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This book covers what twelve steps school leaders need to take to
make for a high-achieving school environment. It encompasses strong
leadership, vision and values, high expectations, embedded
professional development, flexibility and resilience, and seven
more steps. It concludes with a questionnaire, the High
Expectations Environmental Scale (HEES), which you may apply to
your organization to determine its level of high expectations.
Are you lacking confidence in your decision-making abilities?
Leaders often have to make challenging decisions, such as how do we
improve employee morale? How do we decrease employee turnover? What
needs to happen to ensure employees and stakeholders feel safe to
return to work during a pandemic? Great leaders understand how to
balance emotion with reason and to make decisions that positively
impact their organizations. Making good decisions in difficult
situations is no small feat. Change, uncertainty, stress, and
anxiety all contribute to this dilemma. The Practical Decision
Maker: A Handbook for Decision Making and Problem Solving, 2nd
edition will help you achieve a high level of confidence and give
you practical tools to make faster and more effective practical
decisions. Decision-making has never been more critical, especially
for today's leaders. Updates to this new edition include additions
to reflect 21st century technology and the divisive times leaders
are in today.
Today's educational leaders are often caught in a world of rising
expectations and diminishing resources-the political pressures are
enormous. Those in the business of education often feel ill
prepared and apprehensive about their ability to deal with a
high-stakes political environment. The Politically Intelligent
Leader helps leaders at all levels learn more about themselves and
their own political styles. It provides strategies for delivering a
personal educational vision, diagnosing others' styles, and
customizing strategies to influence those who can help or hinder
one's organizational goals as well as providing groundwork for
leaders to understand how to operate ethically with all
groups-elected boards, citizen groups, unions and volunteers-during
politically volatile times.
This book covers what twelve steps school leaders need to take to
make for a high-achieving school environment. It encompasses strong
leadership, vision and values, high expectations, embedded
professional development, flexibility and resilience, and seven
more steps. It concludes with a questionnaire, the High
Expectations Environmental Scale (HEES), which you may apply to
your organization to determine its level of high expectations.
Resistance is at the heart of the change process, yet it is often
overlooked or perceived as a negative force. This book explores
resistance as a natural, positive, and necessary component of
change. Twenty discrete resistance factors likely to be found in a
variety of circumstances are described. The short vignettes that
accompany each make the resistance factors come alive. Beyond
gaining greater insights into the nature of these sources of
resistance, the reader is provided with specific strategies, or
antidotes, to harness the power of resistance, transforming it from
a negative to a positive force. An included survey tool, built
based on questions presented at the end of each chapter, will
assist leaders in assessing potential sources of resistance to
change events. An eight-step resistance-based change model
transactional in nature and simple in application supports the
reader in successfully moving nearly any change project toward a
positive outcome.
Resistance is at the heart of the change process, yet it is often
overlooked or perceived as a negative force. This book explores
resistance as a natural, positive, and necessary component of
change. Twenty discrete resistance factors_likely to be found in a
variety of circumstances_are described. The short vignettes that
accompany each make the resistance factors come alive. Beyond
gaining greater insights into the nature of these sources of
resistance, the reader is provided with specific strategies, or
antidotes, to harness the power of resistance, transforming it from
a negative to a positive force. An included survey tool, built
based on questions presented at the end of each chapter, will
assist leaders in assessing potential sources of resistance to
change events. An eight-step resistance-based change
model_transactional in nature and simple in application_supports
the reader in successfully moving nearly any change project toward
a positive outcome.
Today's educational leaders are often caught in a world of rising
expectations and diminishing resources_the political pressures are
enormous. Those in the business of education often feel ill
prepared and apprehensive about their ability to deal with a
high-stakes political environment. The Politically Intelligent
Leader helps leaders at all levels learn more about themselves and
their own political styles. It provides strategies for delivering a
personal educational vision, diagnosing others' styles, and
customizing strategies to influence those who can help or hinder
one's organizational goals as well as providing groundwork for
leaders to understand how to operate ethically with all
groups_elected boards, citizen groups, unions and volunteers_during
politically volatile times.
Today's educational leaders are often caught in a world of rising
expectations and diminishing resources - the political pressures
are enormous. Those in the business of education often feel ill
prepared and apprehensive about their ability to deal with a
high-stakes political environment. The Politically Intelligent
Leader helps leaders at all levels learn more about themselves and
their own political styles. It provides strategies for delivering a
personal educational vision, diagnosing others' styles, and
customizing strategies to influence those who can help or hinder
one's organizational goals as well as providing groundwork for
leaders to understand how to operate ethically with all groups -
elected boards, citizen groups, unions and volunteers - during
politically volatile times.
Here is an update of the previous edition, more relevant for the
new millennium. The classic resources in management and team
building are people, money, facilities and time. Increasingly,
though, the fifth resource_energy_is becoming more crucial. Each
chapter of this book deals with one of the five building blocks or
resources and concludes with suggested activities and events that
managers can use to build that resource. The authors also show the
importance of using all five resources together for a manager to be
effective. It is important to note that team building is not itself
an activity, but the result of attending to the seventeen
characteristics that demarcate effective teamwork. When these
characteristics exist to a high degree, you have an effective team.
It is the manager's job to assess the strength of these
characteristics in the organization and then to remediate any
weakness. Building upon the strengths of the people in the
organization ensures that a manager is building for the future.
This widely read practical guide is free of technical jargon, with
many examples of successful implementation.
Now in Paper! Helpful examples from both the public and private
sectors and from literature and history are presented in this
outstanding volume for superintendents, central-office
administrators, and corporate managers involved in the change
process.
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