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Tip #1032: Do Your Managers Lack Confidence?

Some managers avoid making the difficult decisions because they are afraid of making a mistake. They lack confidence in their ability to assess a situation

June 25, 2024

Tip #875: There is a New Gogy in Town

“Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.” John Holt Pedagogy focuses on how children learn best.

June 1, 2021

Tip #873: Soft Skills are Hard!

“Let’s call them real skills, not soft.” Seth Godin I’m tired of the false distinctions that are often made between soft skills and hard skills.

May 17, 2021

Tip #836: How to Cultivate Learning

“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.” Carl Rogers It is unfortunate that the old

August 24, 2020

Tip #814: 7 Design Principles for Experiential Learning

“Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

March 16, 2020

Tip #782: How to Reinforce Learning

A learning curve study shows that if you don’t reinforce learning, the participants will forget 90% of it within 30 days. That means that 90%

July 22, 2019

Tip #753: Abundance Denied

“I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.” Stephen Covey Today, the theory of

December 24, 2018

Tip #734: How to Avoid Burnout

When I Suffered Burnout There was a time when I suffered from burnout. I worked in a high stress job. There was constant pressure to

August 13, 2018

Tip #706: Why Management Training Fails- And What To Do About It (#2)

“The culture of a workplace- an organization’s values, norms and practices- has a huge impact on our happiness and success.” Adam Grant In last week’s

January 30, 2018

Tip #689: Why Was Classroom Training Rated So Poorly?

“Speaking for myself, I spend a good ten minutes a day deciding whether or not to read the results of new surveys, and, once I

September 19, 2017

Tip #664: Staff Development Options

“It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.” Queen Elizabeth II Staff development is defined as the

April 4, 2017

Amman Travelogue – 2017

Hello, This is my first full day in Amman. I’ve spent most of it sleeping, since I can’t sleep on the trip over. It is

March 16, 2017

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