Project Sponsorship: Achieving Management Commitment for Project Success (Jossey-Bass Business & Management) Review

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(More customer reviews)I read this book from the perspective of a project manager who has experienced projects both with and without committed project sponsorship. If you've managed a project without proper sponsorship, you may find the pages in this book echoing your painful experience. I could identify with it all, and for that reason I can easily endorse reading this book.
Englund and Bucero have been there, that's easy to see. The books hammers home how critical project sponsorship is and it offers the tools and guidance to do it. I have sometimes felt my company, much like our clients, felt that initiating a project was like pulling up to a drive-up window and placing an order. It was just that simple, give the order, then drive around to collect the result with nothing occurring in between. This book focuses on just what needs to happen in supporting a project from beginning through the end, including the project review. Following the advice in this book could help in developing your company culture, bringing together the commitments of all - the sponsor, the project team--and your customer's team too.
The authors truly reveal their experience in emphasizing the value of principled approaches over quick fixes and other misguided pressures that will push a project off target. That's a tough thing to confront, I've found. Getting your company some training in project sponsorship might go a long way in strengthening your company's performance. Read the book. See what you think. (If you're the PM reading the book, pass it along to the project sponsor when you're done.)


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Project Sponsorship—which includes case studies, checklists, and action plans—shows how project sponsors and project managers can develop the skills they need to manage successful projects. Randall L. Englund and Alfonso Bucero—experts in the field of project management—have written the definitive guide for educating all stakeholders in the nature of project sponsorship. They describe in detail the responsibilities of the project sponsor, from communications and liaison, selection and training, problem solving, mentoring, and feedback, to the review of project execution. The project sponsor and manager learn how to negotiate effectively with each other and the project team to achieve their commitments.

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Diversity Training for Classroom Teaching: A Manual for Students and Educators Review

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(More customer reviews)This book was written by my professor, which is an advantage to understanding the language and intent of the text. It has been informative and useful in my professional and academic world.

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Students' cognitive, social, and emotional functioning and development is to a large extent culturally, socially, and contextually based. It is critical that educators become familiar with recognizing the numerous ecological influences of cultural diversity on American educational systems. Educational systems have in many ways operated without a strong awareness of a multicultural context and there is much to change at individual, institutional, and systemic levels. Due to rapidly changing demographics in America's schools, successful educators will be those who can work effectively and proactively with diverse students. Diversity Training for Classroom Teaching:A Manual for Students and Educatorsis a resource guide geared to help educators create classroom communities that respond to diversity. Current United States national policy mandates that all pre-service teachers take a course in cultural diversity. The ideology behind this mandate is the belief that as America's classrooms become more demographically diverse, educators must learn how to respond to the different needs and cultural styles of children who represent such diversity. While textbooks that highlight these issues do exist, missing from current diversity education literature is a how-to toolkit designed to provide educators with activities, reflective scenarios, resources, and reference lists. The learning activities presented in this volume seek to fill this current gap in the literature. They define terminology, provide activities to raise self-awareness, include newspaper articles that illustrate the relevance of concepts, and allow for an overall dialogue about diverse issues.Diversity Training for Classroom Teaching encourages readers to generate their own construction of effective multicultural education and learn how to adapt it across various student populations and educational problems. At the same time, learning activities encourage readers to respect and seek to understand the experiences and worldviews of different people and how these diverse realities influence what is meant by multicultural education.

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Phantom Stress: Brain Training To Master Relationship Stress Review

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(More customer reviews)Insightful and extremely well-written. As helpful as thousands of dollars of therapy--and immediately applicable to everyday situations.
--Brooklyn Joyce

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Phantom Stress : Brain Training to Master Relationship Stress introduces the reader to Logosoma Brain Training, a four-step practice that liberates one from the stresses that cause self-sabotaging patterns of thought, emotion and behavior and undo secure relationships. Phantom Stress is rooted in adverse childhood experiences or past stresses from adult life. These phantoms memoires eclipse appropriate responses to life in the present and derail healthy self awareness, disrupt secure boundaries, and destroy positive emotional connections. This book teaches readers how to track down and neutralize toxic memoires that produce phantom stress, and open new brain pathways to reconnecting with others for creative adaptive resilience to stress-lasting love and compassion.

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Train Your Dog, Change Your Life: Interactive Training Program about awareness, education, relationship and well-being-- For Dogs and their Humans~ Review

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(More customer reviews)I was given a 5month old German Shepard that had been abused verbally, and physically, no socializing, no housbreaking nothing.
I purchased this book and started reading every part of it, I was determined to make this dog a good dog. It worked, everyone that knows my dog Ranger cannot believe the progress that was made with him.
This book helps you think the way the dog thinks and is very helpful from that point of view. I would recommend this book for anyone who ownes a dog-----especially a puppy!!!!!!
Thank you Moe & Gary Ross awesome job.

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This forward-looking training book provides an accessible, positive reinforcement training method to replace the obedience methods of the past.Training is essential for dogs to live peacefully and happily among humans. If you're a dog owner who seeks to build trust rather than establish dominance, you'll appreciate this approach to training that emphasizes listening, observing, relaxation, self-help, change, and games. Chapters cover lifestyle management, body language and attitude, socialization, housetraining, nutrition and exercise, grooming for health and self-esteem, creativity and games, and other important lessons.

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