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Sex in the Boardroom
Merydith Willoughby
Seaview Press, January 2009
A$45 or at www.ibcoaching.com.au US$25.95
Award winning organisation development consultant Merydith Willoughby shares her secrets for success in the workplace in her new book, Sex in the Boardroom.
The book focuses on equipping workplace leaders with tools that will help them become powerful leaders in their own right.
The UniSA alumnus (post-graduate education and politics) gives readers a systems approach to leadership development that can be used as a tool to review what they are doing and to make minor or radical changes in the way they lead.
She says her book advises how to focus on what will give leaders the most gain for their organisation, instead of focusing on peripheral issues that take a lot of time away from what these people really should be doing.
"Being a powerful leader doesn’t just happen – it requires a lot of hard work, is time consuming and although some may have a natural tendency towards it, every leader has to continue to strive for excellence," Willougby says.
Willougby incorporates humour into the book, saying that driving and developing the process of leadership does not have to be hard, dry and boring.
"When you lead your people with a more playful attitude it can be infectious and resonate with everyone," she says. "This in turn helps to create a team who is on your side and who feel passion, enthusiasm and excitement for what they are doing."
Willougby is also the founder of IB Coaching, delivering services to workplaces across Australia and the US.
Sport Covered
Andrew Lines
McGraw-Hill
$119.95
South Australian teacher, and UniSA graduate Andrew Lines, has written this manual as a resource for upper primary and secondary school physical education teachers.
With more than 15 years’ experience as a physical education teacher, Lines found that there was a need to provide teachers with an easy-to-follow manual.
"I wrote some student booklets which contained rules, tactics and assignments for the sports that are studied at various year groups," Lines said.
"When I had them printed, I found out that there was quite a lot of interest from other schools so I got in contact with McGraw-Hill publishers who did some research and found out that teachers preferred a book about teaching PE, rather than a book for students.
"The feedback I’ve received about the book is that it’s user-friendly, covers a good range of well known and some lesser known sports, and that the wet weather activities come in handy.
"Teachers appreciate the games-based and play practice methodologies that the unit plans are based on, as well as the brief synopsis of rules…they seem to appreciate having all of this in the one book."
Sport Covered includes a CD-ROM that provides a graded assignment for each sport. It allows teachers to adjust the content of each assignment to suit the needs of the students they are teaching. The manual also includes a ‘find-a-word’ and crossword activities for rainy days.