Download or read book The Essential Handbook for Human Service Leaders written by Tim Nolan and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essential Handbook for Human Service Leaders is a first of its kind manual for supervisors and managers at all levels. The book focuses on tried and tested methods to help supervisors increase managerial credibility, both internally and externally. The Essential Handbook for Human Service Leaders is a must have for supervisors at all levels. "What makes The Essential Handbook for Human Service Leaders unique is that it covers the elements of supervising and is specifically applied to human services. Thanks for tackling this as this is an area I have long seen as something we still are missing the mark on." Eva Horner, COO Heartland for Children "The Essential Handbook for Human Service Leaders is packed with practical information and ideas designed to improve performance and outcomes in human service organizations. The book is an important addition to the field and should be recommended reading for new and experienced leaders." Robert Barker, MSW Retired Human Services Executive "You have put together a comprehensive overview of critical issues for human service leaders that is brief, clear, and to the point." Dave Bundy, President and CEO of Children's Home Society of Florida The authors are available for leadership trainings on a variety of topics and can be reached via email at: [email protected] www.HumanServicesLeadership.org

Download or read book The Essential Handbook for Effective Human Service Professionals written by Tim Nolan and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essential Handbook for Effective Human Service Professionals is written by the same author that brought you The Essential Handbook for Human Service Leaders, which is a national best-selling book used by thousands of human service managers and organizations across the country. Tim Nolan is a nationally recognized leadership expert in the human services. The Essential Handbook for Effective Human Service Professionals is comprised of 21 vital competencies that any direct service worker (i.e. case manager, family services worker, child protective investigator, juvenile probation officer, etc.) needs to excel in their respective position. Further, this book helps to fulfill a critical need in the field due to the lack of support and training available for human service professionals. Each chapter of The Essential Handbook for Effective Human Service Professionals is written in a concise manner that provides a wealth of information and proven strategies designed to provide immediate impact for workers and organizations looking to maximize staff performance, retention, commitment and high quality client care. This is a must-have resource. Visit www.HumanServicesLeadership.org for free newsletters, book reviews, feedback from prior trainings and upcoming trainings in your area. Tim is also available for agency-specific trainings and consultation.

Download or read book The Essential Handbook for Highly Effective Human Service Managers 2nd Edition written by Tim Nolan and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essential Handbook for Highly Effective Human Service Managers has been used by thousands of management staff in behavioral health, child welfare, and related human service management staff to enhance the performance and retention of workers while standing out as highly effective leaders.

Download or read book The Essential Handbook for Highly Effective Human Service Professionals written by Tim Nolan Ed D and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essential Handbook for Highly Effective Human Service Professionals is written to help frontline workers excel. Each chapter is short, easy to read, and carefully crafted to help the reader stand out in a variety of areas. The main themes include: - Taking initiative. - Being proactive. - Exceptional client care. - Working with a high sense of urgency. - Having high standards. - Demonstrating superior professional skills. - Practicing self-care. - Contributing to a positive culture. - Having a positive approach and outlook. - Building superior professional credibility. - Displaying leadership. Tim Nolan has worked with over 9,000 human service professionals across the country including dozens of human service organizations to create high performance employees and cultures. Visit www.HumanServicesLeadership.org for more information or contact Tim at [email protected].

Download or read book The Handbook of Human Services Management written by Rino J. Patti and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on an effectiveness-driven approach to management in the human services, Rino J. Patti's The Handbook of Human Services Management, Second Edition explores the latest information on practice innovations, theoretical perspectives, and empirical research to provide an essential perspective on what managers do to create and sustain organizations that deliver high quality, effective services to consumers. Offering the most comprehensive coverage of human services management available today, this second edition includes 24 chapters authored by distinguished practitioners and scholars in human services management: 10 that are entirely new and 14 that have been extensively revised. The Handbook is accompanied by an Instructor's Manual.

Download or read book The Essential Handbook for Highly Effective Human Service Managers written by Ed D Tim Nolan and published by . This book was released on 2014-10 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Used by thousands of management staff throughout the human services field. This easy-to-read book is packed with many ideas which can be immediately implemented to elevate your leadership skills as well as improve employee commitment, performance, and retention.

Download or read book The Essential Handbook for Highly Effective Human Service Managers written by M S M S Nolan, Tim and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essential Handbook for Highly Effective Human Service Managers is an innovative approach to equip managers at all levels with the strategies and tools necessary to maximize employee commitment, performance and client care. 30 vital skills are covered in chapters that are 3-5 pages in length, which makes for easy reading and immediate skill building and implementation. Each chapter provides an opportunity for growth and development with critical thinking questions designed to challenge your insight and perspective. Tim Nolan has worked with over 5,000 managers throughout the country to enhance their leadership skills and incorporates his experience along with his expertise in human behavior to help managers enhance employee motivation and performance. The Essential Handbook for Highly Effective Human Service Managers is a resource that all organizations should invest in to provide managers with vital tools and resources to enrich managerial credibility and leadership skills. "I have had the pleasure of knowing and training with Tim during the past several years and I have become very familiar with the excellence of his work. This book is no exception. If every manager and supervisor in the human services industry would follow the clear precepts and practices laid out in this book, our entire industry would immediately be elevated to another level." William (Bill) Nunnally, Chief Quality and Performance Officer, Heartland for Children Visit www.HumanServicesLeadership.org for free newsletters, book reviews, feedback from prior trainings and upcoming trainings in your area. Tim is also available for agency-specific trainings/ consultation and can be reached at [email protected].

Download or read book The Complete Leader written by Robert Shaw and published by Castle Quay Books. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Leader: Handbook of Essentials for Human Services Leadership gives leaders within human services organizations with lay or professional leadership responsibilities, over 25 essential practices for human services. Special attention is paid to supervision, case management, evaluation, teamwork and character. The content of this handbook was developed over three decades by respected leader Robert Shaw, working in various services with individuals and families. His approaches are holistic and integrated for both the needs of families and the nature of a human service organization's leaders. It is estimated there are over 100,000 non-profit organizations in Canada and almost 2 million in the USA in the health care, social services, schools and universities, community and recreation services, churches and arts organizations. An estimated 6,000,000 American and 500,000 Canadian lay and professional leaders provide services to troubled children and their families. This book is an essential tool for these leaders in the areas of professional practices, client services and organizational skills.

Download or read book The Essential Handbook for Highly Effective Human Service Managers written by Tim Nolan and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essential Handbook for Highly Effective Human Service Managers, 2nd Edition is based on current research and Tim Nolan's experience with over 10,000 managers across the country. Chapters are easy to read and packed with practical approaches to maximize employee commitment, performance, and retention.

Download or read book The Leader s Change Handbook written by Jay A. Conger and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-12-26 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Stunning Achievement in Change ManagementIn October of 1997, the nation's top business theorists and practitioners met at a conference cosponsored by USC's Leadership Institute and the Center for Effective Organizations. The group was challenged to present their most advanced ideas regarding leadership and change management. This guide is the stunning result of their collective efforts. Charged with fascinating case studies, action strategies, and unbeatable advice, The Leader's Change Handbook features fresh works by Christopher Bartlett, Michael Beer, John Kotter, David Nadler, Ron Heifetz, Susan Mohrman, Bob Quinn and other distinguished contributors. What it offers is a uniquely coherent, cutting-edge approach to leading today's organizations -- an approach only this elite group, working together toward a common vision, could offer.

Download or read book Highly Effective Human Service Organizations written by Ed D Tim Nolan and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 40 distinct areas are covered that contribute to a highly engaging organizational culture, which has been linked to employee commitment, engagement, performance, and retention. Tim Nolan draws upon his experience working with over 10,000 human service professionals, consulting experience with dozens of human service organizations, and decades of research to create a road map for to create and maintain highly effective human service organizations.

Download or read book Better Under Pressure written by Justin Menkes and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2011-04-19 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most business leaders can take only so much pressure before their performance slides. Yet some CEOs deliver their greatest successes when times get toughest—when customers’ preferences are shifting away from a company’s products, when new regulations are shrinking profit margins, when political unrest is destroying supply lines. In Better Under Pressure, Justin Menkes reveals the common traits that make these leaders successful. Drawing on in-depth interviews with sixty CEOs from an array of industries and performance data from two hundred other leaders, Menkes shows that great executives strive relentlessly to maximize their own potential—as well as stoke their people’s innate thirst for their own triumphs. To do so, they draw on a set of three essential and rare attributes: • Realistic optimism: They recognize the risks threatening their organization’s survival—and their own failings—while remaining confident in their ability to have an impact. • Subservience to purpose: They dedicate themselves to pursuing a noble cause and win their team’s commitment to that cause. • Finding order in chaos: They find clarity amid the many variables affecting their business by culling data and forming the conclusions that matter most to the company. The good news: these three capabilities can be learned. Drawing on a broad range of examples from real companies—including Avon, Yum Brands, Southwest, Procter & Gamble, and Ryerson Steel, to name just a few—Menkes demonstrates how each psychological attribute manifests itself in real life and enables top performance under extreme duress. He also shows you how to develop and deploy those attributes—so you can transform yourself into a leader who only shines brighter as the pressure intensifies. Deeply personal, brimming with compelling stories from real-life CEOs, and packed with powerful insights, tools, and practices, this book is a potent resource for aspiring, emerging, and seasoned business leaders alike.

Download or read book Serving Those in Need written by Edward L. Queen and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2000 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Serving Those in Need is a much-needed source of advice from both researchers and service providers in the field. It offers the practical, essential guidance leaders need to prepare for the rapidly increasing demands for their services.

Download or read book The Identity Code written by Laurence Ackerman and published by Random House. This book was released on 2005-12-13 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will introduce you to yourself. Despite what you may have been told since you were a child, you cannot be whatever you want to be in life–you are already what you were meant to be. The secret to uncovering who you are, and your purpose, is built into you in the form of a code–the identity code. Much like your genetic code, your identity code provides a complete map of how you were designed to live. Answer the questions that frame the identity code, and the contours of your life will shift. You will not only emerge stronger, you will emerge larger. Larger in heart, larger in influence, larger in your capacity to love and be loved. You will understand the why of your life. In this life-transforming book, Larry Ackerman shows you how to crack your identity code. With more than twenty years of experience helping organizations and individuals identify their purpose, Ackerman reveals the Laws of Identity and the Eight Essential Questions they contain. As you answer these questions, your identity will gradually become clear. It will become the foundation from which you’ll make truly meaningful decisions about what work is right for you, how to build and maintain relationships that matter, and even what interests and hobbies make sense for you. These eight questions, and the call to action each one implies, are WHO AM I?: Define yourself as separate from all others WHAT MAKES ME SPECIAL?: Unearth what you love IS THERE A PATTERN TO MY LIFE?: Make the connections that explain past events and foreshadow your future WHERE AM I GOING?: Use what you’ve learned so far to guide you on your path WHAT IS MY GIFT?: Follow the signs of joy WHO CAN I TRUST?: Take stock of who matters–and why WHAT IS MY MESSAGE?: Declare yourself on the strength of your gift WILL MY LIFE BE RICH?: Surrender to the pull of your identity As Ackerman points out, unbridled freedom actually weighs you down. The myth of personal freedom–the notion that you have infinite choices in the course you set for yourself–is the unspoken agony of the modern person. True freedom comes with knowing your identity: the unique characteristics that define your potential for creating value in the world, for making a contribution that springs naturally from the core of your being and touches the lives of others. Within this framework, life’s seeming boundaries melt away. Intelligent, provocative, and always practical, The Identity Code sets the reader on the classic quest: the discovery of self. Take the journey. From the Hardcover edition.

Download or read book The Essential HR Handbook written by Sharon Armstrong and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2008-08-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you are a newly promoted manager, a seasoned business owner, or a human resources professional, knowing the ins and outs of dealing with HR issues is critical to your success. The Essential HR Handbook is a quick-reference guide that sheds light on the issues that keep managers up at night. It is filled with information, tools, tips, checklists, and road maps to guide managers and HR professionals through the maze of people and legal issues, from recruiting and retaining the best employees to terminating poor performers. With this book, You'll learn how to effectively and efficiently: Individually manage each employee, starting on his or her first day. Manage a multi-generational workforce. Appraise job performance. Coach and counsel. Provide equitable pay, benefits, and total rewards strategies. Identify legal pitfalls and stay out of court. The Essential HR Handbook is the one HR guide every manager needs on his or her desk!

Download or read book Leadership in War written by Andrew Roberts and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparison of nine leaders who led their nations through the greatest wars the world has ever seen and whose unique strengths—and weaknesses—shaped the course of human history, from the bestselling, award-winning author of Churchill, Napoleon, and The Last King of America “Has the enjoyable feel of a lively dinner table conversation with an opinionated guest.” —The New York Times Book Review Taking us from the French Revolution to the Cold War, Andrew Roberts presents a bracingly honest and deeply insightful look at nine major figures in modern history: Napoleon Bonaparte, Horatio Nelson, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, George C. Marshall, Charles de Gaulle, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Margaret Thatcher. Each of these leaders fundamentally shaped the outcome of the war in which their nation was embroiled. Is war leadership unique, or did these leaders have something in common, traits and techniques that transcend time and place and can be applied to the essential nature of conflict? Meticulously researched and compellingly written, Leadership in War presents readers with fresh, complex portraits of leaders who approached war with different tactics and weapons, but with the common goal of success in the face of battle. Both inspiring and cautionary, these portraits offer important lessons on leadership in times of struggle, unease, and discord. With his trademark verve and incisive observation, Roberts reveals the qualities that doom even the most promising leaders to failure, as well as the traits that lead to victory.

Download or read book Organizational Change for the Human Services written by Thomas Packard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-21 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human service organizations (HSOs) are faced with challenges and opportunities ranging from improving effectiveness and efficiency to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion. However, organizational change can be a difficult process and does not occur without a catalyst. Organizational Change for the Human Services presents an evidence-based conceptual framework for planning and implementing change within HSOs. This book outlines the process for organizational change from identifying a problem to following a strategy for success. Thomas Packard presents discussions on various methods such as team building, employee surveys, cultural change, organization redesign, and intrapraneurship. Case examples demonstrate how individuals can put theory into practice within their organizations. Written for current and future HSO leaders, this book delves into the tactics and change methods that will help guide individuals to enact change within their organizations. Packard has created an invaluable resource for HSO leaders who aspire to provide the best services and care for the clients and communities they serve.