Böcker av Roger Kaufman

Expert presentation of holistic planning for a learner-focused educational system. Integrates curriculum, facilities, personnel, finance, educational technology, and other significant planning tactics.

Strategic planning is a familiar concept to educational agencies, and while many have structured their management around it most are disappointed with the results. The authors of this guide offer valuable self-help tools for assessing the efficacy of strategic planning. Complete with a glossary of terms, scoring tables and figures, this book will be helpful to educational administrators who want to improve their school management.

Mega Planning involves significant stakeholders in defining success and then identifies what each person and part of an organization must do to succeed. The author uses proven techniques, and covers the basic `how-to's' of quality management, needs assessment, gap analysis, benchmarking, reengineering, and continuous improvement.

Using fresh ideas with proven methods, Strategic Planning Plus promotes an ethical, holistic approach to the subject of strategic planning. Building on Peter Drucker's dictum that selecting the right job is more important than doing the job right, this book provides a practical guide to defining what should be accomplished, and defining solutions and interventions.Kaufman presents: guidance on how to identify the direction an organization must take; a six-step process for identifying and solving organizational problems; ideas for determining how to achieve desired results; and methods for evaluating progress and revising strategic plans. In addition the book provides a variety of aids including flowcharts, checklists, guidelines, procedures and case studies.