Sentences with phrase «powerful organization change»

In this paper, authors Scott Marion and Paul Leather present an overview of New Hampshire's efforts to implement a pilot accountability system designed to support deeper learning for students and powerful organization change for schools and districts.

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McKinsey noted that one of the most powerful ways to communicate and ride the waves of change is for the organization to have a clear and shared «change story».

The book's purpose is twofold: to explain how notions of leadership have changed in recent decades (with flat organizations, a more democratic world and individual - empowering technology, leaders — surprise — are not as powerful as they used to be), and to expose the faults — and propose some fixes — for her own industry.

When you define the culture you want for your organization, align it with the vision and strategy and establish it authentically, you will have built the single most powerful tool for navigating change.

Today, we know that when building an organization that can maintain high - performance throughout changing business conditions, the two fundamental building blocks of inclusion and transparency are powerful competitive advantages.

Inspired by his time as a Navy SEAL and building award - winning organizations in the business world, Brent Gleeson has created a powerful roadmap for today's existing and emerging business leaders and managers to improve their ability to successfully navigate organizational change.

2014.11.26 RBC leaders honoured as Canada's Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award Winners Each year, the Women's Executive Network (WXN) honours strong women leaders who have become agents of change in reshaping Canadian organizations at the highest levels.

As with most such things, culture is one of a company's most powerful assets right until it isn't: the same underlying assumptions that permit an organization to scale massively constrain the ability of that same organization to change direction.

Founded by leaders in the restaurant industry, Round It Up America ® (RIUA) is a non-profit organization that strives to make change across America through a simple, yet powerful charitable giving program.

Together, we are laying the groundwork to become a powerful, change - making national organization.

The scientific community, the medical fraternity, health managers, breastfeeding advocates and international health organizations have missed out on a powerful «change» agent for early initiation and hence short and long term breastfeeding success.

NGP VAN, the global leader in technology for Democratic and progressive campaigns and organizations, today announced its acquisition of NationalField, the startup launched out of the 2008 Obama campaign that provides online organizing networks and powerful data dashboards to campaigns and organizations fighting for change.

Agudath Israel of America, a powerful ultra-Orthodox organization, is against any change to the law.

But, as Jay Greene of the University of Arkansas argues, foundations can't compel change, because the resources they invest are so small relative to the budgets of the organizations they seek to affect, and any effort to impose a solution will draw out opponents who are far more powerful and vested than the foundations themselves.

But they all show the potential for positive and lasting change, and with greater sharing and exchange, could become powerful tools in the hands of indigenous peoples, local communities, other civil society organizations, and governments that are struggling to achieve a sustainable, equitable and just world.

Multiple studies have demonstrated that organizations that prioritize a performance - management system that supports employees» professional growth outperform organizations that do not.25 Similar to all professionals, teachers need feedback and opportunities to develop and refine their practices.26 As their expertise increases, excellent teachers want to take on additional responsibilities and assume leadership roles within their schools.27 Unfortunately, few educators currently receive these kinds of opportunities for professional learning and growth.28 For example, well - developed, sustained professional learning communities, or PLCs, can serve as powerful levers to improve teaching practice and increase student achievement.29 When implemented poorly, however, PLCs result in little to no positive change in school performance.30

The most powerful strategy school systems have to impact the quality of instruction in classrooms is professional development that promotes the kind of systemic change that has a positive and permanent effect throughout an organization.

Through his powerful images and graphic illustrations in the revolutionary organization's newspapers, Douglas, the Panthers» Minister of Culture, used «art to inspire self - determination and impel social change through the economic, political, and social empowerment.»

Which is also why, I think, art can be such a powerful way to directly change the language inside organizations.

Both Romm and advocacy organizations such as Media Matters for America raise their financial support and define their professional roles as watch dogging the mainstream media, asserting that consistent false balance in mainstream coverage at leading outlets such as the NY Times or the Washington Post remains a major barrier to political action on climate change and that conservative media like Fox News have a powerful impact on wider public opinion.

They are also pushing back on a group of Democratic attorneys general and powerful green activist organizations who have charged ExxonMobil with holding back decades of internal top secret knowledge that climate actually changes.

From a political perspective, these tax credits have three very powerful constituencies: 1) All taxpayers 2) Major companies looking to reduce their tax burden while doing something good for the environment 3) Landowners, farmers, ranchers, and the forest products industry (these groups will be eligible for tax credits for reforestation or agricultural changes on their own land; organizations such as the National Farmers Union, the American Forest and Paper Association, the National Alliance of Forest Owners, United Steelworkers, and many others have already been advocates for protection of tropical forests and cracking down on illegal logging as a way to level the playing field by ensuring products on the global market don't come from deforestation.)

OKM is often hijacked by politics within the organization, resulting in either: (a) a massive change management challenge where the lawyers actively resist or ignore OKM efforts, or (b) OKM that represents a compromise in quality due to «folk wisdom» input from powerful players in the organization (e.g., poorly written contract clauses reflecting an influential equity partner's preferences, even if they're rife with legalese and make negotiations more difficult).

For the record, I'm very much a believer in the overall theme of Moneyball, which is that rethinking traditional practices in light of new metrics and philosophies is a powerful recipe for game - changing innovation within your organization.

As with most such things, culture is one of a company's most powerful assets right until it isn't: the same underlying assumptions that permit an organization to scale massively constrain the ability of that same organization to change direction.

Staying on trend in the ever - changing world of job search is important for me to create powerful career marketing campaigns for my clients that lead to interviews at their target organizations.