Book description
A practical, step-by-step guide to leading change efforts for
sustainable results
Leading Change Step-by-Step offers a comprehensive and tactical
guide for change leaders. Spiro's approach has been field-tested for
more than a decade and proven effective in a wide variety of public
sector organizations including K-12 schools, universities,
international agencies and non-profits. The book is filled with proven
tactics for implementing change successfully, with helpful tools to
put change efforts into practice (including forms, rubrics, and
helpful questions to ask). Also included are success stories that show
how this approach has been used effectively in 22 states and
internationally. The tools reveal how the leader analyzes situations,
identifies the groups needed to get desired results, and works with
them effectively to do so.
- Includes engaging self-analyses for leaders to inform their
leadership when putting in place a change initiative
- Jody Spiro is an experienced leader of systems change for
public, nonprofit, and private sector organizations
- Offers information on assessing a situation, engaging
stakeholders, planning "early wins," minimizing
resistance, building a supportive culture and much more
This important resource shows how to translate a vision of a
sustainable educational reform into a series of coordinated action
steps.
Jody Spiro, Ed. D., has worked extensively with nonprofits,
governments, universities, districts, and schools in the U. S. and
abroad on leading change. Currently she serves as adjunct professor at
NYU's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and senior program
officer at The Wallace Foundation.
