Jossey Bass imprint: 1362 books
Exemplary Performance
Driving Business Results by Benchmarking Your Star Performers
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Praise for Exemplary Performance
"I have seen the transformative power of human performance improvement in the power industry where it has produced measurable results in areas such as safety performance. Executives, managers, and other leaders will benefit from this approach, enabling...
Shaping the College Curriculum
Academic Plans in Context
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Shaping the College Curriculum focuses on curriculum development as an important decision-making process in colleges and universities. The authors define curriculum as an academic plan developed in a historical, social, and political context. They identify eight curricular elements that are addressed,...
Powerful Teacher Education
Lessons from Exemplary Programs
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Powerful Teacher Education describes the strategies, goals, content, and processes of seven highly successful and long-standing teacher education programs - Alverno College, Bank Street College, Trinity University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Southern Maine, University of Virginia,...
Designing and Assessing Courses and Curricula
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011
Designing and Assessing Courses and Curricula reflects the most current knowledge and practice in course and curriculum design and connects this knowledge with the critical task of assessing learning outcomes at both course and curricular levels. This thoroughly revised and expanded third edition...
Sustaining Change
Leadership That Works
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2009
This is a book destined for leaders who wish to implement change more intelligently and effortlessly. Drawing on a combination of rigorous research and extensive organizational experience, the authors present a framework for leading change, ?Changing Leadership?, that describes the specific leader...
The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family
A Leadership Fable... About Restoring Sanity To The Most Important Organization In Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2008
In this unique and groundbreaking book, business consultant and New York Times best-selling author Patrick Lencioni turns his sights on the most important organization in our lives—the family. As a husband and the father of four young boys, Lencioni realized the discrepancy between the time and...
Leading Culture Change in Global Organizations
Aligning Culture and Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Filled with case studies from firms such as GT Automotive, GE Healthcare China, Vale, Dominos, Swiss Re Americas Division, and Polar Bank, among others, this book (written by Dan Denison and his co-authors) combines twenty years of research and survey results to illustrate a critical set of cultural...
Better Feedback for Better Teaching
A Practical Guide to Improving Classroom Observations
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
A practical, research-based guide for ensuring trustworthy classroom observations that provide teachers with meaningful feedback
Better Feedback for Better Teaching is an essential resource for school, district, and state, leaders committed to high-quality classroom observations. This practical...
Staying with Conflict
A Strategic Approach to Ongoing Disputes
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2009
Winner of the 2009 CPR Award for Outstanding Book
In this groundbreaking book, Bernard Mayer, a pioneer in the field of conflict resolution, offers a new paradigm for dealing with long-term disputes. Mayer explains that when dealing with enduring conflict, mediators and other conflict resolution...
Practicing Servant-Leadership
Succeeding Through Trust, Bravery, and Forgiveness
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Practicing Servant-Leadership brings together a group of exceptional thinkers who offer a compendium of thought on the topic of bringing servant-leadership into the daily lives of leaders. Each contributor focuses on his or her area of expertise, exploring how servant-leadership works in the real...
The Learner-Centered Curriculum
Design and Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
PRAISE FOR THE LEARNER-CENTERED CURRICULUM
"Cullen, Harris, and Hill provide a clear and practical framework for addressing the root of the problems of today's universities. The authors provide a lucid, actionable, and evidence-based prescription for building an integrated learning system...
by Susan R. Komives, John P. Dugan, Julie E. Owen
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Praise for the Second Edition of The Handbook for Student Leadership Development
"This is a must-have book for leadership educators and all student affairs professionals who want to develop impactful leadership programs and the leadership capacity of students. Buy it. Read it. Use it to...
Transformative Learning in Practice
Insights from Community, Workplace, and Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Transformative learning in practice
Transformative learning is becoming influential in all areas of the educational landscape. In Transformative Learning in Practice, leading authorities and practitioners working in a variety of national and international settings, including college classrooms,...
The Secrets of Facilitation
The SMART Guide to Getting Results with Groups
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
The revised edition of this facilitation classic offers a wealth of targeted techniques for facilitators who seek effective, consistent, and repeatable results. Based on Michael Wilkinson's proven SMART (Structured Meeting And Relating Techniques) approach, The Secrets of Facilitation can help to...