Coming Even Cleaner About Organizational Change
Coming Even Cleaner About Organizational Change

Author: Jerry L. Patterson

Publisher: R&L Education

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 0810847396

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An expanded, updated version of 1997's Coming Clean About Organizational Change, this version contains 50 percent new references and 40 percent new content including chapters on organizational culture, resilience, new conceptual frameworks on organizational change, and zones of individual performance. Readers will learn how to work within the reality of an imposed change and be true to the values of the change initiatives held as an educational leader. Topics include: New Ways to Think About Organizational Change, Leadership, and Resilience, A Leader's Guide to Understanding Organizational Culture, Harsh Realities About People, Harsh Realities About Organizations, Strengthening Resilience in Others, Increasing Your Own Resilience

Resilient School Leaders
Resilient School Leaders

Author: Jerry L. Patterson

Publisher: ASCD

Published: 2005-11-15

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1416603689

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Resilient School Leaders answers a fundamental question: "How can leaders move ahead in the face of adversity?" Every education leader faces difficult situations and seemingly impossible odds. Where do they find the confidence and energy to keep working for what they believe in, despite setbacks and opposition? Drawing on current research in a variety of disciplines, including performance psychology, physiology, and education, Jerry L. Patterson and Paul Kelleher first outline the three sources of resilience capacity: personal values, efficacy, and energy. Then they share the personal insights of 25 highly regarded educational leaders, including Gene Carter, Roland Barth, and Michael Fullan. These insights illustrate how leaders can increase their own resilience. Patterson and Kelleher, lifelong educators themselves, distill their research into the six strengths that enable resilient leaders to powerfully influence organizational culture: * Accurate assessment of the past and current reality * Positive views of the future * True commitment to personal values * Strong sense of personal efficacy * Wise investment of personal energy * Courage to act on convictions Premised on a belief in hope and optimism in the face of life's storms, Resilient School Leaders offers a reliable road map for navigating through the modern-day challenges in our schools. You’ll come away from this book with renewed confidence in your ability to achieve your goals, no matter what obstacles you encounter along the way. Note: This product listing is for the Adobe Acrobat (PDF) version of the book.

Evaluating the Superintendent
Evaluating the Superintendent

Author: Jarett Powers

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-07-26

Total Pages: 127

ISBN-13: 1475849834

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As local elections and other occurrences can transform a board and its direction, having a performance review cycle to ensure that all board members understand the philosophy undergirding the superintendent’s evaluation is critical to ensuring that all members of the governing board are operating within a similar framework and purpose as they approach the superintendent’s evaluation cycle. Acknowledging that superintendents have the potential to grow in their professional capacity, revisiting the philosophical underpinnings of the evaluation over time ensures that the process does not remain static. Each chapter within this text is designed to develop the basis for understanding the superintendent’s evaluation process to create opportunities for an open and continuous dialogue between superintendents and school boards. This book will support those charged with leading and governing public schools to implement effective evaluations for both school boards and superintendents that provide an objective and summative collection of the superintendent’s annual performance and his/her relative impact on targeted success within a given school year.

Servant Leadership: Research and Practice
Servant Leadership: Research and Practice

Author: Selladurai, Raj

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2014-03-31

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 146665841X

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Leaders represent a necessary part of any organizational structure, and leadership styles can vary greatly between individuals. Servant leadership is one such leadership style which is helping individuals guide and encourage others within their organization. Servant Leadership: Research and Practice explores the concept of rethinking the leader-subordinate relationship structure through the dissolution of an authoritarian leadership style. This book supports current and future leaders through relevant discussions on methodologies and tools in support of servant leadership, and is designed for use by business managers, executives, scholars, and upper-level students.

Change Intelligence
Change Intelligence

Author: Barbara A. Trautlein

Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1608324427

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In the world of business, the ability to handle constant change makes the difference between success and failure. Today, executives, supervisors, and project managers have plenty of methodologies for managing change, yet the failure rate of major organizational change is still an abysmal 70 percent. In this innovative guide, Barbara Trautlein argues that this is because our current approaches are inadequate when not used in tandem with a deep understanding of change intelligence, or CQ the skill set required to lead a team or company through vital transformations. Inside, she gives readers access to a proprietary, interactive CQ assessment that s based on substantial research and experience in working with hundreds of top organizations. And after readers learn their own change leader style, they go on to discover practical strategies for leveraging their strengths and shoring up their weak spots. Trautlein, a leading authority on change leadership, keeps the theory light and delves into insightful case studies drawn from her decades of experience. Her example-based approach allows readers to plainly see how they can start driving real transformation not by adopting yet another new tool but by bolstering their own capacity for change leadership. "

Understanding Organizational Change
Understanding Organizational Change

Author: Patrick Dawson

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2003-02-24

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780761971603

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Eschewing the hyperbole of many current management books Patrick Dawson uses the views and experiences of people from the shop floor to the upper reaches of executive management to further our understanding of complex organizational change processes.

Social Entrepreneurship in Education
Social Entrepreneurship in Education

Author: Michael R. Sandler

Publisher: R&L Education

Published: 2010-01-16

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 160709357X

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Social Entrepreneurship in Education chronicles the twenty-five-year history of entrepreneurs who responded to the call of A Nation at Risk and helped launch an education industry. It tells the story of these 'education entrepreneurs' and the lessons they learned, using entrepreneurial skills to tackle public problems and improve outcomes for millions of students. This book demonstrates, firsthand, the importance of mentorship and profiles the individuals behind the businesses, highlighting the skills and characteristics that one must possess to successfully execute and operate enterprises in education. It reflects on the development of a burgeoning industry and illuminates the possibilities for applying a private sector mind-set to education. This book is fundamental for understanding the ins and outs of utilizing social entrepreneurship to improve education for American students.

Psychological Consultation and Collaboration
Psychological Consultation and Collaboration

Author: Duane Brown

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13:

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This textbook outlines the major models of consultation, describes the consulting process, and explores the impact of consultant/collaborator and consultee characteristics on the process, ways to gather data for evaluation, and some ethical and legal guidelines. Previously published as Psychological consultation in 2001, the sixth edition expands the discussion of cross-cultural interactions. Annotation :2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Dartmouth and the World
Dartmouth and the World

Author: Henry C. Clark

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2022-03-10

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1683933184

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For the 250th anniversary of the founding of Dartmouth College, the Political Economy Project at Dartmouth assembled a stellar cast of junior and senior scholars to explore the systemic conditions facing those seeking to found a new college two hundred fifty years ago. What were the key political, economic and religious parameters operating in the Atlantic world at the time of the College’s founding? What was the religious scene like at the moment when the Rev. Samson Occom of the Mohegan nation and the Rev. Eleazar Wheelock of Connecticut, two men from very different backgrounds whose improbable meeting occurred during the Great Awakening of the early 1740s, set about establishing a new school in the northern woods in the 1760s? How were the agendas of contemporaries differently mediated by the religious beliefs with which they acted, on the one hand, and the emerging thought world of political economy, very broadly understood, on the other? These are among the rich and variegated topics addressed in Dartmouth and the World, which breaks the mold of the traditional commemorative volume.

Higher Education's Looming Collapse
Higher Education's Looming Collapse

Author: Stephen V. Coffin

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2021-08-15

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1475845324

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Higher education must implement new ways of achieving social justice and performing the business of education to survive the impending shakeout stemming from increasing competition for enrollment, operating costs, and price sensitivity plus decreasing state aid, net tuition, endowment income, and college-bound high school graduates. Universities that survive the shakeout will achieve financial sustainability, educational excellence, and social justice while providing equal educational opportunity and resource equity by implementing the book’s best practices, strategies, and holistic budgeting model.