• Managing your time when you don't have the time
• The Rookie Manager
• What's your communication style?
• Listen-up leader - self development questions
• Motivational tips - it's not all about money
• Employee driven one-on-one questions
• Leader driven one-on-one questions

• Performance Management Tutorial

Tools

Performance Management

User friendly guide for employees and leaders

• Employee Checklist

• Leader Checklist

• Academy of Leadership Excellence (ALE)
• Enterprise Management Education Series (EMES)
• LEAD (This is the core program materials from the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia.)

Competency Wheels

• Executive Core Competency Wheel 
• General Manager/Manager Core Competency Wheel 
• Supervisor Core Competency Wheel 
• Employee Core Competency Wheel 

• Think Like an Entrepreneur
  How to think like an entrepreneur inside your company. 

• Third Wave
  Why Alvin Toffler's Third Wave Matters

• Level 5 Leadership
  The triumph of humility and fierce resolve.

   

• Mapping Your Strategy
  Having trouble with your strategy? Then map it.

• Strategy Clarified and Simplified
  So you can really do it!

• Tipping Point Leadership
  Little changes can have big effects.

Suggested courses for leaders

• Brainstorming, creative Thinking and Problem Solving Skills

• Business Writing Level I and 2

• Coaching for Peak Performance

• Communicating with Diplomacy, Discretion and Influence

• Performance Management for Leaders

• Turning Organizational Change into Opportunities

Sign up through TRAC

Computer Based Training Course List
Click on this link to see the course list. Fax a training registration form to OED and you will be given a password and ID by email.

What's Jim reading?

Recommended reading from the County Administrator

(Some of these books are available through OED or you can purchase them through Amazon.com. or contact the library)

Current Selections:

• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

• Governing by Network: The New Shape of the Public Sector

• Happiness is a Series Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual

• On Desire: Why We Want What We Want

• The Careless Society: Community and Its Counterfeits

• The Price of Government: Getting the Results We Need in an Age of Permanent Fiscal Crisis

Past selections:

• Third Wave

• In Search of Excellence

• Secrets of High Performing Organizations: Beyond the Flavor of the Month to Lasting Results

• Boundary Crossers: Community Leadership for a Global Age

• First, Break all of the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

• Florida's Megatrends: Critical Issues in Florida

• Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

• The Answer to How is Yes: Acting On What Matters

• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team