This how-to resource provides leaders with a concrete framework for a strategic improvement plan, helping educators link the "principles" to "processes" of planning. Packed with key takeaways and additional resources, this book provides the concrete tools to design a strong strategy for improvement and enables educational leaders to think constructively about why we plan, what an effective strategic plan should contain, and how to create meaningful dialogue to support plan development, implementation, and monitoring for continuous improvement. The Strategy Playbook for Educational Leaders provides superintendents, central office staff, principals, and teacher leaders with the opportunity to reframe the process of their strategic planning and breathe new life into the activity.

Delivering equity for PK-12 learners is an essential aim for educational leadership preparation programs. This book serves as a resource for equity-focused design and redesign thorough innovation, improvement and impact. Based on direct experience while also drawing from innovative exemplars, and unpacking a decade of program improvement practice, this book explores how to foster partnerships and pipelines, recruit and select candidates, map the curriculum, develop powerful learning experiences, create field experiences, design program evaluation, and support faculty learning. Chapters open with a vignette that presents scenarios in which many faculty members find themselves, particularly when programs are in need of improvement. Drawing on years of experience facilitating redesign, the authors offer both processes and resources to assist faculty, including diagnostic tools, sample agendas, templates, guiding questions, and suggested protocols. Whether facing new accreditation requirements, state program approval changes, institutional redesign challenges or as part of a grant funded redesign, this book is a critical resource for educational leadership faculty and program coordinators looking to garner the appropriate resources, ask the right questions, and follow reliable processes in program design and continuous improvement toward equity. Chapter resources and templates available for download online at https://www.routledge.com/9780367673543 on the tab that is entitled "Support Material." Please also join Redesign.Improve.Innovate—an online forum focused on preparation and practice improvement found here: www.RedesignImproveInnovate.org.

Harness the power of Deloitte’s proven executive transition method to reach―and succeed in―the highest leadership levels of your company Transitioning to a new C-suite role is exhilarating, challenging, and demanding all at the same time—a unique combination of intense experiences that can be tough to manage, to say the least. The skills and actions you need to succeed during your first year are different from those required after you settle in. If you don’t do it right at the start, you’ll find it that much more difficult to effectively lead your organization for the long term. Ajit Kambil is the creator and a leader of Deloitte’s program for helping executives like you transition into the very highest levels of your organization. In The Leadership Accelerator, he details the four critical competencies you should master in order to succeed, and he walks you through the process of building your expertise in these key areas: Prioritize and manage time, the only irrecoverable asset for yourself and your organization Manage talent into the right places to deliver measurable results Manage relationships to build social capital and influence other C-suite members to get key agendas executed with the least resistance Drive transformational change in your organization through effective strategies and catalyzing actions Kambil’s model is based on his extensive research over more than a decade and insights from Deloitte’s Transition Labs, a personalized one-day workshop delivered to over 4,000+ executives. The Leadership Accelerator reveals the research and practices Kambil has undertaken for more than a decade to learn exactly how real leaders have successfully transitioned into high-level roles. Quick, action-oriented chapters conclude with clear takeaways and workout exercises that can help you build your transition leadership muscles and define your transition leadership strategies and work plans. Start your new position out strategically and lead your new organization to the top of its industry—and build a lasting legacy for yourself.

From the authors of Hardball for Women come strategies that women need to thrive in business and the male-dominated world at large. Sexual harassment, hitting the glass ceiling, and dealing with auto mechanics and lawyers are analyzed and solved using Heim's years of expertise as a consultant and businesswoman.

Explores the link between learning and wealth creation and what is needed to adapt to changes brought about by an emerging information-rich global economy. Woven through the nine chapters are themes that apply not only to NFL successes but could serve as models for schools and enterprise to improve

This guide to the entire business planning process from start to finish provides a framework for: conceiving the vision of the firm; defining the purpose of the firm; setting business goals and strategies for achieving them; establishing operating plans for functions; and executing the plan.