Our Books
Healing: Self-care for leaders and their teams
When we lead others, it can be easy to forget to care for ourselves. To truly flourish and grow as an effective leader and trailblazer, it is vital to take time to look after your own mental health and wellbeing.
Authors Anna Eliatamby and Grazia Lomonte look at the vital role self-care plays in leadership and how looking after yourself will also have a positive impact on your workforce. When self-care is made a high priority within an organisation, morale and productivity rises and sickness rates fall.
Healing – Self-care for leaders and their teams examines the importance of healthy leadership and decency within an organisation. The book guides the reader to explore their own behaviours and how they manage their own stress and wellbeing. It also includes reflections and activities designed to encourage self-exploration and periods of contemplation.
Readers are encouraged to look at those aspects of their own lives and characters which are unresolved so they can heal and move forward, becoming a positive role model for their teams.
Contact us: info@healthyleadership.world
The Decency Journey
Our pocketbook series, appropriately named The Decency Journey, guides organisations on the path to success through decency.
Taking a page from the founder of analytical psychology Carl Jung, this series addresses the importance of how positive (golden) and negative (shadow) behaviors affect leadership. Our pocketbooks provide you with the tools you need to lead the development of a decent and healthy organisational culture.
Decency: “Honest, polite behavior that follows accepted moral standards and shows respect for others”
– Oxford Learners Dictionary
For the professionals constantly on the move, all our pocketbooks are now available as audiobooks.
The first step in “The Decency Journey” pocketbook series by Dr. Anna Eliatamby, Healthy Leadership is a guide for understanding the most important elements of being an effective and successful leader.
A briefer version of the full-length book Healthy Leadership and Organisations, this pocketbook is focused on more than just career success and management. Rather than centering only on the positive aspects of leadership, we take a deep dive into the real challenges leaders face when running an organisation while discussing the tools and interventions you can utilise to tackle them.
A must-read for individuals who want to better themselves, their business, and the world around them, Healthy Leadership sets a clear and powerful strategy for achieving lasting success.
As a leader, it is your responsibility to ensure your organisation and employees have every opportunity to thrive.
Employee satisfaction, morale and work culture are crucial for an organisation’s success – and all of these suffer when an organisation is riddled with toxicity.
An interactive and thought-provoking guide to recognising and ridding the workplace of toxicity, Healthy Organisations helps leaders take accountability as they evaluate the health of their organisation from top to bottom. With carefully thought-out chapters to provoke reflection and interventions for necessary change, this pocketbook is essential for leaders, business owners and senior management looking to transform their company’s culture for the better.
Healthy Organisations is the second pocketbook in The Decency Journey – a series of pocketbooks by Dr. Anna Eliatamby focused on consciously improving leadership and work environments.
Does your workplace suffer from poor leadership, high turnover, and toxic behaviors?
Working in a toxic environment can have a devastating impact on your mental and physical health. A staggering number of people are forced to endure damaging work environments for a stable income, and though it is seen as a societal norm it can have an enormous and lasting psychological cost.
With so much of our lives spent in the workplace, finding an effective path toward overcoming challenges and achieving a positive work-life balance is crucial for our happiness, self-esteem and well-being.
Coping in a Toxic Environment is a short guide for learning to thrive rather than survive in the workplace. With notes on the signs of a toxic work environment, this pocketbook explains why people use toxic behaviors, dives into the impact that a toxic environment can have on you and provides suggestions and coping strategies for tackling workplace toxicity.
Coping in a Toxic Environment is the third installment of The Decency Journey pocketbook series by Dr. Anna Eliatamby.
Are you contributing to a toxic work environment?
Most of the discussions on toxicity in the workplace focus solely on the issues of the organisation, but what if you are a part of the problem?
As individuals, we like to believe that we behave more positively than we do negatively – especially in the workplace. However, everyone has the potential to slip into negative behaviors, and in the workplace, negative or toxic behaviors can have exponential results.
In the fourth installment of Dr. Anna Eliatamby’s pocketbook series The Decency Journey, we take a look at the negative behaviors and attitudes that may be damaging your relationships in the workplace, guide you through discovering your triggers and discuss developing better relationships with your boundaries, emotions, habits and more.
Your Own Toxic Work Behaviors is a useful guide that helps you recognize your own problematic behaviors and provides the tools you need to let go of those bad habits to set you up for success.
Increased focus on employee well-being is one of many recent organisational shifts that have come as the result of the stresses of the Covid-19 pandemic. Along with the cost-of-living crises, the pandemic forced employers and employees alike to take a deeper look at organisations, their cultures, and the negative effects that unhealthy workplaces can have on employee well-being.
What have we learned with this shift?
Introducing initiatives such as counseling and stress management training with the expectation that employees will take the lead is not enough. We now know that an effective strategy meets employees where they are by identifying and addressing issues that have a negative impact on their well-being.
Building an Organisational Mental Health and Well-being Strategy highlights the importance of being proactive in your approach to employee well-being and provides the tools you need to evaluate your organisation and the barriers that may interfere with the well-being of your employees. From there, you are provided with assessment tools and powerful intervention strategies to enhance the well-being of your employees as you work to create a healthier and happier organisation.
If you have experienced difficult times or trauma in your past, you are not alone.
The truth is, most people will suffer experiences that are upsetting, confusing, or traumatising during their lifetime.
When these experiences are not properly resolved, they can continue to have a lasting impact on our lives. These unresolved experiences can often remain in our lives as volcanoes; whether they are dormant and influential or active and explosive there is always the threat of disruption with very little warning.
In this thoughtful and provoking pocketbook Volcanoes, Personal Healing and Change, Dr. Anna Eliatamby discusses reflections, discovering your triggers and risk factors, coping and more in a simple, easy-to-digest format. As you reframe the way you think about your arduous experiences, this pocketbook will clarify the path of change from your current self to a motivated, emotionally mature, reshaped version of you.
The perfect guide for beginning the journey to closure and personal healing, this pocketbook gives you the space you need to become a better version of yourself as you learn to heal and set a plan for change.
Volcanoes, Personal Healing and Change is the sixth book in The Decency Journey series, which is aimed at helping people flourish and succeed in their lives both in and out of the workplace.
Our Journey for Diversity and Inclusion in Business is a practical yet illuminating pocketbook that looks at how business owners, managers and leaders can make positive changes within their organisations to leave an honourable legacy for the future.
Though incredible progress has been made in the field of diversity and inclusion, there is still much work to be done. As a leader, it is your responsibility to create a workplace that is inclusive of everyone.
This pocketbook guides leaders through understanding diversity and its impact on organisational success. With sections on acknowledging your behaviors, the influence of community and society, the ways in which you use and misuse your privilege and power, and notes on prioritising realistic goals, this interactive pocketbook is made for leaders that are willing to reflect on their attitudes to work towards changing for the better.
Our Journey for Diversity and Inclusion in Business is the seventh book in The Decency Journey pocketbook series: a set of guides for employees and leaders who want to succeed both in and out of the workplace. This pocketbook offers a straightforward way of examining and adjusting your approach towards diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) by providing a range of positive interventions to make your organisations more inclusive.
References for the books
These are available on request. Please send us an email: info@healthyleadership.world with proof of purchase and we will give you the list.
Thank you
Anna
Reviews
Healthy Leadership and Organisations - Review
I have been a leadership consultant for decades. I have worked with a plethora of leaders of all shapes, views and backgrounds. I have spent thousands of hours talking about motivation, drives, goals and the list goes on. As you can imagine it was becoming more and more of the same. I was looking for a fresh perspective and this book came along at the right time.
It was refreshing to view leadership though a different lens. Quite often we don’t really get to the key elements (“the Shadow” as described in the book) that create the behaviours that we are trying to change and measure.
Having read the book, I now have a different vocabulary and approach to leadership. It has helped both me and my clients gain an insight into what we need to think about and how that will make us feel in order to gain sustained behavioural change and move through to next level of leadership where we can be the best version of ourselves.
Thank you for sharing this book Anna, it is excellent. I would recommend it to Leaders, coaches, consultants and anyone who has an interest in leadership. I have been introducing it to my clients.
Anthony Manning MSc, MA, FCIPD
Capability Coaching
Healthy Leadership 7 Pocket book series - Review
A fantastic menu of great byte sized books on essential topics:
- Healthy Leadership
- Healthy Organisations
- Coping in a Toxic Environment
- Your own Toxic work behaviours
- Our journey for diversity and inclusion in business
- Volcanoes, personal Healing and change
- Building and organisational mental health and well- being strategy
The seven books stand alone or as part of a set. They are practical to the point with some fantastic ideas on the: What, How and Why’.
With over 30 years of corporate experience I wish I had these books 15 years ago. Easy to read, easy to follow and easy to apply.
Brilliant!!!
Anthony Manning MSc, MA, FCIPD
Capability Coaching
Healthy Leadership & Organisations: Beyond the Shadow Side
How many leadership and organisational initiatives have failed because the impact of the shadow side has been ignored?
Commonly, we will build on the positive and ignore the shadow aspects of ourselves and our organisations. Yet it is the shadow that can interfere with our leadership and how organisations function. For us to work towards true holistic healthiness, we must acknowledge our positive golden aspects as well as our negative and shadow parts. Our book provides you with two models, one for individual leaders and the other for organisations. They explain how leadership and organisations function and operate.
We then give you some exercises to think about your status in terms of golden and shadow and Self. You will have a chance to work out how you can build on your current healthiness and become more balanced and holistic.
SECTION ONE: OUR APPROACH
CHAPTERS:
- Our rationale and the models for healthy leadership and organisations
- Golden and shadow behaviours, thoughts, and emotions
SECTION TWO: FINDING OUT
CHAPTERS:
- Readiness and preparedness for change
- A deeper assessment
SECTION THREE: WHERE NEXT?
CHAPTERS:
- Expert perspectives
- Readiness for change – interventions
- Building the golden and positive for overall healthiness
CONTRIBUTORS
Don Braisby, Artist (Photographs), Ireland; Kerri Bridgewater, Consultant, South Africa; David Bryan, CBE, UK; Ransirini de Silva, Clinical Psychologist, Sri Lanka; Anna Eliatamby, Clinical Psychologist, UK; Michael Emery, Director, Human Resources, IOM (UN Migration Agency), Switzerland; Grazia Lomonte, Clinical Psychologist, Costa Rica; Marcus McDonald, Graphic Designer (Diagrams), UK; Greg Parston, Chair, Dartington Trust, UK; Jamie Ripman, Co-founder and Director, Practive, UK; Robin Phillips and colleagues of Author Help, UK; Emmicki Roos, Expert, Women, Peace and Security Agenda at the Folke Bernadotte Academy (FBA): Sweden; Johan Schaar, Associate Senior Fellow with the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)Chair, Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action (ALNAP), Sweden; Sonia Watson, OBE, Hon. FRIBA, Hon. FRIAS, Chief Executive of Blueprint for All, UK
Robin Phillips and his colleagues at Author Help and Shilka were so good and professional at all stages in the production of these books. They were very helpful and extremely patient. Their help and guidance made all the difference. Thank you.
We worked with colleagues from the Book Publicist to broadcast the books. On each occasion, Ella, Durga, and their colleagues were diligent, professional, and excellent. Additionally, they were ethical and value-based throughout. Thank you.