Author: Paul E. Doutrich
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: shapers, american, debates, dictionary, democracy, debate, jacksonian, biographical
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2004-03-30
List price: $82.95
ISBN-10: 0313315760
ISBN-13: 9780313315763
The successful conclusion of the War of 1812 ushered in a new age of American history: the Jacksonian era. This book explores the background, motives, and goals of political and social leaders who dominated this era. Divided into three categories--Whigs, Democrats, and Writers and Reformers--biographies of Henry Clay, Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Knox Polk, Andrew Jackson, and others are included. Debates over such issues as westward expansion, the Second Bank of the United States, Indian policies, and slavery are discussed from opposing viewpoints.
Author: Lawson Bowling
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Keywords: shapers, american, debates, dictionary, biographical, debate, society
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2005-02-28
List price: $78.95
ISBN-10: 0313314349
ISBN-13: 9780313314346
In 1964 President Lyndon Johnson announced his vision of the Great Society, a plan to use the power of the national government to create a better society. Johnson’s Great Society was all-encompassing, but the debate about its particulars centered on specific questions dealing with civil rights, poverty, federal aid to education, health care, and the proper role of the national government and its appropriate limitation. This work describes the lives of the individuals involved in these debates and presents their varying perspectives on these issues. Readers will understand how both these
Author: Sue Knight
Publisher: Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development
Keywords: shapers, management, nlp, introducing
Number of Pages: 69
Published: 1999-03-01
List price: $14.45
ISBN-10: 085292772X
ISBN-13: 9780852927724
In this guide to Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP), the text covers: the essence of NLP and how it can work for you; using NLP to achieve what you really want; and how to build quality relationships and enhance your influence in the workplace.
Author: Ian MacKay
Publisher: Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development
Keywords: shapers, management, questions, asking
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1998-11-01
List price: $14.45
ISBN-10: 0852927681
ISBN-13: 9780852927687
"Asking Questions" will help you ask the ’right’ question to elicit a useful response. All managers need to hone their questioning skills, whether interviewing, appraising or simply exchanging ideas. This book offers guidance and helpful advice on: using various forms of open question - including probing, simple interrogative, opinion-seeking, hypothetical, extension and precision; encouraging and drawing out speakers through supportive statements and interjections; establishing specific facts through closed or ’direct’ approaches; avoiding counter-productive questions;
Author: Jim Roy
Publisher: Review & Herald Publishing
Keywords: educators, parents, plan, shapers, soul
Number of Pages: 194
Published: 2005-02-01
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0828018316
ISBN-13: 9780828018319
Are you a soul shaper? Shaping young minds-coaxing fledglings to fly-is the most complex job in the world. In this volume Jim Roy offers a new model for parents and teachers seeking to break out of the rote-memory assembly-line approach to education. This book offers a method of homing in on excellence in the same way that a blindfolded dolphin seeks a ring tossed into the water. Using echo location, the dophin beats an indirect path to the ring, yet every turn, every correction, brings it closer to the goal. Jim Roy compares the ideas of nineteenth-century visionary Ellen White to those of
Author: Iain Maitland
Publisher: Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development
Keywords: shapers, management, time, managing
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1999-02-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0852927754
ISBN-13: 9780852927755
This guide to managing your time in the workplace includes coverage of: getting it right first time; delegating successfully; recognising time-wasting activities and people; tackling paperwork efficiently; organising work practices; making the best use of travel time; running better meetings; and handling interruptions and the unwanted telephone call.
Author: Terry Gillen
Publisher: Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development
Keywords: shapers, management, discussion, appraisal
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1998-09-01
List price: $14.45
ISBN-10: 0852927517
ISBN-13: 9780852927519
Organisations employ a wide range of appraisal systems. Some are very manager-led where the appraiser writes the documentation and shares it with the appraisee. In others, the appraiser’s role is to help the appraisee evaluate their contribution to organisational performance. Whatever your appraisal experience, there will be one constant - the effectiveness of the appraisal discussion determines the effectiveness of the whole appraisal system. This book shows you how to make appraisals a productive and motivating experience for all levels of performer - and help your own credibility in t
