CONTINUING DIALOGUES

I am by nature a curious and questioning person drawn to creativity and challenge (and occasional breakages).  I tend to read as broadly as I can and get hooked into conversations about all kinds of things.

This is a place I will be building up links, books, papers, blog entries and other resources and references for you to explore and share.  Feel free to let your curiosity run free and if anything sparks your creativity or fits with your way of thinking…do add your thoughts or send me an email. 

In the meantime - I will be dialoguing (is that even a word?) and twittering away on occasion at racheljackson.wordpress.com so come along and tell me what you think - or check out what I'm reading and suggest a new book for me to dig into.

• personal resilience and emotional intelligence (small e, small i)
• coaching 
• organisation effectiveness and what gets in the way of it
• leadership and management (that's not a follow on from the last point!)
• women and their impact on work and culture
• thinking a bit differently
• anything NLP
• Open Space Technology (I am now a facilitator in case you are interested)
• self-employment, consulting and freelancing
• Survey Monkey design (bizarre side-line)

I am involved in a number of associations, businesses and networks to which I will be providing links and logos as these grow.  Please feel free to explore (yes you are allowed to just leave my site!) - or let me know of others.

Some of the stuff I've been reading lately

- Axelrod, Richard H. (2010) Terms of Engagement - New ways of Leading Change in Organizations. Berrett Koehler

- Beddingfield, Carrie (2008) How to sell clever things to big companies. Onefish Twofish Ltd

(Covey, S.R. (1992) The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Franklin Covey Co. 

- Coutu, D.L. (2002) How Resilience Works. Harvard Business Review. May 2002 

- Gilbert, P. (2006) Stumbling on Happiness. Harper Press

- Grotberg, E.H. (2001) Tapping Your Inner Strength: How to find the Resilience to Deal with Anything: New Age Books 

- Jackson,R. Watkins, C (2004) The resilience inventory: Seven essential skills for overcoming life's obstacles and determining happiness. Selection & Development Review, Vol. 20, No. 6, December 2004 

- Maddi, S.R., Khoshaba, D.M. (2005) Resilience at Work: How to Succeed No Matter What Life Throws at You. American Management Association 

- Pemberton, Carole (2015) Resilience - A Practical Guide for Coaches. McGraw-Hill Education

- Reivich, K., Shatte, A. (2002) The Resilience Factor: 7 Key to Finding Your Inner Strength and Overcoming Life's Hurdles. Broadway Books. New York 

- Schoon, I. (2006) Risk and Resilience. Cambridge University Press. 

- Seligman, M.E.P. (2002) Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment. Nicholas Brealey Publishing, London. 

- Senge, P.M. (2006) The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organisation. Random House Business Books 

- Siebert, A. (2005) The Resiliency Advantage: Master Change, Thrive Under Pressure, and Bounce Back From Setbacks. Berrett-Koehler Publishers 

- Sparrow, T, Knight, A. (2006) Applied EI: The Importance of Attitudes in Developing Emotional Intelligence.  Jossey-Bass. San Francisco 

- Werner, E.E., Smith, R.S. (2001) Journeys from Childhood to Midlife: Risk, Resilience and Recovery. Cornell University Press 

- Worsley, L.(2006) The Resilience Doughnut: The Secret of Strong Kids. Wild and Wooley