We live in a culture of perceived safety.Policies are written. Cameras are installed. Committees are formed. Leaders reassure their communities that everything is under control.But what if that sense of security is an illusion?In The Illusion of Safety: Why We Feel Secure — But Aren't, Dr. Lawrence E. Smith challenges one of the most dangerous assumptions facing modern institutions — the belief that policy equals protection.Drawing from patterns obs...

This book develops a new model for lean management. The intent is to demonstrate a model framework consisting of four critical components: leadership, culture, team and tools. The development of the model and these four components will be built from empirical theories reported in the research literature and in successful applications. This framework will offer a path to develop lean leaders with practical, actionable guidelines. The model framework is suited to broad applications offering ...

Are you a K–8 principal ready to implement the PLC at Work™ process? Two experienced practitioners show you how to explore the critical components needed to lay the foundation of a PLC, including how to develop a structure that supports collaborative teams, how to focus on effective monitoring strategies, how to reflect on your communication effectiveness, and more.

The premier resource for today's nurse administrator, Nursing Administration: Scope and Standards of Practice, 2nd Edition is informed by ongoing advances in health care, professional nursing, and organizational and administrative management. It covers all aspects of a nurse administrator's practice in any setting or role and at any level of influence and authority. Topics discussed include core role accountabilities, role qualifications (including certification and education), and ethics ...

This book illustrates how the ideal of servant leadership can be applied in your school today. With real-life scenarios, discussions, and self assessments, this book gives practical suggestions to help you develop into a caring and effective servant leader.

A Practical Guide to Leadership Traits, Power, Ethics, and Leading High-Performance TeamsLeadership Essentials You Always Wanted to Know covers the following concepts:Attributes of an effective leaderDifferent roles of a leaderImpact of setting and context on a leader's choicesIntegration of ethics into best practices

A culture hacking how to complete with strategies, techniques, and resources for securing the most volatile element of information security—humansPeople-Centric Security: Transforming Your Enterprise Security Culture addresses the urgent need for change at the intersection of people and security. Esentially a complete security culture toolkit, this comprehensive resource provides you with a blueprint for assessing, designing, building, and maintaining human firewalls.

Middle leaders, either through curiosity, career-mindedness, or even coercion, accepted a role that is poorly defined, has limited or no authority, and comes with a huge target for colleagues and senior leaders to set their sights on. The expressions “Don’t shoot the messenger” and “We are all in this together” are common mottos. These are the middle leaders I want to capacity to be agents for transformational change: grade-level and subject team leaders, department heads, coordinators, an...

Every school relies on teachers who informally and voluntarily lead various efforts in the school. These teachers may not be appointed leaders or paid leaders, but they are committed leaders: they see a need and they respond to it. What do these teacher leaders do that is different from the work of excellent teachers who are not teacher leaders? If we can articulate those skills, says Charlotte Danielson, then we can take steps to enable more teachers to develop ...

The time of exclusive top-down leadership is over! Only teachers can transform education from inside the classroom, and this book defines best practices of collaborative teacher leadership. Specific techniques, supporting research, expert insight, and real classroom stories illustrate how to work together for student learning, create a guaranteed and viable curriculum, and use data to inform instruction.

"This text illustrates the essence of what it really means to be a teacher—to care deeply and to think and act collectively about student and teacher learning."—Barrie Bennet, ProfessorOISE/University of Toronto, Ontario"Daniel Venables has made a terrific contribution to the growing effort of teachers to educate ourselves in professional learning communities through protocols that focus our attention on the right stuff. Happily his writing is as accessib...

Team Building and Group Dynamic Management give to management, managers, team leaders, and consultants practical guidance on how to build and manage teams. Individuals wishing to build successful teams in today's complex, highly interconnected, and globally competitive environments. This book helps you put theory into practice.An effective team promise of higher productivity and greater problem-solving ability and Maximize team productivity by encouraging group brainstorming. This ...