This book has been written by a team of working coaches to help you understand how the coaching world works: 1 Practical tips about coaching - the book is written in three parts 2 Part 1 is for someone who would like to go on or is about to start a coaching programme 3 Part 2 is for those who have been on a coaching programme and helps them to incorporate coaching techniques into their daily work 4 Part 3 is for those who want to procure coaching services for their organisation with tips about how to procure the best coaches 5 The authors recommend that all parts of the book are ultimately read to provide a comprehensive understanding of the Coaching world

This book will help you in the following ways: * To be a more effective leader * To provide you with a broad insight into what leadership is really about * To develop specific skills and expertise designed to improve your leadership capability * To develop resilience within yourself * To respond positively to the challenges and demands faced by today's leaders We have written this book in a "snappy" bullet point style so you can get the answers right away. You are likely to be one of three types of people....... 1. Newly promoted leader and looking for ways to cope with a new leadership role 2. An experienced leader looking for further development but in a convenient and practical way. 3. An employee, looking to have a greater impact on your organisation, but struggling to find a suitable platform on which to build your cause.

Over an entire year, with her bus pass, pens and paper in hand, poet Marcia Mae Nelson Pedde travels by local transit all around her new hometown. Quite simply, she falls in love with the city of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. From elucidating the incredible beauty that is Victoria to revealing the simplicity and the elegance at its very heart, Marcia expresses her admiration for both the people who call this place home, and those who journey here from all over the globe to experience this "City of Gardens." Marcia records her own personal perceptions of it all as she also journeys ever deeper into herself. In both verse and prose, there is beauty, poetry and play between these covers. Come, travel through the city that is Victoria. Learn to love it - one story and one poem at a time.

Why do some people retain cute baby-talk names for their relatives (like "Num-Num" and "Pee-Paw") well into middle age? How should a reasonable person respond when Olivia Newton-John sings, "Have you never been mellow?" Who's responsible for the sorry state of men's fashion, and is it the same guy who invented the jerkin? Is there any future in being a Midwesterner? Can you really enjoy your lunch when the restaurant is decorated to look like an African plain? How come women keep dozens of bottles and jars of moisturizers, unguents, and lotions around -- all of them half empty?

In more than 50 hilarious all-new essays, one of America's brightest young humorists -- the head writer and on-air host of the legendary TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000 -- finds the fun in all aspects of the human condition, no matter how absurd. Join Mike Nelson on an angst-filled visit to a health spa; shopping sessions at Home Depot and Radio Shack; adventures in the very amateur musical theater; a gut-busting discourse on the history of television; ruminations on his roles as husband, father, and citizen; and much, much more.