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As a manager your best development tool is yourself as a coach. Coaching is about making people think for themselves instead of being given the answers. It therefore relies on you to ask great coaching questions.
Via Miklos Szilagyi
If you ask a student what makes him or her successful in school, you probably won’t hear about some fantastic new book or video lecture series. Most likely you will hear something like, “It was all Mr. Jones. He just never gave up on me.” What students take away from a successful education usually centers on a personal connection with a teacher who instilled passion and inspiration for their subject. It’s difficult to measure success, and in the world of academia, educators are continually re-evaluating how to quantify learning. But the first and most important question to ask is: Are teachers reaching their students?
Via No Child Held Back, Rudy Azcuy
Why do so many beginning teachers quit the profession or change schools?
Via Gust MEES, David Hain
We can all learn from the methods, orientation, and success of coaches to improve the success of our team members, or in fact anyone in the organization.
Via Miklos Szilagyi
Seven strange secrets to showing maximum respect.
Via Ariana Amorim
Have you ever been asked for feedback — but had the feeling that it wasn't a genuine request? Asking for feedback isn't always easy. But if you're going to do it, then make sure that you really want it.
Via Ariana Amorim
Look, we’ve all felt “screwed over” at one time or another, we’ve all experienced disappointments with people, and we’ve all felt resentful as a result. But the truth is, keeping all those toxic emotions pent up inside of you ends up hurting you more than it does anyone else. So it’s truly time to let go. Here are 6 ways to help you get started on living a resentment-free life...
Via Ariana Amorim, Caroline Carlicchi
I'm sure every one of us has had (or has!) a client who likes to tell stories and go into great detail about what happened to whom, when, where, how. It could be the drama that attracts them. Perhaps they want to distract you (or themselves) from a difficult issue. They could also be a sequential thinker or a ‘detail-oriented’ person. There are plenty of reasons WHY some people just like to talk, but in this post we’re going to look at specific things you can ASK or SAY to get them to the point – fast!
Via Ariana Amorim
Learn to give and get criticism....
This article reviews some of the more common approaches now being used and attempts to assess how useful they seem to be.
Via Ariana Amorim
Recent research by OfficeTime.net into the top-five office time killers found that 34% of time wasted was in meetings. Just under half – 49% – of people surveyed said they spent a minimum of one hour in meetings each day.
Via David Hain
Blended learning means offering a combination of face-to-face and online learning opportunities to learners. Blending these learning opportunities can contribute to personalizing learning. However, blended learning is not the only approach that personalizes learning. Personalizing learning starts with the learner. This means that learners have a stake in their learning by taking responsibility for their learning. When they own and drive their learning, they are more motivated to want to learn. In a learning environment that starts with the learner, teacher and learner roles change.
Via Nik Peachey, Elena Elliniadou
How to improve instruction through evaluation
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If you ask a student what makes him or her successful in school, you probably won’t hear about some fantastic new book or video lecture series. Most likely you will hear something like, “It was all Mr. Jones. He just never gave up on me.” What students take away from a successful education usually centers on a personal connection with a teacher who instilled passion and inspiration for their subject. It’s difficult to measure success, and in the world of academia, educators are continually re-evaluating how to quantify learning. But the first and most important question to ask is: Are teachers reaching their students?
Via No Child Held Back, Rudy Azcuy
"Whatever is unresolved becomes a stressor" Managers add stress to their lives by postponing important conversations and letting them build up until their heads start to feel like a balloon waiting to burst.
Via Bobby Dillard, David Hain
Your negative emotions are powerful guides to what needs to change in your life.
Via Ariana Amorim
There are many situations where nuance, subtlety, and carefully crafted diplomacy in communications are critical. But most of the time, plain directness can go a long way.
Via Emergent Consultants, David Hain
You know that mildly panicked feeling you get when you found out your friend’s mother just died and you really don’t know what to say? - Excellent... far reachingly usable examples...
Via Miklos Szilagyi
The best results from coaching come when WE take risks with our clients, when we PUSH the edges of what we might normally ask or say. Of course our clients must do the work and challenge themselves to grow. But it’s also when WE step out of OUR comfort zones as coaches that magic happens. So, stop playing it safe, try one of these coaching ideas and see your coaching break through to the next level!
Via Ariana Amorim
We live in a world where we are always waiting for something or someone and the experience can become expatriating and frustrating. Most of us think only of how we can fill the time while we wait.
Via Ariana Amorim
When used properly, questions have the potential to connect us to the world of another. A heartfelt "How are you?" or "How was your day?" can become the bridge that keeps us in relationship to the lives of those we love. Sometimes, too, questions create a bridge within ourselves, allowing us to hear what's going on at a deeper level. We know when we've encountered a question that has this potential because it stays with us -- maybe for the day, maybe for our whole lives. It taps us on the shoulder to wake us up, or it wiggles its way in more deeply, opening us up to seeing things in a new way.
Via Ariana Amorim
Tension: Continuing their series on challenging coaching Ian Day and John Blakey take a look at how to turn tension into a positive thing. It can be seen that if coaches hold the belief that tension is negative and should be avoided at all cost, they might be selling their coachees short. On the other hand, if we carefully calibrate tension and responsibly adjust levels of tension to suit the individual and their organisational context, then greater levels of performance are attainable. Can we afford to take the liberty of not exploring this possibility fully when times are tough and everyone is required to 'up their game'?
Via Ariana Amorim
Does your coach use these great tools: Emotional intelligence, neuro-linguistic programming and appreciative inquiry?
Via F. Thunus, Kaj Voetmann
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