[PDF] Struggling For Effectiveness eBook

Author : Stephen Brown
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 31,43 MB
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0773587098

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The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) allocates vast sums of money each year, providing vital assistance to countless individuals across the developing world. Yet many observers and insiders have sharply criticized CIDA for its lack of concrete results. Presenting a range of work by scholars and practitioners, this collection offers the most comprehensive examination of CIDA's efforts in over a decade. Contributors explore recent trends in Canadian foreign aid, including topics such as its place in Canadian politics, gender and security concerns, advocacy and public engagement, the complexity of CIDA policies, and CIDA's relationship with non-governmental organizations. The perspectives assembled in Struggling for Effectiveness bring clarity to the issue of foreign aid while judiciously gauging Canada's record and offering concrete suggestions for strengthening CIDA's efforts to help people living in poverty. Extensively researched and comprehensive in scope, Struggling for Effectiveness will be indispensable to anyone interested in Canadian assistance abroad and Canada's place in a rapidly changing world. Contributors include Stephen Baranyi (University of Ottawa), David Black (Dalhousie University), Elizabeth Blackwood (Simon Fraser University), Stephen Brown (University of Ottawa), Dominique Caouette (Université de Montréal), Adam Chapnick (Canadian Forces College), Denis Côté (Canadian Council for International Cooperation), Molly den Heyer (Dalhousie University), Nilima Gulrajani (Oxford University), Hunter McGill (University of Ottawa), Anca Paducel (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva), Rosalind Raddatz (University of Ottawa), Ian Smillie (independent scholar and consultant), Veronika Stewart (Simon Fraser University), and Liam Swiss (Memorial University of Newfoundland).

Author : Edward J. Murphy
Publisher :
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 13,75 MB
Release : 2016-06-22
Category :
ISBN : 9781534603158

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Who's holding a meeting today to move your career forward? Is your employer doing all he can to maximize your potential? Who cares more about your career than you do? What are you doing to improve yourself? What will it take before you decide to act on your own behalf, instead of waiting for others. These questions are designed to get you to think about your career. Do you have a strong desire to: Maximize your true career potential? Become more effective tomorrow than you are today? Become absolutely essential and irreplaceable? Consistently produce excellent results? Get promoted ahead of your peers? Increase your income producing power? If so, then this guide is for you. This guide is about effectiveness, your effectiveness, your ability to become more effective tomorrow than you are today. In my view, companies today would be better served by training and measuring individual and team effectiveness. I wrote this guide to focus on effectiveness because your effectiveness is something you directly control and can therefore change. Your effectiveness is the sum total of all your skills, knowledge, abilities, and talents. Being selected for a leadership or management position is not something you control. Others, like your employer, make those decisions. And, it's important to understand how leadership and management relate to your effectiveness. So, how can you become more effective, which is what your employer expects, when it's not taught anywhere in academia or learned from your past experience? As I see it, you have two choices. You can either do nothing and hope your employer trains you, or you can take the initiative and train yourself. The bad news is that businesses today aren't willing to invest in training you until you've been with them for a considerable amount of time and have proven yourself. Where does that leave you? In the middle of the ocean - is the answer. You're on your own-good luck! Which of these two choices do you directly control? What are you waiting for? The problem I see in business today is that even though leadership development has evolved over the past five decades, how it's being used and taught has remained the same. Best of all, this guide is self-paced, easy to use, and gives you everything you want to know, everything your employer expects you to know, plus the top things you didn't realize you needed to know and, much, much, more. You'll find no theory or case studies here - just real world examples of what works and what doesn't. You have too much to lose by not taking a more active role in learning the critical skills needed for successful job performance. Without your personal drive for greater effectiveness, getting just a little bit better tomorrow than you are today, no program of self-development can ever help you achieve your true potential. So, if you're looking for a better way to jump start your career, this guide will be the best investment you could ever make. The one thing I know for certain is that doing nothing, sitting there and waiting for someone else to make you more effective is the definition of complacency, which will kill your career. what are you doing to improve yourself? Stop complaining and wishing you were better, and do something about it, today."

Author : Linda Holbeche
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 27,36 MB
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317808851

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In this book Linda Holbeche offers an historical narrative on the changing landscape of work since the 1980s and considers how definitions of organizational effectiveness have changed over time. She considers the characteristics and effects of the neo-liberal work culture of new capitalism, and how HRM practices have contributed to shaping this work culture. Influencing Organizational Effectiveness challenges mainstream thinking around business strategy, change and organizational effectiveness, and about the roles of HRM and management. While the overall tone of the book is critical, Holbeche argues that HRM can play an active role in giving voice to employees and advancing organizational effectiveness. Grounded in research, this book includes reflective questions, case studies and helpful guidelines to support HRM and organizational development professionals and master's-level students. It illustrates what ‘better’ might look like and how HRM can contribute to a new definition of effectiveness which is aligned to the needs of modern organizations.

Author : Mel Ainscow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 14,60 MB
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 1317420462

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In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces – extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions – so the world can read them in a single manageable volume. Readers will be able to follow the themes and strands and see how their work contributes to the development of the field. Spanning Mel Ainscow’s accomplished 30 year international career in education, the texts in this book trace his efforts to find ways of fostering more equitable forms of education. This has involved a series of struggles as he has experimented with different approaches - in a variety of contexts - to find new possibilities for responding to learner diversity. Over the years this has related to a variety of headline themes, starting from special education, through to integration, on to inclusive education, and then, more recently, educational equity. The readings have been chosen to illustrate the changes that have occurred in Ainscow’s thinking and practices and a short introduction is provided for each chapter that is intended to help readers to understand the significance of what is presented and how this relates to other chapters in the book. The writings in this text reinforce the idea that the promotion of equity in schools is essentially a social process that has to occur within particular contexts.

Author : Diane Sweeney
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 13,87 MB
Release : 2018-05-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 1544320574

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Essential leadership moves for supporting instructional coaching in your school Strong leadership is essential in any successful instructional coaching effort. Leading Student-Centered Coaching provides principals and district leaders with the background, practices, and tools required for leading coaching efforts that have a profound and positive impact on student and teacher learning. Filled with practical ideas that school leaders can easily apply to their own school settings, this book includes: Tools and techniques for preparing a school for coaching, launching a coaching culture, and supporting coaches Leadership Moves sections that provide strategies for building principal and coach partnerships Richly detailed Lessons from the Field, based on the authors’ real-life experiences, that illustrate principal and coach collaboration Recommendations for coaches to use as they strive to increase their impact With a focus on the critical role of school leadership, this action-oriented guide provides the key ingredients for ensuring the success of school-based coaching initiatives. "Sweeney and Mausbach explore the necessary ingredients to a successful instructional coach partnership between the principal and the coaches. This is a must-read for building leadership teams implementing an instructional coach program" —Timothy S. Grieves, Chief Administrator Northwest Area Education Agency, IA "This book synthesized the work necessary of school leaders when working with the coach. As a principal who was a student-centered coach, this book has shown me how I can tweak the skills I learned and apply them with a leadership lens." —Kelly Neylon, Principal Meadowview School, Woodridge IL

Author : Teresa Ike
Publisher : eBookIt.com
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 19,39 MB
Release : 2018-11-24
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1456632027

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Does poverty or wealth reside in the DNA? Why do the rich perpetuate their wealth and poor people seem to perpetuate their financial struggles? The Home School of Abundance expresses the power of the home in laying the right foundation for financial success. If we understand that what happens to an individual can often be traced back to early childhood influences, we must explore the roots of financial struggles. Parents and other significant others owe a responsibility to be deliberate in the process of laying that healthy blue print on which future financial experiences can be built on.

Author : Trynia Kaufman
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 33,71 MB
Release : 2024-04-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 1071904973

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Disrupt the painful cycle of academic challenges and emotional distress When students struggle with learning, it can be stressful for both them and their teachers. Struggling learners are more likely to experience low self-esteem, anxiety, depression, and behavioral issues—challenges that, combined with highly stressful learning experiences, can tip students into a trauma response that makes learning even harder. Overcoming the School Trauma Cycle explores the science behind how learning occurs in the brain, how it can be disrupted, and—most importantly—how to overcome the painful cycle of academic challenges and emotional distress. Inside, you′ll find: What the latest research tells us about how mental health issues can disrupt the learning process How academic and mental health challenges can fuel each other Manageable, whole-class practices and targeted supports to meet struggling learners’ academic and emotional needs Opportunities to self-assess and reflect Many schools have increased their focus on trauma-informed teaching and social-emotional learning, but these approaches are too often pitted against academic rigor when they are really two sides of the same coin. To improve outcomes for all students, we must address their social-emotional needs alongside their academic ones. In Overcoming the School Trauma Cycle, you′ll discover empowering practices to help all students learn and thrive.

Author : Edward Lawler
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 50,33 MB
Release : 2012-07-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0804782687

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Effective Human Resource Management is the Center for Effective Organizations' (CEO) sixth report of a fifteen-year study of HR management in today's organizations. The only long-term analysis of its kind, this book compares the findings from CEO's earlier studies to new data collected in 2010. Edward E. Lawler III and John W. Boudreau measure how HR management is changing, paying particular attention to what creates a successful HR function—one that contributes to a strategic partnership and overall organizational effectiveness. Moreover, the book identifies best practices in areas such as the design of the HR organization and HR metrics. It clearly points out how the HR function can and should change to meet the future demands of a global and dynamic labor market. For the first time, the study features comparisons between U.S.-based firms and companies in China, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and other European countries. With this new analysis, organizations can measure their HR organization against a worldwide sample, assessing their positioning in the global marketplace, while creating an international standard for HR management.

Author : Rev. Michael E. Connors, CSC
Publisher : Liturgy Training Publications
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 27,58 MB
Release : 2021-01-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1618333208

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Effective Preaching: Bringing People into an Encounter with God is a practical collection of essays, featuring leading preachers, homilists and homily instructors. Compiled by Michael E. Connors, CSC, the Director of the John Marten Program in Homiletics and Liturgics at the University of Notre Dame, this imaginative book focuses entirely on the practical side of Catholic preaching. It will provide imaginative, hands-on, tested advice to help homilists develop preaching effectiveness, using techniques that will turn satisfactory preaching into exceptional preaching. This practical resource will be essential for priests, permanent deacons, seminarians in homiletics classes; retreat leaders, RCIA catechists; all who preach.