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Surviving Your Child's Adolescence
How to Understand, and Even Enjoy, the Rocky Road to Independence
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
Expert suggestions for guiding your child through the rough teenage years
Does it sometimes seem like your teenager is trying to push you over the edge? Learn what your child is going through and what you can do to help your teen navigate this difficult period in this practical guide from psychologist...
The Handbook of Knowledge-Based Coaching
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Praise for The Handbook ofKnowledge-Based Coaching
"Definitive, with extensive references and a commitment to connecting theory to practice in every chapter, this important contribution is a delicious and wide-ranging exploration of the lineages that have shaped the modern practice of...
The Essential Department Chair
A Comprehensive Desk Reference
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
THE ESSENTIAL DEPARTMENT CHAIR
This second edition of the informative and influential The Essential Department Chair offers academic chairs and department heads the information they need to excel in their roles. This book is about the "how" of academic administration: for instance,...
Becoming an Engaged Campus
A Practical Guide for Institutionalizing Public Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
Becoming an Engaged Campus offers campus leaders a systematic and detailed approach to creating an environment where public engagement can grow and flourish. The book explains not only what to do to expand community engagement and how to do it, but it also explores how to document, evaluate, and communicate...
Breaking Through the Project Fog
How Smart Organizations Achieve Success by Creating, Selecting and Executing On-Strategy Projects
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
A trail of mismanaged or terminated projects in recent years has cost the North American economy $100 to $150 billion dollars annually in lost productivity and shareholders capital. Unfortunately, the gap between project selection and project execution is often symptomatic of the onset of Project...
Creating Value in Nonprofit-Business Collaborations
New Thinking and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Collaboration between nonprofits and businesses is a necessary component of strategy and operations.
Creating Value in Nonprofit-Business Collaborations: New Thinking & Practice provides breakthrough thinking about how to conceptualize and realize collaborative value. With over a hundred...
Leading with Soul
An Uncommon Journey of Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
A new edition of the bestselling book on finding one's personal path to leadership
Leading with Soul has inspired thousands of readers since its publication more than a decade ago. Far ahead of its time, the book illuminated the deeply personal journey to leadership. Now, in this new and revised...
Dare to Wear Your Soul on the Outside
Live Your Legacy Now
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2008
In this inspirational book, Gloria Burgess uses the touching story of her father's relationship with William Faulkner as a starting point to explore a classic topic: how to bring forth the character qualities of love, wisdom, trust, faith, gratitude, creative action, vision, and integrity. Burgess...
Team Building
Proven Strategies for Improving Team Performance
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
This book is filled with the concepts, ideas, and practical suggestions that are needed for any manager to have at hand if he or she is a member or creator of a committee, team, task-force, or any other activity involving collaboration among several people. The ideas are proven by several decades of experience and well-supported in the text with numerous examples.
High Commitment High Performance
How to Build A Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2009
How to create the high-performance, high-commitment organization
Integrating knowledge from strategic management, performance management, and organization design, strategic human resource expert and Harvard Business School Professor Michael Beer outlines what the high-commitment, high-performance...
Every Child, Every Classroom, Every Day
School Leaders Who Are Making Equity a Reality
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
Urban school superintendents face unprecedented challenges. They must ensure that all students achieve a high level of performance despite a lack of resources, the intractable problems of race and poverty, a chaotic governance structure, and the often conflicting demands of teachers, parents, unions,...
Social Media in the Public Sector
A Guide to Participation, Collaboration and Transparency in The Networked World
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Grounded in solid research, Social Media in the Public Sector explores the myriad uses of social media in the public sector and combines existing practices with theories of public administration, networked governance, and information management. Comprehensive in scope, the book includes best practices,...
by John Carver, Carver Governance Design Inc., Miriam Mayhew Carver
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
The Carver Policy Governance Guide series includes six booklets that offer board members a description of John Carver's Policy Governance model of board leadership. Policy Governance enables a board to fulfill its accountability to its organization's "owners," whether the owners are association...
The Sponsorship Handbook
Essential Tools, Tips and Techniques for Sponsors and Sponsorship Seekers
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
The Sponsorship Handbook is a practical guide to sponsorship aimed at practitioners both working for sponsoring companies and those searching for sponsorship.
Using the tools, techniques, advice and best practice advocated in this book both sponsors and sponsor seekers will benefit from better...