Linda Russell – författare

Mention the dreaded phrase "performance review" to most employees, and you''re likely to get a variety of responses—none positive. Face it: it''s time to find a better way to manage performance.Whether you''re an organizational leader, human resource professional, or organization development specialist, Ultimate Performance Management can help you transform your company''s system for performance improvement. Rather than the traditional annual performance review, you can develop a larger framework for an ongoing performance coaching conversation, a fresh approach that enables managers and performers to build their skills consistently over time.This book provides complete background materials on learning and performance management issues, guidelines for assessing your organization''s current culture and evaluating your program results, and a full range of hands-on tools, including complete instructions and presentations for one-day or half-day workshops on several performance-related processes handouts such as checklists, exercises, charts, diagrams, and other supportive materials training instruments and tools including a wide array of quizzes, questionnaires, outlines, and feedback forms learning activities to provide workshop participants with a broad variety of structured experiences a CD-ROM containing all of the ready-to-print materials shown in the workbook. Note: The Content Express e-book contains a link to the same ready-to-print material contained within the CD-ROM.

A single reference source for understanding, leading, and managing the change process to skillfully translate vision into results.Change Basics will enable you to skillfully introduce and manage change. With an essential background on reasons for initial resistance and an analysis of possible outcomes, it provides specific strategies to counter opposition and implement a change initiative in your organization.

Designing courses to deliver effective teaching and significant learning is the best way to set students up for success, and this book guides readers through the process. The authors have worked with faculty world-wide, and share the stories of how faculty have transformed courses from theory to practice. They start with Dee Fink’s foundation of integrating course design. Then they provide additional design concepts to expand the course blueprint to implement plans for communication, accessibility, technology integration, as well as the assessment of course design as it fits into the assessment of programs and institutions, and how faculty can use what they learn to meet their professional goals.

Designing courses to deliver effective teaching and significant learning is the best way to set students up for success, and this book guides readers through the process. The authors have worked with faculty world-wide, and share the stories of how faculty have transformed courses from theory to practice. They start with Dee Fink’s foundation of integrating course design. Then they provide additional design concepts to expand the course blueprint to implement plans for communication, accessibility, technology integration, as well as the assessment of course design as it fits into the assessment of programs and institutions, and how faculty can use what they learn to meet their professional goals.

A single reference source for understanding, leading, and managing the change process to skillfully translate vision into results.Change Basics will enable you to skillfully introduce and manage change. With an essential background on reasons for initial resistance and an analysis of possible outcomes, it provides specific strategies to counter opposition and implement a change initiative in your organization.