New Releases by Kathryn Jackson

Richard Scarry''s The Animals'' Merry Christmas Storybook Greetings

Duck does not like water, which his friends Jack Rabbit and Mouse think is odd for a duck, so they decide to do what they can to change his mind.

Shortlisted for the 2019 Business Book Awards in the International Business Book category. Finalist in The Australian Career Book Awards 2019, supported by the Royal Society of Arts Australia and New Zealand The world of work is in a constant state of flux. Resilience at Work: Practical Tools for Career Success is an essential guide to maintaining resilience in this ever-changing environment, whether you are working in a turbulent field, navigating the job market or simply trying to realise your career ambitions. Based on the author’s own experience of working under extreme circumstances in post-earthquake Christchurch, New Zealand and enhanced by collaboration with leading resilience experts from around the world, this book is packed with stories, resources and personal coaching to support you to: learn about the importance of emotional honesty as a foundation for true resilience explore how your levels of self-care influence your ability to re-energise and stay strong consider how having the right sort of connections play a part in your ability to flourish reflect on how you have been learning (and changing) along your journey to resilience This is an invaluable resource for organisations looking to support employees by giving them the tools for self-managed resilience at work. It is also ideal for career coaches, counsellors and other professionals who are working with clients facing their own crisis of resilience, whether they are starting out or well-advanced on their career journey. Kathryn Jackson’s unique coaching style enables readers to truly personalise the approach they choose to take, using the stories, the frameworks and the research to create a unique voyage towards building Resilience at Work.

Using new coaching skills at work can be pretty daunting. Thinking up questions "in the moment" can put you under extra pressure, and when you''re already stretching into a new way of talking to your team that can feel stressful. You want to use your new coaching conversation skills, but you don''t have time to create questions to support you. What if you had a collection of ideas for questions to ask in some of the most common conversations at work? Conversations like these: 1. Creating performance objectives 2. Coaching under performance 3. Creating career goals 4. Debriefing a project 5. Identifying motivators 6. Creating better work-life balance 7. Coaching over or under-utilization 8. Encouraging involvement 9. Exploring talents 10. Coaching for retirement 11. Coaching a workplace returner 12. Presentation skills coaching 13. Coaching a sensitive personal issue 14. Coaching to embed learning 15. Coaching to explore sales outcomes 16. Growing HR Business Partner skills 17. Growing a Coaching Culture 18. Backwards Coaching 19. Event Planning 20. Solution focused coaching questions This book contains over 500 coaching style questions to help you grow your confidence in conversations that drive accountability and results. Use it as a guide to design your own conversations, or use it to help your team reflect on what they might like to talk to you about, or you can even use it as a companion for delivering training programs that teach coaching. Here''s what readers have said: "A vital guide to coaching conversations at work to deliver great business results" Graham Alexander, founder of the Alexander Corporation, originator of the GROW model and author of SuperCoaching and Tales from the Top. "A brisk, no nonsense style eBook which will be truly helpful to people who want to coach their team," Alison Hardingham - International Best Selling author of eight books, and Director of Business Psychology at Yellow Dog Consulting UK. ''Easily the best collection of coaching questions I''ve ever come across. As a professional coach whose clientele consists primarily of managers and executives, I know that I will be using many of the pages of this wonderful little book many, many times.'' Pierre Gauthier Certified Integral Coach (TM), Canada Inside this book, you will find a toolkit for building your coaching confidence, along with ideas of how to use a coaching approach to support your team into a more positive and engaging culture.

The classic Little Golden Book is now available as a Read & Listen ebook! Once there was a tawny scrawny lion who chased monkeys on Monday—kangaroos on Tuesday—zebras on Wednesday—bears on Thursday—camels on Friday—and on Saturday, elephants! So begins the funny, classic Golden story of a family of ten fat rabbits that teaches the hungry lion to eat carrot stew—so that he doesn’t eat them! This ebook includes Read & Listen audio narration.

Ten crucial tips for surviving redundancy: the perfect guide for the redundant employee. Downsize, smartsize, outplacement, restructuring ... No matter what you call it, the end result is the same athe loss of a job. With the world stuck in economic turmoil and uncertainty, employees everywhere have to prepare and cope with the fallout. This timely, up-to-the-minute and practical workbook charts a course through the unknown. In a clearly written style, Kathryn takes the reader through the three main sections of the workbook: Review, Plan, Act. She lists essential resources such as relevant book titles, websites and online tools, and provides guidance on selecting a professional coach, as well as a daily planner template and exercises. The many case studies emphasise her point that the redundancy experience and preferred outcomes are different for every individual. This essential workbook is peppered with helpful charts, worksheets, graphs and diagrams, and is packed with useful information. The reader is introduced to ten crucial tips for surviving redundancy: keep your cool; don't take it personally; get professional support; lay the foundations; get structured; take your time; get flexible; take action; tell people; stay positive. Regular 'sound bites' inspire and buoy up the readers' morale. With a foreword by international bestselling author John Lees (published by McGraw Hill), How to Keep Your Cool if You Lose Your Job is an essential, hands-on guide for anyone fearing redundancy.

A kitten''s day is busy as she plays, eats, and sleeps.

A family of ten well-fed rabbits teach a hungry lion to eat carrot stew -- so that he doesn''t eat them.

In the first of two stories an elephant''s worries about his wrinkles are solved and in the second a lion finds a cure for his hunger.

Brief stories and poems present a unique aspect of each country Koa Koala visits on his journey around the world.

Pictures and brief text introduce the characteristics of various dinosaurs.

Pirates, ships and sailors, prospectors, ranches and cowboys and indians come to life in these adventure stories.