Category: Articles
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Can your board-superintendent relationship be saved?
http://feedly.com/k/14nfDXk Across the nation, boards and superintendents are engaged in activities designed to benefit students. It should go without saying that a board and superintendent united in their efforts will produce the kind of district our children deserve and the community has a right to expect. If everyone has the…
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Characteristics of a successful board
http://feedly.com/k/14ngasb Sunday’s presentation, “Professional Governance Boards = Student Success,” was based on the idea that becoming a professionally functioning board of education is an essential precondition to a school district achieving sustainable student success.
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Strategic Execution of Change | PA TIMES Online
While public managers know that change is needed today due to budget cuts and sequestration, they also need to recognize that it will require leadership and the changing and aligning of measurement and management systems to truly make it happen. http://patimes.org/strategic-execution-change/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+patimes%2FlidQ+%28PA+TIMES+Online%29
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Insights on the Road to Performance Excellence
http://www.nist.gov/baldrige/insights.cfm Performance measurement is the responsibility of an organization’s senior leaders. That does not mean that they have to do the regular gathering of key data, but they need to choose the key measures, regularly review them, and use them to lead and guide the organization. Senior leaders also need…
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Public Service, Social Justice and Equity | PA TIMES Online
Social justice must evolve from within society and must be voluntary. Public service, free of force or coercion should facilitate man’s ability to fully realize the equality liberty offers to each individual. via Public Service, Social Justice and Equity | PA TIMES Online.
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Insights on the Road to Performance Excellence
‘Servant leadership is based on the premise of being a servant first and then aspiring to leadership for the benefit of those served. The servant leader focuses on the needs of others and serves in an organization characterized by an inverted pyramid, with “customers” at the top, and with leaders…
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How to Embed Transparency into Collaborative Governance | PA TIMES Online
… collaborative governance more equally distributes problem-solving and decision making power among all participants from both government and the public. Citizens involved in collaborative efforts with government do not simply passively receive information and provide feedback on governmental decisions that have already occurred. Rather, citizens actively share information, express their…
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US Coast Guard Performance Improvement Guide (PIG)
The Performance Improvement Guide or PIG is a book of very helpful improvement tools. The PIG also contains explanations of many key elements related to improvement as well as some detailed instruction, such as how to develop a strategic plan. In addition to several decision-making and improvement tools, and instructions on how to use…
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Jobs Data Continue to Look Good! | Blogrige The Official Baldrige Blog
To refresh memories, the previously reported data for two-time Baldrige winners: median growth in revenue was 93%, and median growth in jobs was 63%. And the comparative average growth in jobs for the matched industries and time periods was 3.2%. Adding MESA and the current time period, the median growth in revenue…
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Digital Government: How Technologically Fit Are You? | PA TIMES Online
A few suggestions for assuring more user friendly, useful websites are provided here for your consideration:Get to know your IT personnel, interns or volunteers well. They are usually on top of innovation and applications that can improve citizen access.Whenever possible, get weekly updates on the number of hits to your…
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