By Carol WilsonPerformance coaching helps individuals and organizations achieve their maximum potential, tackle challenges and reach specific goals. It leads to personal and professional development and helps to create a work-life balance.
The book is both an introduction for anyone thinking of hiring a coach and a reference guide for experienced coaches. 

Information technology suppliers have been challenged to work with the public sector to find ways to deliver better services and meet growing public expectations. The Welsh Assembly’s Finance and Public Service Delivery Minister, Andrew Davies, threw down the challenge to businesses at a meeting in Swansea.
He called on suppliers to help public bodies work with public bodies to ‘come up with solutions that put the citizen centre-stage’ and he told them. 

A project that will give schoolchildren the chance to meet and learn from other young people from different backgrounds has been created to help schools trying to meet their new duty to promote community cohesion. The Schools Linking Network will support schools and councils working to develop partnerships between schools as one way to meet their legal obligations.
The new agency has been launched by the Schools Minister, Jim Knight, with three million pounds of Government funding.