Rowitz demonstrates how the skills and tools used to build effective leadership in the business world can be adopted by public health professionals. Exercises, case studies, and discussion questions are incorporated into detailed chapters on theories and principles of leadership, applications to public health, leadership skills, and evaluation and research. Rowitz supplements the definition of leadership with practical skills, including communication, delegation, public speaking, media advocacy, and cultural sensitivity
Dear Parents, Relatives, Teachers, Mentors, and Friends, Other than food, shelter, and clothing, reading is the very next best thing that you can do for your children to prepare them for their future. Not only does reading enrich the mind but it helps young personalities grow and bloom into a sense of purpose with an understanding of what life is about. Readers are truly leaders in all walks of life, and the gift of reading is a legacy for a lifetime. How do I know this? I am certain of these facts by the way my mother cultivated reading in my development and gave me the gift of having an infinite number of teachers in books and stories. I was not place bound because of where I lived. From my early years I traveled and learned about new people, countries, and cultures though books. I read biographies, learned about saints and sinners, and enjoyed silly stories as one of my favorite pastimes through reading. I read out loud, to my mother, to my dolls, and even to my cats if they were a willing audience. But in fact, all the time, I was reading to and for myself. Today, I am certified as a reading professional K-12 and hold a license to develop a school reading program that advances through the grade levels. I can also work to diagnose reading problems in individuals. But, that is not what I choose to do now. Instead, I choose to instill the value of reading in people though my authorship of writings aligned with Napoleon Hill's works. Reading is a gift that literally lasts a lifetime, keeps on giving, and grows a brain full of beauty and richness. Particulars aside, reading is a fun and valuable activity that allows each and every one of us to become the person we envision becoming. Fail to read. Fail to succeed. It is as simple and complex as that. Readers are leaders. If you want to be one, get out those books and learn the lessons of your choice. Happy Reading! Be Your Very Best Always through READING! Judith Williamson "I thought the book was cool in many ways. It teaches kids to be nice, enthusiastic, disciplined and helpful but in the form of a cute bedtime story." -Cameron Stulting-Flores, Student
A comprehensive, practical guide to managing all aspects of training, from programme creation to implementation and monitoring success rates. It offers flexible strategies for adapting training to meet the demands on today's professionals. This new edition retains popular features of its predecessor, and also covers some of the latest developments in the ever-changing world of training and development.
Restoring Disturbed Landscapes is a hands-on guide for individuals and groups seeking to improve the functional capacity of landscapes. Abundantly illustrated with photos and figures, Restoring Disturbed Landscapes is an engaging and accessible work designed specifically for restoration practitioners with limited training or experience in the field. It uses a five-step adaptive procedure to tell restorationists where to start, what information they need to acquire, and how to apply this information to their specific situations. Cosponsored by the Society for Ecological Restoration International and Island Press, this series offers a foundation of practical knowledge and scientific insight that will help ecological restoration become the powerful reparative and healing tool that the world needs
On Teaching and Learning takes the ideas explored inrenowned educator Jane Vella’s best-selling book Learningto Listen, Learning to Teach to the next level and explores howdialogue education has been applied in educational settings aroundthe world. Throughout the book, she shows how to put the principlesand practices of dialogue education into action and usesillustrative stories and examples from her extensivetravels. Dialogue education values inquiry, integrity, andcommitment to equity—values that are also central todemocracy. Learners are treated as beings worthy of respect,recognized for the knowledge and experience they bring to thelearning experience. Dialogue education emphasizes the importanceof safety and belonging. It is an approach that welcomesone’s certainties and one’s questions.
An eight-time national chess champion and world champion martial artist shares the lessons he has learned from two very different competitive arenas, identifying key principles about learning and performance that readers can apply to their life goals. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.
New Edition Available 12/28/2012 This thorough revision maintains the same basic structure of the first edition of Public Health Leadership. In five parts, it explores the basic theories and principles of leadership and then describes how they may be applied in the public health setting. Leadership skills and competencies, as well as methods for measuring and evaluating leaders are also thoroughly covered. The final chapter has been expanded to cover the future of public health and global leadership. Four new chapters have been added to the Second Edition: a chapter on the interface between management and leadership, a chapter on systems and complexity leadership concerns, and a chapter on employee development. The final new chapter will explore the transition from traditional leadership roles to the new roles required by a focus on bioterrorism and other disasters. New case studies, interviews, and exercises have also been added. The Second Edition also features new sidebar boxes with quotes from classic and contemporary writers on leadership.
Innovative, interdisciplinary, practitioner-oriented insights into the key challenges faced in addressing the services trade liberalization and domestic regulation interface.
What principles should guide an empowerment evaluation? And how can these principles actually be put into practice? One of the primary tasks in an empowerment evaluation (EE) is to increase the capacity of program stakeholders to plan, implement, and evaluate their own programs. This book presents the most current formulation of the 10 principles of EE and provides professionals and students with the tools to put these principles into practice. Through case studies of diverse evaluation projects--including community health foundation initiatives, school district programs, and a $15 million corporate program aimed at bridging the digital divide--the founder and leading proponents of EE clarify key concepts and discuss important lessons learned. Coverage includes how to balance program improvement efforts with accountability requirements; how EE can be used to guide standards-based work; how to use EE in a learning organization; the differences among empowerment, collaborative, and participatory evaluation; and much more.
