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Lee, Marta K. – ALA Editions, 2011
Mentorship is essential to the health of any institution; sharing knowledge and experience transforms managers into stronger leaders and helps less senior employees improve their job skills. Noted reference librarian and researcher Lee offers librarians at all levels both her experience and her ideas about establishing a formal mentoring process…
Descriptors: Mentors, Library Science, Job Skills, Librarians
Hershberg, Theodore, Ed.; Robertson-Kraft, Claire, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2009
This book offers an ambitious new system for evaluating, compensating, and providing professional development for school teachers and administrators. In this realigned system, new forms of accountability are introduced, but they go hand in hand with new rewards and access to enhanced forms of professional development to help educators succeed in…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Educational Change, Rewards, Accountability
Hansen, Pia – Eye on Education, 2009
This book serves as a reference to help prepare and support effective math content coaches. It provides insight into the leadership skills necessary to mentor other teachers, establish collaborative teacher teams, influence school culture positively, and improve student achievement. Contents include: (1) Examining the Role of a Math Content Coach;…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Leadership Effectiveness, Mentors, School Culture
Pont, Tony – 1995
This book, which is intended for individuals responsible for human resource development (HRD) programs, examines a number of issues in turning investments in training and development into human capital and examines ways of making the workplace an arena for development. The following topics are discussed: the nature and role of training and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Counseling Techniques, Education Work Relationship
Mumford, Alan, Ed. – 1997
This book contains 34 papers examining the theory, process, and outcomes of action learning at work. The following papers are included: "An Introduction to the Text" (Alan Mumford); "The Learning Equation" (Reg Revans); "Action Learning as a Vehicle for Learning" (Alan Mumford); "Placing Action Learning and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Corporate Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Theories
Rylatt, Alastair – 2001
This book is intended to provide managers, trainers, and others responsible for improving learning within their workplace with the tools, perspectives, and strategies to transform their workplace into a learning organization. Throughout the book, key principles underpinning recent thinking on positive workplace transformation are combined with…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Adult Education, Adult Learning, Attitude Change