While reading “The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes it Hard to be Happy”, Paul recognises the similarities between the
concept of the Quest Saga described by Michael Foley and the experience of learners in our training rooms. Beginning with the Wizard of Oz and ending with a child ‘drifting’ their push bike, discover an alternative 4-step learning process.
For ages now I have been planning to write some posts about the power of “story” but for a number of reasons (some of which I don’t yet understand myself) I have been unable.
SO, when I came across an article by Jill Chivers yesterday, I thought I’d share it with you. It’s called “The Power [...]
Following on from my “top 10” (ways to split a group) post a couple of weeks ago I thought I would do another one.
So here, in no particular order, are my top 10 activities for un-facilitated learning:
Check list – each participant is provided with a tick list of activities they should have completed by the [...]
A couple of postings ago Paul mentioned working with a very traditional organisation trying to promote the brain friendly message. Since then quite a few of you have asked what happened next. In this post, Paul explains the rest of the story and shares his experience of how brain friendly learning reduces the pressure on learners to read up on course materials to ensure training success.
In his book “Blink” Malcom Gladwell makes several references to the work of Dr. John Gottman.
Gottman is well respected for his research on relationship stability by using scientific direct observations published in peer reviewed literature. This makes him a man worth listening to.
While most of his work has been around predicting whether couples are likely [...]
