The Coach

About the Book

The Coach: 13 Skills to Enhance Your Career is a simple yet powerful and beneficial book for those wanting to improve their career. It is densely packed with key career-enhancing skills ranging from the focus of always serving your customer, to ensuring you constantly go the extra mile as well as techniques of balancing your career with other important areas of your life. These success skills, along with ten others, are shared by a business-savvy and wise mentor with a recently hired colleague during the first year of the young man’s career. The process the mentor leverages is based on a more than 200 hundred year-old personal development process developed by Mr. Benjamin Franklin.

In this book you will learn:

1. Career success should be defined by you and is achieved through small, daily advantages and the practice of key skills.
2. Positive attitude and good daily choices are key to your success and happiness.
3. What you think about most of the time will predict your future.
4. Only those willing to work will achieve true happiness and success.
5. Benjamin Franklin’s self-improvement process.
6. Thirteen skills that, if practiced, will enhance your career.
7. Over sixty quotes/phrases to serve as reminders for these powerful skills!

About the Author

At 18, David G. Giese was introduced to his first book on the subject of personal development and the concept that you do not have to be sick to get better. After only this brief introduction to personal development, he took some of the basic concepts and utilized them while earning his college degree. Though only an average student in high school, and challenged with a learning disability, he graduated from college in four years with honors and as the business school’s top management student! His professional, high tech career includes 17 years at IBM and 13 years at Dell in many roles including middle management. In 24 years of leadership, he had the opportunity to not only mentor his own teams but also many others colleagues in those companies.

He is a loving husband of 30 years, a father of two sons, and a picture of health participating in sprint triathlons annually. David became a certified Life Coach in 2006, authored his first book on life skills in 2009 and has positioned himself to pursue his passion of helping others set and reach their goals through the development and practice of important life skills!