The Great Manager / Leader

The eastern philosophy of leadership states: “The wicked leader is he/she who the people despise.The good leader is he/she who the people revere.The great leader is he/she who the people say ‘We did it ourselves.’” – Lao Tsu What makes a great manager/leader? There are many characteristics of great managers/leaders.  Among the top eight is […]

Keeping Your Ideas ‘Safe’

I had an email recently from a gentleman participating in one of my corporate training programs. He has a dilemma …. his very active mind generates lots of interesting and (likely) high productive ideas but, in so doing, distracts him from the immediate task at hand. Being a raging idea generator myself, I shared with […]

Applied Microlearning #14 – Personality

I saw this on Facebook recently. Would you call it content suitable for “microlearning”? In its simplest sense, it certainly is because it fills many of the defined dimensions of microlearning: Short time consumption (seconds) Narrow, focused content (a light look at “personality”) Fragment of something larger (self concept, etc) Could easily be expanded upon […]