E-books as power tools: Professional success for solo residents

Freelancers, as well as digital artists and remote employees, are usually solo residents and are mostly faced with the challenge of not getting the same training and development opportunities as traditional employees in the traditional office.

E-books and audio books have been offering an innovative solution to this problem for several years by conveying deep content written by experts in an appealing and sustainable way that is reminiscent of a personal training session. This form of learning allows you to continue working on your professional training even while doing everyday tasks - be it when cleaning up, cooking or commuting. In this way you can learn seamlessly into your full everyday work.

There is hardly an issue on which there is no comprehensive literature - and this applies especially to the area of ​​business success . This is commonly associated with business, management and performance professions in business. The fact is, however, that business success plays a central role for any freelance, commercial and artistic activity.

With an educational e-book you always have a flexible career booster at hand and can work specifically on your professional, creative or business development during your free time.

In this article we illuminate the latest trends in digital learning and show you how to use e-books effectively and integrate into your everyday work. In the next section we will specifically respond to practical application and present various multimedia additions and tools to you. We also explain how you can measure the ROI (Return on Investment) of your strategic reading in order to draw the maximum benefit from your education resources.

Current trends in digital success literature

The book or e-book is still the measure of things when it comes to personal and professional training. Anyone who wants to understand connections is still well advised to read standard works and additional literature of luminaries from the subject area. With a good knowledge base in the luggage, there are still other options for appropriation of knowledge.

In this context, Schl Terms & Conditions to be mentioned eggs such as micro-learning , gamification , interactive workbooks etc.

Audiobooks on the advance

Modern audio books have become more cost -effective by subscriptions. Legimi 's digital library , which regularly adds new titles to promote continuous learning. For a monthly fee, which corresponds approximately to the price of a book, you will receive access to numerous audio books and can download them for the offline listening.

According to an article by "Science of Us" * and a blog post by psychologist Daniel Willingham * from the University of Virginia, the listening of audio books results in similar mental advantages as through reading, even if it may not feel that way.

Willingham explained:

"When reading two, two basic processes run off: First, the decoding, i.e. the conversion of the letter consequences into meaningful words. Then the language processing or the understanding of the language follows ... Both listeners and readers record the content that you consumed, roughly as well ... In contrast, the decoding is specific to the reading process; this is actually an additional step when reading a printed work is In contrast to listening to the audio book version. It happens automatically. "

So that's it: two processes that cover both methods. The article by "Science of Us" also argues that it is easier for us to slide off when listening to a book than reading it, but is actually comparable to overflowing. And similar to leafing through or skimming a book, you also have the opportunity to coil, stop or advance to process the information better.

3 book recommendations from the success literature

If you browse through the Legimi digital library , three e-books stood out in the area of ​​success literature.

"Success Solution" by Hasan H. Aydogan

Habits shape our everyday life and it is crucial to steer them in the right way. In this book you will learn how targeted action creates great results. Personal success, wealth and prosperity are often the result of hard work and self -development.

As soon as you read, you will find noticeable changes in yourself and no longer want to put the book down.

"Success Habits" by Napoleon Hill

Napoleon Hill, author of the bestseller Think and Grow Rich , shares the success principles in his work Success Habits , which he developed from conversations with significant personalities and his own experiences. Hill impressively conveys basic rules for a successful life, including determination and the influence of cosmic habit.

With personal anecdotes and inspiring stories, he illustrates how his principles are applicable to all areas of life. Readers are motivated to use these findings in order to realize their own goals and achieve the life of their dreams.

"Success Journey" by Claudia Hupprich

At a time that is characterized by digitization and globalization, self -management and initiative are becoming increasingly important. This book outlines the way to a successful journey of life and describes essential stations using memorable metaphors. It offers concrete solutions such as clarifying the travel route with clear goals, packing the right tool for challenges and the formation of an effective team.

Strategies for the management of target pirates are presented to recognize and ward off attacks faster. It is also explained how to get negative influencing factors under control and overcoming beliefs. The focus is on improving resilience, while tips are given to successfully master stressful situations.

The whole thing is complemented by a website with helpful downloads for an even more effective implementation.

English -language success literature

If you also English-language e-books , the following list of literature is highly recommended to you:

• Shelley Osborne : The Upskilling Imperative - 5 Ways to Make Learning Core to the Way WE WOK
• Mark Dhamma : 12 Months of Work in 12 Weeks - How to Work Smarter and Explosively Grow Your Productivity
• Maya Grossman : Invaluable - Master the 10 Skills You Need To Skyrocket Your Career
• TailoredRead : Career Development-Your Custom-Tailored Book
• Ashley Stahl : You Turn - Get Unstuck, Discover Your Direction, and Design Your Dream Career
• Cathy Heller: Don't Keep Your Day Job - How to Turn Your Passion Into Your Career
• Charles Dugigg: The Power of Habit - Why We Do What We in Life and Business
• Bill Burnett and Dave Evans : Designing Your Life
• Dorie Clark : The Long Game
• Jen Sincero : You Are A Badass - How to Stop DuBing Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life
• David Allen : Getting Things Done-The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

Effective use of e-books

 , success E-books  can be used to improve your own career. In the following list we have put together a few helpful tips for the optimal procedure for you.

1. 
   First, you determine a clear objective
2. Notes and markings
   do not read business e-books like a novel, but rather like a scientific work. Make notes and mark key points so that you can quickly find these text passages that are important to you later.
3. Practice -related application
   already compensate for the possibilities of practical use of what has been learned while reading. This gives you a very fast return of investment.
4. Repeated reading
   It is advisable to read particularly relevant chapters several times in order to solidify the knowledge.
5. exchanges with like -minded
   content in relevant networks with others has the advantage that they get additional opinions and maybe even insights into practical experience.

Integration into everyday work

learning phases is particularly worthwhile for integration into everyday work for career development . Digital learning is very accommodating because E-Reader & Co. are always at hand and you can start at the push of a button where you recently stopped.

In order to be particularly efficient in vocational training, fast reading techniques with prioritization can be applied to relevant topics. Continuous learning is particularly important. In consistent self -management, incorporate permanent learning times into your everyday work for your skill development.

From knowledge to practice

For the implementation of  e-book learning into career development  , they try to apply the mediated theory to real examples in their everyday work. For this purpose, you can make a to-do list, for example, and get feedback after using colleagues or customers.

In this way, continuous improvement management can be implemented that at the same time has a positive effect on your management skills.

ROI of digital success literature

In order to be able to make the learning success measurable , it is necessary to first take the inventory of the KPI relevant to you. As a result, you can then make the success visible through strategic reading and learning by observing the changes in the KPI related to learning and critically questioning to what extent the changes are actually connected to the additional knowledge.

For example, the development of leadership skills can be read at the success of departments or the feedback from employees or successful project management in improving the achievement of the project objectives, compliance with the budget, the adherence to dates, the quality of the results, stakeholder satisfaction or other parameters.

Overall, the self -employed learning offers many opportunities to efficiently promote your career or your own business model with comparatively little effort. Particularly incentive is to be able to implement what has been learned immediately and to benefit from the success of the measure.

Joachim Rodriguez y Romero

Owner and managing director of Kunstplaza . Publicist, editor and passionate blogger in the field of art, design and creativity since 2011. Successful conclusion in web design as part of a university degree (2008). Further development of creativity techniques through courses in free drawing, expression painting and theatre/acting. Profound knowledge of the art market through many years of journalistic research and numerous collaborations with actors/institutions from art and culture.

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