The Triumphant Team

n The Triumphant Team, leading team psychologist Dr Declan Woods provides forty dynamic practices to help any team work more effectively, perform better, and deliver the results their organisation expects. Teams can often be complex, messy and a bit slippery, and getting the best out of them can feel like an uphill struggle. It’s a sad fact that most teams underperform, and few ever realise their true potential. This uniquely practical self-help book for teams will show you how to release their magic. It demystifies the common-place challenges that teams face in the workplace, and by focussing on those things that make a real difference, it takes all the guess work out of the drive for top performance. Through an accessible range of tried-and-tested, flexible practices, you’ll discover how to build and nurture a united, cohesive team whilst getting to grips with those intangible, elusive issues that can impact your team’s effectiveness and undermine its productivity. Whether you’re leading a team or working in one that’s in need of some extra help and direction, this smart guidebook will provide you with a wealth of practices to adapt as part of your everyday routines, and the power to transform your team from simply ticking over to being truly triumphant.

You can KICK OFF with this hat trick:the team who had to let their fans buy their shirts for them, the player who fouled his opponent before the match had even started, the team who bought a cool new player with ice cream. And in EXTRA TIME meet each team's main men, sample their silky skills and terrible tackling, see how on the ball you are in a quick-fire quiz and pick up a trophy or two with our Foul Football awards. It's a triumph all the way to the final whistle!

Your doctor has given you, or a loved one, frightening medical news. You face surgery, difficult treatment, and questionable outcomes. “What does this mean?” Fear and uncertainty dominate your thoughts. The choices seem few. In the inspiring parable, “The Triumphant Patient,” Greg Anderson paints bold and better choices . . . triumphant choices. Through fictional characters based on real people, this story helps its readers to replace despair and hopelessness with the true healing power of hope. “While there is hope there is life,” states Anderson. Find it. Nurture it. You will change your health and your life.

A Companion to Sport brings together writing by leading sports theorists and social and cultural thinkers, to explore sport as a central element of contemporary culture. Positions sport as a crucial subject for critical analysis, as one of the most significant forms of popular culture Includes both well-known social and cultural theorists whose work lends itself to an interrogation of sport, and leading theorists of sport itself Offers a comprehensive examination of sport as a social and cultural practice and institution Explores sport in relation to modernity, postcolonial theory, gender, violence, race, disability and politics

It has been thirty years since Agnes last visited the country of her birth and upbringing. While it is at the request of her aging, narcissistic mother, she has her own reasons for making the journey to Australia from her home on Mallorca. Something has blighted her life since childhood. Something has cast such a long shadow over her existence that her ability to grasp at life fully, to appreciate her own sense of self-worth, to attain any semblance of happiness, to trust without reservation, has been damaged. Those whom she chooses, and who choose her, seem to want only to exploit her. Having undergone a long period of psychotherapy, Agnes can now return to re-experience the places that featured in her youth in the hope that burning questions will be answered, haunting mysteries solved, and buried memories let out into the light… This is the vibrant, heartening, and often amusing tale of a buoyant and irrepressible woman whose natural energy and determination continue to drive her forward. Having reached middle age, she is determined to grapple with - and heal - the ills that have beset her.

The book covers professional, Olympic and collegiate sports and each chapter has a fully developed introduction to explaine the relevance of the articles to be presented.

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