The Proactive Professional: How to Stop Playing Catch Up and Start Getting Ahead at Work (and in Life!) Kindle Edition

Before reading Chrissy's book, I had no idea what being proactive really meant. When I got feedback from bosses, they would say "be more proactive." I've even lost jobs due to my lack of proactivity. Finally, I decided to do something about it, and that's when I came across Chrissy's book.The Proactive Professional explains exactly what proactivity actually is, and how to attain it. Chrissy lays out an easy-to-understand, step by step framework, called the Proactive Skillset. The proactive skillset is made up of the following six essential elements: Big Picture Understanding, Situational Awareness, Future Focus, Strategic Foresight, Intentional Action, and Self-Evaluation.Through many real-world examples, including using two fictional characters, Proactive Patty and Reactive Rita, the concepts become really easy to understand and to put into practice.What's great about Chrissy's book is that it can be used not just in one's professional life, but in one's personal life as well. The skills you learn in this book can help you get past all sorts of self-imposed roadblocks.

I had to read the papeeback of this book for an Executive Assistant course offered by Joan Burge (she also has several books on Amazon) of Office Dynamics.This was a great book with excellent advice for Professionals. I liked it so much I bought the Kindle Version so I would always have it as a reference.

When I first got this book, I would read a chapter a day and I felt excited to put into practice the things she laid out. Because of her relational writing style and highly informational content, I felt like I had a mentor! There is no wasted space - every chapter is well-crafted, accessible, and inspiring. I'm planning to read it again! Highly recommend!

I took my time in reading this book, because the material in it is so meaty (I downloaded it when it was released). I've been familiar with Chrissy's work for some time, and have never failed to learn something from her. In this book, she's really taken her knowledge-sharing to the next level!Normally, I'm a fairly quick reader, but as I said, I ending up taking my time reading this one. The chapters explaining each part of the "Proactive Skillset" wheel deserve to be implemented for awhile before moving on to the next step, since they build upon each other.Whether you're looking to learn how to be a proactive person, or want to increase the proactive skills that you already have, you'll benefit from this book!

HIGHLY recommend this book! Reading, reviewing and simply applying the concepts in the first two chapters made a huge impact in my day to day and how I serve my 'customers' - my leadership and my team. Chrissy has been awesome to respond to specific needs as I have been bold to email her. How often does that happen with an author!? I have struggled with being proactive in certain ways since high school and she explains from broad to detail of how easily you can change. It has also helped in my personal life. This book has influenced me to chose to be a better admin with every chapter in so much I bought it for my whole admin group. Buy it!!

A must have for growth and understanding of the why’s and how’s in bringing out the quality traits in any organization whether it’s a end of day study on self reflection of yourself or trying to understand how the occurred events came about Can definitely help you better navigate some of the challenges, if not help prevent the negatives from happening.

I have had the pleasure of meeting Chrissy a few times. Chrissy keeps everything very simple and tells it from the heart, as a former EA she knows where the admins are coming from.Chrissy lays out an easy-to-understand, step by step framework, called the Proactive Skill set. The proactive skill set is made up of six essential elements through real-world examples. The concepts become really easy to understand and to put into practice. I bought my admin team each a copy of this book.

Productivity and Patience will help you reduce stress at work and in life. I liked reading the consequences of being reactive and proactive and her personal stories. We don't have to wait to job search until things are out of hand - this leads to bad decisions, and we will end up worse than where we were!