By James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. PosnerThe authors approach leadership as a measurable, learnable, and teachable set of behaviors. This 360 degree leadership assessment tool helps individuals and organizations measure their leadership competencies, while guiding them through the process of applying Kouzes and Posner’s acclaimed Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership Model to real-life organizational challenges. The book contains everything needed to obtain and deliver complete 360 degree feedback for participants.

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Innovation across local government has been boosted with 34 successful bids from councils for a share of the 6 million pounds e-innovations fund. There were unsuccessful bids from 90 councils. The successful councils, who have had to provide matching funding, will deliver their innovative ideas by March 2005.The projects cover four themes. The e-learning projects include internal sharing of information and good practice, staff development and better use of e-government to assist service transformation. Bridging the digital divide initiatives include using e-government in ways that help services to reach the socially excluded and prevent further isolation. These include SMS text-messaging technology to improve access to services for people living in rural areas

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A new pay award scheme for excellent teachers has been announced by Education Secretary Charles Clarke. The proposals, based on the recommendations of the independent School Teachers’ Review Body, will give excellent teachers a maximum annual salary of 34,872 pounds from April 2004. This will rise to 36,006 pounds by September 2005.The creation of the new scheme will mean that the April 2004 ceiling for teachers who do not reach the excellent teacher standard will be 32,493 rising to 33,549 in September 2005.

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