RESOURCES

These books may prove useful as you begin to identify your goals and plan how to achieve them. They are mostly widely available in high street bookshops and on-line.

Intelligent Leadership: Creating a Passion for Change Alan Hooper & John Potter
This book provides an innovative analysis for managers of what makes a leader today, focusing on emotional intelligence and leadership as a psychological commitment.

Your Best Year Yet!: How to Make the Next 12 Months Your Best Ever! Jinny Ditzler
In this book, Jinny Ditzler asks you challenging questions about your expectations, accomplishments and goals for the future. It is often not until you take time out to sit down and really think about what you want out of your life that you can start working towards your goals.

The New Leaders Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, Annie McKee
Exploring the consequences of emotional intelligence for leaders and organisations, the authors unveil scientific evidence that links success or failure to 'primal leadership' and argues that a leader's emotions are contagious and must resonate energy and enthusiasm if an organisation is to thrive.

Success from Setbacks Gael Lindenfield
Practical step-by-step strategies to help you take immediate positive action and transform apparent disasters into opportunities for growth. Good practice in overcoming minor disruptions can enable you to deal effectively with major setbacks, such as job loss, divorce and bereavement.

Living with Change: Positive techniques for transforming your life Ursula Markham
Change occurs in our lives in many different ways – moving house, changing job, accidents, redundancy and death. It may take place over the short term or in the natural way as we age. Markham outlines many practical ways for dealing with change, and shows how we can benefit from change, or manage its harmful aspects.

Take Time for Your Life: A Seven Step Programme for Creating the Life You Want Cheryl Richardson
A guide for anyone struggling to balance the demands of career and family, or for those of us who are simply looking to find peace of mind and spiritual wellbeing in a world of chaos … shows you how to break free from self-defeating habits and transform life’s stumbling blocks into stepping stones to success.

Achieve Twice as Much in Half the Time Dr. Harry Alder
Discover how to solve problems quickly using your subconscious – chunk tasks together to increase effectiveness – increase your creativity, improve your concentration. Includes goals and goal-setting, motivation, self-beliefs and their effects, taking control of your feelings, thinking and planning, and creative problem solving.

Thriving in Mind Katherine Benziger
Simply put, the Benziger model explains how the way in which we use our brain enhances or diminishes our success, our joy and our health.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Stephen Covey
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is recognised as one of the most influential books ever written. In this seminal work, Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centred approach for solving personal and professional problems.

What Colour is Your Parachute? Richard Bolles
A practical manual for job-hunters and career-changers.

Personal Coaching for Results Lou Tice with Joyce Quick
Where do you want to be in life? Who is the real you? Are your dreams and aspirations stuck inside you? Lou Tice offers a process that will take you from your current life situation to a future you may have dreamed about but never thought possible.

Emotional Intelligence Daniel Goleman
With new insights into the brain architecture underlying emotion and rationality, Goleman shows precisely how emotional intelligence can be nurtured and strengthened in all of us.

The One Minute Manager Kenneth Blanchard & Spencer Johnson
An easily-read story which quickly demonstrates three very practical management techniques, it also includes information on several studies in medicine and in the behavioural sciences, which help readers understand why these apparently simple methods work so well with so many people.

The One Minute Manager balances work and life Ken Blanchard, D.W. Eddington, Marjorie Blanchard
This book tells the story of a One Minute Manager who is so much in demand that he eats on the run, doesn't take time to exercise, and never puts himself, his family or his well-being top of his list of priorities. He soon discovers that his life is out of balance and that success in business is endangering his health. For all those busy, achieving people with overcrowded schedules, this useful blueprint shows how to manage stress and keep healthy.



 

You might also be interested in visiting the following websites:

www.engagepd.com

Engage People Development will help you to grow and develop your business by providing a range of facilitation services to engage people in the business of your business.

www.21learn.org
The 21st Century Learning Initiative's essential purpose is to facilitate the emergence of new approaches to learning that draw upon a range of insights into the human brain, the functioning of human societies, and learning as a community-wide activity.

www.enpp.org
The European Network for Positive Psychology is a collective of European researchers with shared interests in the science and practice of positive psychology.

www.authentichappiness.org
This Web site is provided by the author of Authentic Happiness, Dr. Martin E. P. Seligman, whose research claims it's possible to be happier -- to feel more satisfied, be more engaged with life, find more meaning, have higher hopes, and probably even laugh and smile more, regardless of your circumstances.

 

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