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Books of the Month: Coaching

1. ‘How to Say No, When you Feel you Ought to Say Yes- How to Escape the Duty’.Vera Pfeffer

How many times have we become 'roped' into doing sometimes we feel obliged to do or say 'yes' when we really don't want to do it at all?

Vera Pfeffer, analytical hypnotherapist and health kinesiologist, identifies practical coping techniques to deal with family or work-related pressures to negotiate a better deal for ourselves and to take positive action to increase our self-worth and self-esteem. Pfeffer has used her in-depth experience to provide practical and thought-provoking questions to help us.

Highly recommended!

2. ‘Wake up your Mind.’ The Mind Gym, Octavius Black
'Minds are like parachutes, they only operate when open',Thomas Dewar.

Having attended and thoroughly enjoyed many 'mind gym' workouts, I was intrigued with the title-wake up your mind! The book provides a snapshot of some of the most popular mind gym workouts and is written in a very practical style. The mind gym workouts are based on extensive research undertaken by Octavius Black and Associates and focus on the premise that we can all choose how we think and offers practical tips and techniques to enlarge our health, behaviours and social skills.

Highly recommended read!

Books of the Month: Leadership

1. 'Who Moved My Cheese' by Spencer Johnson.

‘I keep doing the same thing over and over again and wonder why things don't get better and if it wasn't so ridiculous it would be even funnier.’

‘When you change what you believe you change what you do!’

This is an excellent and humorous story about change, seen from the perspective of two little mice 'Hmm' and 'Haw', who cope with the onset of change in very different ways.
(It also comes in DVD format from www.videoarts.co.uk)

1.   Change happens-they keep moving the cheese.
2.    Anticipate change-Get ready for the Cheese to move
3.    Monitor change-smell the cheese and know when it's getting mouldy
4.    Adapt to change Quicker-The quicker you let go of the old cheese the sooner you will enjoy
      the new cheese
5.    Move with the Cheese
6.    Enjoy change-Savour the cheese. Enjoy the taste of the new cheese.
7.    Be ready to Change Quickly-they will always keep moving the Cheese

Well recommended. An excellent analogy to help people cope and manage change effectively in their daily lives.

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