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Motivating Your Team: Coaching for Performance in Schools
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Taylor, Peter R. – Paul Chapman Publishing, 2007
Designed to help you get the best out of your team, this practical book shows you how to motivate and engage people through the effective design, application and review of performance management. Checklists and practical guidance notes are provided to help you understand the principles and practice of effective performance management and how the…
Descriptors: Motivation, Motivation Techniques, Check Lists, Theory Practice Relationship
Maintaining Professional Competence. Approaches to Career Enhancement, Vitality, and Success throughout a Work Life.
Willis, Sherry L., Ed.; Dubin, Samuel S., Ed. – 1990
In response to the issues of global competition, the aging workforce, and the rapid rate of technological innovation and how today's professionals must meet these challenges, an examination is made of the key developmental approaches to maintaining and enhancing the knowledge and skills of midcareer and senior-level professionals. Twenty-one…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Competence, Competency Based Education, Evaluation Criteria
Managing and Developing People in the Virtual Organization. Professional Practices in Adult Education and Human Resource Development Series.
Colky, Deborah Lavin; Colky, Michael T.; Young, William H., III – 2002
Designed for managers and workers in virtual organizations as well as adult and continuing educators in higher education, associations, and private sector, this book outlines a customer-driven performance management system and explains its use as a development tool. The characteristics of virtual organizations are described, and the rationale for…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Case Studies, Collegiality, Continuing Education
Job Satisfaction for Child and Youth Care Workers.
Krueger, Mark A. – 1996
Job satisfaction, which can be defined as a feeling of fulfillment or pleasure associated with one's work, comes from many personal sources but can be nourished by supportive agency practices, daily interactions, and long-term goals. Job satisfaction is important for child and youth care workers because (1) job satisfaction and competence are…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Career Development, Career Planning, Child Caregivers
Learning in the Workplace: Strategies for Effective Practice.
Billett, Stephen – 2001
This book, which is designed for human resource practitioners and students in courses on professional development and adult and vocational learning, examines strategies for effective practice in workplace learning. The introduction discusses interest in and ambivalence toward workplace learning and key premises of workplace learning. The following…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Education, Adult Learning, Apprenticeships
From A to Z...Future@Work: An Employee Survival Guide for the 21st Century.
Synko, Nick – 1999
This document, which is intended for all employees from entry workers to company executives, examines the skills needed for survival in the 21st century workplace. The book contains 26 chapters arranged in an A to Z format. Selected chapter titles are as follows: "Attitude: Why Is Managing Your Attitude Part of Your Job?";…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Career Development, Career Education, Career Planning
Informal Learning in the Workplace: Unmasking Human Resource Development.
Garrick, John – 1998
This book examines the rhetoric surrounding the notion of informal learning in order to expand debate about the uses of informal learning in workplaces and about attempts to "recognize" it through competency-based standards. The following topics are among those discussed in the book's eight chapters: (1) the nature of informal learning…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Competence