Develop Your Leadership Skills" is John Adair's most accessible title on leadership. Full of exercises & checklists it will boost your confidence levels & guide & inspire anyone on their journey to becoming a leader of excellence. Acknowledged as a world expert John Adair offers stimulating insights into recognizing & developing individual leadership qualities acquiring personal authority & most importantly mastering core leadership functions such as planning communicating & motivating. Suitable for anyone who wishes to improve or develop their leadership skills this guide distills the essence of John Adair's teaching & provides a framework for becoming an effective leader." ...

How do you decide on the best course of action for your company to take advantage of new opportunities? By building a business case. This book provides a framework for building a business case. Youll learn how to: clearly define the opportunity youll want to address in your business case; identify & analyze a range of alternatives; recommend one option & assess its risks; create a high-level implementation plan for your proposed alternative; & communicate your case to key stakeholders. ...

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Includes:: a physical copy of The Developing Child 13e by Bee as well as access to the e Text

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Developing Holistic Care for Long-term Conditions focuses on how to help people with long-term health conditions cope more effectively. It brings together physical & mental health offering a holistic approach for students & practitioners in a variety of care settings. Comprising four sections this text introduces the policy & background to caring for people with chronic illness as well as the psychosocial impact of long-term conditions. Essential skills for practice are explored including holistic assessment symptom control & the promotion of effective partnership between client & carer in supporting coping recovery & end of life care. There is an emphasis on maximising individual health potential & resilience with the role of nutrition exercise complementary therapy & spirituality considered. The focus is on client centred care which addresses the whole person mind & body. The extensive final section presents examples of key health issues where UK national guidelines have been published including: Long-term neurological conditions Diabetes Mental health Cancer Coronary heart disease Older people This evidence-based book takes note of the relevant National Service Frameworks & offers an informative & pragmatic guide for all those learning about caring for the chronically ill as well as providing a useful reference work for qualified nurses & allied health professionals. ...

Poor language & communication skills have been shown to have profound effect on the life chances of children & young people. Research tells us this consistently over the years. Now in its third edition Developing Language & Communication Skills through Small Group Work provides essential information for practitioners working with linguistically vulnerable children. It is underpinned by an approach based on developmental psychology & brain based research. The book provides clarity & repetition of key concepts at a level that this particular cohort of children require. The book now

Includes:: a section on using the power of puppets to support communication. Feedback from practitioners is that it is not only fun to run the SPIRALS groups but also highly effective in providing the support the children need. The SPIRALS language book contains a wealth of effective ideas for activities to support good practice to develop childrens speech language & communication development. The most powerful way to use Spirals is as set out in the sessions as an ongoing programme. Although these activities can be used as stand alone ideas to target a particular area of concern. The sessions have been carefully designed to build upon childrens existing skills base. Small spirals of learning are introduced at a pace the children can access & retain. SPIRALS supports good practice in early years settings & schools up to KS2. The aim is to develop effective language & communication skills which will underpin a range of critical thinking reasoning & social competency skills as well as increased ability to listen maintain focus & learn effectively. Also it has been shown that improvements in levels of spoken language can have a positive impact on written literacy. Included in this book are: concise explanations of the terms & concepts involved clear guidelines for setting up & running small group sessions structured lesson plans twelve for nursery & early primary years photocopiable resources lists of further reading & resources. New to this third edition
Includes:: revised Early Years & Reception Year material fully updated to reference the Bercow Report (2008) new section on using puppets effectively additional bubble commentaries offering useful tips & suggestions to teachers. This fully updated edition will be particularly useful for teachers teaching assistants in early years & in schools speech & language therapistsand assistants interested in the Spirals language development technique.


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Highly readable... Anybody working with babies & young children needs to have the knowledge that Whitehead clearly explains here
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This activity book for Year R Literacy Hour is one of a series covering the sentence-level objectives in the National Literacy Strategy framework for teaching from Year R to Year 6. It is photocopiable & aims to develop childrens grammatical awareness;

Includes:: activities which focus on sentence construction; the roles of different kinds of words & punctuation; promotes independent work; has extension activities which reinforce & develop what the children have learned &

Includes:: notes for teachers.



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For undergraduate/graduate Principles of Management & Management Skills courses. Help students develop ten essential management skills. With an emphasis on self assessments Developing Management Skills gets students involved in the learning experience helping them connect the theories to their own lives. Further this text focuses on developing the ten essential skills needed for success & gives students tangible goals to work towards. Based on suggestions from reviewers instructors & students a number of changes
- including new skill-assessments & cases & updated research
- have been incorporated in the eighth edition. Accompanied by mymanagementlab! See the hands in the air hear the roar of discussion
- be a Rock Star in the classroom. mymanagementlab makes it easier for you to be a Rock Star in the classroom by helping you hold students accountable for class preparation & getting students engaged in the material through an array of relevant teaching & media resources.


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In his latest book Gordon Smith
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This book is an important practical resource for all professionals engaged with planning implementing & evaluating multi-professional teamwork & practice in childrens services. The first book to combine theoretical perspectives research evidence from the real world of childrens services & reflections on policy & practice in inter-agency services in England this fully updated new edition retains its popular approach while reflecting the numerous changes to policy practice & research. The book exemplifies what multi-professional work looks like in practice. It examines real dilemmas faced by professionals trying to make it work & shows how these dilemmas can be resolved. It considers lessons to be learnt implications for practice & recommendations for making multi-professional practice effective. Featuring useful guidance theoretical frameworks & evidence-based insights into practice this book is a key resource for students on courses studying early childhood & families as well as social workers teachers support workers in childrens centres family support workers health workers & managers of a range of children & youth services. ...