Use Lean Techniques to Integrate Enterprise Systems Faster, with Far Less Cost and RiskBy some estimates, 40 percent of IT budgets are devoted to integration. However, most organizations still attack integration on a project-by-project basis, causing unnecessary expense, waste, risk, and delay. They struggle with integration “hairballs”: complex point-to-point information exchanges that are expensive to maintain, difficult to change, and unpredictable in operation....

An expanded edition filled with ideas, strategies, and tools for school counselorsThis Survival Guide helps counselors plan and implement an effective counseling program tailored to the needs of all students. Step by step, the book walks readers through every aspect of the school counselor job, including: designing a comprehensive counseling program, communicating with students and fellow staff, facilitating groups, promoting positive school discipline, integrating a guida...

"The Six-C approach provides a framework within which people can work together to attack the problem, not each other. By ending each conflict with conciliation, those who use this approach can do much more than resolve conflict—they can build each other up so future conflicts will be easier to resolve."—Bob Bowen, Chief Executive OfficerThe Mandt System, Inc.Don′t let conflict get in the way of meaningful collaboration!Confli...

Every semester or term, many students panic during exam time. Are you one of them?? Do you like to find a better way of doing things?? If you have answered yes to any of those questions, then this book is definitely for you.With many years spent at University and various institutions of learning, I know how it feels to wake up and go to the exam room whilst knowing or feeling not ready. I have been there. I wrote this book for anyone who is in school, no matter your age. You could ...

Designed to help educators confidently lead difficult conversations, this insightful book offers interactive exercises, sample scripts, and a step-by-step approach to help realize positive outcomes.

The Acclaimed Bestseller That Can Improve Your Classroom Experience Forever!Over the years, millions of parents have come to trust the classic Positive Discipline series for its consistent, commmonsense approach to child rearing. Hundreds of schools also use these amazingly effective strategies for restoring order and civility to today's turbulent classrooms. Now you too can use this philosophy as a foundation for fostering cooperation, problem-solv...

Dramatically improve human capital management decisions by applying advanced analytics and "Big Data" technologies and processes! Pioneering HR technology expert James Sesil identifies widespread flaws in today's HR decision-making processes, and reveals how advanced analytics can help organizations make far more robust decisions about employee selection, performance management, strategy alignment, collaboration, and more. In this book he shows how to integrate Business Intelligence, ERP, ...

Get ready for the best years of your life! College Survival: Study Skills contains everything you need to know about earning that elusive 4.0. With advice from effective time management techniques, to forming study groups, to talking to professors, you'll be practicing your valedictorian speech in no time.

Web Programming for Business: PHP Object-Oriented Programming with Oracle focuses on fundamental PHP coding, giving students practical, enduring skills to solve data and technical problems in business.Using Oracle as the backend database, the book is version-neutral, teaching students code that will still work even with changes to PHP and Oracle. The code is clean, clearly explained and solutions-oriented, allowing students to understand how technologies such as XML, RSS o...

Be ready for the verbal and writing sections of the GRE General Test--scheduled to be revised in August 2011McGraw-Hill’s Conquering GRE Verbal and Writing offers you intensive review for every kind of verbal question on the GRE, a well as in-depth essay-writing guidance for the Analytical Writing section. It is packed with examples, drills, and two complete sample GRE Verbal sections for practice. Also included is a comprehensive GRE vocabulary review, al...

Now in its second edition, Teaching and Learning through Reflective Practice is a practical guide to enable all those involved in educational activities to learn through the practices of reflection. The book highlights the power that those responsible for teaching and learning have to appraise, understand and positively transform their teaching. Seeing the teacher as a reflective learner, the book emphasises a strengths-based approach in which positivity, resilience, optimism and ...

As a mother and youth advocate Sandra Finkelstein can no longer stand by and watch what is being handed down to her children - or any child. We're Not Gonna Take it is a resource and tool book geared to the 15-to-25-year-old millennial youth yet there is guidance for parents and youth workers. This book focuses on 10 essential life skills that are not often being taught in the school system or at home and then how to apply these to life choices. The books begins with the value of life skil...