This book shows you how your school can maintain its high standards despite financial obstacles. It shows you how to investigate various types and sources of money available to your school; monitor the use of scarce school resources; develop a school improvement plan which incorporates financial needs; and recruit, assign, and develop teachers and staff for maximum effectiveness.

Competency-Based Leadership is intended for school leaders that currently are serving as practitioners in the field. In addition, those individuals who aspire to a career in the principalship also will find the information of special value. The primary purpose of the book is to provide practicing principals and others to meet the challenges related to learning leadership. The book serves as a guide for ensuring the accomplishment of the goal of establishing a learning culture in the school...

When the ancient city of Memphir falls to invading barbarians, Varta, last Maiden of the god Asti, obeys a command given long ago and abandons her temple forever. Bearing Asti’s mysterious gift, she and her telepathic companion Lur descend into the hidden underworld of Erb, crossing realms untouched by time, death, or human memory. What they find below is not only danger, but evidence of worlds and histories far older than any legend preserved by men.As Varta emerges into a transfo...

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?The theme ...

Why are some organizations more successful than others? Is it better products? Is it a superior service model? Is it some mixture of the two? Is it merely a matter of lining up the products and services to meet the needs of the marketplace at a particular time? Or did they just get lucky? Many business leaders believe that the answer to these questions is a matter of strategy. Find the right strategy and the company is bound to be successful. Unfortunately, too many organizations fail to f...

Great marketing just got easierMarketing is about the relationship between an organization and its marketplace, and in particular its customers and potential customers. Customers are the lifeblood of a business; without customers a business has no future. In order to succeed and make a profit, a business must therefore aim to identify and satisfy the needs of its customers. The purpose of marketing is to help the business achieve these aims. In this book you will le...

Learn how to build the most critical part of your business—your employees.Let Smart Hiring Take You to the Next Level!Finding and keeping the right employees is critical to the success of your company. But with the tangle of legal and practical issues involved, the hiring process is often littered with mistakes—mistakes that can cost you money, customers, and your reputation.Smart Hiring at the Next Level helps you sidestep the pitfalls tha...

The low-labor guide to mastering HRM!Want to dive into human resources but your brain says, "Help wanted!"? No problem! Put Human Resource Management DeMYSTiFieD on the job, and you'll solve your dilemma in no time!Using a clear, step-by-step format, this practical guide provides a firm foundation in the basics of the field. You'll master all the key issues in human resources, like benefits, legal situations, hiring, training, outplacement, worker rights, and mor...

#1 Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Dave Ulrich offers HR professionals a new line of defense in the corporate “war for talent.”Destined to be a classic in the field, this game-changing book from HR visionary Dave Ulrich tackles one of the greatest challenges in Human Resources today: the talent wars. As companies grow increasingly and aggressively competitive in hiring and nurturing individual employees, this book offers a ref...

“I believe that this book will fill a great need for both full-time competitive intelligence practitioners, and those looking to add analytical skills to their managerial tool kit.”--Bill Fiora, Partner and Founder, Outward Insights  “All practicing managers and business decision makers should be grateful to Fleisher and Bensoussan for showing them how their analysis work can become more rigorous and their approach less casual. Accept no imitations. This is the genui...

Poorly designed employee surveys frustrate participants, analysts, and executives and can end up doing more harm than good. Alec Levenson offers sensible, practical ways to make them more useful and accurate and counters a number of unhelpful but common practices. He provides specific advice for ensuring that the purpose and desired outcomes of surveys are clear, the questions are designed to provide the most relevant and accurate data, and the results are actionable. He also looks at a we...

'The Human Resources Scorecard: measuring the return on investment' is the first book to provide a comprehensive, step-by-step process for measuring return on investment in human resources programs. Based on the classic ROI definition of earnings divided by investment, the ROI Process developed 20 years ago by co-author Jack J Phillips aids managers in determining and improving the bottom-line impact that human resource programs have on an organization. The ROI Process provides six additio...