A practical, research-based guide for ensuring trustworthy classroom observations that provide teachers with meaningful feedbackBetter Feedback for Better Teaching is an essential resource for school, district, and state, leaders committed to high-quality classroom observations. This practical guide outlines the knowledge and skills classroom observers need to identify and help develop effective teaching, and explains how leaders can best facilitate the de...

Forget calorie-counting, portion control, 'Eat Right for Your Blood Group' and other fad diets. The NLP Diet is the only way to lose weight - and keep it off - because it is the only diet designed to change your thinking, not the contents of your fridge. Using the highly practical tools of NLP, the world's most effective self-coaching and visualisation method, you will be able not just to set yourself realistic weight-loss goals, but also to meet them. You will learn all the strategies and...

Are you looking to improve your professional and personal performance?Do your goals and ambitions need an overhaul - or a complete rethink?This updated new edition of a dynamic and motivating guide will give you the resources and toolkit to coach yourself to an improved and enhanced performance in all areas of your life.Covering everything from career development to personal relationships, appearance and money management, it offers a program of change and progress f...

This is an ideal book for all those who've been wanting to reap the many benefits of personal lifecoaching, but who lack the resources or time to fund a one-to-one relationship. It takes the principles of life coaching and, in a practical yet inspiring manner, shows you how you might apply these to every area of your own life. Covering everything from career development to personal relationships, appearance and money management, it offers a program of change and progress for each area, whi...

The books in this bite-sized new series contain no complicated techniques or tricky materials, making them ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the merely curious. Coach Yourself to Success is a short, simple and to-the-point guide to setting and achieving new goals in any and every part of life. In just 96 pages, the reader will learn how to change any aspect of their life successfully and forever, however little time they may have to spare.TRANSFORM YOUR LIFESET AND ...

"Earnestly recounting how 45 successful women achieved their dreams, McMeekin aims to provide 'mentors' who can help readers transcend creative blocks."— Publishers WeeklyFrom the popular creative coach Gail McMeekin—author of The 12 Secrets of Highly Successful Women—comes advice about the specific challenges in life that creative women face today. Identified in a survey of 1,500 CEOs to be the key leadership skill of the 21st century, creativity...

The Lost Child of Philomena Lee is the tale of a mother and a son whose lives were scarred by the forces of hypocrisy on both sides of the Atlantic and of the secrets they were forced to keep. A compelling narrative of human love and loss, Martin Sixsmith's moving account is both heartbreaking yet ultimately redemptive.When she fell pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to the convent at Roscrea in Co. Tipperary to be looked aft...

All workplaces are affected by the intrigues of office politics, and in many businesses who you know can be more important than what you know. Survive Office Politics is full of advice on how to cope with difficult situations and people and get on with your job.This book offers practical help on how to keep cool under pressure,watch out for danger signs, deal with a difficult situation, and workout who is doing what and why. It features a qu...

Managing just one person can be difficult enough, but pulling together a team of people can be tricky even for experienced leaders. This book helps you create an effective team that can really get things done. It helps you form a good team in the first place, deal with tensions that may arise, communicate well, and motivate team members towards your overall goal.Most of us have to work with other people for some or most of our day. If you're a project manager in pa...

Being able to make good decisions is an essential workplace skill.Whatever your job, there will be times when you need to analyse anissue, get to grips with it, and decide on the best course of action.This book helps you do that effectively, even if time is tight.Practical and helpful, Make effective decisions willhelp you get to the heart of the matter, ask the right questions, avoidprocrastination, and cope with pressure so that ...

Mind Maps at Work takes a fresh and exuberant look at how Mind Maps can keep you one step ahead of your colleagues at work. Full of practical tips, exercises and inspiring casestudies of people from all career backgrounds, it will help you unlock your reservoirs of creativity and find the fulfilment at work you know you deserve.Tony Buzan is the world-renowned inventor of Mind Maps who has helped hundreds of highly successful international businesses and organisations. In this insp...

The secrets that experts and top professionals use to get things done.Get results fast with this quick, easy guide to the fundamentals of Getting Things Done.Includes how to:• Get more done in less time• Manage upwards, downwards and sideways• Under-promise and over-deliver• Overcome difficult people and issues• Deliver projects on time and on budget