Books with author Daniel Bloom

Although world-class firms like GE and Motorola have relied on Six Sigma to build their performance cultures, these processes are all too often left out of human resources (HR) functions. This lack of Six Sigma principles is even more surprising because preventing errors and improving productivity are so critical to the people management processes of hiring, retention, appraisal, and development.From the history and evolution of the Total Quality movement to initiatives for introducing a Six Sigma continuous process improvement strategy in your HR department, Achieving HR Excellence through Six Sigma introduces a new way to envision your role within the organization. It explains how this powerful methodology works and supplies a roadmap to help you find and eliminate waste in your HR processes.Describing exactly what HR excellence means, the book outlines dozens of proven approaches as well as a hierarchy of the exact steps required to achieve it. It illustrates the Six Sigma methodology from the creation of a project to its successful completion. At each stage, it describes the specific tools currently available and provides examples of organizations that have used Six Sigma within HR to improve their organizations.The text presents proven approaches that can help you solve and even eliminate people management problems altogether. Filled with real-world examples, it demonstrates how to implement six sigma into the transformational side of your organization. It also includes a listing of additional resources to help you along your Six Sigma journey.Explaining how to build a new business model for your HR organization, the book supplies the new perspective and broad view you will need to discover and recommend game-changing alternatives to traditional HR approaches in your organization.

Help students build fluency and comprehension by modeling fluent reading with these engaging read-aloud passages and mini-lessons. Each passage includes reading tips and think-alouds to emphasize different aspects of fluency, as well as discussion questions to assess comprehension. A quick and easy way to integrate fluency into the curriculum! For use with Grades 3-4.

Motivate your students to write with fun-filled reproducibles for every month! Each reproducible pairs a drawing prompt with quick writing prompts on favorite topics: autumn harvest, animals, 100th day, holidays, weather, classroom community, and more. As a pre-writing warm-up, drawing pictures sparks kids’ interest, helps them generate ideas and details for writing, and makes their subjects lively and real. A great way to encourage reluctant writers! For use with Grades K-2.

This brand new atlas is an ideal resource for both reference and classroom use, facilitating the teaching of both mapping and research skills. It is a great companion piece to Heinemann First Encyclopedia. Features include: clean, colorful, accessible maps; a range of maps, looking at themes such as climate and physical geography; and information on map symbols, keys, directions, and scales.