This book is the book you wish your terrible former manager had read: a manual and silent mentor to help managers navigate the trickiest of days in their role and allow team members to do their best work. From Gen X to Gen Alpha and everyone else in between.

From the first to the 500th time you have to hire or fire someone, understanding how on earth that ‘performance management’ thing works (properly), and if appraisals are crap, what do we do instead? – this book is the bible to follow to nail managing people.

Allying the soft skills needed to have the right mindset, to the hard skills that underpin unshakeable systems, leadership trainer and content creator Heather Elkington lays down the 16 rules to follow if you want to lead a high-performing team that gets you noticed for all the right reasons.

Think of letting things go as setting them free.

Amid the relentless cycle of news, social media, emails and texts, it can be hard to know when, if ever, you can take a break. In this insightful book, renowned Zen Buddhist monk, Shunmyo Masuno, offers us a radical message: sometimes the best thing you can do is nothing at all.

You will learn 99 empowering tips and truths that will help you ease the pressure, including how to say no and accept that you cannot do what you cannot do, that social media is a tool and nothing more, that decisions should be made in the light of day – not rushed into – and that we should take more breaks the busier we become.

How to Let Things Go will teach you how to relinquish control and find a way to a calmer, more fulfilling life.

The most important thing you can do is become a better dad.

Hey, dad.
(Or soon-to-be dad.)
We get it.
You’re busy. You’re distracted. You’re under pressure.
But you do love your kids more than anything.
You want them to have really good lives.
You’re doing the best you can.
But you know what, you can do better.
The ideas in this book can help.
Try two or three or five and you’ll be a better dad.
Maybe a whole lot better.
So turn the page, dad.
You’re in.
You just made a big commitment.
1 hour.

Understand what mentoring really is and how to do it well The Mentoring Manual is based on methods developed - and proven - in business, this highly practical book will show you how mentoring works, take you step-by-step through everything you need to know and do, and show you how both parties can get the best from the relationship. Get the most from mentoring: help your mentee, develop your skills and make a positive difference.

Based on Michelle Obama’s bestselling and critically acclaimed book THE LIGHT WE CARRY, OVERCOMING: A WORKBOOK is a beautiful and practical toolkit for navigating life’s challenges.

“Pay attention to how you’re feeling.
Notice what’s being signalled by both your body and your mind.
It’s okay to pace yourself, get a little rest, and speak of your struggles out loud.
It’s okay to prioritise your wellness, to make a habit of rest and repair."

Bringing former First Lady Michelle Obama’s timeless advice to readers in a fresh, interactive and instructional format, OVERCOMING: A WORKBOOK includes:

• Creative activities
• Reflective writing prompts
• Habit tracking tools

We all feel hurt or sad sometimes, whether it's from rejection, betrayal or feeling used. But it is when we carry this feeling of hurt around with us over a long period of time that it can do untold damage. In Overcoming Hurt, Professor Windy Dryden shows that other people do not in fact have the power to cause you hurt - either by their actions or by their failure to act - it's how you choose to react to other people that matters. And you may have more choices than you think: sorrow, for example, is a healthy alternative to prolonged hurt and can be surprisingly empowering. Using Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy, this book: explains your choices carefully helps you to identify specific situations that may be sources of hurt suggests alternative ways to react to potentially hurtful situations helps you define your problem and set goals suggests ways you may analyse your frustration tolerance level looks at how to become less prone to hurt This book helps you develop a healthy approach to relationships so you can move away from being a passive victim and be in a position to make more powerful choices.

Do you often feel exhausted by conversations? Are there people in your life with belittle you through words or actions? Do you have colleagues who take up your time and don't actually do much?

You could be surrounded by vampires!

In Surrounded by Vampires, behavioural expert and bestselling author Thomas Erikson reveals how to identify and deal with those who sap your energy - whether they’re colleagues, friends or even your own habits.

With practical tools and sharp insight, you’ll discover how to:

• Recognise emotional and mental “vampires” in your daily life
• Set limits and protect your time and wellbeing
• Build emotional resilience and self-awareness
• Reclaim your focus, motivation and inner calm

How to bring less stress and more calm into your everyday

The wisdom of Buddhism is relevant now more than ever before – the teachings have the power to give us a new sense of perspective and are essentially tools for life.

Drawing from the greatest masters throughout history, Buddhist scholars and practitioners Pema Sherpa and Brendan Barca provide you with a daily dose of Buddhism to support you throughout every day of the year. You’ll find out:

• How to manage difficult emotions
• Why cultivating compassion leads to happiness
• How to tame your inner critic
• Why you are not your thoughts
• How to become more adaptable to change

A landmark book that reveals, celebrates, and advocates for the special minds and contributions of visual thinkers.

A quarter of a century after her memoir, Thinking in Pictures, forever changed how the world understood autism, Temple Grandin— “an anthropologist on Mars,” as Oliver Sacks dubbed her—transforms our awareness of the different ways our brains are wired. Do you have a keen sense of direction, a love of puzzles, the ability to assemble furniture without crying? You are likely a visual thinker.

With her genius for demystifying science, Grandin draws on cutting-edge research to take us inside visual thinking. Visual thinkers constitute a far greater proportion of the population than previously believed, she reveals, and a more varied one, from the photo-realistic “object visualizers” like Grandin herself, with their intuitive knack for design and problem solving, to the abstract, mathematically inclined “visual spatial” thinkers who excel in pattern recognition and systemic thinking. She also makes us understand how a world increasingly geared to the verbal tends to sideline visual thinkers, screening them out at school and passing over them in the workplace. Rather than continuing to waste their singular gifts, driving a collective loss in productivity and innovation, Grandin proposes new approaches to educating, parenting, employing, and collaborating with visual thinkers.

In a highly competitive world, this important book helps us see, we need every mind on board.

Intended for those who are troubled by their lives and want to make changes, but don't know where to begin, this is a book about relationships. It is not intended as a self-help book, but as one which will encourage the reader to really think about themselves and the way they act - how their behaviour is driven by thoughts, feelings, and impulses of which they may not have any conscious awareness. Jukes examines his 'Mad Hypothesis' - so called because it seems, at first glance, to be 'mad.' He has used it successfully in therapeutic work to refer to everything that is wrong in a patient's relationship and even their life: "You are responsible for everything that is wrong with your relationship including any behaviour of your partner which you use to justify, excuse, or in any other way account for yo own behaviour towards him/her, or the world in general." The author draws on his vast clinical experience to explore this fascinating idea and looks at other related issues such as anxiety, sulking, masochism, and attachment. He also includes many illuminating case-studies which perfectly illustrate his theories and make the text accessible to both clinicians and non-professionals.

An updated edition of Colette Baron-Reid's best-selling book on the power of metaphor for personal transformation and partnering with Spirit to manifest your destiny.

Intuitive counselor Colette Baron-Reid is renowned for helping people create the purposeful and authentic lives they desire. In this fascinating book, Colette hands you the “magic wand” of your own awareness so that you can begin to perceive your life as a wonderful adventure, and see yourself as a powerful mapmaker.

Enter a profound journey as you travel through and explore your inner landscapes. Meet the imaginary beings that hold the keys to the wisdom hidden in your subconscious: the Wizard of Awareness, the Gentle Gardener, the Bone Collector, and the Spirits of the psychological terrain you traverse, who know where to find the treasure in each experience. Discover how to tame the mischievous trickster Goblin, who locks you into old habits. Each of these aspects of your psyche has lessons for you, and each responds to your directions, for you are in charge of your own map.

We're all in Sales now Parents sell their kids on going to bed. Spouses sell their partners on mowing the lawn. We sell our bosses on giving us more money and more time off. And in astonishing numbers we go online to sell ourselves on Facebook, Twitter and online dating profiles. Relying on science, analysis and his trademark clarity of thought, Daniel Pink shows that sales isn't what it used to be. Then he provides a set of tools, tips, and exercises for succeeding on each new terrain: six new ways to pitch your idea, three ways to understand another's perspective, five frames that can make your message clearer, and much more.

Transform your nightly routine into a gateway to abundance and fulfillment with Do This Before Bed, where practical wisdom meets spiritual insight for tangible, life-changing results.

Discover the transformative power of your nightly routine in Do This Before Bed. Drawing from two decades of expertise as an energy healer and spiritual activator, Oliver Nino offers a treasure trove of practices to elevate every aspect of your life.

The period right before you go to sleep is a fruitful time for co-creating with the universe and whatever we focus on before we go to bed sets the pace for how we experience our waking life. In this practical guide, you'll learn how to harness the untapped potential of your mind, emotions, and energy before drifting off to sleep. By capitalizing on this crucial "real estate" of your consciousness, you can set the stage for a life filled with love, joy, clarity, purpose, and abundance.

Whether it's visualization, intention setting, breathwork, light therapy, movement, or journaling, each practice is designed to catalyze profound identity shifts and accelerate your journey toward fulfillment.

From foundational routines to situational practices for healing and manifestation, these simple yet effective exercises can be seamlessly integrated into your nightly ritual.

Accessible and easy to implement, Do This Before Bed is more than just a book―it's a practical companion for anyone seeking to optimize their life and amplify their well-being. Embrace these rituals and watch as inner transformation becomes as natural as your daily habits. Get ready to unlock your fullest potential and embark on a journey toward a life of abundance and joy.

Discover what shadow work really is and how to reclaim and integrate your shadow self for healing and transformation.

Your shadow is made up of everything you hide from the world: your fears, your shame and your wounds, but also your untapped brilliance, unexpressed talents and potential. By learning to embrace and integrate these hidden aspects of yourself, you can unlock profound healing, self-awareness and personal power.

With over 20 practices that blend ancient wisdom and modern psychology, this transformative guide will help you:

· Recognize the shadow and how you create and project it
· Find and express the golden or ‘positive’ shadow self
· Transform fear and shame into loving awareness, energy and power
· Integrate the parental, sexual, ancestral and childhood shadows.

This book will take you on a life-changing and healing journey of self-acceptance. It’s time to stop running from your shadow and start befriending it. It’s time to do the shadow work.

FIVE VISUALISATION TECHNIQUES TO MASTER YOUR MIND, BUILD CONFIDENCE AND ENHANCE PERFORMANCE

We all have habits and behaviours that hold us back from reaching our fullest potential. In VISUALISE, the very first book of its kind on visualisation, Maya Raichoora shows you how to harness the power of visualisation and retrain your brain so you can take control of the way you think, feel and perform, once and for all.

Drawing on the latest neuroscience, theory, Maya's personal experience and compelling case studies, VISUALISE presents five tangible and easy-to-implement visualisation techniques that will help you boost your productivity, achieve your goals and create the best version of yourself. The five techniques are:

1. Outcome visualisation
2. Process visualisation
3. Creative visualisation
4. Negative visualisation
5. Explorative visualisation

In this updated edition of the bestseller published ten years ago, Oprah shares what she has come to know for sure in the last decade.

After film critic Gene Siskel asked her, "What do you know for sure?" Oprah Winfrey began writing the "What I Know For Sure" column in O, The Oprah Magazine. Saying that the question offered her a way to take "stock of her life," Oprah has penned one column a month over the last fourteen years, years in which she retired The Oprah Winfrey Show (the highest-rated program of its kind in history), launched her own television network, became America's only black billionaire, was awarded an honorary degree from Harvard University and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, watched friends and colleagues come and go, and celebrated milestone birthdays. Throughout it all, she's continued to offer her profound and inspiring words of wisdom in her "What I Know For Sure" column in O, The Oprah Magazine.

Now, for the first time, these thoughtful gems have been revised, updated, and collected in What I Know For Sure, a beautiful book packed with insight and revelation from Oprah Winfrey. Organized by theme-joy, resilience, connection, gratitude, possibility, awe, clarity, and power-these essays offer a rare and powerful glimpse into the mind of one of the world's most extraordinary women. Candid, moving, exhilarating, uplifting, and dynamic, the words Oprah shares in What I Know For Sure shimmer with the sort of wisdom and truth that readers will turn to again and again.

Simon Mundie, host of the A New Way of Being podcast, draws on interviews with some of the world’s sporting legends to redefine how we understand – and pursue - success through 8 key lessons.

As the sports reporter for BBC Radio 1 for the best part of a decade, Simon Mundie was pitch-side at many of the most high-profile sporting events in history. It was often thrilling, but the emphasis always seemed to be on results, tactics and the score. But as the saying goes, sport is a metaphor for life – so Simon set out to explore that.

Drawing on interviews with sporting legends from Jonny Wilkinson to Kate Richardson-Walsh, Caitlyn Jenner to Goldie Sayers, along with psychologists, philosophers and world-renowned thinkers, Simon shares some of the tools and techniques that sportspeople have embraced to grow and evolve. From developing emotional intelligence to the power of true acceptance and the joy of getting in flow, he explores eight universal themes that are highlighted in sport, but that are all too easily overlooked.

What can the careers of Gaël Monfils and Andy Murray teach us about exploring our potential? What can England’s Olympic gold-medal winning hockey team teach us about the power of being truly selfless? Wise and inspiring, Champion Thinking illustrates that the contentment we are all looking for isn’t somewhere ‘out there’ – it’s actually so close that we tend to overlook it.