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Growing Up at Work: How to Transform Personally, Evolve Professionally, and Lead Authentically
Do your best “inner work” while you work.
The workplace—whether in-person or remote—is a unique laboratory where personal and interpersonal growth are tightly intertwined. What better place is there to explore who you are and who you want to be?
For nearly two decades, therapists and executive coaches Yael Sivi and Yosh Beier have advised hundreds of employees, managers, and leaders on how to achieve authentic leadership, emotional intelligence, and conscious collaboration. They now know that work provides us with a unique opportunity to learn about ourselves, to better understand our core beliefs and assumptions, and to truly see the effect we can have on others. Work gives us the chance to grow up.
Growing Up at Work explores how you can
• transform into an emotionally mature leader and create healthy employees, teams, and organizations—and by extension, enhance your influence;
• achieve authentic, positive, lasting leadership growth through self-awareness and openness to deep personal growth;
• realize extraordinary results if you choose to grow from the inside out.
By presenting inspiring real-life case studies, Sivi and Beier examine how resolving professional dilemmas and leadership challenges can lead you on a dynamic journey of personal growth and evolution.
The workplace—whether in-person or remote—is a unique laboratory where personal and interpersonal growth are tightly intertwined. What better place is there to explore who you are and who you want to be?
For nearly two decades, therapists and executive coaches Yael Sivi and Yosh Beier have advised hundreds of employees, managers, and leaders on how to achieve authentic leadership, emotional intelligence, and conscious collaboration. They now know that work provides us with a unique opportunity to learn about ourselves, to better understand our core beliefs and assumptions, and to truly see the effect we can have on others. Work gives us the chance to grow up.
Growing Up at Work explores how you can
• transform into an emotionally mature leader and create healthy employees, teams, and organizations—and by extension, enhance your influence;
• achieve authentic, positive, lasting leadership growth through self-awareness and openness to deep personal growth;
• realize extraordinary results if you choose to grow from the inside out.
By presenting inspiring real-life case studies, Sivi and Beier examine how resolving professional dilemmas and leadership challenges can lead you on a dynamic journey of personal growth and evolution.
230 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 25, 2021
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September 17, 2021
Yael C. Sivi and Yosh C. Beier’s new book adopts a decidedly paternalistic sounding, yet evocative and simple title. In effect, Growing Up at Work: How to Transform Personally, Evolve Professionally, and Lead Authentically, is a how-to guide like its title suggests covering the featured topical content from A to Z. What makes it stand out amongst many of its nonfiction, sub-categorical peers is its surprising homeliness. While in less competent literary hands, the tone and style of the book could come across as an exercise in cloying, maudlin oversimplification - Sivi and Beier instead make the overwhelming nature of the corporate psychology that much more digestible. It’s clear they’re coming from an ideological camp sympathetic to the preexisting stresses of leadership and performance in the working world. Rather than fill the reader’s head with excessively heady terminology, or an abundance of affable arrogance when it comes to their expertise, Sivi and Beier adopt the decidedly mensch writing style. They focus on communicating core conceptual analyses through a prose that emotionally draws you in, and makes you feel endeared to them. Take, for example, the witty and semi-deprecating chapter titles a la I Feel Like an Imposter and the simply put People Think I’m a Jerk. After a long day at the office, sometimes it’s nice to have someone just articulate it like it is.
Part of what makes Growing Up at Work also notable in its field is its surprisingly diverse array of issues covered. Often in leadership advice and self-help volumes, there’s an emphasis on the standard work clichés. Often such ideological fixations have to do with a decidedly kill or be killed mentality, reminiscent of the Reagan era and Wall Street being at the height of its powers. But Sivi and Beier know the chameleonic nature of the audience, and overall scene, that they are preaching to. The multiple passages, complete with personalized analogy, cover a vast array of topics one could argue best represent the postmodernist work scene. Issues that often find themselves associated with neo-leadership techniques, such as top-down corporate philosophy - now being widely implemented. Take, for example, their highlighting of the dangers of excess Confluence. It’s “…one of the unhealthy patterns (or interruptions in contact) (we) look out for in (our) work,” Sivi and Beier write. “(Confluence) is a way in which we unconsciously merge our needs with the needs of the people in our environment, often guided by the belief that we need to take care of others or that we need to submerge our own needs to feel safe.” Another example is their highlighting of work-related mental health issues, such as Imposter syndrome. By making the text feel that much more accessible, Sivi and Beier feel that much more trustworthy as certifiable guides. There’s never the sense their ego, or perhaps their well-deserved sense of show, takes center stage or the attention off what they’re ultimately trying to communicate to the reader. That’s to be commended…
Part of what makes Growing Up at Work also notable in its field is its surprisingly diverse array of issues covered. Often in leadership advice and self-help volumes, there’s an emphasis on the standard work clichés. Often such ideological fixations have to do with a decidedly kill or be killed mentality, reminiscent of the Reagan era and Wall Street being at the height of its powers. But Sivi and Beier know the chameleonic nature of the audience, and overall scene, that they are preaching to. The multiple passages, complete with personalized analogy, cover a vast array of topics one could argue best represent the postmodernist work scene. Issues that often find themselves associated with neo-leadership techniques, such as top-down corporate philosophy - now being widely implemented. Take, for example, their highlighting of the dangers of excess Confluence. It’s “…one of the unhealthy patterns (or interruptions in contact) (we) look out for in (our) work,” Sivi and Beier write. “(Confluence) is a way in which we unconsciously merge our needs with the needs of the people in our environment, often guided by the belief that we need to take care of others or that we need to submerge our own needs to feel safe.” Another example is their highlighting of work-related mental health issues, such as Imposter syndrome. By making the text feel that much more accessible, Sivi and Beier feel that much more trustworthy as certifiable guides. There’s never the sense their ego, or perhaps their well-deserved sense of show, takes center stage or the attention off what they’re ultimately trying to communicate to the reader. That’s to be commended…
December 25, 2021
We often undersell how much people's backgrounds and experiences manifest in their behavior/interactions in the workplace. This book does a great job of highlighting how mental health and personal development manifest in the workplace. The author blends her experiences as a therapist and an executive coach to explore common issues in the workplace. For example, we (and our coworkers) all have issues, but its easier to make a stubborn coworker a villain rather than interrogate why we feel that way. The book explores many common workplace dilemmas like:
- I'm afraid of my boss
- My team doesn't like me
- Imposter syndrome
- Conflict avoidance
I read this book and saw a lot of myself in the case studies. I also really liked that there are exercises, reflection questions, and experiments you can try. It makes the book feel more practical than some of the other self-improvement books you find.
- I'm afraid of my boss
- My team doesn't like me
- Imposter syndrome
- Conflict avoidance
I read this book and saw a lot of myself in the case studies. I also really liked that there are exercises, reflection questions, and experiments you can try. It makes the book feel more practical than some of the other self-improvement books you find.
June 3, 2021
A marvel of an accomplishment in both showing and teaching how our work lives and personal lives are all connected and how much we can learn from both. Written from the lens of executive coach and therapist, this book approaches the challenges we face at work with heart and provides relatable real-life examples to learn from.
Sivi is a beautiful writer and her prose will have you rooting for her clients and reflecting on your own self-awareness in the process. Each chapter ends with really helpful 'Reflections’, ‘Practices’ and ‘Experiments’ that soothe and guide. Where most leadership books build up super-heroes, this book is deeply relatable and a pleasure to read.
Sivi is a beautiful writer and her prose will have you rooting for her clients and reflecting on your own self-awareness in the process. Each chapter ends with really helpful 'Reflections’, ‘Practices’ and ‘Experiments’ that soothe and guide. Where most leadership books build up super-heroes, this book is deeply relatable and a pleasure to read.
October 12, 2021
The kind of book I wish I could have had available 20 years earlier in my career. Any professional employed in a contemporary organization will find something to relate to. I could see myself in multiple chapters. The stories and questions for reflection allowed me to step back and take a bigger picture view on how I show up at work. I have passed on my copy to my son.
January 7, 2022
Relatable case studies for both our “neverending inner work” also known as “introspection o’clock”, intertwined with explained theoretical concepts from Gestalt therapy, Adult Development Theory, Transactional Analysis. A good book for training the muscle of authentic leadership and a practical guide for coaches.
November 27, 2021
We never stop growing (up)
I appreciated the approach of taking the reader through real stories of leaders and their struggles at work. This is a book you could revisit many times depending on your stage of growth or the people you find yourself mentoring or coaching.
I appreciated the approach of taking the reader through real stories of leaders and their struggles at work. This is a book you could revisit many times depending on your stage of growth or the people you find yourself mentoring or coaching.
December 9, 2021
Thought Yael did a nice job of bringing a new perspective to various personalities and roles.
January 2, 2022
Loved it. Easy to read and very informative.
December 13, 2024
This is a must-read. I've related to several of the histories, and I had an aha moment with the PAC model.
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