Standards are the established rule of measure by which things are judged. What are your standards?
Your Emergency is Not My Emergency
Being too busy has become an epidemic, and at its core it’s really an unwillingness to spend time learning.
Willfulness
Are you willing to make investments now that reward you in the future?
Quantity is More Important than Quality
Quantity leads to quality. Quality will come the more you practice, make mistakes, try something new, experiment, and evaluate.
A Critical Look at Measuring Learning Outcomes
Are you measuring the impact your learning and education programs are providing? From a Critical Thinking standpoint, understanding why you are doing something is always important.
Inserting Images in the Age of Privacy
Easy ways to remove personal information from images inserted into Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
Strategic Planning: Anticipating and Dealing with the Unknown
Responsible for Strategic Planning for your organization, department or career development? Are you anticipating and planning for how you will deal with the unknown? This is an essential aspect of a solid strategic plan.
What's the Goal?
Creating and delivering engagingly effective instructional programs is hard work. Always start with the Goal!
Strategic Planning: Thinking Critically About the Future
Creating a list of steps to achieving a goal is not Strategic, and it's a common mistake. To be Strategic you must anticipate future events and the steps required to adjust the original plan.
A Critical Look at Learning Objectives: Skills and Attitude Domains
Thoughts about two other learning level taxonomy's, Skills (Psychomotor) and Attitude (Affective) domains. Originally, Bloom and his committee never really took a deep dive into these domains.
A Critical Look at Learning Objectives: Knowledge Domain
If you understand Instructional Design, then you know how important the action verbs in your learning objectives are. They need to be relevant and measurable.
Instructor-led Training is Best
Instructor-led training, e-learning, micro learning, mobile learning, blended learning, on the job training, hope and pray… Which type of training do you predominately use?
Becoming a Critical Thinker Part 2: The Meaning of Words
Do you really understand what they meant to say? Or, have you already interpreted their meaning, even before they have finished speaking?
Two thoughts come to my mind right now. One is something I have read that pokes fun at the English and the Americans … "two peoples, divided by a common language." Clear communication is important to sharing and gaining a clear understanding. If the message you hear can be interpreted in different ways, it is important that you ask questions to clarify it.
Becoming a Critical Thinker
Critical thinking is an awareness and understanding of yourself; how you think, how you react, and how you believe.
The Role of Quantum Thinking in Critical Thinking
When considering the various thinking modes that you may have previously heard about, Quantum Thinking most likely does not come to mind.
The Role of Emotional Thinking in Critical Thinking
Emotional thinking considers the many facets of human emotion that contribute to the ways in which we communicate, make decisions, solve problems and generally "do" life.
Using the Proper Tool
Using the proper tools will make a job easier, quicker and much less frustrating.
The Role of Systems Thinking in Critical Thinking
Systems thinking is not just focused on one thing, it considers everything that is potentially interacting with the subject under consideration.
New Year, New Goals? Or Status Quo?
Resolutions are generally stated and managed as a dream.
The Role of Strategic Thinking in Critical Thinking
Strategic thinking would not be very different from analytical thinking if it were not for one thing… external scenarios.