Developing Human Service Leaders
- Deborah Harley-McClaskey - East Tennessee State University, USA
January 2016 | 368 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
This empowering text for human services students covers the skills and behaviors essential for leaders to manage themselves, their teams, and the organization. Using a unique coaching voice, the book follows a Reflection–Diagnosis–Prescription approach for leadership development with exercises built into the dialogue. The final chapter, Prognosis, offers a workbook-style exercise to help students make a personal change.
Part I. Leadership Development and Organizational Management at Work in the Human Services Professions
Chapter 1: Leadership in the Human Services and Workplace Vocabulary of Leaders and Managers
Chapter 2: Theories of Leadership and Management: Building A Philosophy of Leadership
Part II. Development of Self and Team
Chapter 3: Self-Management: Understanding Self and Managing Conflict
Chapter 4: Self-Management: Attitude, Values, Ethics, and Trust
Chapter 5: Self-Management: Time, Personal Goals, and Organization
Chapter 6: Organizational Management: Team Building, Management, and Motivation
Chapter 7: Organizational Management: How to Run a Meeting and Decision-making
Part III. Development of Organizations
Chapter 8: Organizational Management: Vision, Mission, and Strategic Planning
Chapter 9: Organizational Management: Strategic Goals and Project Management
Chapter 10: Organizational Management: Processes, Growth Measures, and Performance Excellence
Chapter 11: Self-Management: Communication as: Listening, Presentation, Electronic and Web-Based, and Performance Feedback
Part IV: Influence
Chapter 12: Multicultural Leadership, Politics and Influence, Collaboration, and Social Entrepreneurship
Chapter 13: Prognosis: Your Future Leadership Growth
Supplements
Instructor Resource Site
Password-protected Instructor Resources include the following:
- An author-created, Microsoft® Word® test bank is available containing a diverse range of pre-written options as well as the opportunity for editing any question and/or inserting your own personalized questions to effectively assess students’ progress and understanding.
- Author-created, editable, chapter-specific Microsoft® PowerPoint® slides offer you complete flexibility in easily creating a multimedia presentation for your course.
- Author-selected video links include relevant video clips for every chapter, appealing to students with different learning styles.
“Developing Human Service Leaders is a highly accessible yet thorough introduction to the manifold skills required of leaders at all levels in today’s human service organizations. An impressive balance of evidence-based theory and practical, learner-centered application animates the text.”
University of Southern Mississippi
“I strongly urge college and university HSR departments to review and absorb the significance of this text. The organization and context of the Harley-McClaskey text lends itself to becoming a standard for HSR curricular programs.”
Stevenson University
excellent in conjunction with a strong leadership theory book.
School Of Social Science, Fairmont State Univ-Fairmont
February 25, 2016