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360 Degree Feedback Edwards and Ewen
This guide describes the "360 Degrees Feedback", a multiperspective
approach to business. The approach assesses employee performance and
development from several points of view: peers, customers, supervisors
and direct co-workers. It is a sensitive process that must be managed
carefully, and this book shows how to design and implement it step by
step - as well as what not to do. It should help organizations achieve: a
powerful, positive impact on employee performance; more accurate and
fair assessments; and better alignment of individual and organization
goals.
5 Steps To Professional Presence: How to Project Confidence,
Competence, and Credibility at Work Susan Bixler
In 5 Steps to Professional Presence, image consultants Susan Bixler and
Lisa Scherrer Dugan show readers how to create a successful
"professional presence" by paying attention to key areas such as:
-- Virtual presence -- using high-tech communication tools like e-mail,
video conferencing, and voice mail to project a winning image
-- Nonverbal communication -- building rapport with colleagues and
clients by developing strong nonverbal skills
-- Social situations -- projecting a comfortable, professional image at
business meals, conferences, and sales meetings
A Framework of Understanding Poverty Ruby Payne, Ph.D.
If you work with people from poverty, some understanding of how
different their world is from yours will be invaluable. Whether you're an
educator--or a social, health, or legal services professional--this
breakthrough book gives you practical, real-world support and guidance to
improve your effectiveness in working with people from all
socioeconomic backgrounds. Since 1995 A Framework for Understanding
Poverty has guided hundreds of thousands of educators and other
professionals through the pitfalls and barriers faced by all classes,
especially the poor.
A Guide to Faculty Development Jossey-Bass
A Guide to Faculty Development provides an introduction and a guide to
faculty development as well as new topics like working with adjuncts,
diversity, multiculturalism, assessment, and different issues associated
with the various types of campuses.
A Handbook for Adjunct/Part-Time Faculty and Teachers of
Adults
Donald Greive
This is more than just a teacher's manual! This little powerhouse, revised,
expanded, and more in-depth than ever, helps adjuncts tackle the day-to-
day problems associated with teaching part-time. From course planning to
teaching adult students, this book offers practical suggestions, strategies
and advice. With over 220,000 copies sold, A Handbook; provides
adjuncts with the contents of a first-rate teaching workshop for a fraction
of the price.
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A Leadership Challenge James Kouzes , Barney Posner
The Leadership Challenge, Fourth Edition, has been extensively updated
with the latest research and case studies, and offers inspiring new stories
of real people achieving extraordinary results. The authors' central theme
remains the same and is more relevant today than ever: "Leadership is
Everyone's Business." Their "five practices" and "ten commitments" have
been proven by hundreds of thousands of dedicated, successful leaders.
This edition, with almost one-third new material, emphasizes the global
community and refocuses on business leaders.
A Mind Shaped by Poverty: Ten Things Educators Should Know Regenia Rawlinson
Children who live in poverty want the same things other children want-to
be treated with respect and given equal opportunities. Unfortunately, many
students living in poverty enter school with barriers that interfere with
learning and make it more difficult for them to achieve. In the essential
guide A Mind Shaped by Poverty: Ten Things Educators Should Know,
educator Regenia Rawlinson shares a comprehensive look at how poverty
affects academic success and what educators can do to solve the problem.
A Teacher's Guide to Performance-Based Learning and
Assessment Linda Van Wagenen
This book describes a Connecticut school district's approach to teaching
and learning that balances basic instruction with performance-based
learning and assessment, using tools such as performance tasks,
benchmarks, assessment lists, rubrics, and portfolios.
Absolute Honesty Johnson and Phillips
Absolute Honesty shows how to establish and maintain a culture where
honest communication is the norm, and employees can speak openly
without fear of retribution. The book illustrates the impact that
truthfulness and accountability can have on organizations, attacking the
sort of passivity that allows little lies to grow into giant disasters.
Academic Advising: A Comprehensive Handbook (Jossey-Bass Higher & Adult
Education)
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 advising. They explore the critical aspects of academic
advising and provide insights for full-time advisors, counselors, and those
who oversee student advising or have daily contact with advisors and
students.
Academic Self: An Owner's Manual Donald Hall
Merges the theoretical, the practical, and the frankly inspirational,
showing how a ruthless attention to time-management, coupled with
thoughtful reflection on one’s goals, can free us to have the career we
always wanted.
Adjunct Faculty in Community Colleges Wallin
Academic administrators are those charged with hiring and supervising
adjunct faculty, and this book provides them with examples of successful
programs that highlight the important connection between teaching quality
and effective hiring, orientation, acculturation, and professional
development practices for their constituency. These models come from
community and technical colleges across the United States and can be
implemented into any two-year system.
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Adjunct Faculty in Community Colleges: An Academic
Administrator's Guide to Recruiting, Supporting, and Retaining
Great Teachers
Desna Wallin
The employment of adjunct faculty is often what allows community
colleges to offer excellent yet affordable education; however, this group is
often deprived of the professional development and basic amenities
enjoyed by their full-time colleagues.
Academic administrators are those charged with hiring and supervising
adjunct faculty, and this book provides them with examples of successful
programs that highlight the important connection between teaching quality
and effective hiring, orientation, acculturation, and professional
development practices for their constituency. These models come from
community and technical colleges across the United States and can be
implemented into any two-year system. Through the use of research, case
studies, and hands-on how-to guides, checklists, and samples, this
volume’s expert contributors explain how to understand part-time
faculty— how to motivate them and value them as members of the
academy. They go on to offer practical advice for recruiting, integrating,
supporting, and retaining these great teachers.
Advice for New Faculty Members
Robert Boice By following its practical, easy-to-use rules, novice faculty can learn to
teach with the highest levels of student approval, involvement, and
comprehension, with only modest preparation times and a greater reliance
on spontaneity and student participation.
All Buts Stink!: How to Live Your Best Life and Eliminate
ExcusesWalter Bond
Walter Bond learned key principles while playing sports that helped him to
become the first rookie free agent to start for the NBA's Dallas Mavericks -
which is unheard of in the world of professional sports. Walter shares his
basic fundamentals of success that are available to everyone. All Buts
Stink!, is designed to help people regardless of age or position release
themselves from mediocrity and position themselves to reach their
potential and to be free from all excuses. How many times have you heard
a friend, family member or loved one completely explain how they haven't
achieved their dreams and framed the explanation with the word 'but'.
American Samurai William Lareau
In the tradition of Theory Z, a management expert explains how America
can regain its #1 economic power status by using Japanese business
techniques. In this unique guide, business people will discover why
managers are responsible for 99% of all day-to-day business breakdowns,
why building to specs guarantees stagnation, and more.
Assessing for Learning: Building a Sustainable Commitment
Across the Institution Peggy L. Maki
Maki focuses on ways to deepen program and institution-level assessment
within the context of collective inquiry about student learning
Assessing Student Achievement in General Education:
Assessment Update CollectionsTrudy Banta
Standardized tests have been cyclically resurrected as assessment tools and
repeatedly found wanting. This new issue looks at the broad range of
skills; effective writing, information literacy, critical/analytical thinking,
moral awareness, general communication ability, and more; desired in
college graduates and explores the difficulties in designing successful
measures of general education learning outcomes that satisfy all
stakeholders.
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Assessing Student Learning in General Education: Good
Practice Case Studies Marilee J. Bresciani
Many resources on implementing general education are available, but few
are written to help those faculty and administrators responsible for general
education with its evaluation. This book is a compilation of good practice
case studies that are intended to assist faculty and administrators in both
two-year and four-year institutions with the evaluation of student learning
as it relates to general education.
Assessing the Online Learner
Rena M. Palloff , Keith Pratt
Written by Rena M. Palloff and Keith Pratt, experts in the field of online
teaching and learning, this hands-on resource helps higher education
professionals understand the fundamentals of effective online assessment.
It offers guidance for designing and implementing creative assessment
practices tied directly to course activities to measure student learning. The
book is filled with illustrative case studies, authentic assessments based in
real-life application of concepts, and collaborative activities that assess the
quality of student learning rather than relying on the traditional methods of
measuring the amount of information retained.
Assessment Clear and Simple: A Practical Guide for
Institutions, Departments, and General EducationB.E. Walvoord, Trudy Banta
Assessment Clear and Simple provides a concise, step-by-step guide for
the assessment process. This practical book provides cost-efficient and
useful tools that fulfill the requirements of accreditation agencies,
legislatures, review boards, and etc. to ensure a simple, successful
assessment.
Assessment Essentials Palomba, Banta
This step-by-step guide provides the most current practices for developing
assessment programs on college and university campuses. Assessment
Essentials outlines the assessment process from the first to the last step
and is filled with illustrative examples to show how assessment is
accomplished on today's academic campuses.
Assessment Essentials: Planning, Implementing, Improving Catherine A. PalombaThis step-by-step guide provides the most current practices for developing
assessment programs on college and university campuses.
Best Practices for Supporting Adjunct Faculty
Richard E. Lyons
The number of part-time faculty members is increasing steadily, to the
point that most colleges and universities could not function efficiently
without them. The evening and weekend availability of adjunct faculty
enables us to expand class schedules to serve the educational needs of
nontraditional students, and their expertise offers students important real-
world perspectives. Yet there is often a lack of preparation or support for
their vital role. Best Practices for Supporting Adjunct Faculty is written
for a full range of academic leaders, including instructional administrators,
department chairs, and directors of teaching and learning centers.
Book of Majors 2011 (College Board Book of Majors) The College Board
The Book of Majors 2011 is the most comprehensive guide to academic
programs, with in-depth descriptions of 200 of the most popular college
majors. This book answers the questions: What's the major for you?
Where can you study it? What can you do with it after graduation?
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Born To Win: The Ultimate Seminar Zig Zigler
In Born to Win you’ll learn:
• To achieve balance by becoming a more complete person in seven key
areas of your life
• How to develop and maintain a winner’s attitude and use it to achieve
significant personal growth
• How to build stronger professional and personal relationships using your
own unique behavioral style
• How to become a better leader, parent, and employee by learning the art
of effective communications
• And much more!
Yes
Bringing Out the Best in People: How to Apply the Astonishing
Power of Positive Reinforcement Aubrey C. Daniels
The classic bestseller on performance management, now updated with the
latest and best motivational methods, perfected at such companies as
Xerox, 3M, and Kodak.
Yes
Building a Partnership with Your Boss (A Take-Charge
Assistant Book) Jerry Wisinski
The Boss and The Assistant. It's a basic business relationship, and the
structure is easy: The Boss gives orders, and The Assistant obeys.
But there’s an alternative that's better for both assistant and boss, and it's
called ""partnership."" In this eye-opening book, assistants learn how they
can break out of old, narrow roles and enjoy working with a boss instead
of for a boss. This change liberates creativity and self-confidence, and
reveals hidden skills and interests. It also makes an assistant more valuable
(and promotable) to the boss and the company. Readers learn specific
techniques for how to:
* initiate the transition to a partnering relationship
* understand their boss's work style and adapt to it -- without losing their
sense of self
* become a proactive worker who takes responsibility for mistakes and
credit for successes
Building a Professional Learning Community at Work: A Guide
to the First Year Parry Graham
Building a Professional Learning Community at Work: A Guide to the
First Year addresses the real-world critical questions that arise when
schools begin their work to become professional learning communities.
How can administrators and teachers take the promise of a PLC and turn
it into reality? How can school leaders transform theories of collaboration
into highly effective nuts-and-bolts practices? This book is set in the
context of one year in the life of a PLC. It chronicles the efforts of a
building principal, Steve, and his teachers to build a true PLC at Central
Middle School by focusing on the successes and challenges inherent in the
process.
Business Class: Etiquette Essentials for Success at Work Jacqueline Whitmore
Business etiquette is a powerful, practical, and profitable skill you can use
when it most counts to get a job, keep a job, or succeed on the job. It is a
set of rules and guidelines that makes your professional relationships more
harmonious, productive, manageable, and meaningful.
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Caught in the Middle: American Heartland in the Age of
GlobalizationRichard Longworth
In Caught in the Middle, longtime Chicago Tribune reporter Richard C.
Longworth explores the new reality of life in today’s heartland and reveals
what these changes mean for the region—and the country. Ranging from
the manufacturing collapse that has crippled the Midwest to the biofuels
revolution that may save it, and from the school districts struggling with
new immigrants to the Iowa meatpacking town that can’t survive without
them, Longworth addresses what’s right and what’s wrong in the region,
and offers a prescription for how it must change—politically as well as
economically—if it is to survive and prosper.
Change by Design Tim Brown
This book introduces the idea of design thinking‚ the collaborative process
by which the designer′s sensibilities and methods are employed to match
people′s needs not only with what is technically feasible and a viable
business strategy. In short‚ design thinking converts need into demand. It′s
a human−centered approach to problem solving that helps people and
organizations become more innovative and more creative.
Collaborative Learning Techniques Jossey-Bass
Engaging students in active learning is a predominant theme in today's
classrooms. To promote active learning, teachers across the disciplines and
in all kinds of colleges are incorporating collaborative learning into their
teaching. "Collaborative Learning Techniques" is a scholarly and well-
written handbook that guides teachers through all aspects of group work,
providing solid information on what to do, how to do it, and why it is
important to student learning.
College Student Retention: Form for Student Success Seidman
Although access to higher education is virtually universally available,
many students who start in a higher education program drop out prior to
completing a degree or achieving their individual academic and/or social
goals. In response to student attrition, colleges have developed intervention
programs and services to try to retain students. In spite of all of the
programs and services to help retain students, according to the U.S.
Department of Education, Center for Educational Statistics, only 50% of
those who enter higher education actually earn a bachelor's degree.
Enrollment management and the retention of students remain a top priority
of federal and state government, colleges, universities, and parents of
students who are attending college and of students themselves. This book
offers a formula for student success intended to assist colleges and
universities in retaining and graduating students.
Coming in from the Margins Faculty Development's Emerging
Organizational Development Role in Institutional Change
Connie M. Schroeder , Phyllis
Blumberg , Nancy Van Note Chism
Proposing a newly defined organizational development role for academic
and faculty developers and directors of teaching and learning centers,
Coming in from the Margins examines how significant involvement in
broader institutional change initiatives is becoming a critical aspect of this
work. The book provides evidence-based research into what directors of
centers are currently doing as organizational developers, and how they
shape, influence, and plan institutional initiatives that intersect with
teaching and learning.
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Competing on Analytics Davenport. Harris
In Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning, Thomas H.
Davenport and Jeanne G. Harris argue that the frontier for using data to
make decisions has shifted dramatically. Certain high-performing
enterprises are now building their competitive strategies around data-
driven insights that in turn generate impressive business results. Their
secret weapon? Analytics: sophisticated quantitative and statistical
analysis and predictive modeling.
Connect: Building Success Through People, Purpose, and
Performance Keith Harrell
When individuals connect with the things that they care about---whether it
be objectives for the coming year or their relationships outside the
workplace---a world of opportunities opens up both professionally and
personally. In Connect, successful motivational speaker Keith Harrell
explores the seven core competencies needed to master the art of
connecting to heighten productivity and to maximize both personal and
professional success.
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Creating the Future of Faculty Development: Learning From the
Past, Understanding the Present Jossey-BassAddresses growing need for faculty development by exploring how faculty
development has evolved and envisioning its future.
Designing Effective Assessment: Principles and Profiles of Good
Practice Trudy Banta
Trudy Banta, Elizabeth Jones, and Karen Black offer 49 detailed current
examples of good practice in planning, implementing, and sustaining
assessment that are practical and ready to apply in new settings.
Diversity Across the Curriculum: A Guide for Faculty in Higher
Education
Jerome C. Branche , Ellen R. Cohn
, John Mullennix
This practical guide will empower even the busiest faculty members to
create culturally inclusive courses and learning environments. In a
collection of more than 50 vignettes, exceptional teachers from a wide
range of academic disciplines--health sciences, humanities, sciences, and
social sciences--describe how they actively incorporate diversity into their
teaching.
Diversity and Motivation Wlodkowski
This revised and updated second edition of Diversity and Motivation
offers a comprehensive understanding of teaching methods that promote
respect, relevance, engagement, and academic success. Margery B.
Ginsberg and Raymond J. Wlodkowski base their insights and concrete
suggestions on their experiences and research as college faculty.
Doing Diversity in Higher Education: Faculty Leaders Share
Challenges and Strategies Winnefred R. Brown-Glaude
Using case studies from universities throughout the nation, Doing
Diversity in Higher Education examines the role faculty play in improving
diversity on their campuses. The power of professors to enhance diversity
has long been underestimated, their initiatives often hidden from view.
Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get
More Done in Less Time Brian Tracy
The legendary Eat That Frog! (more than 450,000 copies sold and
translated into 23 languages) provides the 21 most effective methods for
conquering procrastination and accomplishing more. This new edition is
revised and updated throughout, and includes brand new information on
how to keep technology from dominating our time.
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Effective Grading: A Tool for Learning and Assessment B.E. Walvoord and V. Anderson
This new edition of the classic book has been thoroughly updated and
revised with the latest research. The book offers a hands-on guide for
evaluating student work and examines the link between teaching and
grading. The authors show how to integrate the grading process with
course objectives and offer a wealth of information about student learning.
The book also includes information on integration of technology and
online teaching, and is filled with more illustrative examples, including a
sample syllabus. This revised resource can help any professor enrich
student learning in the classroom.
Eight Habits of the Heart Clifton Taulbert
Clifton L. Taulbert is renowned for his poignant memoirs about growing
up in the segregated South and for his lectures and programs in schools,
businesses, and communities throughout the world. In this inspiring
handbook he lays out eight basic principles he learned from his elders: a
nurturing attitude, dependability, responsibility, friendship, brotherhood,
high expectations, courage, and hope. With a new Introduction and
exercises for reflection and practice, Taulbert shows how the Eight Habits
can be utilized today to help strengthen relationships, families, and
communities everywhere. This inspirational book stands alongside The
Book of Virtues and Seven Habits of Highly Effective Families as a
refreshing and meaningful guide to the spiritual core we, as a society,
always seem to be seeking.
Eight Habits of the Heart for Educators: Building Strong School
Communities Through Timeless Values Clifton Taulbert
The author’s inspirational stories demonstrate how to implement the Eight
Habits in your own life, and provide strategies for applying each habit in
your classroom and school.
E-Mail: A Write It Well Guide Janis Fisher Chan
E-Mail: A Write It Well Guide is a user-friendly book that is filled with
guidelines, tips, and tools. Discover how to write professional e-mail that
gets results, makes better use of e-mail time, and avoids problems that can
be costly. The book includes questions and exercises.
Empowered Teams Richard Wellins
Provides the frank answers to questions about how teams work, what
makes them effective, when they are useful, how to get them going, and
how to maintain their vigor and productivity over the long haul. Draws on
a survey of over five hundred organizations and an in-depth study of
twenty-eight companies (conducted jointly by Industry Week and the
Association for Quality and Participation).
Facilitating Community Change Fessler
Every newly elected official can benefit from the information in such
chapters as Dealing with Controversy in the Change Process. Once the
group has recognized the reality confronting them, it is time to move on to
the Logical Problem-Solving Process.
Facilitator's Guide to Eight Habits of the Heart for Educators Clifton Taulbert
This facilitator's guide helps staff developers lead inspired training
focused on Taulbert's time-honored principles that can transform the lives
of the teachers, students, administrators, and staff.
Faculty in New Jobs: A Guide to Settling In, Becoming
Established, and Building Institutional SupportRobert J. Menges
Drawing on a study conducted by researchers at the National Center on
Postsecondary Teaching, Learning, and Assessment, Faculty in New Jobs
shows how faculty and institutions can work together to ease the transition
to a new job and facilitate the process of mastering academic work.
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Faculty Success Through Mentoring: A Guide for Mentors,
Mentees, and Leaders
Carole J. Bland , Anne L. Taylor ,
S. Lynn Shollen
Few things are more essential to the success of an academic institution
than vital faculty members. This book is a rich combination of findings
from the literature and practical tools, which together assist academic
leaders and faculty in implementing and participating in a successful
formal mentoring program that can be used as a strategy for maintaining
the vitality of a diverse faculty across all stages of an academic career.
Finding Your Purpose, Revised
A Guide to Personal Fulfillment Braham, Barbara
This book launches you on a journey of personal exploration and growth.
Practical exercises challenge you to discover insights about the way you
think and behave. Then the author provides a plan that can lead to
significant positive personal changes.
Fish! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results Stephen C. Lundin
In this engrossing parable, a fictional manager is charged with the
responsibility of turning a chronically unenthusiastic and unhelpful
department into an effective team.
Flawless Consulting Peter Block
This thoroughly revised and updated third edition of Peter Block's
groundbreaking book explores the latest thinking on consultation. It
includes new insights about how we can organize our consulting around
discovering the strengths, positive examples, and gifts of the client
organization or community. The book remains a practical and specific
guide for anyone who needs to develop a capacity for deeper relatedness
and partnership -- which means it is for all who wish to make a real
difference in the world.
Get Into Graduate School: A Strategic Approach for Master's
and Doctoral CandidatesKaplan
Get Into Graduate School leads the applicant through the entire admissions
process, providing them with everything they need to know on how to get
accepted.
Good Practice in Student Affairs: Principles to Foster Student
Learning (Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education) Jossey-Bass
This essential guide to effective practice is for student affairs professionals
on all types of campuses.
Good to Great and the Social Sectors Jim Collins
This monograph is a response to questions raised by readers in the social
sector. It is not a new book. Jim Collins wants to avoid any confusion
about the monograph being a book by limiting its distribution to online
retailers.
Based on interviews and workshops with over 100 social sector leaders.
The difference between successful organizations is not between the
business and the social sector, the difference is between good
organizations and great ones.
Gung Ho! Turn On the People in Any Organization Ken BlanchardHere is an invaluable management tool that outlines foolproof ways to
increase productivity by fostering excellent morale in the workplace.
Healthy Employees, Healthy Business: Easy, Affordable Ways to
Promote Workplace Wellness Ilona Bray J.D.
Healthy Employees, Healthy Business draws on the expertise of an
advisory board of doctors, lawyers, benefits specialists, workplace
wellness planners and other experts to offer struggling small business
owners and managers like you the essential advice you need to implement
a low-cost or even free wellness program for your employees.
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High Velocity Culture Change Price Pritchett
Delivers 22 specific guidelines on how to manage your part of the
organization for high-velocity culture change. You'll also learn how you
can avoid the management traps that cause most efforts to fail. This
handbook will prepare you and your management staff for the rigors of the
agonizing process that is culture change. It will also prove how and why
the pain is well worth the cost. If your management staff is going to
achieve a dramatic culture shift in record time, High-Velocity Culture
Change is a must-read for every player on your team.
Hire The Best... & Avoid The Rest Michael Mercer, Ph.D.You will discover how to hire the best when you use this top-selling book
on how to evaluate job applicants.
How Do They Know They Know: Evaluating Adult Learning Jane Vella
Applies principles and concepts of popular education to evaluation? A
critical piece in program development and training with adults. Using real-
life case studies, the book shows how the model works in a variety of
settings to help trainers evaluate adult learning.
I Want to Change But I Don’t Know How Rusk and Read
A step-by-step program including exercises and information to bring more
happiness to individual lives through deeper self-awareness and self-
acceptance.
Influencer Kerry Patterson
From the bestselling authors who taught the world how to have Crucial
Conversations comes Influencer, a thought-provoking book that combines
the remarkable insights of behavioral scientists and business leaders with
the astonishing stories of high-powered influencers from all walks of life.
You'll be taught each and every step of the influence process-including
robust strategies for making change inevitable in your personal life, your
business, and your world.
Integrating Higher Education Planning and Assessment: A
Practical Guide
David Hollowell, Michael
Middaugh, Elizabeth Sibolski
Integrating Higher Education Planning and Assessment: A Practical Guide
provides insight on the higher education assessment process with an
emphasis on planning and metrics.
Journey to the Emerald City: Achieve a Competitive Edge by
Creating A culture of AccountabilityRoger Conners
Journey to the Emerald City details a clear road map for accelerating the
move to a Culture of Accountability in which people focus on achieving
the results critical to a company's future. Connors and Smith provide a
program to transform entrenched patterns into potent new ways of being
and doing.
Jung's Theory of Psychological Types and the Myers-Briggs
Type IndicatorJung
"The purpose of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® is to make the theory
of psychological types described by C. G. Jung (1921/1971)
understandable and useful in people's lives. The essence of the theory is
that much seemingly random variation in behavior is actually quite orderly
and consistent, being due to basic differences in the way individuals prefer
to use their perception and judgment."
Kiss, Bow, or Shake Hands (The Bestselling Guide to Doing
Business in More than 60 Countries) Terri Morrison
The most comprehensive, authoritative text of its kind, the first edition of
this invaluable reference guide has won a following among high-ranking
military officials, influential corporate executives and business school
professors alike. This new edition, with its wealth of revised material and
discussions of current hot topics, is proof that such a classic only gets
better with time.
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Lead with Luv Ken Blanchard
Lead with LUV is an extraordinary, wide-ranging conversation between
Barrett and Ken Blanchard, the legendary author of The One Minute
Manager. Together, they reveal why leading with love is the most
powerful way to lead, how to make it work wherever you are, and how it
can help you achieve truly amazing results.
Leading at a Higher Level Ken Blanchard
Leading at a Higher Level presents the definitive discussion about using
Situational Leadership® II to lead yourself, individuals, teams, and entire
organizations. More important, you’ll learn how to dig deep within,
discover the personal “leadership point of view” all great leaders possess,
and apply it throughout your entire life.
Learner-Centered Assessment on College Campuses Huba and Freed
Learner-Centered Assessment on College Campuses integrates current
thinking and research regarding the learning of undergraduate students
with principles of best practice in assessment and teaching. The book will
help readers see the connection among three powerful trends in higher
education today: the focus on learning and learners, the emphasis on the
assessment of learning, and the need to continually improve what those in
higher education do.
Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Communities
at Work Richard Dufour
Since the publication of the first edition of Learning by Doing, the authors
have made presentations to tens of thousands of educators, served on
dozens of panels to answer their questions, worked with several districts
on a long-term ongoing basis to assist with their implementation of the
professional learning community (PLC) concept, and participated in
ongoing dialogue with educators on the allthingsplc.info website. This
continuing work with teachers, principals, and central office staff from
schools and districts throughout North America has given them a deeper
understanding of the challenges educators face as they attempt to
implement the professional learning community process in their
organizations. This second edition attempts to draw upon that deeper
understanding to provide educators with a more powerful tool for moving
forward.
Leaving College Vincent Tinto
In the new edition of his widely acclaimed Leaving College, Vincent Tinto
synthesizes far-ranging research on student attrition and on actions
institutions can and should take to reduce it. The key to effective retention,
Tinto demonstrates, is in a strong commitment to quality education and
the building of a strong sense of inclusive educational and social
community on campus.
Leaving College: Rethinking the Causes and Cures of Student
Attrition Vincent Tinto
As enrollments continue to decline, student retention is increasingly vital
to the survival of most colleges and universities. In the new edition of his
widely acclaimed Leaving College, Vincent Tinto synthesizes far-ranging
research on student attrition and on actions institutions can and should
take to reduce it.
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Managing Conflict Walton
A member of the AWL OD Series! This book presents a framework for
diagnosing recurring conflicts and suggests several basic options for
controlling or resolving them. Included are concepts and methods that are
applicable to various types of conflict, both interpersonal and intersystem.
Topics range from basic functions of managing conflict, techniques for
managing dialogue, and third-party attributes of consultants.
Managing Upward: Strategies for Succeeding with Your Boss Hathaway, Patti and Schubert,
Susan
An excellent guide if you're wishing to position yourself for upward
professional mobility. This book introduces techniques for developing
positive working relationships with those above you in the organization.
It's not easy to "manage your boss," but the tips provided will help you
handle and offer both praise and criticism.
Mentor: Guiding the Journey of Adult Learners L. Baloz/Jossey Bass
Revised and updated from the award-winning classic Effective Teaching
and Mentoring, this second edition is a practical, engaging exploration of
mentoring and its power to transform learning. Filled with inspiring
vignettes, Mentor shows how anyone who teaches can become a
successful mentor.
Models of Professional Development: A Celebration of
Educators Bruce Joyce
This comprehensive resource examines five major models of professional
development and how they can be implemented and tailored to meet the
multifaceted needs of any school or district.
Moneyball Michael Lewis
Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball and a tale of the
search for new baseball knowledge—insights that will give the little guy
who is willing to discard old wisdom the edge over big money.
Motivating Students Who Don't Care: Successful Techniques for
Educators Allen Mendler
With proven strategies from the classroom, this resource identifies five
effective processes the reader can use to reawaken motivation in students
who aren't prepared, don't care, and won't work. These processes include
emphasizing effort, creating hope, respecting power, building
relationships, and expressing enthusiasm. Each process is fully explained
and illustrated with proven strategies from the classroom. Questions for
reflection will help the reader identify motivating strategies and apply the
five key processes to the challenge of changing students lives.
Multicultural Competence in Student Affairs Jossey-Bass
Multicultural Competence in Student Affairs is a unique resource that
offers student affairs practitioners and faculty a guide that features a
model of core competencies that embraces the broad scope of
multicultural issues including race, class, religion, gender, sexual
orientation, age, and abilities.
New Faculty Professional Development Henryk MarcinkiewiczThis book is about organizing and conducting a yearlong professional
development program for new faculty.
Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored Clifton Taulbert
The basis of a forthcoming motion picture, the author's memoir of his
childhood in the segregated South celebrates the resilience and warmth of
his relatives, neighbors and friends, who eagerly awaited the annual
minstrel show.
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Organization Change Through Effective Leadership Gyest, Hersey, Blanchard
This volume illustrates how behavioral science theory and research are
helpful to practicing managers in diagnosing human situations and in
carrying through strategies for change.
Organization Development Wendell FrenchThe authors present a concise and comprehensive exposition of the theory,
practice, and research related to organization development.
Perfect Phrases for Customer Service, Second Edition (Perfect
Phrases Series) Robert Bacal
Perfect Phrases for Customer Service, second edition, provides the
language you need for everyday customer service situations--and includes
simple, effective techniques that can help you meet even the most
demanding customer needs. Master the most effective words and phrases
for:
Defusing bad situations before they get worse
Handling complaints patiently and professionally
Satisfying customers and increasing sales
Building long-term relationships with important customers
Perfect Phrases for Managers and Supervisors, Second Edition Meryl Runion
Perfect Phrases for Managers and Supervisors, second edition, has been
completely revised to help you communicate in today’s workplace, where
collaboration, cooperation, and personalization are critical to building an
efficient, productive work environment.
Perfect Phrases for Writing Grant Proposals (Perfect Phrases
Series)Beverly Browning
With this comprehensive, user-friendly approach to grant writing, you'll be
able to tackle the various proposal formats, create a professional purpose
statement, and back up your plan with solid data. Plus, you'll discover
some insider secrets that will really get the attention you want-and the
funding you need.
Please Understand Me Keirsey & BatesThis book is excellent for understanding your own character and it is in
new conditions. No marks or breaks on any of the pages.
Power Etiquette: What You Don't Know Can Kill Your Career Dana May Casperson
Can table manners make or break a megamerger? Can a faxing faux-pas
derail a promising business relationship? Can an improper introduction
cost you a client? Can manners (or lack of them) really kill a career?
Absolutely. In an era when companies are competing on the basis of
service, manners are much more than a social nicety -- they're a crucial
business skill. In fact, good manners are good business. This no-nonsense
""manners reference"" refreshes readers on everyday etiquette and makes
sure they're on their best behavior. It provides quick guidance on such
pertinent and timely topics as: * telephone, e-mail, and Internet etiquette *
table manners *grooming and business dress * written communications *
gift giving * resumes and interviews * making introductions * public
speaking * networking, and more.
Prioritizing Academic Programs and Services Dickeson
This newly revised best-selling classic Prioritizing Academic Programs
and Services continues to offer a proven step-by-step approach to
reallocating resources in tough times. This updated text includes
templates, available also online, for prioritizing communications plans to
ensure more successful campus implementation and to avoid mistakes.
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Quick Guide for the Community College Student Wadsworth
Are you hoping to get the most out of your community college experience?
In WADSWORTH'S QUICK GUIDE FOR THE COMMUNITY
COLLEGE STUDENT you will discover the perfect manual to
succeeding in community college and beyond. This is a must-have text for
every student in community college!
Reclaiming the Ivory Tower: Organizing Adjuncts to Change
Higher Education
Joe Berry Reclaiming the Ivory Tower examines the situation of adjunct professors
in U.S. higher education today, describes the process of organizing them
to improve their conditions of work, and puts forward an agenda around
which adjunct labor can mobilize and transform the universities.
Reinventing Higher Education: The Promise of Innovation Ben Wildavsky
This collection of provocative articles by leading scholars, writers,
innovators, and university administrators examines the current higher
education environment and its chronic resistance to change; the rise of for-
profit universities; the potential future role of community colleges in a
significantly revised higher education realm; and the emergence of online
learning as a means to reshape teaching and learning and to reach new
consumers of higher education.
Rethinking Faculty Work: Higher Education's Strategic
Imperative Judith M. Gappa
Written for educators, administrators, policy makers, and anyone else
concerned with the future of higher education, Rethinking Faculty Work
shows how changes in higher education are transforming the careers of
faculty and provides a model that makes it possible for all faculty to be in
a position to do their best. This important resource offers a vision of
academic workplaces that will attract superb faculty committed to
fulfilling the missions of the universities and colleges where they work.
Retreats That Work: Everything You Need to Know About
Planning and Leading Great Offsites (Pfeiffer Essential
Resources for Training and HR Professionals)Merianne Liteman
Based on the best-selling first edition, this greatly expanded and updated
version contains forty-seven new activities, more information about how
to design and lead retreats, and additional suggestions for how to recover
when things go wrong. A CD-ROM allows you to print out chapters for
distribution to key leaders, duplicate templates, and produce handouts for
specific exercises.
Right From The Start: Taking Charge In A New Leadership Role Dan Ciampa
According to Dan Ciampa and Michael Watkins, 64 percent of executives
hired form the outside won't make it in their new jobs. While executives
from within the ranks know the challenges, culture, and politics of a
company, newcomers face a corporate minefield. Right from the Start is
Ciampa and Watkins's survival manual for leaders taking starting work at
a new company. "Leadership is never easy," they write. "This is never
truer than when a new leader enters an organization from the outside and
must change its culture in fundamental ways." Through interviews with
dozens of corporate leaders who have succeeded or failed in such
transitions, the authors provide a strategy for getting it right from the
outset.
Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager: Increasing
Effectiveness Through Situational Self LeadershipStephen C. Lundin
In this captivating business parable, Cayla teaches Steve the three skills of
self leadership.
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Self-Directed Work Teams Cresencio Torres, Jerry Spiegel
Empowerment is essential! Self-directed work teams create an
environment that empowers employees to contribute to the improvement
of products and services. In the face of this challenge, employees
experience greater opportunities and greater satisfaction. And they do a
better job! Successful work teams call for a new kind of leadership and a
bold new attitude about workforce organization. Self-Directed Work
Teams shows how this leadership style changes the role of the supervisor
and the way that work is managed. You'll learn to help workers feel like
partners in their organizations by contributing to the improvement of
products and services. Use these guiding principles, working models, key
strategies, and action steps to create successful self-directed teams!
Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate
Power and Greatness 25th Anniversary Edition [Deluxe Edition] Robert Greenleaf
Servant Leadership helps leaders find their true power and moral authority
to lead. It helps those served become healthier, wiser, freer, and more
autonomous. This book encourages collaboration, trust, listening, and
empowerment. It offers long-lasting change, not a temporary fix and
extends beyond business for leaders of all types of groups.
Seven Habits Workbook Stephen Covey
Internationally renowned leadership authority and bestselling author
Stephen R. Covey presents a personal hands-on companion to the
landmark The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, which has become a
touchstone for individuals, families, and businesses around the world.
Spiral Impact Karen Valencio
Eliminate struggle. Harness the power of the spiral to achieve your desired
outcomes – and do "it" with grace and ease. Karen Valencic blends her
expertise in the martial art Aikido, with performance improvement, and
science. She illustrates how to use conflict creatively, focus energy and
make solid decisions to generate the power to get what you want done
with grace.
Strengths Based Leadership Rath and Conchie
For decades, Gallup scientists have researched the topic of leadership.
They’ve surveyed a million work teams, conducted more than 50,000 in-
depth interviews with leaders, and even interviewed 20,000 followers to
ask what they admired in the most important leader in their life. The
results of that research are unveiled in Strengths-Based Leadership.
Student Engagement Techniques: A Handbook for College
Faculty (Higher and Adult Education Series)Elizabeth F. Barkley
Student Engagement Techniques is a comprehensive resource that offers
college teachers a dynamic model for engaging students and includes over
one hundred tips, strategies, and techniques that have been proven to help
teachers from a wide variety of disciplines and institutions motivate and
connect with their students.
Student Success in Community Colleges Boroch
Student Success in Community Colleges: A Practical Guide to
Developmental Education provides a self-assessment instrument,
investment modeling tools, and practices to succeed in community college.
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Teaching Strategies and Techniques for Adjunct Faculty Donald Grieve
This is an intentionally brief and to-the-point book for busy part-time
faculty. It is a quick and straightforward teaching reference full of tips,
strategies and proven techniques that address teaching in the contemporary
classroom. If you are new to adjunct teaching, returning to the profession
or have been teaching for several years, Teaching Strategies will help
make your teaching experience more productive and enjoyable.
Teaching With Your Mouth Shut Donald FinkelTeaching with Your Mouth Shut is not intended as a manual for teachers;
it aims to provoke reflection on the many ways teaching can be organized.
Teaching Your First College Class A Practical Guide for New
Faculty and Graduate Student Instructors
Carolyn Lieberg
No other teaching experience will feel quite like the first time an instructor
walks into a classroom to face a class of students. This book is a wise and
friendly guide for new faculty and graduate student instructors who are
about to teach for the first time. It provides an introduction to the theory of
teaching; describes proven strategies and activities for engaging students
in their learning; and offers advice on classroom management, syllabus
creation, grading, assessment, and discipline issues, among other topics.
The Abilene Paradox: And Other Meditation on Management Jerry Harvey
Faulty decision-making can have dire consequences, and when it comes to
group decisions, the challenges are even greater. Join Dr. Jerry B. Harvey
as he clearly illustrates why no organization wants to find themselves goin'
to Abilene.
The Adjunct Professor's Guide to Success: Surviving and
Thriving in the College Classroom Richard Lyons
In recent years, colleges and universities have markedly increased their
employment of adjunct professors. Unfortunately, many adjunct
professors enter the classroom with little or no training in teaching and
classroom management techniques and suffer frustrations which are
painful to both themselves and their institutions! This book provides the
guidance and addresses the issues imperative to the adjunct professor.
Each chapter addresses classroom survival issues with appropriate context
and bulleted lists of "Do's and Don'ts." The perspective of "Through the
Adjunct's Eyes," near the end of each chapter, shares common classroom
successes and challenges. "Tips for Thriving," a bulleted review of key
points and suggested additional readings, concludes each chapter. The
book concludes with chapters on self-evaluation and techniques for
building a part-time career in academe. Anyone who is interested in how
to begin their approach to teaching.
The Art of Communicating Bert DeckerWhat Decker does in this small package is deliver a guide developing a
complete face-to-face personal style.
The Assertive Way Deidre Dutcher
In this audio program, assertiveness expert Deidre Dutcher uses real-life
anecdotes, fascinating examples and thought-provoking exercises to reveal
how to alter your mind-set, transform your behavior, and tailor your
communication style to reflect a more confident, self-assured, assertive
personality. As a result of this training, your relationships will improve,
you’ll have the potential to make greater advancements in your career, and
enjoy increased respect and recognition on both a personal and
professional level.
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The Balancing Act: Genered Perspectives in Faculty Roles and
Work Lives
Susan Braken, Jeannie Allen, Diane
Dean
Why are women not entering academic careers at a rate proportional to
their degree attainment? And once they enter academe, why are they are
not achieving tenure or gaining promotion at the same rate as men? How
can deeper understanding of attitudes toward academic women combined
with research on their experiences within the academic environment, in
particular those balancing family and academic careers, help us to shape
more responsive institutional policies and environments?
These questions are all the more urgent at a time when institutions
recognize the need to recruit more women and faculty of color to meet
their changing missions and student demographics. This book argues that
creating healthy and equitable work environments for women is good for
the whole academic community. Indeed, the authors make the point that,
as the feminization of academe continues, failure to implement gender
equity and family-friendly initiatives could be perilous.
The Consulting Process in Action Lippitt and Lippitt
Here is the accumulation of 35 years of work of two men who have helped
shape the training and development field. Teachers, trainers, consultants,
and continual learners themselves, the authors share their repertoire of
concepts, strategies, and techniques.
The Culture of Collaboration Evan Rosen
The in-box culture is dead," insists Rosen, so information workers need to
learn how to come together on projects spontaneously in real time, instead
of handling assignments alone and passing them down the line.
The Definitive Personal Assistant and Secretarial Handbook: A
Best Practice Guide for All Secretaries, Pas, Office Managers
and Executive Assistants
Sue France
The Definitive Personal Assistant and Secretarial Handbook is the
ultimate guide for all administrative professionals, PAs, secretaries and
executive assistants. Written by an award-winning personal assistant, it
deals with various aspects of these administrative roles and the skills
required by them, including: relationship management, communication,
confidence, the secrets of body language, listening and questioning skills,
coping with pressure and stress, dealing with difficult people, time
management and personal organization.
The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders
at All Levels Michael Watkins
In this hands-on guide, Michael Watkins, a noted expert on leadership
transitions, offers proven strategies for moving successfully into a new
role at any point in one's career. Concise and practical, The First 90 Days
walks managers through every aspect of the transition, from mental
preparation to forging the right alliances to securing critical early wins.
Through vivid examples of success and failure at all levels, Watkins
identifies the most common pitfalls new leaders encounter and provides
tools and strategies for how to avoid them.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni
In The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni once again offers a
leadership fable that is as enthralling and instructive as his first two best-
selling books, The Five Temptations of a CEO and The Four Obsessions
of an Extraordinary Executive. This time, he turns his keen intellect and
storytelling power to the fascinating, complex world of teams.
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The Frontiers of Management Peter Drucker
Every decision executives make today shapes the future of their
organization - as well as that of the communities and society in which the
organization operates. How to make choices that lead to the best possible
future for all stakeholders? Look beyond the immediate crisis of the day -
to the long-term implications of your decisions and actions. In the thirty-
five essays comprising The Frontiers of Management, classic management
thinker and teacher Peter Drucker offers advice.
The Medici Effect Johansson
Frans Johansson’s The Medici Effect shows how breakthrough ideas most
often occur when we bring concepts from one field into a new, unfamiliar
territory, and offers examples how we can turn the ideas we discover into
path-breaking innovations.
The New Academic Generation: A Profession in Transformation Martin J. Finkelstein
American colleges and universities are poised at the edge of a remarkable
transformation. But while rapid technological changes and increasingly
intense competition for funding are widely recognized as signs of a new
era, there has also been an unprecedented though silent demographic
change in the profile of the faculty. In The New Academic Generation,
higher education researchers Martin Finkelstein, Robert Seal, and Jack
Schuster focus on the changing face of academe, as women, foreign-born,
and minority scholars enter the professoriate in larger numbers and as
alternatives to full-time tenure-eligible appointments take hold.
The New Executive Assistant: Advice for Succeeding in Your
Career Melba Duncan
Today's executive assistant has become a crucial member of every
organization's support staff--a key business ally with diverse
responsibilities, from overseeing employees to making strategic decisions.
Here is the first step-by-step guide specifically designed to help you thrive
in this fast-paced profession.
The One Minute Manager Stephen C. Lundin
The One Minute Manager is a concise, easily read story that reveals three
very practical secrets: One Minute Goals, One Minute Praisings, and One
Minute Reprimands.
The One Minute Manager Builds High Performing Teams: New
and Revised Edition Stephen C. Lundin
how all groups move through four stages of development on their way to
becoming high performing teams—orientation, dissatisfaction, integration
and production.
The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey Stephen C. Lundin
When a person goes to the boss with a problem and the boss agrees to do
something about it, the monkey is off his back and onto the boss's. How
can managers avoid these leaping monkeys? Here is priceless advice from
three famous experts: how managers can meet their own priorities, give
back other people's monkeys, and let them solve their own problems.
The Only Grant-Writing Book You'll Ever Need: Top Grant
Writers and Grant Givers Share Their Secrets Ellen Karsh
This book is designed to help nonprofit organizations craft proposals for
grants from foundations, companies, and government agencies.
The Simplified Guide to Not-for-Profit Accounting, Formation &
Reporting Laurence Scot
A complete and easy to understand guide to the fundamentals of how not-
for-profit organizations are formed and run, as well as their structure and
the unique accounting and reporting issues they face.
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The Skilled Facilitator: A Comprehensive Resource for
Consultants, Facilitators, Managers, Trainers, and Coaches Roger Schwarz
The book is a classic work for consultants, facilitators, managers, leaders,
trainers, and coaches--anyone whose role is to facilitate and guide groups
toward realizing their creative and problem-solving potential. This
thoroughly revised edition provides the essential materials for anyone that
works within the field of facilitation and includes simple but effective
ground rules for group interaction. Filled with illustrative examples, the
book contains proven techniques for starting meetings on the right foot
and ending them positively and decisively.
The Time Trap: The Classic Book of Time Management (3rd
edition)Alec Mackenzie
Despite fax machines, computers and e-mail, time management remains a
real problem for many people. The aim of this book is to provide
guidelines on how to work efficiently, how to pinpoint time-wasters, avoid
the technology trap and how to use time management techniques
successfully.
Think Like a Manager Roger FritzBuild the skills every manager needs to be effective with these strategies
and techniques.
Time Management for System Administrators Thomas A. Limoncelli
Time Management for System Administrators understands that an Sys
Admin often has competing goals: the concurrent responsibilities of
working on large projects and taking care of a user's needs. That's why it
focuses on strategies that help you work through daily tasks, yet still allow
you to handle critical situations that inevitably arise.
Time Management: 24 Techniques to Make Each Minute Count
at Work Marc Mancini
They say time is money. And thanks to Time Management, you can make
every moment more valuable, through 24 easily mastered techniques that
will instantly increase your workplace efficiency.
To Improve the Academy: Resources for Faculty, Instructional,
and Organizational Development Jossey-Bass
The development of students is a fundamental purpose of higher education
and requires for its success effective advising, teaching, leadership, and
management. This annual volume offers examples and resources for the
enrichment of all educational developers.
Top Performer Zig ZiglarOffers advice for people in leadership positions on how to encourage
workers to achieve their full potential.
Total Leadership Friedman
With engaging examples and clear instruction, Friedman provides more
than thirty hands-on tools for using these proven principles to produce
stronger business results, find clearer purpose in what you do, feel more
connected to the people who matter most, and generate sustainable
change.
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Toyota Production System Ohno
In this classic text, Taiichi Ohno -- inventor of the Toyota Production
System and lean manufacturing -- shares the genius that sets him apart as
one of the most disciplined and creative thinkers of our time. Combining
his candid insights with a rigorous analysis of Toyota's attempts at lean
production, Ohno's book explains how lean principles can improve any
production-oriented endeavor. A historical and philosophical description
of just-in-time and lean manufacturing, this work a must read for all
students of human progress. On a more practical level, it continues to
provide inspiration and instruction for those seeking to improve efficiency
through the relentless elimination of waste.
Transforming Professional Development Into Student Results Douglas Reeves
How can we create and sustain professional learning programs that
actually lead to improved student achievement? In this thoughtful and
informative guide for teachers, administrators, and policymakers, Douglas
B. Reeves provides answers.
Transitions Between Faculty and Administrative Careers: New
Directions for Higher Education Ronald Henry
Providing extensive real life examples, Transitions Between Faculty and
Administrative Careers delves into the main challenges of transitioning
between faculty and administrative careers. Issues such as building a
diverse support team, developing flexible management skills to enhance all
types of professional relationships, actively bridging academe and
administration, and articulating your vision, among others, are discussed
in detail.
Understanding and Engaging Under-Resourced College Students Becker, Krodel, and Tucker
Understanding and Engaging Under-Resourced Learners is the first book
of its kind to provide postsecondary educators, administrators, and student
support services personnel with a comprehensive and focused look at both
the needs of under-resourced students and strategies for their success.
What Great Teachers Do Differently Todd Whitaker
World-renowned author and speaker Todd Whitaker describes the beliefs,
behaviors, and attitudes of our best teachers. Based on a live recording of
a Todd Whitaker presentation.
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What's Math Got to Do With It Jo Boaler
In this straightforward and inspiring book, Jo Boaler, a professor of
mathematics education at Stanford for nine years, outlines concrete
solutions that can change things for the better, including classroom
approaches, essential strategies for students, and advice for parents.
When the Little Things Count . . . and They Always Count: 601
Essential Things That Everyone In Business Needs to Know Barbara Pachter
From the Internet and e-commerce to contract work and globalization, the
way we work and communicate is changing constantly. Still, one essential
fact remains: We must pay attention to the little things — the details that
demonstrate that we know how to communicate and interact with others
on a professional level, regardless of our position or occupation. In this
book, longtime business communications consultant and trainer Barbara
Pachter offers 601 essential ways to approach every business situation and
relationship with confidence and ease.
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Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with
Change in Your Work and in Your Life Spencer Johnson
From one of the world's most recognized experts on management comes a
charming parable filled with insights designed to help readers manage
change quickly and prevail in changing times.
Who Owns the Ice House?: Eight Life-Lessons From an Unlikely
Entrepreneur Clifton Taulbert
Based on his own life experience, Pulitzer nominee Clifton Taulbert has
teamed up with entrepreneur thought leader Gary Schoeniger to create a
powerful and compelling story that captures the essence of an
entrepreneurial mindset and the unlimited opportunities it can provide.
Drawing on the entrepreneurial life lessons Taulbert learned from his
Uncle Cleve, Who Owns the Ice house? chronicles Taulbert's journey
from life in the Mississippi Delta at the height of legal segregation to
being recognized by Time magazine as "one of our nation's most
outstanding emerging entrepreneurs.
Who Own's the Icehouse Clifton Taulbert
Drawing on the entrepreneurial life lessons Taulbert learned from his
Uncle Cleve, Who Owns the Ice house? chronicles Taulbert's journey
from life in the Mississippi Delta at the height of legal segregation to
being recognized by Time magazine as "one of our nation's most
outstanding emerging entrepreneurs." Who Owns The Ice House? reaches
into the past to remind us of the timeless and universal principles that can
empower anyone to succeed.
Whole-Faculty Study Groups: Creating Professional Learning
Communities That Target Student Learning
Carlene U. Murphy , Dale W. Lick Filled with numerous examples, this best-selling book provides both the
practical knowledge and the theoretical foundation necessary to develop
successful Whole-Faculty Study Groups.
CRISP Series
Always in Style
A complete guide for a woman who wants to create her best look. It
covers style (not to be confused with fashion), and describes how to make
bodyline, wardrobe, color, hair and make-up work for you. Includes thirty-
two pages demonstrating coordination of lipstick and blush with
wardrobe.
Balancing Home and Career, Third Edition
Written for busy working individuals who have other home and/or outside
commitments. This revised edition includes new chapters on business,
travel, and relocation. Case studies, tips, and checklists focus on how to
put quality time where you want it.
Change Management
CHANGE MANAGEMENT helps managers work through organizational
change with strategies for providing positive leadership while dealing
effectively with resistance and other trouble spots. The newly updated
third edition includes competency assessments to help managers become
adept change leaders who will inspire and motivate their employees.
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Conflict Management, Fourth Edition
Whether it's in the form of visible back biting or silent resentment, conflict
in the workplace can take a devastating toll on productivity and morale.
Managing interpersonal differences is essential to business and protects
the emotional health of employees. Learn how to help others settle their
differences and work constructively as individuals and groups with a
common purpose.
Find the Bathrooms First This book is a practical guide to the first three months of a new job. It
looks at that period of adjustment in the first six weeks of a new job
where indicators of potential success or failure can lead to an action plan.
Finding Your Purpose, Revised
A Guide to Personal Fulfillment
This book launches you on a journey of personal exploration and growth.
Practical exercises challenge you to discover insights about the way you
think and behave. Then the author provides a plan that can lead to
significant positive personal changes.
Graphics for Presenters
The Crisp Training Essentials Learning Track includes the best self-
directed study books at a significant cost savings. To help you learn the
essentials of training, this bundle combines the best Fifty-Minute Series
books and additional Crisp publications to provide in-depth knowledge of
the subject matter. Relevant case studies, self-evaluations, and practical
examples help to reinforce key concepts. Instead of ordering one book at a
time, simply order the bundle and start your library today.
Handling Difficult People and Situations
The customers and suppliers you need to work with effectively may be
outside your company or in the next office. and you may not always see
eye to eye. Even if you have strong interpersonal skills and common goals,
conflict can happen. Make sure you know how find common ground,
calm emotions and forge a productive path forward.
Managing Upward: Strategies for Succeeding with Your Boss
An excellent guide if you're wishing to position yourself for upward
professional mobility. This book introduces techniques for developing
positive working relationships with those above you in the organization.
It's not easy to "manage your boss," but the tips provided will help you
handle and offer both praise and criticism.
New Employee Orientation
Learn how to start new employees off on the right foot. Checklists and
exercises show managers and supervisors how to create a motivating
climate for new hires. Readers learn how to develop and implement a
customized orientation plan for new employees (both salaried and hourly).
Project Management, Fourth Edition
Build a building. Develop software. Relocate your office. Whatever
initiative you need to accomplish, the proven principles of Project
Management will help you achieve success. Developed as a discipline
during the U.S. space program, today Project Management helps
businesses and their leaders identify and leverage the talent, facilities,
techniques and finances to achieve their objectives.
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The Administrative Assistant: Starring in a Supporting Role
(Crisp Fifty-Minute Books)
Today, the administrative assistant operates at a high level, often reporting
to more than one person. Learn vital skills such as how to anticipate
needs, be a communication liaison, act as a project manager, and operate
as your boss' information manager.
The Business of Listening , 4th edition
Most people listen at less than a quarter of their capacity. We're
overwhelmed with information, pulled in different directions, and have
usually not been taught the most essential listening skills. The truth is: the
simple key to effective listening is wanting to be good at it. and anyone
can do it.
The New Supervisor, Fifth Edition
Others have already seen the traits of a leader in you. Now is the time to
polish those skills so you can hit the ground running and turn this into the
opportunity for professional and personal growth it truly is. As a
supervisor, your attitude and your actions will set the pace for your entire
staff. Learning how to delegate, prioritize and coach effectively is key to
your success.
Time Management, Fourth Edition
It doesn't matter if you use a paper notebook or the fanciest smartphone,
mastering your use of time will help you achieve more and worry less.
Everyone has the power to take control of their time. Learn the basic
principles of time management and discover the personal style that works
best for you.
Understanding Organizational Change
With this book, you'll learn how to cope with and understand
organizational change. A variety of models are presented that illustrate
common workplace challenges in times of change. For managers we've
included a section on how to help staff cope with organizational change.
Wellness in the Workplace
Geared toward management, this book explores the benefits of a well-
planned organizational wellness program. Case studies and exercises
outline the components of an effective health program and its often
unappreciated contribution to business success.
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