Posted in Video, tagged business video, Education Trends, education video, Learning, learning video on November 30, 2007| Leave a Comment »
For some reason I keep getting free copies of Website Magazine. There’s always something interesting. In the August issue they listed the top 50 video sharing sites. So if you want to go beyond Youtube, Google, Yahoo and Myspace, here’s some other top rated sites to try:
Posted in Education News, Education Trends, International Business, Web Sites, tagged Education, Education Trends, international, Learning, Learning Paths, websites on November 29, 2007| 2 Comments »
Singapore is really become a model of change and innovation in education. I’ve run across a great website that provides a lot of good information and links about public and private education in Singapore. It’s worth a look. www.eduscene.com
Posted in Accelerated Learning, Call Centers, Communication, tagged design, Education, Education Trends, Human Resources, Learning on November 28, 2007| 3 Comments »
I think there is a significant difference between the way people actually learn and the way they are taught. It’s actually an interesting way to start a session to ask participants to: Think of something you’re good at. How did you really learn to become good at that?
There’s a lot of practice, experience, coaching and even a few breakthrough moments where something unique happens. So the idea would then be to build training that matches these descriptions. However, the traditional way is to start by thinking about everything you need to know and do and then line up a series of courses starting with building blocks and finally ending with application. The two paths end up being very different.
In the design of training, people are pretty good at identifying the “what”, but are less good at determining the “when” and “how.” The “how” tends to be more around what delivery mechanism to use rather than “how” you actually learn that skill.
I’m very interested in stories about how people actually learned to do what they do well. Please add yours to the comments.
Posted in Beliefs, tagged Education, pscyhology on November 27, 2007| Leave a Comment »
This is another video I found interesting showing the power of beliefs.
Posted in Accelerated Learning, Behaviorism, tagged Education, Learning, Psychology on November 27, 2007| Leave a Comment »
Adults have very strong belives about everything. Those beliefs can often be barriers to learning something new. This is an example of this principle. Interesting video.
Posted in Business, Call Centers, tagged Call Centers, Education, International Business, training on November 26, 2007| Leave a Comment »
I think one of the most interesting parts of international training is when you deal with other country’s understanding of American culture. It’s actually rather funny. They tend to get about 75% right and the rest is rather funny. I remember dealing with collections in India. In their training, they referred to people who refused to pay as credit criminals. I had to tell them that fraud is a crime but just owing money isn’t. We don’t have debtor prisons. They also thought that American’s can’t wait to get on social security and live the good life. I’d be interested in any other funny stories like this.
Posted in Call Centers, Communication, tagged Accelerated Learning, Business, Education, international, training on November 25, 2007| 3 Comments »
I’ve had the opportunity and challenge of working with companies in about 6 countries. In some cases, I’m able to do consulting without ever leaving the house. I did work with people in India for 2 years and it was all emails and phone calls.
I’ve found that it’s a must to have a service like SKYPE that allows you to have unlimited free phone calls. I’ve hooked up a good head set to my computer and I forward my calls to my cell phone when I’m out. I also will use a webcam. It’s probably more fun than practical. I’ve also been playing around with different live meeting type providers. That last couple of sessions were on Yugma which is free for under 10 people.
So if you imagine doing business with a company in Sinagore, you can run interactive meetings and patch in your associates in the UK and Canada for free. It’s all worked very smoothly so I can’t tell you have to deal with any bugs.
Posted in Accelerated Learning, tagged Business, Education, instruction, training on November 24, 2007| Leave a Comment »
As I’m blogging, I’m amazed by some of the resistance to speeding up the learning process. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard, “I don’t want to read faster because I want to savor and enjoy what I’m reading.”
The reality in the learning process is that learning quickly helps overcome the early stages when it’s normal to give up and quit because it takes to long. In a corporate world, most turnover happens in the first 90 days because new employees never gain the confidence that they can do the job or will ever learn the job.
Speeding up training means setting out a path that is focused on getting to proficiency as fast as possible by adding structure, practice and experience. A lot of times people learn how to do things when they happen rather than making them happen as quickly as possible. Sometimes what people need to learn doesn’t happen for a year or two and that a very long time to get up-to-speed.
Posted in Accelerated Learning, Behaviorism, Competencies, Education, tagged college, Education, Education Trends, Proficiency, school, Success on November 22, 2007| 1 Comment »
As I promised here is the list of famous college drop outs.
Ben Aflec Carl Bernstein Eleanor Clift Jackie CooganJames Fenimore Cooper Claire Danes Michael DellHarrison Ford Bill Gates David Geffen William Randolph HearstJohn Hughes Don Imus Reggie Jackson Harry Truman Steve JobsRush Limbaugh Walter Cronkite Abraham Lincoln John MackeyRay Romano Theodore Roosevelt. Karl Rove Michael RubinWilliam Safire Frank Sinatra Will Smith Daniel Snyder Leo TolstoyTed Turner William McKinley Jesse “The Body” Ventura, DeWitt Wallace. George Washington John Wayne Kanye WestBruce Willis Anna Wintour Steve Wozniak F. Scott FitzgeraldRosie O’Donnel Ellen Degeneres H Wayne Huizenga Emile ZolaMark Zuckerberg Barry Goldwater Dustin Hoffman Jerry Yang Tom Hanks Warren Beatty Richard Gere Burt Reynolds John Jacob Astor Irving Berlin Chuck Berry Milton BradleyCharles Bronson Michael Keaton Brad Pitt Yoko OnoNina Totenberg James Cameron Sharon Stone Bill MurrayDan Akroyd Frank Lloyd Wright Tom Monaghan John Glenn Charles Lindbergh J. Paul Getty Robert Frost
And now for an added bonus, here are the billionaire dropouts.
Paul Allen Ray Kroc Henry Ford Andrew Carnegie Kirk Kerkovian Richard Branson Bill Gates Larry Ellison Steve Jobs Barry Diller J. Paul Getty Michael Dell Carl Ichan David H. Murdock Stephen Spielberg Theodore Waitt George Westinghouse Jerry Yang
Posted in Competencies, Education, tagged Accelerated Learning, competency, Education, Education Trends, Learning, school on November 22, 2007| 1 Comment »
There’s always a lot of dispute about the value of a formal education. Most of what people learn comes from many other sources including experience and practice. Right now there are 18 billionaires, 7 Presidents and 10 nobel prize winners who were either college or high school drop outs. I did a little research to see if I could find more famous drop outs. Here are some you might recognize. I’ll start with the grade school and high school drop outs. And yes…William Shakespere made the list. Tomorrow I’ll post the college drop outs.
Count Basie Jack Benny Humphrey Bogart
Peter Bogdanovich Whoopie Goldberg Benny Goodman
Danny Thomas Peter Ustinov Patrick Stewart.
Anthony Quinn Julie London Sophia Loren
Joe Louis Roy Rogers Olivia Newton-John
Rosa Parks Mary Pickford Sydney Poitier
Tommy Lasorda Richard Branson Alfred E. Smith
Charles Chaplin Angelina Jolie Henry J. Kaiser
Louis Lamour John Major Groucho Marx
Sean Connery. Jack Kent Cooke Noel Coward
Joan Crawford Robert De Niro Gerard Depardieu
Thomas Dolby Sonny Bono Duke Ellington
Ella Fitzgerald Aretha Franklin Horace Greeley
Robert Maxwell Rod McKuen John Jacob Astor
Irving Berlin Chuck Berry Milton Bradley
Charles Bronson James Caan Agatha Christie
Mark Twain Joseph Conrad Simon Cowell
Johnny Depp Walt Disney Isadora Duncan
Matt Drudge Charles Dow Millard Fillmore
Benjamin Franklin James Garner Mahatma Ghandi
Samuel Gompers Barry Gordie Gene Hackman
Herman Melville Claude Monet Charles Rangall
John D. Rockefeller Colonel Sanders William Soroyan
William Shakespere John Phillip Sousa James Taylor
Walt Whitman Adolph Zukor
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