Developing Human Service Leaders

Developing Human Service Leaders
Author: Deborah Harley-McClaskey
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2015-12-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1483393127

Developing Human Service Leaders is an empowering text for human services students that covers the skills and behaviors essential for leaders to manage themselves, their teams, and the organization. Using a unique coaching voice, author Deborah Harley-McClaskey follows a Reflection–Diagnosis–Prescription approach for leadership development with exercises built into the dialogue. The final chapter, Prognosis, offers a workbook-style exercise to help students make a personal change.

Developing Human Service Leaders

Developing Human Service Leaders
Author: Deborah Harley-McClaskey
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2015-12-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1483393119

This empowering text for human services students covers the skills and behaviors essential for leaders to manage themselves, their teams, and the organization. Using a unique coaching voice, the book follows a Reflection–Diagnosis–Prescription approach for leadership development with exercises built into the dialogue. The final chapter, Prognosis, offers a workbook-style exercise to help students make a personal change.

Developing Nonprofit and Human Service Leaders

Developing Nonprofit and Human Service Leaders
Author: Larry D. Watson
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2013-10-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 148332494X

Developing Nonprofit and Human Service Leaders comprehensively prepares students with the skills to successfully manage human service organizations. Authors Larry D. Watson and Richard Hoefer explore core managerial competencies tailored to the unique environment of these organizations, including administrative responsibilities, values and ethics, organizational theories, leadership, boards of directors, fundraising, supervision, research, cultural consideration, and more. This essential text offers hands-on practice for the skills that future administrators will need to make a substantial impact in their organizations and communities.

Organizational Change in the Human Services

Organizational Change in the Human Services
Author: Rebecca Ann Proehl
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2001-08-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780761922506

Organizations today { whether public or private { exist in environment s where the pace of change is dizzying. Human service organizations fa ce both external and internal challenges: The public demands better se rvices at more reasonable costs. Clientele is more diverse, more strat ified, and more vocal than ever. The organizations themselves must kee p up with rapid changes in technological innovation and labor-manageme nt relationships. Organizational Change: The Human Services Challenge looks at the context of organizational change, describes how individua ls and systems change, and pinpoints keys to successful change. Author Rebecca Proehl then presents a proven model of organizational change, built on lessons learned from both the public and private sectors, bu t tailored for human service organizations. Proehl also discusses in d epth labor union-management issues, the political strategies leaders m ust use to implement change, and how to build collaborative relationsh ips in human services.

The Essential Handbook for Highly Effective Human Service Managers

The Essential Handbook for Highly Effective Human Service Managers
Author: Ed D Tim Nolan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2014-10
Genre:
ISBN:

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.

Effectively Managing and Leading Human Service Organizations

Effectively Managing and Leading Human Service Organizations
Author: Ralph Brody
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2013-11-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1483314979

Now in its Fourth Edition, Effectively Managing and Leading Human Service Organizations continues to provide invaluable creative ideas for achieving managerial success. Authors Ralph Brody and Murali Nair dissect and diagnose common workplace dilemmas, offering current and future managers the skills to implement positive changes in organizations large and small. Easy-to-read, this book connects a conceptual framework and essential managerial practices with hundreds of real-life examples and case studies of applied managerial skills in organizational settings.

Grow Your Own Leaders

Grow Your Own Leaders
Author: William C. Byham
Publisher: FT Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 013009398X

Today's enterprises face a profound leadership crisis - and the speed of business has far outstripped conventional executive development systems. In Grow Your Own Leaders, three world-renowned experts introduce an entirely new approach for identifying tomorrow's leaders within your own organization, accelerating their development, and deploying them immediately, to address new challenges wherever they emerge.

Leadership with Impact

Leadership with Impact
Author: JUAN CARLOS. WEISS ARAQUE (EUGENIA L.)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 689
Release: 2024-11-06
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0197753396

The COVID-19 pandemic has substantially changed the landscape in organizational management and leadership, highlighting the need for stronger relationships and support needed by health and human service workers. In this new edition, the authors introduce the I.D.D.E.A. (Innovation, Design, Diversity, Execution, and Assessment) Leadership Framework through which health and human service practitioners can easily design, implement, and evaluate innovative programs to help vulnerable populations and promote organizational and social change. Chapters are updated throughout and Leadership Profiles have been added to each chapter.

Organizational Change for the Human Services

Organizational Change for the Human Services
Author: Thomas Packard
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2021-05-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0197550010

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.