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Effective Supervisory Practices
Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-305) and index.
Building High-Performance Local Governments
Don’t permit your organization to be lulled into complacency after recovering from a tough recession. Explore what’s necessary to improve the performance of your organization, including the development of leaders at all levels who will use their full capabilities to boost collective results. The High-Performance Organization Model identifies the steps needed to diagnose what will be required to achieve the strategic outcomes you define as success. It shows which levers will move the organization in the direction you decide is critical. This book contains more than just theory; here you’ll find case studies of local governments—demonstrating how Commonwealth Centers for High-Performan...
Fire Officer: Principles and Practice includes Navigate Advantage Access
The fourth edition of Fire Officer: Principles and Practice was significantly updated and reorganized to better serve the Fire Officer I and Fire Officer II. The content meets and exceeds the job performance requirements for Fire Officer I and II in the 2020 Edition of NFPA 1021, Standard for Fire Officer Professional Qualifications. The new edition places an emphasis on the application of leadership traits and management theories, common leadership and management challenges, and how leadership is used to meet objectives. The basic principles and methods of Community Risk Reduction are also discussed.In addition, the program now has two distinct sections: Section One includes eight chapters, which set the foundation for Fire Officer I knowledge and understanding. Section Two comprises six chapters, which encompass the higher level competencies required for Fire Officer II. This new organization will allow you the flexibility to teach your Fire Officer I and II course(s) exactly the way you wish.
Local Government Police Management
This brand new revision of ICMA¿s classic police management reference includes new coverage of such cutting-edge issues as terrorism and community security, leadership and managing change, setting standards and measuring performance, information management and technological innovations, and strengthening police-community partnerships. It provides information for local government administrators and police executives on managing patrol, prevention, investigations, and transportation services; the special challenges of local drug control and criminal organizations; internal functions such as human resources, planning, and facilities design; and linkages with other governmental and nongovernmental agencies and service providers, including crime laboratories. The volume emphasizes the importance of personal leadership by the chief in facilitating change, setting standards, and fostering integrity.
The Fit Factors
The Fit Factors guides readers through the challenges regarding career decisions, the solution for making smart decisions, and how to proactively manage your career from the job hunt to promotions. An excellent companion to StrengthsFinder 2.0, The Fit Factors will help you build on your strengths to find the best job and build a great career.This book explains:- How to evaluate jobs using The Fit Factors- How companies and job seekers have different goals- How to ensure recruiters look at your resume- What companies are not telling you about their workplace- Why setting goals needs to happen before your interview- Interviewing the interviewer- What to do on your first day at a new job- The ...
Executive Coaching
The unrelenting pace of business in modern organizations places constant pressure on employees, challenging the physical and emotional resources of both staff and supervisors. Consultants have become familiar with the survivalist mentality among workers, each struggling to improve production, solve intractable conflict, and chart realistic growth. This book was written to help organizational consultants understand the chaotic processes and psychodynamic problems that influence executive behavior and performance. In engaging prose highlighted by substantial case illustrations, the author examines organizational conflict and shows how methods and techniques developed in clinical settings can be applied to coach executives and management teams. The book is an important read for consultants who wish to help executives develop human wisdom and to gain insight into the chaotic, "shadow" side of individual and organizational life. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved).
The Missing Piece: The Essential Skills that Education Forgot
There is a fundamental gap in education. While we focus on building knowledge and securing good grades there is something missing. All of us, whatever we do, need a core set of skills which go beyond the academic - to work with others, to manage ourselves, to communicate effectively, and to creatively solve problems. We might call them different things but we draw on them as much as numeracy or literacy. Tom Ravenscroft knows them as the enterprise skills. If we need them, our students need them even more. They underpin effective learning in the classroom. They stop students dropping out at university. They are more highly valued than academic grades by employers. They are a foundation for s...
Assessing Learners with Special Needs
This book provides readers with a practical approach for learning about the complex procedures of the assessment process. The readers are presented with the procedures in a step-by-step manner with exercises to help them solidify their knowledge of each step. Portions of assessment instruments, protocols, and scoring tables are provided to aid readers in their work with the practice exercises. Additionally, readers with participate in the educational decision-making process using data from classroom observations, curriculum-based assessment, functional behavior assessment, and data from norm-referenced assessment. KEY TOPICS: implementation of IDEA 2004, progress monitoring, assessment proce...
