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Virtual Leadership

Practical Strategies for Success with Remote or Hybrid Work and Teams

By: Penny Pullan

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Virtual Leadership

Practical Strategies for Success with Remote or Hybrid Work and Teams

By: Penny Pullan

Virtual work and teams have become normal in organizations around the world. This book is the guide for those who cannot always be together in person with colleagues, whether fully remote or hybrid. Virtual Leadership offers practical strategies and proven methods for getting the best out of hybrid or remote work and teams. This useful guide explains how to create cohesive teams, collaborate creatively and effectively, connect across barriers of distance and culture, building on the foundation of a leader's own mindset and approach. It provides clear guidance on how to run engaging and effective meetings, as well as how to encourage high performance from motivated and happy team members in between meetings. Fully revised throughout, this second edition: - provides a new chapter entirely focused on hybrid ways of working; - offers advice for those leading teams in a formal capacity, as well as for those where leadership is an occasional part of their role; - gives ideas and practical tips on how to overcome the many complications of virtual work; - presents diverse case studies and examples from business, education, community, healthcare and beyond, sparking insights that can be adapted to other environments. Leading virtual teams effectively requires a new set of skills and a facilitative leadership approach. Written by a leading expert in the field, Virtual Leadership is here as your guide.

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Kogan Page Publishers

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1398604283

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Researching Learning Difficulties

A Guide for Practitioners

By: Jill Porter,Penny Lacey

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Researching Learning Difficulties

A Guide for Practitioners

By: Jill Porter,Penny Lacey

`The authors provide a guide which points the reader to sources that can engage more deeply with the issues raised and, as such, is a useful resource for anyone wanting to know more about researching learning difficulties' - British Journal of Special Education 'This book is highly recommended and endorsed. It celebrates the diversity of work that is currently undertaken in the field of learning difficulties with a concern to enable people working within different spheres of activity to share something of their work to contribute to the bigger picture. 'As part of an academic, school or staff development resource library this book will aid, stimulate and focus researchers at all levels to hone their selected methods, evaluate results and critically judge qualitative and quantitative data' - Special Children `This timely book, written in a highly accessible way... provides a coherent basis for users as well as practitioners, of research involving children and young people with learning difficulties' - Ann Lewis, Professor of Special Education and Educational Psychology, University of Birmingham. This book is for researchers, teachers and other professionals working with children and people with learning difficulties. It will enable them to: - access research in learning difficulties, drawing on other disciplines - understand different types of research methodology and their strengths and limitations - examine how researchers must consider the constraints on methodology because of the characteristics of the field - and understand the particular issues of small-scale research and participatory research - explore new methodologies that are developing in the field The authors recognize that there are tensions, especially the difficulty of validating research on small varied populations in a wide range of schools, community and other settings. The book will help readers to critically evaluate the implications of research reports for their own practice. This book is for researchers, teachers and professionals: - in specialist and inclusive community and educational settings - following courses of continuing professional development - doing research (Masters and Doctorate, Education, Social Sciences, Psychology, Public Policy). It is relevant to practitioners working with people with learning difficulties across a range of settings.

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Paul Chapman Educational Publishing

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0761948511

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9780761948513

People and the Bottom Line

By: Penny Tamkin

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People and the Bottom Line

By: Penny Tamkin

Does the way people are treated at work make a difference to the performance of the organisations that employ them? Are there returns to investment in human capital in a similar way to investments in physical capital? These seem straightforward enough questions but they have generated huge amounts of debate. On one side, there is plenty of evidence strongly suggesting that investment in people has important business performance benefits, and yet on the other hand, the research that arrived at this conclusion has been subject to detailed criticism. And whilst academics gather and dispute the evidence, it would seem that practitioners are not completely convinced either. The take-up of what have been termed High Performance Working Practices (HPWPs) has been slow and many organisations do not adopt them. The doubts of practitioners reflect concerns over what it might mean for individual firms and sectors, and confusion over which people management practices are likely to show the greatest link to performance. Many studies adopt complex measures which are outside the capabilities of most firms to replicate. In terms of a step change in employer behaviour what is needed are some measures that have been linked to performance, that employers can capture for themselves and which do not require considerable academic resource to make useful. Against this background, this study takes into account concerns from both academics and practitioners, and provides a convincing argument that the investments firms make in their workforce make a difference.

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1851843922

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Kirkpatrick and Beyond

A Review of Training Evaluation

By: Penny Tamkin,J. Yarnall,M. Kerrin

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Kirkpatrick and Beyond

A Review of Training Evaluation

By: Penny Tamkin,J. Yarnall,M. Kerrin

Training is expected to make a difference, to change people, organisations, even the competitiveness of the UK. Evaluation is how we know whether it works, and the reality often is that we don't know. Despite growing levels of training evaluation at organisational level, much of it is conducted in a simple and unsophisticated way. Research urges practitioners to do more and to do it better. The literature is full of suggestions on approaches that regard the Kirkpatrick model as no longer adequate. This report looks critically at Kirkpatrick and the other models that purport to be significant improvements. It develops a model of the learning process to help underpin any approach to training evaluation, and reviews what we know about evaluation and the factors that affect training success.

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Virtual Leadership

Virtual Leadership

Researching Learning Difficulties

Researching Learning Difficulties

People and the Bottom Line

People and the Bottom Line

Kirkpatrick and Beyond

Kirkpatrick and Beyond

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