons in Personal Development and Workplace Savvy
Country Values City Wise: Lessons in Personal Development and Workplace Savvy is a collection of valuable wisdom applicable to both your personal and professional life. With insight from her humble beginning on a sharecrop farm, author Frankie Walters tells how she created a professional image, built genuine relationships, influenced people, and ensured success in work and in life.
Walters shares tips for developing a marketable professional image that she learned during her twenty-four-year career in professional growth. She draws on this experience to explain how to build workplace savvy regarding personal branding, communication, etiquette, internal and external customer relations, professional appearance, and job-search strategies from an employers and employees perspective. Country Values City Wise has all the know-how you need to obtain a new position, advance in an organization, and build a reputation of excellence.
Its important to remember that the best jobs dont always go to the most skilled applicants but to those who present their qualifications the best. Country Values City Wise guides you through the many subtleties of presenting your best attributes at all times to achieve your life goals at work and at home.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Wonderful True Story of Success with Shared Wisdom
Country Values…City Wise is a tale of how Frankie Walters shares her story of success and wants us to have the same success she has experienced. From her days of tradegy she still rose to the top and really gives us insight on what life really is all about. Her core views on family and worklife balance are invaluable as many struggle with the challenge to manage both of these components of their lives. Frankie does a wonderful job of connecting with her reader as you can feel the emotions she experienced in her story. She is a role model for us all and continues to pursue what makes her happy and that quite simply put is her love for helping others. This book absolutely accomplishes her goal and I highly recommend this read to anyone that wants to know what it takes to make a difference and be happy with who you are and what you do.
5 Stars entertaining and informative
Walters entertainingly presents valuable tips for succeeding in the business world and in personal relations. She demonstrates the importance of ethics, reputation, customer service, appropriate communication, etiquette and appearance in the workplace. She shows how to successfully write a resume and cover letter, and how to prepare for an interview. This book is a good reference to keep on your shelf to brush up on these “soft skills.”
5 Stars Extremely Helpful!
I have read many books on this topic. What makes this book unique is that it provides specific guidelines for beginners looking for a job, as well as those of us who have been employed a long time and are starting over. It takes the guess work out of terms like ‘business casual’, and assists you with business etiquette questions. This book is such an easy read, but the depth and breadth of it will have you reading it again and again. Congrats Frankie, this book was well worth the wait!
Rosemary- California
5 Stars An excellent book on soft skills and work-life balance and improvement
Frankie’s book will elevate your understanding and command of “soft skills” in your professional endeavors. You will learn valuable information to help you get that new job, advance in an organization, and ultimately become the best professional and member of society you can be. Throughout the book Frankie will also inspire and encourage you with the story of her own personal journey from humble beginnings to successful business owner and image industry expert. The book contains many anecdotes and illustrations, which consistently situate the information within memorable contexts.
You will find yourself asking, “Do people really do that?” and “Do I really do that?” and more important “What can I do to affect change in others and in myself?” As Frankie says in the book’s introduction, “When these soft skills are present, they are hardly noticed … yet, when these skills are missing, everyone notices.”
If you’re looking for one book to motivate, inspire, and inform you in your pursuit of a better work life and personal life, look no further. Frankie truly understands that “work life” and “personal life” are merely useful phrases to describe two sides of the same coin: your life. Country Values … City Wise will help bring many facets of your life together.
5 Stars Fascinating Stories Provide Essential Information
Reading about the experiences of a truly amazing person provided essential information about career development. The author’s humble beginnings and professional success inspires me on my professional journey. Ms. Walters freely shares the lessons learned from “the college hard knocks” as well as those imparted by family members, customers, and workplace associates. Chapter summaries serve as quick refresher courses, insuring practical reinforcement of salient information. Although I was raised in a “blue collar” environment, that is not the setting in which I work. Ms. Walters’ comprehensive book addressed deficits in my either my education or skill set, while entertaining me with stories from her life.
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