Do you ever feel you’re a fraud and about to be found out?
Do you feel an expectation to keep going and to be strong?
Do you ever think what it would be like to just… ‘STOP’?
You’re not alone. Mental ill health impacts one in four people every year, and professionals in high-pressure jobs are especially vulnerable.
Life is a Four-Letter Word is a mental health survival guide for professionals, from a high-flying Big 4 accountant who’s struggled with depression, anxiety, stress and suicidal thoughts and learned a lot along the way.
Andy now advocates positive action around mental health, working closely with business leaders across the UK to help them build mentally healthy cultures. He is a renowned speaker and writer on mental health, entrepreneurship and finance.
This book facilitates an all-encompassing journey of personal empowerment and spiritual growth in 7 essential steps. Taking a peek into the subtle realms, sharing ancient wisdom and consulting ground-breaking science, it offers fascinating new insights and readers will experience powerful transformational shifts, emerging from stress and fear to empowerment.
The 7 Steps process is designed to serve as a guide on your path toward your own development, growth and enlightenment. Buddha taught that this world is an illusion. As we awaken and grow in consciousness, we begin to see through the illusions. This book explores the nature of these illusions. With each of the 7 Steps, we will be lifting another veil of illusion. When a veil of illusion is lifted, you will find yourself in a whole new plane of existence, perceiving everything very differently than before. This 7 Steps process is unique in that not only is it informative, interactive and experiential, it is also hugely transformational.
Narina Riskowitz is an experienced Transformational Therapist and Soul Coach. She runs spiritual development courses, embraces energy healing and works holistically with groups and individual clients. She has developed her own healing modality, combining regression journeys with energy healing for complete results.
A firm believer in the mind-body link, most of her work is aimed at releasing negative emotions and limiting beliefs and so restore her clients’ natural health and inherent confidence. Her ground-breaking course material resulted in her signature soul coaching tool: Lifting the Veils of Illusion, now captured as this enriching 7 Steps book.
‘Every now and then a book comes along that unlocks and changes the way you see the world in a way that means you want to share it with everyone you care about – this is such a book.’ – Helen Cornwell Lee
‘Reading this book is like taking a happiness pill, and it’s packed with practicality too. The LIPSTICK Principles is uplifting, inspiring and motivating – a book every woman who wants to reach her potential should read.’ – Helen Dibble
‘This book is gold dust, inspiring, moving, real, genuine, and the whole tool kit for happiness in one shot. It feels like your best friend is beside you lovingly guiding you through how to do life, and letting you know you can do this and you are not alone.’ – Wendy Loudon
Have you ever wondered if there is a formula for being happy? Would you like to gain control of your life and feel more confident? How can you set about achieving your goals? Amanda Brown’s quest to find answers to these questions has taken her across continents on a personal journey of study and practice as a successful life coach and speaker. Here she shares her knowledge, insights and success stories to help you understand how to utilise your mind to make decisions, savour the moment, be happy and feel excited about the future. By applying the LIPSTICK principles, you will learn to live life from a place of love not fear and say, ‘I’m in.’ Packed with simple exercises and practical solutions, this life manual will free you to let go of worry and fear, live in the moment and love your life.
It starts with you.
Ever noticed that it’s when you’re on the brink of next-level growth that the inner unrest surfaces? It shows up in different ways. Maybe you can’t seem to get out of the day-to-day work to focus on strategic activities. Or you doubt your ability to take your growing SME to the next level. Or maybe you realise you’re so addicted to working that you feel guilty when you invest in self-care.
But the truth is that this inner unrest costs you and your business dear: it creates hidden buckets of waste that can stop you – and your team – from achieving and enjoying next-level growth.
The good news is that it all starts with you. The 7-step ‘Lead Self First’ framework will support you to take control by leading yourself first, and gives your team a structure they can use too, so you can navigate the challenges of growth with confidence and get from where you are to where you want to be.
Caroline McKenna is an accredited executive coach and founder of the award-winning Lead Self Coaching and Development, with 20 years’ experience working in growing SMEs, leading and developing teams. She coaches global business leaders and supports scaling SME leaders to navigate the challenges of pursuing ambitious goals. She developed the Lead Self First Model from her experience of working with Ireland’s top entrepreneurs to unlock next-level growth.
**Business Book Awards 2024 Finalist**
Of course your team is good. It’s made up of good people. But imagine if it was GREAT… imagine if it had the EDGE…
In a world of ambiguity and constant change, teams are the critical glue for solving complex problems, delivering in challenging environments and supporting each other to grow, develop and be engaged.
Drawing from extensive research working across hundreds of teams, Alison Grieve and Jenni Miller have developed an integrated and full-team approach that allows any team to achieve high performance and sustain it. In this highly practical book, they translate their authoritative research and theory into five key Edge Dynamics, together with clear steps and tools that can be applied immediately. Take your team to the edge of higher performance, deeper engagement and greater wellbeing and beyond.
In a world of disruptive change, uncertainty is the buzzword on everyone’s lips.
Disruptive change can throw everything into chaos unless leaders and teams have the skills to lead confidently through it. How do you lead complex change without burning out, disconnecting or losing your team?
Welcome to the age of Leading Through Uncertainty, where emotional responses to challenging situations are part of the human experience.
Drawing on numerous interviews with leaders from all walks of life demonstrating leadership in action, this new edition of the classic book on leadership and uncertainty has been revised and updated for the post-pandemic age. It explores these fundamental questions:
- How do you lead confidently and competently in uncertainty?
- How do you create human connection in a performance-driven culture?
- How do you adapt rapidly to technological advances and disruptive change without losing yourself or your team in the process?
The safeguarding and child protection challenges in education have never been more complex, nor the legal duties on schools and colleges more stringent. The criminal and sexual exploitation of children, FGM, radicalisation and online safety are sadly all now part of the remit, as are self-harm and mental health issues. And these safeguarding challenges are found not only in urban communities, but also in leafy suburbs and rural idylls throughout the UK. The responsibility on safeguarding leads in schools, colleges and multi-academy trusts is huge, and Covid-19 (and its inevitable after-effects) has only added to the complexity.
This book sets out how you can transform your safeguarding arrangements, with a strategic framework that will help you and your governing body or MAT board to develop and implement outstanding practice across your whole organisation. It is based on an 8-point strategic safeguarding model that will enable you to anticipate potential problems, deal with concerns more effectively, and build a robust safeguarding culture that is underpinned by a strong network of support, both internally and externally. Ultimately, this approach will support safeguarding leads in their vital role of protecting children; enable senior leaders, governors and trustees to provide appropriate leadership and support for safeguarding; help to improve the effectiveness of multi-agency working; and support educators in their vital work of preparing learners for life.
“The beauty of the ABCDE model and toolkit is that it is simple but not simplistic, it’s user-friendly and works in practice.”
Joanne Gubbay, Former Head of Learning and Development, Slaughter and May
Lead your team of lawyers to new heights with this tried-and-tested toolkit, based on 25 years’ practical experience of getting the best out of lawyers.
Leading Lawyers distils 25 years of experience at helping people do just that into one easy-to-read practical toolkit. Based on the successful ABCDE methodology, this guide will help you identify your natural leadership style, identify the various needs and personalities in your team of lawyers, and align everything to become a truly impactful and supportive leader.
Packed with real-life inspiring examples, ready-made tools and memorable tips, Leading Lawyers will help you reflect on your own communication preferences, and use what you learn to get different stakeholders and different personalities on board.
From scoping the project with a client to reviewing progress and success, from on-boarding a new team member to tackling a stubborn problem, there are examples each step of the way and opportunities to plan how to use the approach in practice, so you can become an even more effective team leader.
SALLY SANDERSON is a multi-award-winning consultant to law firms. Specialising in leadership, emerging leaders, people and project management, she uses personality profiling to increase self-awareness and speed up development. Her ABCDE approach has been used by thousands of lawyers across the world with outstanding results.
If you’re coaching top-level executives, you need to deliver top-level results. Seven international expert coaches share their techniques for deepening your practice and your impact. Take your coaching to a more powerful level as you work down through the depths of the human psyche, where effective sustainable change is achieved. An essential book for anyone involved in helping others achieve at their highest potential.
‘An immensely practical insight into first-class coaching skills. A must read for all professional coaches looking to perfect their technique.’ – Nigel Jeremy, Chief Learning Officer, British Airways
How would you like to lead yourself towards extraordinary results without ever stopping yourself in your tracks?
You are driven, goal-orientated and aspire to more: you are a leader, at work and at home. So, how do you step up to that next level? By getting out of your own way and pushing through your fears and past your comfort zone. But reaching that edge is scary…
In Lead Beyond The Edge, Frederique Murphy provides you with the mind strategies you need to rewire your brain for success. You will know how to overcome any challenges to accomplish anything, anytime, anywhere.
- Discover scientific strategies to lead transformations from within.
- Learn by doing more than just reading to enhance your cognitive functions.
- Access a powerful 12-step framework to fire up your brain on command.
You can lead beyond the edge but only if you know what to do when your brain resists. Thanks to Frederique’s actionable strategies, memorable science and personal stories, experience self-directed neuroplasticity by building this bold path and make your extraordinary happen!
FREDERIQUE MURPHY is a leadership mindset strategist, who inspires and equips leaders to move through extraordinary change. With her Mountain Moving Mindset platform, as an international keynote speaker and award-winning consultant, she works with global organizations, tapping into the power of their leaders’ minds to rewire their brains for success. Frederique lives in Ireland with her husband, and off stage, you will find her baking, practicing yoga, hiking or dancing.
