READY, Set, Change! Simplify and Accelerate Organizational Change, is an essential guide for Human Resource, Project Management and Change Professionals. This guide provides a framework for a simpler and faster approach to help individuals and organizations adopt new programs, technological platforms and systems easily and effectively.Through an engaging narrative story - somewhat in the style of Patrick Lencioni, we meet Elizabeth, an HR Manager who is asked to implement a technology change for the physicians and staff at the Healthcare system where she works. Jake, her best friend and project manager of the Electronic Medical Record system and Allie, an Organizational Change Management consultant. Exploring their experience of challenges and opportunities encountered while implementing change with the READY model, allows the reader to identify with the story and apply the model and approach. This book balances the technical details often associated with Organizational Change Management with an engaging narrative which illustrates the use of the techniques and tools to lead change.

Are You Ready to Change Your Life Around? Does it seem like everyone else is zooming ahead in life, but that you are like a hamster on a wheel – in motion, but not getting anywhere? Millions of people around the world feel like this too. Fortunately, it doesn’t have to be this way…. Whether you want to earn more money, lose weight, meet new friends, or make another life change, Ready, Set, Change will help you accomplish this and more. A problem with the advice you may get from friends and family is that too often, it won’t actually apply to your personal situation. Now there is a tested and proven system to make progress in key areas of your life. The best part is you will be able to make changes that work for you, specifically, not just for a “general audience”. Internationally bestselling author I. C. Robledo has discovered a way to make long-lasting improvements in many areas of his life. He knows that making a change is not always easy, but with the proven systems inside you will have the road map you need to create the life you want. Inside, you will discover: - What “life experiments” are, and why they are the best way to make the biggest improvements in the shortest time - How to take control of your life, instead of being a victim of circumstances - Why failures aren’t as bad as most people think, and how to use them to your advantage - How the author’s life experiments led him to multiply his focus, come up with hundreds of creative ideas per day, and design the perfect life schedule - Why the language you use and the questions you ask will impact your ability to change Change your life for the better with Ready, Set, Change. Ready, Set, Change will help you to change your mind and life however you need to, to get to where your heart desires for you to land. Experimenting in daily life has so many perks and can help with all facets of life. Most of us think of experiments as happening in the laboratory with scientists, but it doesn’t hurt for us to develop an experimental mindset in our daily lives. Taking this approach will open us up to new worlds of achievement, mastery, and success. This book is ideal for high school and college students, gifted and talented students, standardized test takers, teachers, educators, adult learners, independent learners and self-starters, school administrators, managers and leaders, and parents. It’s also perfect for people who like to experiment with everyday life to see what variables they can control and manipulate in order to maximize results. If you like experimentation of any kind, you will find a way to get to the next level here. Similar authors you may have enjoyed include Sean Patrick, Daniel Coyle, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Malcolm Gladwell, Steven Pressfield, Walter Isaacson, Michael Michalko, Ed Catmull, David McRaney, Tony Buzan, Barbara Oakley, Joshua Foer, Sanjay Gupta, Harry Lorayne, Edward de Bono, Joseph Murphy, John C. Maxwell, Robert Greene, Peter Hollins, Peter C. Brown, Jim Kwik, and Josh Waitzkin. Similar genres of books you tend to read will be nonfiction, self-help, self-improvement, personal development, mind and brain improvement, philosophy, applied psychology, biographies and memoirs, education, learning, academic, textbooks, health, mind & body, business and investing, religion and spirituality, and Christian books. If you liked The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible by A. J. Jacobs, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography by Mahatma Gandhi, or Change Yourself: How to Control Your Life and Recreate Your Destiny by Robin Sacredfire, then you won’t want to miss this book. Ready, Set, Change is available as an eBook and audiobook. Pick up your copy today by scrolling to the top of the page and clicking BUY NOW.

Provides t ips for parents on life with older children and new babies, including tips for helping your household adjust to the changes.

Transform your organization with speed and efficiency using this insightful new resource Incremental improvement is no longer sufficient in helping organizations navigate the complexity, uncertainty and volatility of today's world. In Change: How Organizations Achieve Hard-to-Imagine Results in Uncertain and Volatile Times, authors John P. Kotter, Vanessa Akhtar, and Gaurav Gupta explore how to create non-linear, dramatic change in your organization. You'll discover the emerging science of change that teaches us about how to build organizations – from businesses to governments – that change and adapt rapidly. In Change you'll discover: Why the ability of organizations to deal with threats and take advantage of opportunities in the face of ever greater complexity and uncertainty is being severely challenged In-depth, evidence-based, actionable solutions for dealing with institutional resistance to change Case studies and success stories that describe organizations who have successfully built the ability to change quickly into their DNA A universal approach for how to dramatically improve outcomes from various change efforts, including: strategy execution, digital transformation, restructuring, and more Perfect for managers, executives, and leaders at companies of all types and sizes, Change will also prove to be a valuable asset to other professionals who serve these organizations. This book is for anyone seeking a proven approach for delivering fast, sustainable and comprehensive results.

Ready, Set, Grow! Young girls before the onset ofpuberty have a curiosity abouttheir soon-to-be changing bodiesthat needs addressing in a simplerway than for their older sisters. InMadaras’s proven, trust-worthy,friendly voice and style, this entirelynew book now brings them thesame kind of thoughtful, down-toearthinformation—but at a readingand comprehension level that’sjust right for them. Responding throughout to reallifequestions and observationsfrom younger girls, Madarasexplores the changes that arehappening, or about to happen, tothem, including: the developmentof breasts, body hair, and bodyfat; the changes in their reproductiveorgans, both inside and out;their first period and all the complexfeelings surrounding it; theunwelcome appearance of acneand new body odors; and, perhapsmost important, how to respectand celebrate their unique bodies,even when the outside world isnot always so accepting. Lively cartoon drawings throughoutmake the book not only helpful,but fun to read, too.

What types of instructional experiences help K-8 students learn science with understanding? What do science educators, teachers, teacher leaders, science specialists, professional development staff, curriculum designers, and school administrators need to know to create and support such experiences? Ready, Set, Science! guides the way with an account of the groundbreaking and comprehensive synthesis of research into teaching and learning science in kindergarten through eighth grade. Based on the recently released National Research Council report Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8, this book summarizes a rich body of findings from the learning sciences and builds detailed cases of science educators at work to make the implications of research clear, accessible, and stimulating for a broad range of science educators. Ready, Set, Science! is filled with classroom case studies that bring to life the research findings and help readers to replicate success. Most of these stories are based on real classroom experiences that illustrate the complexities that teachers grapple with every day. They show how teachers work to select and design rigorous and engaging instructional tasks, manage classrooms, orchestrate productive discussions with culturally and linguistically diverse groups of students, and help students make their thinking visible using a variety of representational tools. This book will be an essential resource for science education practitioners and contains information that will be extremely useful to everyone �including parents �directly or indirectly involved in the teaching of science.

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