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Building emotional health levels has always been at the heart of our work together. It was our intent for the Global Leadership Foundation when we established it in 2003: 'raising emotional health levels across the globe'.We have been working with emotional health levels in business environments for nearly twenty years - across the private, public, not-for-profit and community sectors. Throughout, our main focus has been the development of leaders alongside transformational change in organisations. The application of emotional health to leadership was the topic of our first book, The Emotionally Healthy Leader, published in 2013.Both of us also have long experience with the Enneagram as a model that can help individuals to understand their psychological patterns, including the triggers they react to and the underlying drivers of their actions.Our motivation for writing this book is three-fold.First, we wanted to introduce the Enneagram and the role it can play in the context of moving the emotional health levels. While there are have been many books about the Enneagram published globally, we wanted to share what we have learnt about the application of the Enneagram in moving up the emotional health levels. In sharing what we have learnt we combine an understanding of various Enneagram elements through the lens of emotional health levels and thus bring some clarity to areas of practice of the Enneagram not previously published.Second - and in response to the urging of many of our peers of the years - we wanted to share this knowledge with a broader audience. While most of our work has been with leaders, we are often asked to share our knowledge and practical experience of how to move up the emotional health levels with a broader audience.Finally, we wanted to provide a practical set of self-development tools to our audience. Our hope is that any reader of this book, regardless of their prior exposure to this material, will be able to take the information, and in particular the development guides in Part 3, and start down the path of self-improvement.Part 1 of the book introduces the key concepts we use in our work, including our model of the emotional health levels. This provides a platform for what follows. Part 2 is focused on the Enneagram and its relationship to our emotional health levels model, helping you to gain some insight into your primary Enneagram type and your current emotional health level. And Part 3 provides a substantial development guide, in which you can take what you've learnt about yourself from the first two parts and commence your journey towards moving up the emotional health levels.

So you have a new puppy...and you're wondering if this guide is for you? This guide is for people wanting to give their puppy the best start to life. But this guide is more than just a 'puppy manual', it's a comprehensive resource that you can refer to over and over again throughout your dog's whole life. I have also included illustrations that make it easy to follow my training and health care tips. In 250 pages, you'll discover all that you need to know about training and looking after your precious pup: - A checklist of what to do when you bring your puppy home. - The right equipment for training and caring for your puppy. - The right diet and feeding schedules for puppies. - How to prevent food aggression. - How to tell what is good for your dog by reading food labels. - Tips on overcoming fussy eating habits. - Which 20 'human' foods and other materials are very bad for dogs. - How to prevent ear infections. - How to clip your dog's nails safely, without fuss. - Simple ways to keep your dog's teeth clean and her breath fresh. - How to keep your dog's eyes clean. - How to care for different types of coats. - The safe and hassle-free way to bathe your dog. - How to ensure your dog is confident and happy. - How to exercise your dog. - Fun games and toys. - Ensure car rides are comfortable and safe for you and your dog. - Manage car sickness. - Manage domestic and international air travel for your dog. - How to keep children safe around dogs. - Ways you can get your puppy used to children. - Easy potty training. - Basic ground rules professionals use to makes training easier. - How to make sure your puppy is eager to learn new commands. - How to stop bad behavior without hollering or hitting your puppy. - How to teach your dog to stand, sit, drop, heel and come. - How to ensure your dog is calm around people. - How to ensure your puppy accepts common household noises. - How to stop your puppy chewing your furniture and clothes. - How to stop your puppy from nipping and biting. - How to stop your puppy from going crazy when she meets people. - How to train your puppy not to fret and howl when you're away. - Important vaccinations. - Worms, heartworm and fleas. - What to do if your dog stops breathing or is vomiting. - What to do if your dog is bleeding run over. - What to do if your dog is bitten by a snake. - What to do if your dog is dry-retching or vomiting. - How to bandage your dog's ear, tail or leg. - What to do if your dog has eaten poison. - What to do if your dog has eaten chocolate. - What to pack in your dog's first aid and evacuation kits. - How to handle your dog's heat stroke or heat exhaustion. - How to give your dog a pill. - The tell-tale signs of shock and how to manage a dog in shock. Mia, an experienced dog trainer, has helped thousands of owners train their own dogs to behave better. In fact, Mia's clients compare her to Cesar Millan by calling her 'The Australian Dog Whisperer.' Other clients have compared her to Victoria Stilwell and Ian Dunbar, because Mia dispenses no-nonsense, practical advice that actually works. Here's what Elle Tosolini from Melbourne, Australia, says about Mia's puppy training: "Mia, you blew me away with your knowledge and understanding of dogs. Thank you for your dog training advice. My dog and I have learned so much from you and we'll be practicing what you taught us!" Enjoy your puppy and I hope you have many fun-filled years together! If you want to give your puppy the best start to life, then get your copy now.

Single mom Grace Mason doesn't believe in miracles, magic, or love at first sight. She likes the quiet life, complete with her eight-year-old son, their tiny house, and her teaching job. For Grace, happiness means that nothing much ever changes in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Then, one thousand miles away, tragedy strikes. A massive heart attack leaves Grace's estranged father comatose in an Upstate New York hospital. While a team of doctors fight to keep Henry Mason alive, Grace and Evan rush to his bedside to say their final goodbyes. Henry's passing brings little closure for Grace, but she finds herself inexplicably drawn to her new surroundings. What begins as a short trip results in an entire summer spent with Henry's second wife, Kathleen, and her next-door neighbor, Ryan Gordon, the town doctor. When a series of unlikely events lead to Evan's disappearance, Grace must face her worst fears to find her son and bring him back home.Stardust Summer explores the complexities of forgiveness, what it means to be a family, and the fabulous possibility of falling in love-again.

Travel writer Julia Sullivan lives life in fast-forward. She jet sets to Europe and the Caribbean with barely a moment to blink or sleep. But too many mishaps and missed deadlines have Julia on the verge of being fired. With a stern warning, and unemployment looming, she's offered one last chance to rescue her career. Julia embarks on an unlikely journey to the 'Heart of Dixie'-Eufaula, Alabama-home to magnificent mansions, sweet tea, and the annual Pilgrimage. Julia arrives, soon charmed by the lovely city and her handsome host, but her stay is marred by a shocking discovery. Can Julia's story save her career, Eufaula, and the annual Pilgrimage?

Deadlines, Divas, and Danger!For TV producer Melissa Moore, crisis management comes with the job. From employee disputes to her high-maintenance boss, there's not much she hasn't seen or can't handle. But no one-including Melissa-expects a fistfight during the ten o'clock news. When sexy-but-crazy Alyssa Andrews lands a punch on her co-anchor's face, Melissa jumps on set to help. She's determined that WSGA's reputation won't be destroyed on her watch. Both anchors are fired and Melissa agrees to fill in-but not before polishing her look from haircut to heels. While the new Melissa wows WSGA viewers, her personal life starts fraying at the edges. Melissa's husband is away more than he's home, leaving cryptic Post-it notes in his wake. Her mother's antics spiral out of control at the nursing home and a stalker decides Melissa is her next target. What happens next? Stay Tuned to find out...

Nathan is a manager under pressure. He's just been given an ultimatum by his boss to improve the quality and productivity of his team's work - or jobs will have to go. With overworked and demoralized staff, Nathan is resigned to defeat. But then he's introduced to One Bite at a Time, a simple but effective way for managers and their teams to make significant improvements in only three months. Using simple Six Sigma methods and tools One Bite at a Time can be applied quickly and easily in almost any situation. One Bite at a Time won't take you long to read, but it will change the way you see the challenge of management. It is an inspirational story for everyone from the first-time supervisor to the seasoned manager.

Great leaders know that great leadership takes more than just skills. And they know that good emotional health is at the heart of it all. 'Leadership' has become a holy grail of the last decade or two. Scores of books and journal articles contain countless 'shopping lists' of essential leadership characteristics. The promise seems to be that all you need to do is learn these skills and you can be a great leader. Yet when we look at outstanding leaders in the real world, we see that there is no single 'ideal' of leadership. There is no 'mould' for leadership. Great leaders just 'are' ... or so it sometimes seems. But of course it is not as simple as that. The Emotionally Healthy Leader challenges current thinking about leadership development and introduces a unique way of achieving this. In the book, Gayle Hardie and Malcolm Lazenby talk at length with three leaders they have worked with and recognise as being exceptional at what they do. The three are quite different, yet there are some powerful aspects of their leadership styles that bind them together. They have what the authors call 'high emotional health'. They achieve what seems to be a paradoxical balancing act: they manage to be both compassionate and caring, as well as decisive and courageous. Emotionally healthy leaders drive positive emotions in their workplace. They display very low levels of ego driven behaviour; it's not about them, it's about others and the organisation. In doing so they have a positive affect on themselves, their organisations and on the wider community. However, building emotional health is not like learning a skill. It's not something that can be achieved through 'thinking' or 'knowing'. It requires presence and self-awareness in one's own experiences; it needs deeper awareness of one's responses and reactions, and the impact they have on others. The Emotionally Healthy Leader explores how this can be done. It provides the reader not with a secret of instant success, but with a practical understanding of what emotional health is and why it matters, along with an easy-to-follow pathway for improving emotional health over time. This book will change how you see, respond to and interact with the world, and the way you engage and work with others, through better understanding of yourself and the impact you have. It will strengthen your value as a leader, simplifying the pathway you create for others through the work you do on yourself.

Building emotional health levels has always been at the heart of our work together. It was our intent for the Global Leadership Foundation when we established it in 2003: 'raising emotional health levels across the globe'.We have been working with emotional health levels in business environments for nearly twenty years - across the private, public, not-for-profit and community sectors. Throughout, our main focus has been the development of leaders alongside transformational change in organisations. The application of emotional health to leadership was the topic of our first book, The Emotionally Healthy Leader, published in 2013.Both of us also have long experience with the Enneagram as a model that can help individuals to understand their psychological patterns, including the triggers they react to and the underlying drivers of their actions.Our motivation for writing this book is three-fold.First, we wanted to introduce the Enneagram and the role it can play in the context of moving the emotional health levels. While there are have been many books about the Enneagram published globally, we wanted to share what we have learnt about the application of the Enneagram in moving up the emotional health levels. In sharing what we have learnt we combine an understanding of various Enneagram elements through the lens of emotional health levels and thus bring some clarity to areas of practice of the Enneagram not previously published.Second - and in response to the urging of many of our peers of the years - we wanted to share this knowledge with a broader audience. While most of our work has been with leaders, we are often asked to share our knowledge and practical experience of how to move up the emotional health levels with a broader audience.Finally, we wanted to provide a practical set of self-development tools to our audience. Our hope is that any reader of this book, regardless of their prior exposure to this material, will be able to take the information, and in particular the development guides in Part 3, and start down the path of self-improvement.Part 1 of the book introduces the key concepts we use in our work, including our model of the emotional health levels. This provides a platform for what follows. Part 2 is focused on the Enneagram and its relationship to our emotional health levels model, helping you to gain some insight into your primary Enneagram type and your current emotional health level. And Part 3 provides a substantial development guide, in which you can take what you've learnt about yourself from the first two parts and commence your journey towards moving up the emotional health levels.

‘Daniel, they are not going to leave us alone – there is always going to be something that they will find to cause us trouble. This harassment is not going to stop,’ said Mum. ‘What kind of future is there for us here? We have to get out of here somehow.’The end of World War II offered hope to millions of people across Europe that they would now be able to live in peace and freedom. However this hope was shortlived in Yugoslavia, which became increasingly authoritarian under the rule of Marshal Josip Tito. For people like my parents, who wanted the best life for their children, the only real option was to try and leave – despite the fact that leaving was no longer allowed.Drawn to Leave tells the story of my family’s attempts to escape our homeland in search of a better life. It’s the story of my parents’ incredible strength, courage and determination to find a way out.

Everyone knows what a nanny is, yet the role of the modern nanny is still widely misunderstood. State of the Nanny provides a clear-eyed assessment of today's nannying industry and its potential for improvement. Essential reading for nannies and those who employ them.Louise Dunham is THE expert on putting the CARE into childcare. State of the Nanny is a wonderful resource for families considering employing a nanny, and for nannies themselves. A thoroughly engaging book that eloquently discusses the political and personal whilst keeping the most important people the children as a highest value. -- Pinky McKay, lactation consultant and parenting advisor, and best selling author of Sleeping Like a Baby, Toddler Tactics, and other titles. A timely call for recognition of nannies everywhere, but also for a return to an older set of values that enveloped our local societies and enabled working women for centuries to conduct their economic work outside of the home... -- Jacalyn S Burke, author The Nanny Time Bomb Navigating the crisis in child care From the Introduction: I've been working in the nanny industry for just under 30 years, a period in which organised child care both inside and outside the home have been through many ups and downs, and changed enormously. Much has changed for the better, but there is still plenty of room for improvement and it is very important that we continue to seek that improvement. That requires people who have informed opinions to speak out, and anyone who knows me knows that as well as my long experience in the industry, I'm rarely short of an opinion. This book is one way of expressing my opinions, which is why I've written it.When I reflect on the last 30 years, we are not as far along as I would have hoped. Progress is slow in a number of areas. With each change of federal or state government we get incremental change, but rarely anything bold. Sometimes there is a step back rather than forward. In some cases governments will create or clarify the laws such as the requirement that nannies cannot operate as independent contractors but then do little or nothing to implement those laws in practice. We have made some good ground in building the ';professional' status of nannies, though there is still an awful long road to travel on that issue. There is still not the necessary level of respect, support and understanding for the challenges that nannies face, the level of responsibility they take on and the fact that they earn their money and should be paid accordingly. The ';anyone can mind a child' mindset is still widespread and needs to be removed. Parents need to understand that to use untrained carers (usually in order to save money) is to compromise on their children's care, which is ultimately demeaning to the children themselves by tacitly saying that they are not important enough to be professionally cared for. This book is a call to arms on these and a number of other issues. My hope is that it will be read, discussed and debated by nannies, nanny agency operators and those who hire nannies. As the ancient Greek proverb says ';A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in'.

Put yourself in the customer's shoes, with dozens of bids, proposals or tender responses to assess. It's a daunting and difficult job. Despite the hours you have spent writing your proposal, it's just one among many. What does it take to be successful in this hyper-competitive environment? What will make your proposal rise to the top of the pile? In this concise and easy to read book, proposal writing expert Robyn Haydon explains why most proposals end up on the reject pile - and how to make sure yours is a winner. Whether you write proposals for a living - or just need help to finish a proposal today - you will find practical advice here on proposal structure, readability, writing techniques, selling your capability, making a compelling offer, and avoiding elimination traps. Ideal for entrepreneurs, professional service providers and small business owners, as well as sales and marketing specialist, grant writers and proposal professionals who work in commercial and not for profit environments. "A quick way to learn a great deal about proposal writing...excellent value...highly recommended."- Australian Marketing Institute "What's your strike rate when it comes to successful submissions? If it's less than 100%, you could learn something from The Shredder Test. The chapter summaries are excellent...a concise, useful read." - The Age Newspaper "Straightforward and easy to read, this book is applicable worldwide for companies bidding in open business-to-business environments." - Association of Proposal Management Professionals (USA) "Strategies, tactics, how-to's and tips that any business can use." - Herald Sun Newspaper About the Author: Robyn is Principal Consultant of Winning Words, a successful bid, tender and proposal development consultancy based in Melbourne, Australia. Since 2001, Robyn has helped her clients to land contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars in highly competitive industries including construction, community services, engineering, employment, facility management, ICT, logistics, manufacturing, professional services and water & waste management. She has worked on bids for government business at all levels (Federal, State and local) as well as on proposals for contracts with private and public companies. Robyn's prior experience in senior corporate sales & marketing roles means that she has particular empathy for the challenges faced by people who work on bid teams.