There is an increasing need for people in organisations to up their game with regard to digital professionalism and wellness, due to the shift to remote working and the ever-advancing pace of digital business. Failure to do could put the individual at a disadvantage from a career, productivity, and capability perspective.Digital Professionalism is defined as achieving a professional level of digital competence, confidence and dexterity in the key areas supporting how work gets done in the digital/remote working age: digital mindset and set up, online productivity, personal branding, people and communication skills, all in a state of digital, physical and mental wellness.This book provides the structure, the strategies, and the tools to help an individual quickly upgrade their digital professionalism and wellness with a model for each of the five core areas, with actionable checklists for each area, so one can easily flick through and see what might be useful and where one is already up to speed.
About the Author
Bob Barker has been in the technology industry for over 35 years, working for Oracle, NCR, SAS, DXC and many smaller marketing technology companies. For the last 10 he has been researching, training, coaching and evangelising about the need for digital professionalism and wellness.He believes that people often suffer from a digital dilemma, in that they know they should do better, but always have excuses not to up their game. Bob believes this latest checklist orientated book can help motivate people rapidly and easily take action to operate better so they stop wasting time online and use all the emerging technology to their advantage.Bob has run workshops on this topic in both the US, EU and UK, for some of the largest corporations in the world where the content of this book has been shaped, driven by attendees who always want a checklist to follow up post workshop Bob is the author of several white papers on the subject as well as the Book “Digital Common Sense – and how to get IT”, and has created both bespoke and public online courses on the topic.