Leadership isn’t just a title Be inspired by a passion for progress and the drive to maximize latent potential in all people. Learn along from Dallas Dance as he shares the successful change efforts he employed to transform Baltimore Public Schools. This true success story delivers great insight and inspiration. Readers will be moved and changed by the author’s three key success principles: Establishing equity over equality by providing exactly what individuals need to be successful Understanding change, how it happens, and what one needs to make it so Knowing people deeply and how that leads to accomplishment and organizational change

How do the good become great? Practice! From musicians and executives to physicians and drivers, aspiring professionals rely on deliberate practice to attain expertise. Recently, researchers have explored how psychotherapists can use the same processes to enhance the effectiveness of psychotherapy supervision for career-long professional development. Based on this empirical research, this edited volume brings together leading supervisors and researchers to explore a model for supervision based on behavioral rehearsal with continuous corrective feedback. Demonstrating how this model complements and enhances a traditional, theory-based approach, the authors explore practical methods that readers can use to improve the effectiveness of their own psychotherapy training and supervision. This book is the 2018 Winner of the American Psychological Association Supervision & Training Section's Outstanding Publication of the Year Award.

This book will encourage readers to continue pushing forward to become more reflective educational leaders. It will also equip them with the success principles that have helped the author excel as a transformational leader in his career in education so that they can likewise excel.

Do you want to achieve your full potential as an actor? Discover how to apply “deliberate practice”–a type of practice used by top performers around the world–to turn your weaknesses into strengths. We all know that becoming a great actor requires hard work, but what specific actions will help you get better? Perhaps you have spent years taking acting classes without any noticeable improvement. Or maybe your acting did improve for a while, but you don’t know how to make further progress. This lack of clarity is likely to lead to dissatisfaction and a decline in your enthusiasm for the craft. After all, nobody goes into acting aiming for mediocrity. If this sounds familiar, psychology can help. For many years, psychologists have been studying the process by which those dedicated to their craft achieve mastery. The biggest reveal of this exploration has been “deliberate practice,” a process through which you can turn your weaknesses into strengths. The impact of deliberate practice has been demonstrated by a wide variety of top performers, including athletes, musicians, and chess masters. Excellence for Actors is the first book to explore the application of deliberate practice to acting. Reading this book will provide you with a new level of clarity about how to reach your full potential. As you will learn, achieving excellence is not just about hard work, but also about taking the right actions with the right amount of dedication. Read this book and discover: · How to achieve mastery over any aspect of your craft · How to turn your weaknesses into strengths · How to avoid mediocrity and achieve excellence · The mistakes actors make when trying to improve · Practical tools you can use straight away Short enough to read in an afternoon, yet jam-packed with practical advice, Excellence for Actors will give you the clarity you need to reach your full potential. Alexa Ispas holds a PhD in psychology from the University of Edinburgh. The books in her Psychology for Actors Series provide actors with proven psychology techniques to thrive and build a successful career.

Why and how do world-class leaders and great performers consistently beat their competition? ​They realize they cannot go it alone. They use teams and coaches to amplify their results. Many performers who have already surmounted exceptional tests and challenges and have succeeded in business, sports, the military, or the arts well beyond their peers think performance is only up to the individual. Many become frustrated when hours of hard work, years of experience, and expensive educations don’t lead them to the top of their domain. They are already among the best, but they want to be the best. The elite realize there is only so much they can do on their own to achieve that status. They understand they need coaches, colleagues, and competitors to provide the collaboration and competition that serves as a constant push to keep forward momentum going toward attaining that next level. In Cultivating Excellence, Darryl Cross uses thirty years of experience to show top performers that the key to continued enhancement of performance and success is an exceptional coach and team. They guide the elite performers to see situations and challenges in new ways (art), to perfect their craft to the nth degree (science), and to commit to deliberate practice that eliminates performance gaps (grit) and puts the summit within reach.

Less is more. And more is better. This is the new equation for church development, a new equation with eternal results.Rejecting the “bigger is better” model of the complex, corporate megachurch, church innovator Dave Browning embraced deliberate simplicity. The result was Christ the King Community Church, International (CTK), an expanding multisite community church that Outreach magazine named among America’s Fastest Growing Churches and America’s Most Innovative Churches. Members of the CTK network in a number of cities, countries, and continents are empowered for maximum impact by Browning’s “less is more” approach. In Deliberate Simplicity, Browning discusses the six elements of this streamlined model:• Minimality: Keep it simple• Intentionality: Keep it missional• Reality: Keep it real• Multility: Keep it cellular• Velocity: Keep it moving• Scalability: Keep it expandingAs part of the Leadership Network Innovation Series, Deliberate Simplicity is a guide for church leaders seeking new strategies for more effective ministry.

The choices you make today frame your tomorrows. The ability to make the right choices is one of the most important skills you can learn. It is a critical factor that enables you to take command of every situation and use it to your benefit. The good news is, you can learn to make the right choices. You can be taught how to set a course and direction in life that moves you toward success and happiness. Choices are building blocks for every future accomplishment. Every advance you make begins with a single idea - a single thought. It is the fresh ideas you generate daily that will help you to solve problems, overcome obstacles, and achieve your goals. Ideas are keys to what lies ahead, so expect your mind to be flooded with new ideas as you read this inspirational book.