Praise for Working Well
I loved this insightful and refreshingly honest book. Working Well
is a solid guide to nurturing a healthy life. I highly recommend the tools Stephanie provides for increasing productivity and reducing work and life stress. If you manage your internal self well, health and happiness will flow in abundance.
—Dr. John Izzo, bestselling author of The Purpose Revolution
Workplace stress is something I see patients, colleagues, and friends struggling with on an almost daily basis. Stephanie Berryman’s experiences as an HR professional and coach come through in this excellent resource full of practical advice and tools. This book was a pleasure to read, and I strongly recommend it.
—Dr. Christina Campbell, family physician
Working Well
is a great book for any leader in any business or industry. Stephanie does an amazing job outlining the effects of stress on leaders. I felt like she climbed inside my head and knew what I was feeling and dealing with. I have already started to employ the ideas outlined in the book and working through the simple questions and techniques has helped me balance my home and work life.
I will be buying this book for my team and sharing her approach to handling stress and improving productivity. This was a great read!
—Stephen Hillier, president, MPIS-Integrated Solutions, Worley
Working Well
provides excellent tools, advice, and suggested actions that can move new or experienced managers towards becoming respected, confident, and empathetic leaders. The twelve cornerstone strategies, vital for success with leading people, have a consistent message throughout: to be better at managing others, you must get better at managing yourself first. Working Well
is the textbook for improving our performance, reducing our stress, and building quality relationships with our workplace partners. I highly recommend you read this book today.
—John McKearney, MA, ECFO, MIFireE, fire chief / general manager (Ret.), Vancouver Fire Rescue Services
This is not just a leadership book for work, it’s a blueprint for a life well lived. The twelve gifts that Stephanie Berryman offers allow you to bring out the best in yourself and others. Berryman embraces stress as real part of our lives and then provides us with the keys to positively transform how we live.
The book is as much a story as it is reference guide and a life hack that you will keep on your desk at work or at home. It does not attempt to change the reader rather it helps us discover and unlock our unique and powerful gifts allowing us to make the most of our lives. The real-life scenarios peppered throughout the book bring the strategies to life and allow you to see yourself in the learning.
Stephanie shares her compelling, challenging journey that underpins the valuable lessons and tools in the book. Most importantly the book encourages and teaches us how to care of ourselves so we can bring out the best in others. You have just made a great investment for yourself and others. . . . Enjoy the journey!
—Colin Moore, director, Food Services
If you are looking for relevant, impactful advice on how to be more successful in your career and how to manage stress and increase productivity, Working Well
is a wonderful place to start. Stephanie Berryman . . . excels at describing the most relevant and pressing issues that leaders and working individuals are facing today. Her warm, influential, and authentic approach makes you feel as if you are actually sitting in front of a top-notch leadership coach who is facilitating your own transformation while mentoring you through her twelve resounding strategies. Her questions at the end of each chapter are powerful and compel one to take her advice into action immediately. This actionable, strategic book is one that I highly recommend as a great practical guide when seeking to gain your power back and enjoy your career and life.
—Angela Grosvenor, peak performance results coach, Robbins Research Intl.
Ms. Berryman has given us a real gem with this book. Her strategies for stress and productivity are practical and straightforward, well-researched and well-rounded, on top of being effective. She presents the ideas of her twelve strategies so clearly and accessibly that they really do seem as simple as the subtitle suggests. . . . The investment of buying and reading this book will pay itself off in spades—I recommend it wholeheartedly!
—Scott Erickson, MEd, CCC, therapist, performance consultant, and speaker