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The Father Factor: How Your Father's Legacy Impacts
Your Career

by Stephan B. Poulter, PhD
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The Father Factor: How Your Father's Legacy Impacts Your Career, by Stephan B. Poulter, PhD., provides refreshing and non-intuitive insights into the elusive career and interpersonal challenges professionals face most often in the workplace from a paternal relationship perspective.

The most common and debilitating professional struggles we experience — interpersonal conflict, power-plays, gender issues, self-doubt — are directly connected to Five predominant fathering styles, which Dr. Poulter defines as:
  • The Super Achiever Father
  • The Time Bomb Father
  • The Passive Father
  • The Absent Father
  • The Compassionate / Mentor Father
Dr. Poulter guides you through the process of understanding your Father Factor as an invaluable resource and necessary step towards achieving greater professional success and personal satisfaction with a series of tips and tools, Q&A, quizzes, first person accounts and analysis to uncover the following:
  • What is your Father Factor and how does it affect your career?
  • The Big 7 Father Factor issues in all careers.
  • The Top 10 qualities and behaviors to get on the career fast-track.
  • Your style of attachment and its impact in your professional life.
  • How understanding your Father Factor will move your career forward.
  • Your Professional Toolbox: 8 tools you need to reach personal and professional goals.
By becoming aware of how your father related to you, particularly in a destructive relationship, you'll understand how your career relationships in many ways mirror your degree of comfort with your father's emotional legacy. In this way, career roadblocks — often based on interactions with people on the job — will be more easily transformed into career building blocks that will lead to advancement and success.

Excerpts From "The Father Factor"
in Adobe PDF format
Pages 19- 26