Processes for your professional and personal progress:   Ruth Schimel PhD designs inspiring, practical ways to improve specific skills and sets of skills for individuals and small groups.  They will strengthen effective action for a range of interests and issues, from problem solving to leading. This guidance is offered primarily online and with focused phone conversation and consultation, reinforced with a wide variety of short, free guides.   Recordings are also possible for review of interactions.

Options to expand and deepen choices include mutual mentoring, each-one-teach-one, unlearning, and accountability partnering.  Ways to integrate humor and storytelling in the process you choose are also considered.  Throughout, practice and feedback arrangements are important aspects of skill development design on which Ruth and, ideally, participants collaborate for customizing.

Current and anticipated goals, interests, and challenges are considered in design.   By attending first to unique needs, preferences, and values, opportunities and applications go beyond what’s routinely available elsewhere.  Emphasis is on creating, adapting, and applying information, ideas, and strategies that make a positive difference.  Outcomes focus on improving participants’ performance, work satisfaction and enjoyment, as well as relationships.

Training trainers: Another opportunity is customized design to train trainers as multipliers for particular skill development within your group or organization.  Since teaching is often the best way to learn, this approach encourages self-sufficiency and success for most everyone involved.

Resources: Ruth’s seven books and choices among hundreds of free short guides for professional and personal progress provide additional guidance, encouragement, and reinforcement for clients’ development. They also support continuing independent action prior to, during, and afterwards.  These resources and practice opportunities lead to realistic, incremental steps and concrete accomplishments while keeping costs, quality, and effectiveness in mind.

To explore Ruth’s low-cost Choose Courage series  and sample her free guides, see https://www.ruthschimel.com/books/ and https://www.ruthschimel.com/resources/.  Happiness and Joy in Work: Preparing for Your Future is now available at, https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Ruth+Schimel&i=stripbooks&ref=nb_sb_noss

Happiness and Joy in Work is uniquely suited for individual and organizational use to design and strengthen readers’ preparation and opportunities for dynamic situations of the future.  With its focus on lifelong learning, technology, and soft skills, this book provides a personalized bridge from a current situation to the unknown ahead.  Making that somewhat mysterious future more fathomable, it gives each reader tools, hope, and inspiration for their independent action.  The book also enriches their connections for learning and professional relationships.  Additional information about the content of Happiness and Joy In Work: Preparing for Your Future and access to the bonus chapter are provided here.

As you’ll note in About Ruth https://www.ruthschimel.com/about-ruth/ and the testimonials throughout this site, her clients represent a variety of cultures, ages, interests, and educational backgrounds.  That experience and her own background support effective communication, rapport, and empathy online and in phone conversations with individuals, teams, and groups.

DEEPENING AND EXPANDING YOUR OWN PROFESSIONALISM

• Assessing and strengthening management and leadership skills and abilities
• Improving and enriching life management processes
• Accessing and using your courage in work and relationships
• Clarifying and expressing expectations to benefit everyone involved
• Moving beyond time management to meaning and purpose

MOVING BEYOND CURRENT SITUATIONS

• Creating worthwhile collaborations in work, love, friendship, and/or play
• Integrating silos and specializations into new possibilities
• Preparing for the future of your work where you are or beyond
• Expanding career development repertoires of helping professionals* for themselves and their clients (*psychologists, psychotherapists, counselors, social workers, community and nonprofit professionals, ministers, life coaches, for example)