So we’re over ‘Blue Monday’ – the day in January statisticians have identified as the gloomiest in the year. But it still feels as though the short, cold days and our January detox regime of carrot juice and banana smoothies are going on for ever. However, with only a week to go until we can revert to our bad old habits, this seemed like an ideal moment to send out a new edition of Word Power – the somewhat irregular ezine from Word Smiths which keeps you up-to-date with what we’re doing and brings you snippets from the world of learning and development that you may find interesting.
Following the success of our short open courses in Speed Reading last Autumn, we have arranged more events for 2007. This time we’ve included courses in Mind Mapping and Effective Business Writing to meet the enormous demand for these topics. Click on the event title to see the full programme for the day.
Mind Mapping: 26 April 2007 and 16 October 2007 Here are some of the things that previous participants have said about our Speed Reading courses:
£250 per delegate: £450 for two delegates (ex VAT). Includes lunch, refreshments and course materials. More than two people interested in attending? Contact us about multiple discounts - or have you considered an in-company course (ie held at your own premises?
Click here to book, or email/call us on 01873 857556 if you’d like to discuss any aspects of the course.
Your memory is not just about recalling facts or past events, passing exams or finding your car keys. Everything you do during the day – every idea, every conscious or unconscious physical or mental activity – is actually a function of your memory. It’s perhaps the most important of your human faculties; it’s responsible for making you what you are today.
The fact is that that your memory, like that of every other human being, is truly magnificent. The tiny percentage of things that you might forget pales into insignificance compared to the hundreds of thousands of things that you do remember – without even thinking about it.
However, like many people, you may be feeling that you would like to develop some aspects of your mental skills. You may have experienced problems in the past or simply feel that, for some reason, you are not doing as well as you’d like to. Research indicates that most people use a very small percentage of their full mental capacity, so we all have plenty of room for improvement!
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Our new audio book is for anyone who wants to be able to retain important facts, names and dates. It’s for you if you’d like to be able to recall the main themes of a book you have read or film you have seen. And, wouldn’t it be wonderful to be able to remember the key points of a presentation or speech without having to refer to notes?
This audio book and booklet offer you some steps you can take to make the most of your fantastic potential. With these skills and approaches you will be able to remember everything that you need – names, facts, figures, lists and appointments. At the same time your creativity, efficiency and confidence will improve.
This is the little book that gets you big results – buy it now from our store (best prices if you want to purchase more than one title or copy) or from Amazon (cheaper if you want to buy just this publication).
Click/right click here to view/download a pdf brochure for this publication (875 KB).
by Andrew Buckley and Carole Buckley
Did
you know that about one in four people in Britain has a mental health problem
at some time in their lives? This means that millions of us are either encountering
problems ourselves or know someone who is experiencing ill health. If we work
as a coach, it is highly likely that one of our clients may be suffering from
emotional distress, chronic depression or even a serious illness like schizophrenia.
The fact is that people with a mental illness may be working in dangerous
or responsible roles while at the same time pretending (sometimes even to themselves)
that there is nothing wrong with them.
The aim of this book is to help coaches and others to identify clients, managers or team members who are displaying symptoms of mental health problems. It sets out to help them decide whether coaching is appropriate, and if not, what the options may be. The authors argue that, if the coach fails to identify the warning signs, then coaching will be unsuccessful and may even be harmful for the client.
The authors are well qualified to help coaches to tackle these issues. Andrew Buckley has ten years’ experience of working as a an individual and team business coach and Carole Buckley is a qualified doctor of medicine. Part of their purpose in writing the book is to promote the understanding of the relationship between mental wellbeing and effective performance at work.
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This review by Jane Smith appears in the January edition of the Training Journal. Jane’s interest in this topic arises from her ongoing involvement in designing and running training programmes for mental health practitioners and Tribunal members in Scotland.
Our associate Colin McGuinness (a BPS Chartered Psychologist),and his company CMA run in-house and open courses which address these and other related issues - more details here (download 32 K Word doc).
Since its launch in October, Word Smith’s self-study resource Coaching
and Mentoring for Success has been selling like hot cakes, echoing
the huge general upsurge in interest in these powerful development approaches.
Coaching
and Mentoring for Success is a package
of materials consisting of two audio CDs, a 32-page booklet and access to downloadable
resources including forms, action plans, learning contracts and a pdf of the
audio script. This audio book package will help users to achieve the knowledge
elements of two vocational awards: The Certificate in Coaching Learners in
the Workplace and The Certificate in Mentoring Learners in the Workplace.
This is a of this unique and powerful package - read what other professionals have to say about it:
“The content is excellent and of great use to new mentors and those
who have been supervisors.”
Edwina Smart MA PGCE MCLIPS Public Librarian, Rhondda Cynon Ta Council
You’ll experience the quality yourself when you purchase a copy from our store (best prices if you want to purchase more than one title or copy) or from Amazon (cheaper if you want to buy just this publication).
Click/right click here to view/download a pdf brochure for this publication (875 KB).
Word Smiths is an independent partnership specialising in the creation and delivery of learning materials and training packages. We are also copywriters/editors, publishers and typesetters/designers.
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