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|  | | Commissioner's Little Handbook: A Portable Guide for Local Government Advisory Board Members
| |  | | Elected Official's Little Handbook: A Portable Guide for Local Government Legislators
This concise guide contains a bountiful source of ideas, advice and checklists that will help newly elected City Council and Board members hit the ground running. It will also prove invaluable to seasoned elected officials as a quick reference and team building source. It was written for elected officials to help them deal with day-to-day issues. It includes tips on:
• Clarifying Expectations with Staff
• The Role of the Agency Attorney
• How to Evaluate Advisory Commissions
• Developing Meaningful Goals
• Recognizing Financial Warning Signs
• The Role of the Chairperson
| |  | | Instructor's Manual: Tales from the Trenches
Description
The Instructor's Manual offers in-class and take home learning activities to complement Tales from the Trenches: Achievements, Blunders and Challenges in Local Government Management.
The Instructor’s Manual chapters correspond to the eleven chapters in Tales from the Trenches. Each chapter in the Instructor’s Manual begins with four to eight questions for every tale. These open-ended questions can be used to stimulate vigorous class discussion or as take home assignments. These questions are accompanied by various exercises and case studies. Illustrative exercise topics include micromangement, why manager’s fail, decision authority limits, unintended consequences, communication sins, the use of power symbols, performance bonus system, budgetary illusions, defending the recreation budget, why customer service efforts fail, managing angry customers, goal setting retreat, team building, personal ethical exercise and eleven questions for the boss.
Most of the exercises have an accompanying Instructor’s Overview page that suggests responses to the exercises.
| |  | | Little Budget Book: A Portable Budgeting Guide for Local Government
| |  | | Local Government Dollars & Sense: 225 Tips on Guarding the Public Checkbook
"Local Government Dollars & Sense: 225 Tips for Guarding the Public Checkbook" is the indispensable book for locally-elected officials-city council members, county supervisors and school board trustees who are faced with perplexing public financial and budget decisions. It has a multitude of real vignettes to support the book’s underlying advice. Written in an easy to understand style, it is a must for candidates for local office and concerned citizens who want to know how and why their money is being spent.
Each chapter begins with a real life story such as the city manager who used the city’s credit card to go on a lavish shopping spree, the city that used debt to mask it’s huge deficit or the school superintendent who sacrificed the district’s solvency to create an award winning curriculum. Includes hundreds of tips and techniques to provide oversight and hold staff accountable. It will help you:
• Find hidden money in the budget
• Decide on the right fund balance level
• Avoid common fiscal sins and omissions
• Make rational budget cuts
• Ask penetrating budget q | |  | | Profitable Seminars: 195 Tips on Designing, Marketing and Delivering the Goods
n easy, clear language, Profitable Seminars walks the reader through
everything you need to know in order to create, market and present successful seminars. The range of topics is comprehensive; learn how to: select a seminar subject, create a powerful seminar title, make the most of presentation software such as PowerPoint, determine your seminar price and break-even point, write and design powerful sales materials...even how to handle hecklers and equipment failures. Profitable Seminars shares the inside secrets Len has learned while giving seminars to thousands of managers across the country.
Wouldn't most entrepreneurs love to change their marketing from a cost to an income stream? Those who create and present effective, financially viable seminars have done just that.
But so much can go wrong in a seminar! The design, presentation, fee structure, and marketing plan must all work together to create the synergy for success. Training guru Len Wood offers concrete steps to success, not only for platform speakers, but for those presenters willing to work directly with a smaller group. Wood, a former city manager, has a strong background in finance, and his book, Profitable | |  | | Tales from the Trenches: Achievements, Blunders and Challenges in Local Government Management
The defining book on local government management for students, begining managers and seasoned professionals.
More than any time in history, local governments need effective leaders to address the problems of a diverse and demanding constituency. The traditional public works, health, and public safety issues still need to be addressed, but added to this is an array of complex environmental, social, and cultural issues that demand innovative and courageous problem-solving approaches. This book is for managerial candidates, fledgling managers, and experienced public administrators who want to take on these challenges and move up the management ladder. The authors, both of whom are seasoned managers, hav |
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