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10 Principles of Leading Change Management. Since the mid-2000s, organizational change management and transformation have become permanent features of the business landscape.

10 Principles of Leading Change Management

Vast new markets and labor pools have opened up, innovative technologies have put once-powerful business models on the chopping block, and capital flows and investor demand have become less predictable. To meet these challenges, firms have become more sophisticated in the best practices for organizational change management. They are far more sensitive to and more keenly aware of the role that culture plays. They’ve also had to get much better on their follow-through. Yet according to a 2013 Strategy&/Katzenbach Center survey of global senior executives on culture and change management, the success rate of major change initiatives is only 54 percent. How to Lead Change Management DeAnne Aguirre, senior partner with Strategy&, discusses techniques that can help companies transform quickly and effectively. 1. 2. 3. 4. How To Make Boring Content Interesting: 3 Tips From Psychologists. Follow this line of reasoning: Students learn what they think about and students think about what they're interested in.

How To Make Boring Content Interesting: 3 Tips From Psychologists

It makes sense, right? The question now becomes, what makes something interesting? The 10 Best Feed Reader Apps for RSS, News, and More. When you want to follow specific writers, publications, and channels—to see every piece of content they publish—nothing beats an RSS reader app. RSS apps access web feeds published by websites, letting you aggregate and curate content you care about. Instead of visiting multiple sites, just open your favorite RSS app to see all new content in a central source. How RSS feeds can boost your productivity. Job Descriptions and Evaluation of School Librarians. School Library Standards for Programs and Facilities.

Job Descriptions and Evaluation of School Librarians

I-Search. Ahram Choi, Stuti Garg, and Margaret Kilroy The University of Georgia Review of I-Search Scenario Ms.

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50 Best Free Microsoft Word Tutorials, Books & Resources. Microsoft Word is the first tool that comes to mind when you’re asked to write a report, a letter, an invitation, or a resume.

50 Best Free Microsoft Word Tutorials, Books & Resources

That’s because it’s been the standard word processing software for more than three decades and just continues to improve over the years. In fact, Word’s 2013 version has so many new built-in features as well as souped-up capabilities that you can use it to create just about any type of high quality document. Tenjen24. 8 Wonderful Self-development Books for Teachers. July 26, 2015 Isaac Asimov once stated that ‘self-education is…the only kind of education there is’.

8 Wonderful Self-development Books for Teachers

For Albert Einstein ‘ intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death’. The moral behind the quotes is that personal learning, self-directed education, informal learning, self-development…you name it, is a life-long process. It’s an endeavour that is internally motivated and driven by an insatiable desire to explore and understand the world. It is also a mindset, a thinking framework that positions individuals within their social realities.

As teachers and educators, we are constantly engaged in this endeavour. 5 “Must Read” Ed Tech Books for Summer Professional Development. Creative Commons licensed image source Educators are busy people – even in the summer when many of them do not have classrooms full of students.

5 “Must Read” Ed Tech Books for Summer Professional Development

They attend workshops, they re-write curriculum, and they take courses to enhance their knowledge and skills. With all that they do, it is easy to neglect a critical factor in education – technology. But individual professional development may be easier than you think … here are 5 books that will both inform and stimulate! THE WORLD IS OPEN by Curtis Bonk Perhaps the most important statement in this book is, “Anyone can now learn anything from anyone anytime.” Summer Reading List: 5 Books on Professional Development. The summer is almost here.

Summer Reading List: 5 Books on Professional Development

If you are like most educators, this is when you find the time to read your "teacher books" and learn about all those exciting strategies and resources that will give your classroom a fresh look in the fall. Here are five books that are worth a look. Something Fun. Rules for Finding and Fixing Errors in Parallel Structure. Printer Fabulous!

Rules for Finding and Fixing Errors in Parallel Structure

What is parallel structure? • How do I fix parallel structure errors? • How do I maintain parallelism with correlative conjunctions? Understand the problem. For a list of actions or items, you must maintain parallel structure. At the garden store, Larissa bought , , and . Parallel structure, the correct way to write, looks like this: Cornell Center for Hospitality Research News. Finger Lakes Travel Operator Case Study Explores the Structureof a Groupon Deal The Cornell Center for Hospitality Research examines how social couponing is working for hospitality operators in the case study, "To Groupon or Not to Groupon: A Tour Operator's Dilemma," where the authors explain how a regional travel operator structured a daily deal.

Cornell Center for Hospitality Research News

The study demonstrates the many considerations that go into a deal with Groupon, the largest of the daily deal operators.