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"Power is the critical ingredient and the missing link in women's struggle for equality and recognition. Although there have been giant steps towards gender parity, there are still barriers to overcome to achieve a semblance of power and equality. This book offers an action-based guideline that demonstrates in specific, systematic, and deliberate ways how to replicate the successes of women who have effectively wielded and kept power. Through interviews, various women in high-ranking government, administrative and business roles share their journeys, influences, and how they developed the key competencies and foundational traits to influence others. Based on these interviews and the author's own experiences, this book proposes the application of a new power construct--the WomenPower Paradigm--which rejects traditional Machiavellian concepts of power in favor of strategies such as honesty, trust, and mentorship"--

Julie Selwyn, Sarah del Tufo and Lesley Frazer report on an evaluation of the It's a Piece of Cake? training programme provided by Adoption UK. The programme, unusually, is delivered by professional trainers who are themselves adopters. The immediate impact of the training was an increase in adopters' confidence and a wider repertoire of skills in managing difficult behaviour. The effects of the programme seemed to have continued for some time for adopters who were not parenting children with multiple and overlapping difficulties. For them Cake was rarely enough. The group setting for the learning — enabling parents to discuss difficult issues with other adopters — was viewed as very important. Many parents had made lasting friendships that were a continuing source of support.