Graham Winter weaves a fascinating and entertaining business story that reveals an engagingly simple and powerful model to free organisations of silo thinking and empower them to fulfil the possibilities that come from thinking and acting as one team. Think One Team has been specifically designed to help readers, and everyone in their organisation, to create and sustain the teamwork across boundaries that will enable them to experience the rewards of working as one team. Beginning with the fable of the big jelly bean team, the readers join one company's engaging, enlightening and at times funny journey from silo-afflicted to one team. From their experiences you will learn the five practices that define the difference between think silos and think one team, and see what these practices mean for leaders and employees across an organisation.
This book describes the distinctive style of human service delivery known as the strengths approach and details the ideas, values, beliefs, tools and frameworks that help create respectful ways of working with people. Pivotal to the strengths approach is the principle of genuine collaboration between people - "power with". This dynamic principle acknowledges that people are the experts on their own lives and they can, and should, drive their own change process. Also fundamental is the understanding that everyone has strengths and that mobilising these strengths is the key to finding... More info
This rhyming story is a wonderful book to talk with children about feelings. Each day is described in terms of a particular colour, which in turn is associated with specific emotions. Using a spectrum of vibrant colours and a menagerie of animals, this unique book can help children convey feelings they are experiencing and offers a springboard for externalising conversations to help children take more control over problem feelings or enlist happy feelings. The changing days, feelings and colours conveys a sense of hope for children that feeling sad, angry... More info
Deep in our hearts, Australians know that our nation was built on land that does not belong to us. Some of us now assert that Aboriginal people should simply take advantage of opportunities offered by white society. But many others feel guilt, often turning this guilt inwards, feeling helpless in the face of the appalling conditions in which many of the original inhabitants of this country now live. Successive government policies of obliteration, assimilation, cultural maintenance and intervention have manifestly failed to bridge the gulf between black and white Australians,... More info
