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Dyslexia and dyspraxia are big words. In My Butterfly Mind, Claire Moore shares the benefits and the childhood challenges of thinking, seeing and feeling different.

In this practical and powerful book, Rita Cincottta teaches that coaching is essential to the deliberate leader's toolkit

This book is for anyone looking to change or advance their career, knowing the steps to take, the mistakes to avoid and the feedback to trust. If your time is now, then let this book guide you to making your career goals a reality.

When readers close this book, they should be happily assured that future generations will benefit from the legacy of a truly noble gentleman.

Deliver is about longer-term planning and thinking and proactive delivery management to help you implement successful projects.

Australia is a country superbly organised to assist new immigrants and overseas business people wanting to relocate their business and staff to Australia. Before taking that huge step you need to know what to look for and where to find it.

"The Wind's Song" looks at the hidden spaces between who we are, and who we think we are, what we believe and what we know.

Fully Connected is for leaders who want to take back ownership of their lives and reclaim their health and energy. On their terms.

The Labyrinth: Tales of Entanglement, Escape presents dense satiric tales of human journeying.

Now more than ever before, we are living in a world that's highly interconnected and interdependent, which means an action in one place has a very real influence elsewhere. In Finding a Better Way, an unlikely duo explores ways in which Western society has become disconnected and how we might strive for a better future - not only for ourselves but for future generations. Finding a Better Way is a meeting of the minds between Michelle, a Generation Y female freelance editor, and David, a Generation X male who is a former technology executive turned business advisor. Writing from their vantage point in Australia, they discuss trends and ideas across four key themes: country, workplace, community and family. Their reflections are based on almost 200 pieces of research, but there are some points of difference between them that will make you stop and think. David and Michelle openly admit they do not have all the answers - and that is the point. They encourage you to reflect on what they have written and think about your own experiences and views. The book discusses everything from politics and short-termism to the rise of the gig economy and digital burnout. It also explores more sensitive topics, like depression and loneliness, as well as ideas of masculinity and femininity, the pursuit of work-life balance, and what it means to be a family in the 21st century. David and Michelle also highlight ways in which we might do things differently, individually and collectively, at times drawing on Scandinavian concepts such as Janteloven, niksen and hygge. As we step into an entirely new world, Finding a Better Way serves as a much-needed reference point of where we have been and, more importantly, where we are going.

Known to so many, and yet unknowable, was Frank Thring. Actor, bon vivant, professional flamboyant, withering critic. No one else could tell his story, so here it is, as if by his own hand. His boyhood as the son of a doomed movie mogul and a society charity matriarch, both former showies. His times in radio, theatre, Hollywood, TV and print. As immortal Australian iconoclast.At the end of his life, beset by the maladies he knows will soon claim him, Frank tells all. Of moviemaking, branded 'hatcheries of disasters.' Of Dennis Hopper, Mick Jagger, Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Kirk Douglas, Janet Leigh, Julie London, Tony Curtis, Jack Hawkins, James Mason, and Australia's best. Of sharing the stage with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. Of this times with Noel Coward, John Geilgud, Orson Wells, Gore Vidal, Fellini, Edward Woodward, Chips Rafferty, Frankie Howerd. Of his three decades on Australian television, as critic, sidekick, guest and star. Of longer still at the Melbourne Theatre Company.And of the Frank deep beneath the loud, large one he confected. This tale the most intriguing of all.

THIS IS SERENA'S ONLY CHANCE. SHE MUST UNITE HUMANS AND FAE OR BOTH WORLDS WILL BE LOST TO THE ZEYTAR AGENDA ... FOREVER.The worlds are a paradox ... Humans and Fae have been swept into the same universe with an evil fixated on destroying them all.Months have passed since the fall of the Zeytar ships and the downfall of their evil existence, but another darkness has shown itself, leaving the heroes running scared.Meanwhile, the surviving Fae are trying to come to terms with the recent events of their own war, the losses, and the forces holding them back from returning home.Serena, battling depression from the loss of her sister, has struggled since she returned with nightmares and guilt, however a powerful vision gives her hope that may help the survivors of the previous war on Earth.As the sinister force takes over the planet, intent on destruction and the revival of the Zeytar race, humans are enslaved to help the insidious creatures' plans for success, all while the Fae meet with the heroes from the first war.Will Fae and humans join forces to conquer the darkness smothering the world or will the latest Zeytar creations destroy them all and bring about the end of both races?Serena and Shaylee are the key, but can they find each other in time?Time is something even the Fae don't have enough of now ...

This collection of art and poetry from Bee Williamson and Naomi Downie is a beautiful book for yourself or a gift for a loved one. The eight colour plates and other black and white images are, like the poems, evocative of female sexuality and spirituality. Bee Williamson, a Melbourne-based artist, chooses photography, mixed media and illustration to explore and celebrate the female form, particularly through dance. Bee likes to explore her own femininity, with a special affinity for flowers. She says "the process of making art is as important to her as the finished work itself. Art for her is meditation-in-action." Naomi Downie, an artist from Newcastle, has selected works from her collection that trace the journey of her search for meaning. She uses photography and mixed media to dive deep into the themes of myths, love and mystic visions gathered from her meditations. She says, "I love the mystery in the process of artmaking, the joy of being a part of the universal creative force. A gift of gratitude and communication for that which has no words." Both Bee's and Naomi's poetry have themes of intimacy, sexuality, identity and nature, and look at the deeper truths and legends surrounding women and spirituality. Bee has been writing poetry since she was fourteen and this book includes her first love poem! Poetry has always been her first response to the hardships of pain and trauma as well as to insights, the joys of friendship and a deep relationship to nature. Naomi is a performance poet whose work can be found in many magazines and Internet sites. "Poetry for me is a soul landscape, a continent to travel and guide others who dare across the scars and secrets of the heart's chamber. Poetry has been a vehicle to share with others the many faces of God I have seen and lived to tell the tale. "We hope you cherish this work and it inspires you to reveal your own hidden self."

What's the difference between a floundering and a flourishing team? How do teams operate at more than the sum of their parts more often? How do teams make it safe to discuss the undiscussables? How do teams achieve better outcomes working more interdependently?Team Better Together answers these questions by introducing 5 distinguishing disciplines of high performing and flourishing teams. What is sometimes obvious to do can be difficult to access, apply and accomplish. In this book, you will learn how to: - align the team's objectives with the stakeholders' mandate- unify the team to a common, shared purpose- engage and relate by building trust-based working relationships- create accountability to the team's collective performance goals- ensure the team is a safe and supportive learning environment.Transitioning to a high performing team requires leaders and team members to commit to an engaging learning experience. By 'teaming better together', all teams across your organisation become a team of teams.

Set in 1851, this book is a tale of love, adventure, endurance and triumph. A young Scottish couple, forbidden to marry, elope to New South Wales. Their heart-wrenching departure, arduous sea voyage and eventual good fortune lead them to the management of a sheep station beside the Murray River. As the extended family experience trials, prosperity, heartbreak and joy in this new colony, including droughts and bushfires, they contribute to the establishment of a new nation, Australia. A breathtaking ride by their grandson in the Melbourne Cup completes the story.

As the daughter of a US Marine and a young Australian war bride, Lily navigates an often confusing and tumultuous world. Set predominantly in rural New England, the beauty and bleakness of the landscape are balanced with the vibrant and colorful descriptions of the people and happenings in rural and small town life. There are her loving Swedish grandparents and an assortment of local characters, Aunt Agneta braiding rugs, old red barns, orchards and dairy cows, freezing cold winters, and ice skating... and the harsh unpredictability of her parents to keep Lily on her toes.

Finally, a book that provides realistic and targeted advice to Business Partners!Business Partners hold a vital role as trusted confidants with deep technical expertise, and their impact is evident across all business functions.Initially tasked with providing advice, they are now true collaborating partners, ideally placed to lead and manage change in the changing world of work and business.Yet as the Business Partner role has changed, there has been no pathway to develop the competencies essential for their success.Until now.If you are a current or aspiring Business Partner, this is the book for you.Evolve shows you how to navigate service models and systems, build your commercial acumen and deliver value to your organisation. With almost five decades of business partnering experience between them, Rita Cincotta and George Liberopoulos have written the book that Business Partners have been waiting for. It's a call to action, full of insight and practical strategies to grow the influence and impact of Business Partners.

You were raised to believe that humble is best. Your hard work will get you noticed one day. You keep quiet about your achievements. Your inner voice tells you to wait - it's not your time. And your confidence is crushed.You're not alone. Most of the women I work with have asked these questions at some point in their lives. They worry about putting their own needs first. They worry about being judged harshly by other people. They worry about failing if they follow their dreams and whether they will ever have the courage to be visible.In Worthy, you will discover how to stop mauling your mojo, straighten your self-talk and create an intentional life. You will learn how to: - circumvent everyday challenges women face when investing in their personal growth- find the job you love - or love the job you have- maximise your precious time and funds by targeting the learning and development you desire most- connect for capacity-building so you can lean into leadership.It's time to stop avoiding your ambition and put yourself first. It's time to follow the steps outlined in this book and embrace the worthy woman you already are.

Tell Your Story is the perfect book for people who are in the business of growing their brand, be it personal or professional. This super-actionable, solutions-focused guide provides motivation and practical support by the bucketload.Holly Cardamone will show you how to communicate better with your audience through the power of story. It's a funny, fresh and clever guide to communications, writing andbranding storytelling.As readable as a novel, Tell Your Story is packed with ideas, suggestions, tips and strategies to tell your story and grow your business or influence with beautiful communications.

SERENA O'HALLORAN IS ABOUT TO FIND OUT THAT NOT ALL FAERY TALES HAVE HAPPY ENDINGS.The once peaceful land of Faelynn is being infiltrated by sinister new villains, more terrifying than anything in the recent history of the Fae ... the Zeytars. When the queen and princess are enslaved and taken from their realm, the Fae are left vulnerable.Many moons later Princess Shaylee returns with a young companion, Serena O'Halloran, who learns secrets while making friendships and discovers her importance in the realm.But a stir in the dark lands of Xarkynan puts all the Fae at risk from a second, long-forgotten evil. A dark mage has risen and soon the lands are infested with goblins, dark Elvenfae, and creatures created to cause destruction. Shaylee must send the young one back home to her time for her protection.Many Earth years pass ...Shaylee and Serena unite once more and are thrust into the middle of a war in Faelynn. To their horror they learn ... the dark lord has awoken and is searching for the powerful Tuatha Dé Danann treasure stones, so he can bring about the end of the Fae and the downfall of the once peaceful land.With a spy in their midst, will they have the strength to take on the Zeytar necro-mage and the dark lord, or will the evil destroy them both, along with the rest of the Fae?For Serena, time will tell, but time with the Fae can be costly.

A tale of our world and of the afterlife, told to George by Chloe, his deceased daughter. George tells his friend Charles of a strange incident. He says his daughter comes to speak to him while he is asleep. Immediately after she stops speaking, he wakes up and rushes to his computer to type out what she has told him.Chloe relates to George her experiences from the moment of her death, her conversation with a mysterious gatekeeper of the afterlife, and her extensive conversations with other spirits she has come into contact with. James is a Dubliner who died from alcoholism, estranged from his family; Jessie is a model who got caught up in drugs and eventually prostitution; Craig is an effervescent American real estate agent whose life revolved around making money; April married for money and found that after their baby was born and her husband was promoted at work he had no time for them; and Clarissa, who knew well in advance that she was going to die from skin cancer.Throughout the telling of his daughter's story, George intermittently pauses and questions Charles as to his thoughts on various aspects of the story. Charles is a corporate man and the philosophical arguments and the pure unbelievable nature and emotion of the story leave him virtually speechless. At first George confides only in Charles. But when their wives become suspicious of the men's activities on the occasions he read his notes out to Charles, George has no choice but to agree to Charles telling them their secret.George is confused as to what he should do with his notes. He finally decides to enlist Charles's help to reveal to the world the 'secret' of his daughter's story.

If you are presently the owner of a retail business. ask yourself: Are you suffering from the effects of Covid-19?Is your business still healthy and thriving?Is the possibility of renewing your lease for a further five years giving you a headache? Are you paying too much rent?Do you wish that you knew how to negotiate a better lease with your landlord?Do you know how to ensure that the annual outgoings charged by the landlord are fair and reasonable and comply with the provisions of the Retail Tenancy Act in your state?Are you experiencing stock shrinkage?Are you having difficulties negotiating with your bank?Are you studying about retail at a college or university?Do you know the law covering franchisees and franchisors from both a Federal and State perspective? Are you thinking of bringing your retail business to Australia?Are you considering retiring and either selling your business, or handing it over to family members?If the answers to any of these questions is "yes", then this book is for you.

Trust is the foundation of organisations and teams. We talk about it, complain when we don't have it, and watch its effect on the bottom line. Its absence makes headlines when organisations and leaders fall from grace, breaking the covenant they hold with clients and staff.Trust is so important that it appears in our visions and plans as essential for strategic and operational success. But how do we establish cultures of trust when individual interpretations and expectations can be so vastly different?This book shows how. It is a practical, evidence-based, call to action for positive organisational change and higher performance. Here you will learn about: - Overcoming the challenges for trust- Culture as a team sport- Obtaining freedom to deliver what matters- Leaving a legacy for sustainable success If you're seeking a realistic and adaptable approach for leading with trust, then this book is for you.

There is one indivisible real substance that is absolutely aware. No-one has ever been able, or will ever be able, to prove that anything exists outside it. It is literally all that you and I can ever be. Understanding that there is no Other, beyond endless becoming born of desire and fear, we should accept ourselves as eternal awareness alone.The goals of this factual text are specific: (1) To affirm the utter transparency of ourselves as effortless existence-awareness. (2) To affirm the world's manifestations as nothing but organs and conditions of borderless existence-awareness. (3) To reconcile awareness in its modes of feeling and volition, potential and kinetic. (4) To deconstruct all limiting paradigms: of border, person, ego, name, form, time, space, cause, change, duality, context, body, independent arising, death. (5) To affirm awareness as ever-absorbed, singular, beyond polarised notions of 'subject and object'.Those who entertain the notion that consciousness is some kind of 'evolutionary product' that 'evolves from unconscious states' without ever offering a single example of how this happens, will resist the proofs in this book: that the absolute condition of existence is consciousness itself, and that 'these words and these worlds' are its eternal affirmation. Even a cursory summary of our position reveals its absoluteness in that body, senses, feelings and thoughts function effortlessly as expressions of boundless profundity. Meanwhile, our experience at any moment is absolute, never polarised as 'seer and seen', 'self and other'.The apparent infinite ramification of awareness as ego, sense, feeling, thought, imagination, memory and so forth, prevents us from surrendering in awe at awareness' sole and extraordinary presence. Our confusion lies in the perceived hiatus between absolute receptivity (feeling) and absolute volition (power of concentration), whereby 'awareness is obscured' as ideas and their forms: name, atom, time, space, cause... Observe this pulsing, this 'becoming' of awareness. Without utter receptivity, how could anything be discerned? How can awareness modify where the context is ever itself? And where is the border between limited and limitless? The issue turns on a single question: To whom does any idea, action, displacement (etc) occur? Who is the witness and dancer of all phenomena? We must embrace the necessity for enquiry: our responsibility for suffering and its cause, limitation. All our phantom boundaries, mental conventions entrenched by habit, are exposed as the thieves and dictators that they are. What is ignorant, suffers, is born and dies, is lost? Ego (that seeker, desirer, little 'I', definer, fixator, achiever, phantom gatekeeper, material idea, superimposition) dictates experience, enforcing the lie that 'forms' independently arise, where we drown in relativities, and 'knowledge by inference and labelling' replaces that of identity, and our obsessively-built personae amount to no more than cardboard cutouts. Beyond self- distraction, beyond the clamour to build an ideational machine paradise, beyond endless fear that we will cease to be, our rock and role is to be as we are. Peace is the goal, a permanent security beyond the see-saw of need, dependency and dissatisfaction. Yet there's no patience, no surrender, without understanding. To deconstruct brings us detachment, which opens the way to an effortless joy. We then wear the world's jewels lightly, knowing them to be the very delight of the Supreme. While we ever appear to act, we don't cling to action's seeds and consequences. We become transparent, simple, ever now, ever here, borderless, eternal.

Sponsor SUCCESS - The WHATs and HOWs for business improvement projects A powerful and practical guide to delivering effective sponsorship of business improvement projects The trouble with Lean Six Sigma is that there is an awful lot written and discussed about the organisational deployment models, successes and failures, and how to run projects as a Green and Black Belt. But how do you sponsor a project? With sponsor SUCCESS, you'll understand what you need to do to successfully sponsor a project and then how best to do it. You will discover how to facilitate change when people have to adopt new ways of working that are a significant departure from their current practices.sponsor SUCCESS will help you understand what questions to ask to: - Help successfully implement change- Ensure the root causes are fixed- Build leadership support- Engage others to make the improvements stick- Help develop people to deliver process improvements more effectively

How does a daughter convey the lifelong influence of an exceptional father, taken far too soon? How does she distil the lessons learned through joy and heartbreak, from the campground to the ocean's depths? This is my love letter to Dad.Peter Clark, R105695 served in the Royal Australian Navy for over 25 years, predominantly at the bottom of the ocean on board submarines. Peter was many things: a submariner, brother, father, husband, friend and mate. His incredible life, and his death at the young age of 59 years, inspired his daughter to reflect on their connection, which extends beyond his passing. This is a story of resilience, friendship, laughter and heartache; a daughter's insight into the life her father led, and the impact he had and continues to have on her life.This is a story of the power of love between a girl and her dad.

Has your leadership and communication style kept up with the changing nature of work? Or are old-school ways limiting your results?New generations of employees expect to share ideas, get involved and be part of the conversation.They need trusting communication from leaders.Yet many leaders haven't caught up and are holding themselves and their teams back with a tellingapproach - depriving their business of the very ideas and solutions that could propel it forward.If you want to stand out as an innovative leader, encouraging ownership and lifting engagement, then it's time to examine your communication style.Trusting, not telling, is the way forward.With compelling insights and practical examples from many successful leaders, Switch walks you through four steps to powerful, trusting conversations that will build greater employee connection and lift your leadership.Like rocket fuel, these steps will ignite your impact and results. Are you ready to Switch?

B-Suite leaders are today's middle managers, the glue that holds organisations together, translating strategy into action and creating high performing workforces.Yet the B-Suite is stretched thin balancing the chaos of today's business landscape. They are too junior to be 'in the room', yet senior enough to be looked up to by their team. They are expected to provide information, decisions and direction and often have little to go on. It can be a frustrating space.Already experienced leaders, B-Suite development is often overlooked. Yet enabling these leaders to adjust to the new normal, and to have even greater impact is a huge win for any organization. Does that sound like you? Do you wish you could control the pace of work, have some space to think, and influence outcomes more easily?It's time to level up your leadership.This book shows you how, through ten practical tools to use on a daily basis. These will help you level up your B-Suite game and have greater impact. In here, you'll find Rebecca's hard-won learnings on the B-Suite pathway. They are the foundation of her Level Up program, designed for all B-Suiters who seek more impact but lack the confidence, influence or headspace to get it right.