The Currency of Kindness highlights the essentials and the strategies one must learn to deal and cope with all aspects of life- whether related to education, work, or personal life. This book includes all the valuable, paramount lessons that would keep you in the right lane in your personal and professional life. From defining the need for change in your life to normalizing and turning into your ultimate superpower, you would find all the strategies and tactics to fight off the trouble. In...

Bridging the gap between the science of animal welfare, the animals and their owners, this book gives essential advice to practitioners worldwide on how to improve the welfare of all animals.

Health Promotion: A Practical Guide to Effective Communication introduces students to the fundamental principles of health promotion in Australian and international public health contexts. Combining the core principles and theories of health promotion with those of effective communication, the text guides readers through the practical steps of planning, implementing and evaluating programs that empower health consumers and facilitate improved health outcomes for individuals and communities...

Develop Your Assertiveness offers simple techniques that will help you become more aware of your strengths and weaknesses, so that you can learn how best to modify your behaviour in social and business interactions. Being more confident and learning how best to communicate with your colleagues will enable you to create win-win situations, thus improving your career prospects and enhancing your social life. Packed with examples and exercises, this essential guide covers topics such as: the ...

Every generation faces challenges, but never before have young people been so aware of theirs. Whether due to school strikes for climate change, civil war, or pandemic lockdowns, almost every child in the world has experienced the interruption of their schooling by outside forces. When the world we have taken for granted proves so unstable, it gives rise to the question: what is schooling for? Thrive advocates a new purpose for education, in a rapidly changing world, and analyses the reaso...

Conventionally motivation is thought of as something that is created by exciting pep talks or by the promise of material rewards. More recent research suggests, however, that such approaches may have the opposite effect of what was intended and that there is no "one size fits all" approach to motivation.In this eBook, Damian Hamill takes an NLP systemic approach to motivation and presents a model that suggests motivation emerges when we are aligned with whatever it is we are seekin...

An informational book on personal development and setting goals. Learn how to take advantage of your most important and powerful tool to be succesful in life and business. Develop a winning mindset.Table of contents:-Personal Development Information-Information Overload-How To Determine What You Want In Life-Bring Innovation Into Your Life-Get Rid Of Procrastination-The Key To A Better Life-Why Should You Set Goals-Learn To S...

This book is intended for all who are committed to human wellbeing and who want to make our world fairer, safer and more fulfilling for everyone, especially those who are ‘last’. It argues that to do better we need to know better. It provides evidence that what we believe we know in international development is often distorted or unbalanced by errors, myths, biases and blind spots. Undue weight has been attached to standardised methodologies such as randomized control trials, systematic re...

The same can be applied to individuals who strive to become leaders. There needs to be focus and determination. Advice can be given, but does not have to be heeded. History is full of leaders whose beginnings were disastrous, and had they listened to the naysayers of this world, the world would be a poorer place today.Leadership can be learned. Some people are certainly born with leadership skills, but this is not a prerequisite for becoming a leader. More important is dedication to...

This guide outlines best practice and key research findings on how to create a truly inclusive setting, covering all aspects of equality and diversity. The book contains advice on: supporting children with special educational needs and providing for children with English as an additional language.

The evidence is clear: to change behavior 'environmental education' needs to change its focus – with less emphasis on knowledge and raising awareness (although still needed) and more on competency, action skills and problem solving (Marcinkowski, 2010). This report reviews the evidence base to establish which educational methods are proven to have an impact on behavior. The research is summarized and evaluated to develop a set of recommendations on how to better focus educational activitie...

This fully updated edition combines the latest research with real-life examples of social marketing campaigns the world over to help you learn how to apply the principles and methods of marketing to a broad range of social issues. The international case studies and applications show how social marketing campaigns are being used across the world to influence changes in behaviour, and reveal how those campaigns may differ according to their cultural context and subject matter. Every chapter ...