Stylus Publishing (VA) The Coach's Guide for Women Professors: Who Want a Successful Career and a Well-Balanced Life

Review "The Coach's Guide for Women Professors will be an amazing asset for female academics. It is packed full of practical and empowering strategies that will pay immediate dividends, as well as being a resource that you will want to return to for clear solutions to challenges that arise. It is an invaluable resource for women (and men) who care about advancing their own careers as well as the careers of women in the academy."--Linda C. Babcock, James M. Walton Professor of Economics, Carnegie Mellon University, Author of Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide (6/1/2015 12:00:00 AM)"The Coach's Guide is a true gem, realistic and empowering. It touches on a wide range of challenges from time management to departmental politics to the nuances of identity, and the universal truth that no one gets anywhere alone! Achieving a successful career and a well-balanced life is a continuous task, not a one and done event, and this guide will stand the test of time."--Nancy Cantor, Chancellor (6/1/2015 12:00:00 AM)"The Coach's Guide provides a toolbox of ideas relevant to faculty across life and career stages. Each chapter contains concrete, pragmatic, and targeted strategies designed to help faculty identify and overcome obstacles to professional success and to re-discover joy and balance in their work and personal lives."--Deandra Little, Director, Center for the Advancement of Teaching & Learning and Associate Professor (6/1/2015 12:00:00 AM)"A thoughtful, immensely practical resource for women to achieve excellence and well-being in academic careers."--Adam Grant, Wharton professor and New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take (6/1/2015 12:00:00 AM)"Every administrator, faculty member and graduate student can benefit from implementing the concrete recommendations in The Coach's Guide. It's akin to having a professional development coach at one's beck and call."--Yolanda Flores Niemann, Professor of Psychology University of North Texas, and co-editor of Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia (6/1/2015 12:00:00 AM)"Graduate schools do not prepare women for the numerous challenges they encounter in the various facets of academic life. This book identifies challenges and issues related to women's lives in academe and suggests practical and studied tactics to help women thrive in the academic world and in their own lives. Rena Seltzer has extensive experience as an academic coach and has gathered a compelling amount of data and first-hand experiences from women professors. She acknowledges that surviving in academia is not easy, especially for women and under-represented minorities. Oftentimes, women feel isolated and are not aware that some of the challenges they face are not uniquely their own. By identifying such challenges, Rena Seltzer achieves the goal of bringing awareness to these common experiences. In addition to identifying these challenges at the different stages of academic life, the book offers a deeper analysis of the issues and obstacles of academic life as well as provides practical advice on how to overcome them. Anecdotally, all female academics I have shared this book with have expressed great interest in it and admitted they would like or need to read it. One said, 'I wish this book was around when I started out!' The book is recommended to all women in academia but also to any faculty at any stage in her or his career who is experiencing some of the same challenges."-- "Reflective Teaching" (10/1/2016 12:00:00 AM)"I would not have gotten tenure without Rena Seltzer's skillful coaching. I am positive of that. If you can find a way to work with her as a coach, do it! But if you can't, read her book at least twice. It has all the life and career hacks every academic (male and female!) needs. Rena knows academia, in all its glories and pitfalls, and it is exhilarating to see one's world so accurately portrayed through on-point advice. I am a happier, heal