Interest in staff development for principals bodes well for teachers and students. By engaging in and modeling learning, principals can create a community of learners. (MLF)

Discusses the changing role of the human resource manager and the challenge in meeting the expectations of managers who recognize the importance of strategic planning for human resources. (JOW)

Leadership coaching has become vitally important to today's most successful businesses. This book is a landmark resource that presents a variety of perspectives and best practices from today's top executive coaches. It provides valuable guidance on exactly what the best coaches are now doing to get the most out of leaders, for now and into the…

The past few decades have seen substantial debate over the effectiveness of preparation programs for school administrators. A program is suggested that is based on the Texas superintendent certificate of 1994. Eight standards addressing superintendent performance were developed by the American Association of School Administrators: (1)…

Claims that the chief cause of the predicted dearth in managerial talent is "no will to manage." Explores a number of remedial actions that companies can take, such as more selective recruitment, more vigorous weeding out, and more participative management. So far, the most promising approach is formal training to shape managerial motivation.…

Describes a system that allows an administrator to spell out what sort of inservice training he would find personally valuable, then sets up the machinery to help provide it for him. (Author/DN)

Courses geared to the needs of managerial and supervisory personnel were conducted through Iowa's fifteen area community colleges as in-service training. Using a discussion format and course manuals, over 2000 people in four years have participated in the program, approximately one-half the number is managerial and supervisory positions in Iowa…

Article explains how mangement techniques originally developed for business, can yield greater productivity in schools. (Editor/GB)

An antiobsolescence management education program by TRW, Incorporated, includes preliminary discussion, reading, and consultation; offsite laboratory training; work unit application; a management skills workshop; and individual developmental followup. Program flow chart. (LY)

Describes seminars in professional management, managing by objectives, and organized interpersonal relationships designed to develop a cadre of men and women with professional management skills. Training Technology is a quarterly supplement to Educational Technology Magazine. (GR)

We need an eclectic management development approach combining the best features of both classroom based systems (T groups, sensitivity training, games, university programs) and of such job based systems as coaching, counseling, and planned rotation. (LY)

Management must instigate an open promotional policy; give women employees professional training; actively recruit women for professional jobs; and publicly state the organization's policy of non-discriminiation. (Editor/AS)

If middle management is destined for extinction, a new way of developing top management personnel will be needed. Author gives his views of how a Total Systems Organization will meet these new problems and overcome them. (MR)