Welcome to the FIG Book Club!
Welcome to Future Image Group’s Book Club! Every month, we’ll recommend a book, abstract, or research paper related to personal and professional development in the workplace (which, in turn, is also related to the development of social skills and more meaningful personal relationships). We hope you enjoy – and we’d love to hear your recommendations for books that have helped you or given you some insight on your own journey of professional or personal social development.
Presence by Amy Cuddy
Our recommended reading for January 2020 is a book called Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges by Harvard Professor Amy Cuddy.
This book is about professional development and learning to shape your presence by using powerful body language, but it’s also centered in emotion, and is easy to connect to and simple to learn from. In this work, Amy Cuddy channels her own experience of overcoming a traumatic brain injury that paralyzed her in social situations, which is a follow-up to her popular TED talk, “Your Body Shapes Who You Are.”
In the book, Cuddy encourages everyone - from those with severe social anxiety to those who just feel nervous energy speaking in front of a crowd - to implement confident body language and watch their world change. In the book, she details how using powerful body language can actually change your body chemistry, and she backs it with scientific evidence. Apply the same concepts to your everyday life - networking events, dates, job interviews - and you’ll be able to transform and overcome your social anxiety.
Ready to get reading? Purchase your copy of Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges here.
Presence in Context
So why did we choose this book for for FIG Book Club’s January 2020 recommended reading? Here at Future Image Group, we are all about the art and science of creating meaningful relationships, quelling social anxiety, and helping people cross the generational gap in communication in the workplace. Cuddy’s book goes hand-in-hand with that mission, as she offers a real, step-by-step guide to change your thinking and body language, and through that, overcome the social anxiety that so many face on a daily basis.
What’s Next for Your Workplace?
Are you ready to take the deep dive into cultivating real, meaningful relationships in your workplace? When you sign on with Future Image Group, you’re giving your employees, your company, and yourself a gift that will serve you for decades to come. Not only are you investing in the careers and lives of those you employ, but you’re also setting up the legacy of your business for long-lived success.
To get started with FIG curriculum in your workplace, get in touch with us! Talk soon!