Posted in Blog Carnival, Blogging, Business, Education, Learning, tagged blog, Blog Carnival, Education, Learning, strategy on January 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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Another week and another blog carnival on learning strategies
Kingsley Tagbo presents How to Overcome Procrastination in 8 Easy Steps: The Fastest Way to Learn Technical Skills or Get a Job posted at HOW TO LEARN COMPUTER PROGRAMMING FAST OR GET A JOB EASILY.
Frederic Patenaude presents The 21 Day Challenge posted at Frederic [...]
Posted in Beliefs, Business, Education, Human Resources, Instructional Design, Learning, tagged buddy, Coaching, Human Resources, Learning, Mentor, onboarding on January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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In business you here terms like coaching, mentoring or even a buddy program tossed around and used interchangeably. I like to look at these as three separate things that have a unique role and value. Here’s how I define them. A coach is someone who works with you to improve your performance. This [...]
Posted in Business, Call Centers, Consultative Sales, Education, Human Resources, Instructional Design, Learning, tagged Education, Instructional Design, Learning on January 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Education and training is all to often built around knowing, understanding and sometimes awareness. As a result, the typical test is a paper and pencil test that is often nothing more than multiple choice. This is all fine and good in an academic setting where if you add a little more sophistication [...]
Posted in Business, Consulting, Education, Human Resources, Instructional Design, Learning, tagged design, Education, Learning, training on January 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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Stuffing the Goose is a technical education term. What it refers to is two situations. First, it means adding as much or more content as you can. You don’t want to leave anything out. When you review the design, everyone wants to add things until you have no time to actually [...]
Posted in Business, Change Management, Education, Instructional Design, Knowledge, Learning, tagged Education, Learning, schools, teachers, theory on January 26, 2008 | 29 Comments »
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Most of formal education is still focused on knowledge acquisition. But there really has been a dramatic change in the last 50 to 100 years which makes this less important. First, there’s been an explosion in knowledge. You can know something about most things but it’s difficult to know a lot [...]
Posted in Business, Education, Human Resources, Learning, Lecture, college, tagged Business, classroom, Education, Learning, Lecture, teaching on January 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
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Lecture is a preferred teaching method in schools and universities. It’s the mainstay of academia. For those who are still awake, they might get something out of it. Here’s an interesting article about retention rates and learning styles. It shows that lecture has about a 5% retention rate and reading is almost double [...]
Posted in Blog Carnival, Blogging, Business, Coaching, Education, Human Resources, Instructional Design, Learning, tagged blog, Blog Carnival, Business, Education, Learning, Learning Strategies on January 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Well here are all the people that were kind enough to make submissions to this weeks Blog Carnival.
Rose Walbrugh presents The inflexible brain posted at FreeMyMind.Net.
FitBuff presents Power of the Mind – Much Stronger Than Your Biceps! posted at FitBuff.com’s Total Mind and Body Fitness Blog.
Dave Origano presents How To Plan For [...]
Posted in Business, Change Management, Coaching, Consulting, Education, Human Resources, Learning, tagged change, creativity, facilitation, process improvement, Quality on January 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Recently I had an opportunity to lead a number of process improvement sessions. One of the things that’s challenging is that it’s really a divergent/convergent process. By divergent I’m mean that early on the discussion is expansive with a lot of options. Later on as decisions are made the process is convergent leading to closure.
As [...]
Posted in Business, Education, Human Resources, Instructional Design, Learning, Learning Paths, tagged Business, Education, Learning, Orientation, training on January 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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Here’s a quick tool that I often use to make all the informal meetings and activities more formal. Here’s the example. A new employee goes from department to department as part of an orientation. It’s often different every new employee are there are few standards for what to do. This is [...]
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