When it comes to persuading others, rhetoric has its limits — it can sound didactic and boring. Stories are a much more effective way to convince others of your point of view. Here are three tips for shaping and telling a story that influences: http://bit.ly/mgKbX8
by John C. Maxwell
In my years studying leadership and evaluating leaders, I have stumbled across a leadership shortcoming that continually amazes me. Leaders will manage a team, work with the same individuals every day, yet hardly know anything about their people! These leaders have never prioritized acquainting themselves with the dreams, thoughts, hopes, opinions, and values of those they lead.
The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.
I have found that leaders overestimate the amount of time and effort needed to get to know someone. In fact, in only one hour with you in private conversation, I could, probably by asking three questions, find the passion of your life:
What do you dream about?
A person’s dreams are powerful revealers of passion. When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.
What do you cry about?
Passion can be uncovered by peering into the hurts deep inside a human soul. The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force. When listening to a story of grief, you hear a voice thick with emotion, you see watery eyes flooded with feeling, and in that moment you glimpse the intense connections between a person’s deepest pain and their greatest passion.
What makes you happy?
I have fun hearing what makes people tick and seeing the smile that comes when they talk about where they find joy. Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit. When a person operates in an area of pleasure, they are apt to be brimming with life and exuding passion.
If you can uncover a person’s dreams, hurts, and joys, you’ve discovered the central dimensions of their life.
The ability to connect with others is a major determining factor in reaching your full potential. In his popular training program, Everyone Communicates, Few Connect, world-renowned leadership expert John C. Maxwell shares the keys to developing the crucial skill of connecting. It’s a skill you can apply in your personal, professional and family relationships—and you can start right now!Click here now for more details or to order!
A few tips can help educators make solid connections with online students.
The online classroom poses unique challenges for classroom management and connection with students. Online students might report feelings of loneliness, a lack of connection, and a need for productive social interaction. But an emerging field is beginning to address online students’ need for social connectedness.
The emerging field of study on e-mmediacy addresses online students’ need for social connectedness in the online classroom. Here are five helpful tips to promote successful learning and e-mmediacy in your online classroom: http://bit.ly/jBPSeY
Michael Connelly
The acclaimed thriller from the award-winning No.1 bestselling author - adapted into a major film for spring 2011
For defence attorney Mickey Haller, the clock is always ticking. Operating out of the back of a Lincoln car, and with two ex-wives and dozens of guilty clients, he can't afford to miss a trick.
more here = the trailer of the movie => http://bit.ly/iFwJ8Z
America’s most popular teacher doesn’t work at Harvard University or a fancy prep school. In fact, he doesn’t work in a school at all, but his lessons have been viewed more than 56 million times. Salman Khan, a former hedge fund manager, is the founder of Khan Academy, a free online learning platform with a library of more than 2,300 videos covering everything from basic algebra and differential equations to the Vietnam War. -> http://bit.ly/keWFgT
You probably ask yourself...Why are the bureaus not booking me? What do I have to do to get them to call me?
A bureau's first responsibility is to satisfy its clients -- organizations who hire speakers. Put yourself in the bureau's position. They want to place speakers who are:
" The easiest to book. Meaning... they're famous, they get rave reviews, they don't require much publicity, their presence as a keynote speaker at an event will increase attendance, etc.
" Exclusive with them. This means that all interested organizations have to go through the bureau to book the speaker.
" High profile personalities that have favorable reputations and instant name recognition.
" High fee speakers. All other things being equal, why not place the higher fee speaker?
" Dependable. They respond quickly to inquiries, are courteous, punctual, focused on stage, stay on point and keep agreements.
" Predictable. They have high ratings consistently, get standing ovations and stay on topic.
" Referred and endorsed by past clients.
Here are 9 action steps that will increase your bookings and get the attention of bureaus => http://bit.ly/jnxcxZ
‘Probably the most serious problem we have identified is the general lack of imagination about the possibilities of technology for meeting the needs of today’s students. We need to move away from the dominant paradigm of the fixed time-and-place classroom (Andrea del Sarto’s ‘silver-grey, placid and perfect art’ in the chapter’s opening quotation) as the default model for university and college teaching, and think of all the other ways we could organize and manage teaching. In particular, we need to think very concretely about what teaching and learning could and should look like in the future. Our reach should exceed our grasp, driven by our assessment of the needs of students in the twenty-first century, and not by the existing institutional requirements that they must fit into.’
There are few things that LMS courses could learn from games design and defeat the cursed scroll of deathly dullness – but hey ‘nice graphic on the header there dude’ kind of activity screams quality does it not. Many LMS courses are there to suit the teacher, the organisation and occasionally the content, not the student. They must battle bravely to overcome crap design, suspect teaching knowledge, ill-thought out assessment demands and use of tools defined by that knowledge and their willingness to learn how to use them. The LMS might be a pillar of technological-wonderment, hey, we’ve put dogs in space, so why not dump content and questions in locked box and call it teaching.
From personal experience of being in LMS course as a student – here are my top 5 things reasons I’d would rather play the Xbox http://bit.ly/mS3ITP
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