Focusing on effective coaching techniques, this book is designed for executives, managers, and leaders looking to enhance their coaching skills. It delves into the fundamentals of coaching, emphasizes the importance of building strong coaching relationships, and shares strategies for conducting impactful coaching sessions. Additionally, it provides practical guidance for those new to coaching, ensuring readers can confidently support their teams' development.
Robert Ferguson diagnoses all parts of a massive, out-of-control punishment
regime. Turning the spotlight on the plight of prisoners, he asks the American
people, Do we want our prisons to be this way? Acknowledging the suffering of
prisoners and understanding what punishers do when they punish are the first
steps toward a better, more just system.
Focusing on emotional intelligence, this handbook presents 21 competencies essential for effective coaching and leadership development. It features true stories from leaders who exemplify these skills, alongside hundreds of practical tips for enhancing leadership abilities. The book offers guidance on effective communication for each competency, mental mastery techniques to foster the right mindset, and insights on the benefits of developing these skills for personal and team growth.
Unusually among poets of his generation, he was convinced of the rightness of
Britain's role in the war (and criticised Bertrand Russell for his pacifism.)
Robert Ferguson offers the first modern biography of Hulme, drawing upon
access to Hulme's papers and later interviews with his associates. 'A humane,
comprehensive biography...
Including a comparison of the arrest of the Templars in France with the
Templar Inquisition at Holyrood, and an examination of the part they played at
Bannockburn, this is an essential book for anyone with an interest in the
history of the Knights Templar. číst celé
The book presents a weight-loss program designed to transform fat storage into fat burning through a balanced approach to eating. Readers will learn to personalize their meals by incorporating both fast and slow carbs along with protein and fat, ensuring immediate and lasting results. The 21-day Mindset Makeover guides participants to embrace a healthier relationship with carbohydrates while promoting effective fat loss strategies.
The Scandinavians are regarded as Europe's most tolerant and peace-loving people. So how was it that one of the worst acts of political terror ever witnessed on this continent was committed by a Norwegian - against his fellow countrymen? Scandinavia is the epitome of cool: we fill our homes with cheap but stylish Nordic furniture; we envy their health-giving outdoor lifestyle; we glut ourselves on their crime fiction; even their strangely attractive melancholia seems to express a stoic, common-sensical acceptance of life's many vicissitudes. But how valid is this outsider's view of Scandinavia, and how accurate our picture of life in Scandinavia today? Robert Ferguson digs down through two millennia of history to tell stories of extraordinary events, people and objects - from Norwegian Death Metal to Vidkun Quisling, from Agnetha F�ltskog to Greta Garbo, from Lurpak butter to the Old Norse rune stones - that richly illuminate our understanding of modern Scandinavia, its society, politics, culture and temperament.
For those living outside Scandinavia, the Viking Age effectively began in 793 with an attack on the monastery at Lindisfarne. The attack on Lindisfarne was a characteristically violent harbinger of what was in store for Britain and much of Europe from the Vikings for the next 300 years, until the final destruction of the heathen temple to the Norse gods at Uppsala around 1090. Robert Ferguson is a sure guide across what he calls �the treacherous marches which divide legend from fact in Viking Age history�. His long familiarity with the literary culture of Scandinavia � the eddas, the poetry of the skalds and the sagas � is combined with the latest archaeological discoveries and the evidence of picture-stones, runes, ships and objects scattered all over northern Europe, to make the most convincing modern portrait of the Viking Age in any language. The Hammer and the Cross ranges from Scandinavia itself to Kievan Rus and Byzantium in the east, to Iceland, Greenland and the north American settlements in the west. Beyond its geographical boundaries the book takes us on a journey to a misty region inhabited by Hallfred the Troublesome Poet, Harald Bluetooth, Ragnar Hairy-Breeches, Ivar the Boneless and Eyvind the Plagiarist, in which literature, history and myth dissolve into one another.
