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Advanced Facilitation Strategies
Tools and Techniques to Master Difficult Situations
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
From Ingrid Bens, the author of the best-selling book Facilitating with Ease!, comes the next-step resource for project leaders, managers, community leaders, teachers, and other facilitators who want to hone their skills in order to deal with complex situations. Advanced Facilitation Strategies is...
Jugaad Innovation
Think Frugal, Be Flexible, Generate Breakthrough Growth
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
"Jugaad Innovation is the most comprehensive book yet to appear on the subject [of frugal innovation]."
—The Economist
A frugal and flexible approach to innovation for the 21st century
Innovation is a key directive at companies worldwide. But in these tough times, we can't...
The New Advisor Guidebook
Mastering the Art of Academic Advising
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
This is an exciting time to be an academic advisor—a time in which global recognition of the importance of advising is growing, research affirms the critical role advising plays in student success, and institutions of higher education increasingly view advising as integral to their missions and...
The Academic Portfolio
A Practical Guide to Documenting Teaching, Research, and Service
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
This comprehensive book focuses squarely on academic portfolios, which may prove to be the most innovative and promising faculty evaluation and development technique in years. The authors identify key issues, red flag warnings, and benchmarks for success, describing the what, why, and how of developing...
Academic Advising
A Comprehensive Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011
One of the challenges in higher education is helping students to achieve academic success while ensuring their personal and vocational needs are fulfilled. In this updated edition more than thirty experts offer their knowledge in what has become the most comprehensive, classic reference on academic...
Servant Leadership for Higher Education
Principles and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
SERVANT LEADERSHIP
FOR HIGHER EDUCATION
"Given the myriad of complex problems facing higher education, it is difficult to imagine that an administrator at any level of the institution could be effective without engaging in servant leadership. Higher education is a service industry and,...
Planning and Assessment in Higher Education
Demonstrating Institutional Effectiveness
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
In this era of increasing pressure on higher education institutions for accountability, Planning and Assessment in Higher Education is an essential resource for college and university leaders and staff charged with the task of providing evidence of institutional effectiveness. Michael F. Middaugh,...
Focus on the Good Stuff
The Power of Appreciation
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Written by a former professional baseball player whose career was ended with an injury to his pitching arm in the middle of his third season, Focus on the Good Stuff is filled with passion, authenticity, and humor. Author Mike Robbins offers a step-by-step program with exercises for overcoming negative...
Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams
How You and Your Team Get Unstuck to Get Results
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
A proven approach for helping leaders and teams work together to achieve better decisions, greater commitment, and stronger results
More than ever, effective leadership requires us to work as a team, but many leaders struggle to get the results they need. When stakes are high, you can't get...
Step Up
Lead in Six Moments that Matter
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
No matter what your title or place on the organization chart, you have the potential to be a leader—or more precisely, the potential to exercise leadership in the moments that matter most. Leadership is not a job title or position, but rather an action. In certain moments and situations, anyone...
by Barbara Gross Davis
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2009
This is the long-awaited update on the bestselling book that offers a practical, accessible reference manual for faculty in any discipline. This new edition contains up-to-date information on technology as well as expanding on the ideas and strategies presented in the first edition. It includes more...
Teaching Intensive and Accelerated Courses
Instruction that Motivates Learning
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
In this comprehensive resource, Raymond J. Wlodkowski and Margery B. Ginsberg describe how to meet the challenge of teaching intensive and accelerated courses to nontraditional learners and working adults. By making motivation and cultural relevance essential to instruction, they clearly show what...
Increasing Persistence
Research-based Strategies for College Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Praise for Increasing Persistence
"What a gem! This is a requisite text for enrollment practitioners, higher education scholars, and progressive public policy makers dedicated to understanding the processes involved in increasing student retention and success rates. The authors' data-focused...
The Discussion Book
50 Great Ways to Get People Talking
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Build teams, make better decisions, energize groups, and think out of the box
Do you need a resource that you can pull out of your pocket to liven up meetings, trainings, professional development, and teaching? The fifty easily applied techniques in this timely manual spur creativity, stimulate...