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Do you praise effort or talent?
In 1998 Carol S Dweck published a paper called “Praise for intelligence can undermine (children’s) motivation and performance” in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Paul put the brackets around the word children because he thinks this applies equally to adults.
The study compares the impact on performance of praising effort and praising natural talent. The results may influence our reactions to learner behaviour in the training room (and how we respond to our own children).
Another lesson in learning from children
Learning is a funny thing. We have formalised a sytem of classrooms, evaluation, experts and students that can often reduce our opportunities to help others learn as well as limiting our own ability to learn
Last week I wrote about 3 things I learned about change from my daughter and next week we'll have an excellent [...]
When F1 drivers need driving lessons and the importance of Needs Analysis
Occasionally we like to share real life examples of life as a brain friendly trainer on the road. This week Paul reflects on a challenging week where the training was not as successful as expected, exposing the importance of Training Needs Analysis and the consequences of letting this slide.
Posted in Reflections Also tagged challenges, Comunication, design, facilitation, freelancing, TNA 9 Comments
Feedback with a stroke not a poke.
The other day a colleague took me to one side and said “You were very distracted during that session. What’s on your mind?”
His feedback was genuinely intended to be constructive but it took me back a bit as I had no idea why he would think that. I was fairly sure that I hadn’t been [...]
Feedback and the X-Factor