books about: high-performing     books:       Team Performance Inventory: A Guide for Assessing and Building High-Performing Teams, Participant Workbook ... Darlene Davis, Wayne R. Davis Pfeiffer, 2008 Team Performance Inventory can be used effectively with any collaborative group, whether a work group, a department, or an entire business unit. The Participant Workbook introduces the four stages of team performance, includes team and individual development plans, and numerous exercises for improving team performance. Use this workbook along with the facilitator's guide and self assessment to create a powerful workshop that has been ...             Best Practices from High-Performing Middle Schools: How Successful Schools Remove obstacles and Create ... Kristen C. Wilcox, Janet I. Angelis Teachers College Press, 2009 Why is it that many students performance tends to drop in the middle school years, and what can we do about it? This book tells the stories of educators who embody best practices in their day-to-day activities practices that consistently lead to higher student academic achievement. The authors share what they have learned about how some middle schools consistently foster better academic performance than other similar schools. These schools have ...             4 Secrets of High Performing Organizations: Beyond the Flavor of the Month to Lasting Results10 reviews Bud Bilanich Front Row Press, 2002 Great advice for even the smallest company! Mr. Bilanich's book says it simply and with useful tools for any size organization. Not the latest fad, just practical and easily incorporated 'secrets' that are the fundamental basics of achieving a high performing organization.             The One Minute Manager Builds High Performing Teams: New and Revised Edition Ken Blanchard, Eunice Parisi-carew, ... William Morrow, 2009 Newly updated and backed by decades of research, this classic guide will equip leaders and team members alike to unleash the power of teamwork. Never before in the history of the workplace has the concept of teamwork been more important to the functioning of successful organizations. Ken Blanchard, bestselling coauthor of Raving Fans , The One Minute Manager ® and Gung Ho! , teams up with Donald Carew and Eunice Parisi-Carew to ...             The One Minute Manager Builds High Performing Teams12 reviews Ken Blanchard, Eunice Parisi-carew, ... William Morrow, 1991 all books should be like this one Short, straight-to-the point, wise book. This is exactly what I needed for increasing the productivity of the team I manage.             High Performing Investment Teams: How to Achieve Best Practices of Top Firms2 reviews Jim Ware, Jim Dethmer, ... Wiley, 2006 Highly recommended!!! An Insightful and Practical Guide to Investment Management Culture This is an excellent book for anyone in a leadership position within the investment management industry. Although it is focused on people in investment management, its insights apply to any organization. Reading it will help you understand how emotions affect decision-making on investment teams and how to manage emotions so that they enhance rather than undermine your results. Although all ...             The Leader's Window, 2nd Edition: Mastering the Four Styles of Leadership to Build High-Performing Teams4 reviews John Beck Intercultural Press, 2001 Should be on every leader?s bookshelf. I have applied the Blanchard-Hersey Situational Leadership model for years with much success. The book I relied on, "Management of Organizational Behavior," was good but, being an MBA level text, was more theoretical than "how-to." The only other book I have seen on Situational Leadership is "Leadership and the One-Minute Manager," which was the exact opposite: Too simple. This book ...             No Excuses : Lessons from 21 High-Performing, High-Poverty Schools4 reviews Samuel Casey Carter Heritage Foundation, 2000 No Excuses The book is outstanding and very inspiring. A must read for any teacher.             Winning With Accountability: The Secret Language of High Performing Organizations14 reviews Henry J. Evans CornerStone Leadership Institute, 2008 Our Employees Love It! As President and COO of a manufacturing company and CEO of several companies previously, I wish I had had this remarkable book long ago. What is most impressive is how the employees here enthusiastically embrace the utilization of the four pieces of the accountability puzzle. They now feel empowered to hold themselves and their colleagues accountable for getting it done right the first time. ...             The High-Performing School: Benchmarking the 10 Indicators of Effectiveness1 review Mardale Dunsworth, Dawn Billings Solution Tree, 2009 Finally! This book was exactly what I have been looking for. It gives specific advice - not generalities - based what is working in schools. For example instead of telling us to "use multiple measures," it tells us which ones are best for which purposes and how to tell when to use which one and how to do it. Instead of telling us to "make sure our discipline system keeps our school safe but also keeps ...             Failure Is Not an Option(TM): Six Principles That Guide Student Achievement in High-Performing Schools5 reviews Corwin Press, 2004 Develops six guiding principles for creating and sustaining high-performing schools Failure Is Not An Option: Six Principles That Guide Student Achievement In High-performing Schools is an impressive introduction to enhancing student performance which directly addresses transforming theory into practice and illustrating diverse applications with case studies and vignettes. Failure Is Not An Option develops six guiding principles for creating and sustaining high-performing ...             The Synergy of One: Creating High-Performing Sustainable Organizations Through Integrated Performance ...3 reviews Michael J. Dreikorn ASQ Quality Press, 2003 A Unique way to integrate all processes of your business I found this book interesting in the way the author has taken different strategies and theories of management and developed his concept of Integrated Performance Leadership (IPL). IPL provides the framework to allow all units of production/project management to operate in a defined order, reducing redundancy and conflicting differences. The book is a great source for those interested in running ...             Leading at a Higher Level, Revised and Expanded Edition: Blanchard on Leadership and Creating High Performing ...4 reviews Ken Blanchard FT Press, 2009 30 Years of Leadership Excellence in one book! Leading at a Higher Level should be required reading for every leader in every organization, no matter how huge or small! The additional chapters in this revised edition - on executive coaching, service excellence, and culture transformation - bring Blanchard's expertise into focus in critical areas for our country and the globe. Don't hesitate. Get it now and learn how to "lead at a higher ...             Leading at a Higher Level: Blanchard on Leadership and Creating High Performing Organizations12 reviews Ken Blanchard FT Press, 2006 A Flawless Leadership Blueprint Ken Blanchard's wonderful guide to what it takes to be a top-notch leader is a flawless blueprint for success. So much of what he advocates seems so obvious, but as we all know, it's not being applied in the great majority of that wasteland known as corporate America. That's a shame, because with the economy in the shape it's in, they need all the help they can get. Without a doubt, the ...             Inside Urban Charter Schools: Promising Practices and Strategies in Five High-Performing Schools Katherine K. Merseth, Kristy Cooper, ... Harvard Education Press, 2009 Inside Urban Charter Schools offers an unprecedentedly intimate glimpse into the world of charter schools by profiling five high-performing urban charter schools serving predominantly low-income, minority youth in Massachusetts. Interviews, focus groups, and classroom observations conducted over the course of two years flesh out rich and colorful portraits of daily life in these schools. Using an analytic framework grounded in research on ...             The 8 Best Practices of High-Performing Salespeople9 reviews Norm Trainor Wiley, 2000 Reveals secrets of the top salespeople of all time. Like most salespeople I would love to know the sales secrets of the giants in our industry. I have always wanted to pick their brains to find out what I need to do to reach their level. My search for the answers ended when I found Norm Trainor's The 8 Best Practices of High-Performing Salespeople. The 8 Best Practices is co-written by the same authors who assisted David Cowper in writing ...             Lessons from High-Performing Hispanic Schools: Creating Learning Communities (Critical Issues in Educational ... Teachers College Press, 1999 This practical volume provides school administrators and teachers with the information needed to convert ordinary schools into high performing schools. It offers practices for teachers and school principals to foster academic success, and strategies for involving parents in their child's education.             The Complete Book of Perfect Phrases for High-Performing Sales Professionals (Perfect Phrases Series) Robert Bacal, Bill Brooks McGraw-Hill, 2009 The Right Phrase for Every Sales Situation A powerful command of words is the number one requirement for succeeding in the field of sales. Whether you?re cold-calling a prospect, presenting to a group of decision makers, or dealing with price objection, the make-or-break point of every transaction lies in saying the right thing to the right person at the right time. The Complete Book of Perfect Phrases for ...              search for books accountability, achievement, assessing, benchmarking, blanchard, communities, educational, effectiveness, essential, high-performing, high-poverty, indicators, integrated, inventory, investment, leadership, mastering, obstacles, organizations, participant, performance, performing, practices, principles, professionals, promising, salespeople, strategies, successful, sustainable books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen tools & hardware: Powermatic 1791291K Model 31A 6-Inch/12-Inch 1-1/2 Horsepower Belt/Disc ... we recommend BEST book on the peace issue home  impressum - about us