Facilitating Evaluation

Facilitating Evaluation
Author: Michael Quinn Patton
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2017-10-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1506347622

Michael Quinn Patton’s Facilitating Evaluation: Principles in Practice is the first book of its kind to explain in depth and detail how to facilitate evaluation processes with stakeholders. Using the author’s own stories of his experiences as an evaluation facilitator, the book illustrates the five evaluation facilitation principles that are the organizing framework for addressing how to work with stakeholders to generate evaluation questions, make decisions among methods, interpret findings, and participate in all aspects of evaluation. Ultimately, this book will help readers perform facilitation to enhance the relevance, credibility, meaningfulness, and utility of evaluations. "A must-read for anyone considering a high-impact evaluation!" –Margaret Lombe, Boston College

How to Raise a Millionaire

How to Raise a Millionaire
Author: Ann M James
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2012-04-24
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1614482462

Describes how to build self-confidence and self-esteem in children through six life skills called the "millionaire skills" and a guide to helping them start a business at a young age.

Strong Helpers’ Teachings, Third Edition

Strong Helpers’ Teachings, Third Edition
Author: Cyndy Baskin
Publisher: Canadian Scholars’ Press
Total Pages: 454
Release: 2022-09-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1773383302

The thoroughly updated third edition of Strong Helpers’ Teachings skillfully illustrates the importance of Indigenous knowledges in the human services. Making space for the voices of many Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, practitioners, and service users, Cyndy Baskin’s text models possible pathways toward relationship building and allyship. With practical examples and case studies, Baskin places Indigenous perspectives at the centre of the social work disciplines and covers topics such as spirituality, research, justice, and healing. Robust updates include new chapters on decolonization and reconciliation, as well as expanded content on holistic healing implementation, skill building, land-based practice, and child welfare. With concise theoretical content, illustrative practical applications, rich pedagogical features, and a focus on centering Indigenous worldviews, knowledge, and helping practices, this text is foundational for educators, practitioners, and students of human services, social work, child and youth care, and more. FEATURES: - Centres Indigenous knowledge for social work practice - Supplements practical applications with case studies, encouraging critical reflection and discussion - Each chapter includes an introduction and conclusion to outline objectives and summarize the chapter’s content

A Companion to Public Art

A Companion to Public Art
Author: Cher Krause Knight
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2020-03-24
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1119190800

A Companion to Public Art is the only scholarly volume to examine the main issues, theories, and practices of public art on a comprehensive scale. Edited by two distinguished scholars with contributions from art historians, critics, curators, and art administrators, as well as artists themselves Includes 19 essays in four sections: tradition, site, audience, and critical frameworks Covers important topics in the field, including valorizing victims, public art in urban landscapes and on university campuses, the role of digital technologies, jury selection committees, and the intersection of public art and mass media Contains “artist’s philosophy” essays, which address larger questions about an artist’s body of work and the field of public art, by Julian Bonder, eteam (Hajoe Moderegger and Franziska Lamprecht), John Craig Freeman, Antony Gormley, Suzanne Lacy, Caleb Neelon, Tatzu Nishi, Greg Sholette, and Alan Sonfist.

Oxford American Handbook of Clinical Medicine

Oxford American Handbook of Clinical Medicine
Author: John A. Flynn
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 873
Release: 2013-04-23
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0199985154

The Oxford American Handbook of Clinical Medicine Second Edition covers all areas of internal medicine and surgery, offering up-to-date advice on examination, diagnostic testing, common procedures, and in-patient care. Students, residents, nurses, and clinicians will find the handbook to be a succinct, comprehensive, and affordable introduction to clinical medicine in the popular format of the Oxford American Handbooks in Medicine series. The second edition includes a thorough updating of diagnostic and therapeutic guidelines, updated information on key clinical trials, numerous new images, and new information on palliative care. This handbook has everything you need for on-the-spot access to evidence-based clinical management guidelines.

Public Health Leadership: Putting Principles into Practice

Public Health Leadership: Putting Principles into Practice
Author: Louis Rowitz
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Total Pages: 587
Release: 2009-10-07
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1449649467

New Edition Available 12/28/2012 This thorough revision maintains the same basic structure of the first edition of Public Health Leadership. In five parts, it explores the basic theories and principles of leadership and then describes how they may be applied in the public health setting. Leadership skills and competencies, as well as methods for measuring and evaluating leaders are also thoroughly covered. The final chapter has been expanded to cover the future of public health and global leadership. Four new chapters have been added to the Second Edition: a chapter on the interface between management and leadership, a chapter on systems and complexity leadership concerns, and a chapter on employee development. The final new chapter will explore the transition from traditional leadership roles to the new roles required by a focus on bioterrorism and other disasters. New case studies, interviews, and exercises have also been added. The Second Edition also features new sidebar boxes with quotes from classic and contemporary writers on leadership.

Team Organization

Team Organization
Author: Matteo Pernisa
Publisher: Reedswain Inc.
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2005-04
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781591640868

From the evaluation of the individual players to the choosing and development of a system of play, this book guides the reader through the process of organising, developing and building a successful soccer team.

The Referral of a Lifetime

The Referral of a Lifetime
Author: Tim Templeton
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2016-08-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1626568537

Your Best Prospects Are Referred Prospects! Nobody likes cold calls. And nobody really needs to make them. The Referral of a Lifetime teaches a step-by-step system that will allow anyone to generate a steady stream of new business through consistent, qualified referrals while retaining and maximizing business with existing customers. Tim Templeton emphasizes the importance of applying the golden rule in business—putting the relationship with your customer first, rather than just making the sale. This second edition adds a technique for creating a profile of your ideal customer and explains how to reach the tipping point on online reviews and testimonials so you can expand your business 24/7. Your customers, colleagues, and friends already know every new contact you will ever need to succeed. When you apply Tim Templeton's system, they will naturally refer those potential new customers to you.